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The Global Beer Market: Trends, Growth, and Insights

David Parekar — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 14:34:30 +0000

The Global Beer Market: Trends, Growth, and Insights

The beer market remains one of the most dynamic and culturally rich industries in the global beverage sector. As one of humanity’s oldest and most cherished beverages, beer has evolved over centuries, adapting to shifting consumer preferences, technological advancements, and economic conditions. In this article, we explore the current state of the beer market, its growth drivers, and emerging trends shaping its future.

Two pints and barley

Market Overview

The global beer market size was valued at USD 821.39 billion in 2023 and is projected to grow from USD 851.15 billion in 2024 to USD 1,167.47 billion by 2032, exhibiting a CAGR of 4.03% during the forecast period. Europe dominated the beer market with a market share of 33.77% in 2023. Moreover, the beer market size in the U.S. is projected to grow significantly, reaching an estimated value of USD 149.12 billion by 2032, driven by increasing demand for hard drinks among millennials and working population.

Key Drivers of Growth

Rising Demand for Craft Beer Craft beer has become a global phenomenon, with consumers seeking unique flavors, local ingredients, and artisanal brewing methods. The segment now accounts for nearly 25% of the total beer market in developed regions like North America and Europe.
Health-Conscious Trends As health awareness grows, so does the demand for low-alcohol and non-alcoholic beer options. These alternatives cater to consumers who want to enjoy the social aspect of beer without the high calorie or alcohol content.
Emerging Markets Developing countries in Asia-Pacific, Africa, and Latin America are witnessing significant growth in beer consumption due to increasing disposable incomes, urbanization, and a youthful demographic.
Sustainability Initiatives Breweries are focusing on sustainable production methods, including water conservation, renewable energy, and recyclable packaging, to appeal to environmentally conscious consumers.

Notable Trends in the Beer Industry

Premiumization Consumers are increasingly willing to pay more for premium and super-premium beer brands that offer superior quality, taste, and packaging. This trend has led to a surge in limited-edition brews and collaborations with renowned chefs and mixologists.
Tech-Driven Innovation From AI-powered brewing systems to blockchain-enabled supply chains, technology is revolutionizing how beer is produced, distributed, and marketed.
Flavored and Infused Beers Beer infused with fruits, spices, and other unique flavors is capturing the attention of adventurous drinkers. This trend is particularly popular among younger consumers.
Rise of E-commerce Online beer sales have grown exponentially, especially following the COVID-19 pandemic. Breweries and distributors are leveraging digital platforms to reach a broader audience and offer direct-to-consumer options.

Challenges in the Beer Market

Despite its growth, the beer market faces several challenges:

Regulatory Hurdles: Stricter alcohol regulations in various countries can limit market expansion.
Competition from Other Beverages: The growing popularity of hard seltzers, cocktails, and non-alcoholic beverages is creating a competitive landscape.
Supply Chain Disruptions: Fluctuations in raw material availability and rising costs can impact production and pricing.

Future Outlook

The future of the beer market looks promising, with continued innovation and adaptation to consumer preferences. Sustainability will remain a core focus, along with personalization and the use of technology to enhance the consumer experience. Emerging markets will likely play a pivotal role in driving the industry's growth over the next decade.

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This was a contributor article written by David Parekar and submitted to The Beer Thrillers. All information is gathered, written, and edited by David Parekar. (This was not a paid contribution or article.)

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Three Questions and a Pint With Joel Gaier

paulrkan — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 17:27:56 +0000

Three Questions and a Pint With Joel Gaier

Joel is the author of the new book Flights Across America: A Brewery Lover’s Journey. As the host of the popular “Brewery Travels” podcast, he hit the road (and the sky) to visit nearly 1400 breweries across all 50 states, including 26 in PA. He began his travels
in 2017 and his book releases on December 17th . I caught up with him by phone to share a beer and a quick chat.

Flights Across America – Cover

Three Questions

Flights Across America – blurbs

1) What was the biggest takeaway from all the breweries you visited?

Not surprisingly, that they’re all different. Breweries are sort of like fingerprints—they’re unique. But in their uniqueness, they all have a story to tell. Sometimes it’s an owner’s story about how he or she got into the business. Other times, it’s the story about a particular beer they make and why people like it. And yet another story might be about how the location for the brewery was chosen. All in all, every brewery has a story to share with the community.

2) What would people be most surprised to know about your beer travels?

