EU states produced some 34.4 billion litres of beer in 2025, a slight decline of 0.7% compared with 2024, but a 2.2% increase compared with 2020.
The figures, released by the EU’s statistics agency Eurostat, show that most of the beer produced, 32.3 billion litres, contained more than 0.5% alcohol, while low alcohol (under 0.5%) and non-alcoholic beer accounted for 2.1 billion litres.
Germany was the EU’s top beer producer in 2025, brewing 7.4 billion litres of beer (21.6% of EU’s sold production). Spain ranked second (5.3 billion litres; 15.5%), followed by Poland (3.5 billion litres; 10.2%). The top 5 list was completed by the Netherlands (2.4 billion litres; 6.9%) and France (2.1 billion litres; 6.0%).
Thematic section on PRODCOM – statistics by product Eurostat
