Total beer producing establishments reached 1,847 last year; data are from the Beer Yearbook
The number of registered beer producing establishments in Brazil reached 1,847 in 2023, an increase of 6.8% compared to the previous year – or 118 new breweries. The data is in Beer Yearbook of the Map (Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock), released on Tuesday (11.jan.2024), in São Paulo, at CBTEC (Brazilian Congress of Science and Technology), which is part of the Brazil Brauthe biggest event in the Brazilian beer industry.
“In recent years, we have noticed that the growth rate in the number of establishments has decreased, but this is because the base is larger. We have a process of internalizing beer in the country, and this is a challenge, growing and distributing”, declared geographer Eduardo Marcusso, from the Ministry of Agriculture.
São Paulo continues to lead as the state with the largest number of breweries, with 410 registered establishments, followed by Rio Grande do Sul (335), Minas Gerais (235), Santa Catarina (225) and Paraná 171.
Considering the regions, the Southeast has the largest number of beer producers – 856 registered establishments, followed by the South (731), Northeast (122), Central-West (96), and North (42).
In relation to municipalities, the capital of São Paulo is the city with the most registered breweries – 61. Next come Porto Alegre (43), Curitiba (26), Caxias do Sul (RS) (23), Nova Lima (MG) (22) and Belo Horizonte (21).
The yearbook also shows that, in 771 Brazilian municipalities, there is at least one brewery, which represents an increase of 6.8% compared to the number recorded in 2022 (722).
Rio Grande do Sul is the federation unit in which the inhabitants have the most breweries, surpassing Santa Catarina and reaching the first position in 2023, with the mark of one establishment for every 32,486 inhabitants.
Next come the states of Santa Catarina (33,800), Espírito Santo (46,700), Paraná (66,900) and Minas Gerais (87,400). On the national average, Brazil has one registered brewery for every 109,900 inhabitants.
According to the yearbook, in 2023, there was an increase of 6.6% in relation to the number of products registered in 2022, totaling 45,648 beers. On average, Brazilian establishments have 24.7 product registrations.
For the first time, the yearbook brought data on national beer production, obtained from the Annual Declaration of Production and Stocks, made by beer producing establishments registered with Mapa.
The declared production volume nationally reached 15.36 billion liters. The Southeast Region has the highest declared production volume – 53.4% of national production. The North Region was the only one that did not surpass the mark of 1 billion liters of beer produced.
Foreign trade
Brazilian beer imports have continued to decline since 2019. The reduction observed in 2023 was accentuated, reaching 51.1% in volume and 39.4% in value (US$), reaching 7,130,686 liters of imported beer , for a total value of US$8,597,137.
“Brazilian beer has occupied this space that used to belong to imported beer and is no longer leaving, it is a space that it occupied and in which it became present, the consumer became better acquainted with Brazilian beer and no longer needs to resort to imports, the consumption of a foreign beer. This has been consolidating”said Mapa’s general wine and beverage coordinator, Vitor Oliveira.
In 2023, Germany surpassed Belgium and, with an amount of 1,856,864 liters of the product, became the main origin of beer imported by Brazil, representing 26% of the total. Germany is followed by Belgium, Uruguay, Spain, Paraguay and Argentina as the main origins of the product purchased by Brazilians.
In the case of exports, according to the yearbook, there was an 18.6% increase in the volume sold abroad in 2023, reaching 231,977,494 liters. Exports earned US$155.7 million, an increase of 28.8% compared to the previous year.
The numbers are records since the beginning of the series, in 2011. The main destinations for beer produced in Brazil were Paraguay, Bolivia, Uruguay, Chile, Cuba, Venezuela and the United States.
The trade surplus, the difference between exports and imports, closed the year 2023 at US$147 million.
Jobs
According to the yearbook, the alcoholic beverages sector saw a 0.51% reduction in the number of jobs created in 2023, closing the year with 58,863 direct jobs. The beer segment fell by 1.9%, although it still maintains above 40,000 jobs, with the creation of 41,346 jobs.
With information from Brazil Agency.
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