Press Sales of beer down 3.1% in the first nine months of 2017

Press release No. 384 of 30 October 2017

WIESBADEN – As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the beer producing and storing establishments in Germany sold 72.0 million hectolitres of beer in the first nine months of 2017. That was a decrease of 3.1% from the corresponding period of the previous year.