(Newswire.net — June 2, 2017) –The United States is a country where people spend three times more on beer than water, according to AFP, which reports that beer sales in the US sood at $107.6 billion last year.
Why Americans are so fond of drinking beer, more than wine, for example, or any other drink?
Mostly due to the exponential growth of craft beer.
The Brewers Association reports that craft beer breweries accounted for $23.5 billion of last year’s sales, up 10 percent from 2015.
Such results have been achieved owing to the rapid development of micro-breweries in recent years, which now produce 20.4 percent of the craft-beer market.
According to the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, 206.7 million barrels of beer were distributed in the US in 2015, while 14 percent of the total was imported.
In 2016, beer sales amounted to $107.6 billion.
According to the Nielsen Holdings PLC company, which measured sales to retailers over twelve months to February 25, 2017, the American people spent $34.1 billion on beer in stores.
It was almost three times more than they spent on water, $12.5 billion.
Beer producer Anheuser-Busch InBev, which markets its Budweiser brand as “The King of Beers,” is the leader on the market, accounting for almost half of total sales volumes, or 44 percent.
Almost one beer in five (18 percent) sold in the United States is Bud Light.
Beer is not so expensive and it’s the world’s oldest and most widely consumed alcoholic drink. It is the third most popular drink in the world, after water and tea. Alcohol content of beer is usually around four to six percent alcohol by volume.
Beer is not a healthy drink as it contains ethyl alcohol and has short-term psychological and physiological effects on users, just as any other alcoholic drink.