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Bier Lovers Corner: The Bavarian Brew Industry at a Glance

Bavaria Is the Land of Beer and Breweries
There is no place on earth with a longer brewing tradition than Bavaria. To be sure, beer was not invented in Bavaria — that honor goes to the Sumerians of the Middle East, who became mankind’s first beer makers some 10 thousand years ago. It is in Bavaria, however, that we find both the oldest archeological evidence of beer making in Europe — a Celtic beer amphora from 800 BC — and the oldest preserved malting plant and brewhouse, where beer was made by modern techniques — a complete installation dating the 179 AD, during the Roman occupation of Bavaria.

Just about exactly one-half of all German breweries are located in Bavaria. Bavaria has roughly twice as many breweries as all member countries of the European Union, outside of Germany, combined. In addition, one region of Bavaria, Franconia in the northeastern part of the state, is said to have the highest concentration of breweries anywhere in the world — about a hundred breweries within roughly a hundred-mile radius from the city of Bamberg. For those who love both beer and numbers, therefore, there is a lot to quantify in the land of beer and breweries.

In 2002, there were a total 640 breweries in operation in Bavaria. This number includes brewpubs that produce beer only for their own on-premise sales, packaging breweries that service mostly their local or regional markets, as well as huge breweries that ship their beers all over the globe. Bavarian breweries make up almost exactly half of Germany’s 1279 breweries (2002 figure).

Within the wider European context, the number of Bavarian breweries is even more astonishing. All EU countries combined, excluding Germany, have a total of 336 breweries, barely half as many as in little Bavaria. To put this fact another way, almost 40% of the roughly 1,600 breweries in the entire European Union (with Germany included) are located in Bavaria.

Based on these percentages, the international position of the Bavarian brew industry is undoubtedly impressive, yet Bavarian brewers are not entirely without worry. As is the case in many branches of industry all over the world, the Bavarian brew industry, too, has not escaped the general trend towards concentration and consolidation. Many small and mid-size breweries have merged during the past few decades to create synergies and greater economic efficiencies. Others have been bought out by bigger players. Many have quietly just gone by the wayside. In spite of the large absolute number of breweries in Bavaria today, there were many, many more in the past. To quantify the reduction in numbers, Bavaria has about 41% fewer breweries today than it did in the year 1960.

In 1960, there were still 1,566 breweries in Bavaria. A decade later, in 1970, there were only 1,247 left, a loss of 319 breweries, or roughly 20%. By 1980, Bavaria had lost another 316 breweries (or another 25%). During the next few decades, the decline continued, but the rate of decline slowed down. Of the 931 breweries that entered the decade of the 1980s, 787 were still in operation in 1990, a loss of 144 breweries (or roughly 16%). In the 1990s, 120 breweries closed (15%), leaving a total of 667 breweries at the start of the second millennium."

In the next issue: The Bavarian Brew Industry at a Glance – the 21^st century

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