About a fifth of the beer America drinks is imported. Here’s where all that beer comes from.
About a fifth of the beer America drinks is imported. Here’s where all that beer comes from.
Beer. There’s a lot of choices. There’s lager and stout, pilsners, wheat beers and IPAs, commercial and craft beer, bottles, cans and kegs, domestic and imported.
Beer is a $100 billion market in the U.S., and imported beer makes up about a fifth of that, according to the Beer Institute. The U.S. exported about $646 million worth of American beer in 2020. Mexico is the biggest exporter of beer to the U.S., and to the world.
The Beer Institute gathers data from the U.S. Department of Commerce as well as brewers and suppliers to track the volume of beer brought into and shipped out of the U.S. Their latest data is from February 2022, and indicates how much total volume of regular beer, non-alcoholic beer and cider each country exported into the U.S. between Jan. 1 and Feb. 28, 2022.
1. Mexico148.3 million gallons
2. Netherlands17.2 million gallons
3. Ireland6.9 million gallons
4. Canada4.8 million gallons
5. Italy1.7 million gallons
6. Germany1.5 million gallons
7. Belgium1.2 million gallons
8. Jamaica500,159 gallons
9. Czech Republic325,552 gallons
10. United Kingdom313,954 gallons
11. Guatemala238,148 gallons
Gallo beer is sold as Famosa in the U.S.
12. Poland227,920 gallons
14. Vietnam185,252 gallons
16. South Korea146,056 gallons
17. Nicaragua133,403 gallons
19. Austria92,198 gallons
21. Portugal85,713 gallons
23. Thailand83,101 gallons
24. Denmark76,004 gallons
28. New Zealand33,708 gallons
30. Costa Rica14,585 gallons
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