Oh, how much work I put into the project. From being a hobby to visit breweries in a state where I was with my family to becoming a true obsession of visiting them in every state. We would re-route trips in order to visit a brewery. It was pretty meticulous planning at times; it wasn’t willy-nilly. While it wasn’t a job, it was still a lot of work.

3) If someone wanted to plan a “beercation” to visit a bunch of breweries, what are few things they should know before they go?

I have a few sections in my book about beer tourism and how to plan your visits. The two big tips would be to make sure to double check a brewery’s hours. Sometimes they’re inconsistent and you don’t want to make a big plan and show up on say a Thursday when a brewery is closed, thinking its hours are like the weekend’s. Or, if it is closed for maintenance or some other reason. And two, might sound obvious, but find out what type of beer the place serves—if you don’t like a certain type of beer—like sours or IPA—but that’s the type of beer a brewery specializes in, you may want to skip it.

You can see Paul’s other ‘Three Questions and a Pint’ here:

Flights Across America – Promotional

The Pint

Joel was spending some time back at home with his kids while we were talking and wasn’t having a beer. I was enjoying a Sierra Nevada Narwhal as we talked. (Sierra Nevada Narwhal.)

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You can purchase the book from Amazon here: Flights Across America: A Brewery Lover’s Journey

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Paul R. Kan

Paul R. Kan is the author of Hawai’i Beer: A History of Brewing in Paradise which was a North American Guild of Beer Writers’ award winner and a #1 new release on Amazon’s Books on Beer. He has written for Good Beer Hunting and is Editor-at-Large at The Beer Thrillers. Along with beer reviews, book reviews and interviews, he also writes about the interesting ways beer intersects with people and society. His current book project is Red, White and Brew: The Beers and Battles that Shaped America. He lives in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

ʻOi kau ka lā, e hana i ola honua (While the sun yet shines, do all you can).

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Book Review: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde (Oscar Wilde)

B. Kline — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 15:21:16 +0000

The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde (Quotations by Oscar Wilde)

Oscar Wilde

One can’t jump into a book review of quotations by Oscar Wilde without first discussing Oscar Wilde himself. He certainly isn’t an ordinary person, and he most definitely lived an extraordinary life. He lived a life of excess, he lived a life of intrigue, part hedonist, part flamboyant, all parts interesting.

As per Wikipedia:

Oscar Fingal O’Fflahertie Wills Wilde^[a] (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his criminal conviction for gross indecency for homosexual acts.

Wilde’s parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. In his youth Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, he read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.

He tried his hand at various literary activities: he wrote a play, published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the new “English Renaissance in Art” and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he lectured on his American travels and wrote reviews for various periodicals. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). Wilde returned to the drama, writing Salome (1891) in French while in Paris, but it was refused a licence for England due to an absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Undiscouraged, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late-Victorian London.

At the height of his fame and success, while An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) were still being performed in London, Wilde issued a civil writ against John Sholto Douglas, the 9th Marquess of Queensberry for criminal libel.^[3] The Marquess was the father of Wilde’s lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. The libel hearings unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and criminal prosecution for gross indecency with men.^[4] The jury was unable to reach a verdict and so a retrial was ordered. In the second trial Wilde was convicted and sentenced to two years’ hard labour, the maximum penalty, and was jailed from 1895 to 1897.^[5] During his last year in prison he wrote De Profundis (published posthumously in abridged form in 1905), a long letter that discusses his spiritual journey through his trials and is a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. On the day of his release he caught the overnight steamer to France, never to return to Britain or Ireland. In France and Italy he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life.

Oscar Wilde – Wikipedia

He lived much like he wrote, and he wrote much like he lived. I think thats why we’re so drawn to him. His wit, his intellect, the way he lived, the way he viewed the world seems contrary to the way most of us get a chance to live our lives. I wouldn’t say necessarily that he lived it “well” or that he lived it “bad”. He seems shallow at the same time he seems intelligent. He is artistic, but at the same time he seems to only care about his art. He’s like much of our modern celebrity culture.

Quotation Books

Books of quotations are always interesting in the sense that you get a vague-ish idea of the person. Theres the quips and comments, the wit, and the witticisms, the quotes, and the ideas of the person, but it doesn’t really give you a full picture of the person. There is some context provided by the editors, but not a whole lot. There is some work and context given by Alvin Redman, but oftentimes it just feels like fawning over Oscar Wilde rather than really providing details into the chapter at hand.

But before I digress too much, lets get into the book review.

Back of the Book Blurb

Wilde on Sincerity: “A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.” Nearly a century after his death, the wit of Oscar Wilde remains as fresh and barbed as ever. This collection of his works, letters, reviews, anecdotes and repartee is ample proof of this iconoclast’s enduring place in the world of arts and letters.

The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde – Oscar Wilde (Author) and Alvin Redman (Editor) – GoodReads

Book Review: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde’s legacy as a master of wit endures well over a century after his passing. Esteemed as a poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist, Wilde was also recognized as the foremost aphorist of his time. Praised by George Bernard Shaw as “incomparably the greatest talker of his time — perhaps of all time,” Wilde’s ability to captivate through conversation is legendary. His articulate and whimsical discourse, delivered with confidence and without pause, enthralled all who had the pleasure of his company.

This book serves as an outstanding guide for those wishing to delve into Oscar Wilde’s spontaneous and eccentric humor. It’s a delightful read for moments of relaxation and amusement, and it’s even suggested as entertaining bathroom literature.

Wilde’s eloquence was so refined that even those on the receiving end of his sharp remarks often felt honored. Wilde boasted of his readiness to tackle any topic at any time, whether he was prepared or not. On one occasion, when asked to speak on “The Queen,” Wilde cleverly responded, “The queen is not a subject.” In another instance, he quickly retorted to a journalist’s claim of only discussing familiar facts with, “That must limit your conversation frightfully.”

Even William Gilbert, of the famed Gilbert and Sullivan duo, expressed envy at Wilde’s oratory skills at a dinner party, to which Wilde humorously replied that denying others the pleasure of listening to him would be selfish.

However, Wilde wasn’t always the victor in verbal jest. During a visit to America, a lady’s description of something as ‘awfully nice’ led Wilde to comment on the inadequacy of ‘nice,’ only for her to cleverly inquire if ‘nasty’ was any better.

Wilde’s wit shone through in various interactions, whether it was playfully addressing a former professor’s inaudibility, humorously arranging a visit with French actor Coquelin, or candidly speaking about his preparations for a lecture tour in the USA, where he sought a “natural style with a touch of affectation.”

His humor extended to anecdotes about America, including a memorable exchange about the moon’s beauty with a Southerner, and his sly response to a theater manager’s request to revise his play ‘Vera’: “Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?”

Following his lecture tour, Wilde humorously recounted the toll it took on his secretaries—one suffering from writer’s cramp and the other bald from sending locks of his hair to admirers.

Wilde’s meticulous attention to his work was humorously illustrated when he described spending an entire morning removing a comma from a poem, only to reinstate it in the afternoon.

Wilde once remarked, ‘Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.’ This captures the essence of good conversation as a fleeting art, much like the seasonal changing of leaves. Oscar Wilde’s mischievous wit remains vibrantly alive, continuing to enchant and amuse.

No doubt we’ll be remembering is wit, his intellect, and his ‘ephemeral’ usage of language for years and years to come. A product of his time over anything else. Would he be the same if he was alive in the 1990s or the 2000s or even the 2020s? Would be interesting to see how things like Twitter or Facebook (or social media in general) would have changed the way we looked at his ‘dandyism’ and his ‘witticisms’. Maybe he would be viewed less favorably, or maybe even more favorably. He most likely would have escaped having to do jail time.

Either way, while the quotations and the book doesn’t provide the perfect context for Oscar Wilde, it does provide a nice introduction to who and what he was. This is a good start into his character, his personality, and who he was. I wouldn’t necessarily recommend it however. I think it would best people read him for his works, and then learn about him as a person, and get into his ‘wit’ and ‘intellect’ and ‘conversation skills’.

My GoodReads Rating: ***
My LibraryThing Rating: ***
Global Average GoodReads Rating: 4.07 (as of 2.9.24)

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Book Review: Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk (David Sedaris)

BKline — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 00:04:00 +0000

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris with illustrations by Ian Falconer

Fables

Fables, particularly ones using animals as the characters and giving them human like traits, is as old as Aesop. (Probably older really, but we really only think about Aesop’s Fables). Anthropomorphism has been a literary device since the beginning of time when we used it as a way to describe the behavior of animals, gods, spirits, and other deities or things we couldn’t figure out – as we were just trying to figure out the world itself. Animal based fables have been used as a way of highlighting a point, providing satire or parody, or just illuminating our behaviors through the guise of an animal – and in doing so, driving home the point more.

David Sedaris uses his little animal fables to showcase some of modern time’s more interesting foibles amongst the humans. Sometimes just comedic, sometimes poignant, sometimes meta, sometimes downright ludicrous, but all enlightening about ‘us’. Little things, big things, little topics, big topics, they are all covered here. (And with wonderful illustrations to go with it as well.)

David Sedaris

Sedaris is known for his sardonic, satirical voice, a bit of an ‘everyman’ but also a humorous, sarcastic, satiric one. He has several books to his name, as well as lots of contributions to different magazines, newspapers, and other medias (documentaries, movies, comedy shows, etc.). His sister is Amy Sedaris (actress and writer) and they have worked together on some projects.

David Raymond Sedaris (/sɪˈdɛərɪs/; born December 26, 1956)^[1][2] is an American humorist, comedian, author, and radio contributor. He was publicly recognized in 1992 when National Public Radio broadcast his essay “Santaland Diaries“. He published his first collection of essays and short stories, Barrel Fever, in 1994. He is the brother and writing collaborator of actor Amy Sedaris.
Much of Sedaris’s humor is ostensibly autobiographical and self-deprecating and often concerns his family life, his middle-class upbringing in the suburbs of Raleigh, North Carolina, his Greek heritage, homosexuality, jobs, education, drug use, and obsessive behaviors, and his life in France, London, and the English South Downs.
David Sedaris (Wikipedia Introduction)

For more information on him, check out his Wikipedia page and his GoodReads pages:

Book Review

Featuring David Sedaris’s unique blend of hilarity and heart, this new collection of keen-eyed animal-themed tales is an utter delight. Though the characters may not be human, the situations in these stories bear an uncanny resemblance to the insanity of everyday life.

In “The Toad, the Turtle, and the Duck,” three strangers commiserate about animal bureaucracy while waiting in a complaint line. In “Hello Kitty,” a cynical feline struggles to sit through his prison-mandated AA meetings. In “The Squirrel and the Chipmunk,” a pair of star-crossed lovers is separated by prejudiced family members.

With original illustrations by Ian Falconer, author of the bestselling Olivia series of children’s books, these stories are David Sedaris at his most observant, poignant, and surprising.
Squirrel Seeks Chimpunk (GoodReads Blurb)

This is certainly a fun, and sarcastic look at human foibles. Satirical and a parody of our own lives, South Park like in many ways. Its interesting to see that Ian Falconer is the illustrator and author for the Olivia series of books, and I can definitely see that in his artwork now (my oldest two daughters loved the Olivia book series), but these images in this book, are much more graphic (showing pus, guts, violence, blood, visceral, etc.).

The illustrations do work perfectly with the different stories / fables. As the fables / stories can get rather graphic themselves – oh yes, spoiler alert possibly – but these are definitely not fables for the faint of heart. (Looking at the story of the bear in particular, and with the graphic illustration to go with it…. or the two lab rats…. or the raven with the ewe’s eye….)

No topic is really sacrosanct in this volume either. He covers prejudices, racism, religion, bigotry, politics, parenting, friends, greed, and all of our other vices and avarice. The Storks are used to discuss parenting (shocking huh? but not in the way your thinking about them), the lab rats are used to discuss “new age” thought (positive vibes, good thinking, etc.), the bear shows the ways people manipulate others over their grief, the chipmunk and the squirrel shows the bigotry and racism of our past generations, etc, etc, etc.

The reviews on Amazon and GoodReads on the book are pretty interesting. Comments ranging from “deranged” to “disgusting” to “hopeless” and then going up to the realms of flattery calling it “sarcastic fun”, “satirical gold”, etc. It certainly has evoked a lot of different opinions amongst many readers. That’s not too surprising really; you get a lot of “I didn’t know this was going to be like that” kind of responses. Its akin to Untappd reviewers saying “Good beer, but stouts aren’t my style” and then proceeding to give it a 1 out of 5 cap review. (Check out some of the blogs and Facebook pages devoted to “Untappd Reviews”.)

Overall, my thoughts are that its a fun enjoyable read. You might need a bit of a dark or twisted sense of humor (which luckily I have in spades), and maybe the pictures might be a bit ‘gross’ at times, but they are beautifully drawn. The fables are mostly short and makes the book a quick read.

My GoodReads Rating: ***
Global Average GoodReads Rating: 3.37 (as of 10.17.21)
My LibraryThing Rating: ***.5

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