34.4 billion litres of beer were produced by EU countries in 2025, which represents a slight decline of 0.7% compared with 2024, but a 2.2% increase compared with 2020.

The majority of this volume 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.

Across 2025 Germany was the EU’s top beer producer in, brewing 7.4 billion litres of beer, which represents 21.6% of EU’s sold production.

In second place was Spain (5.3 billion litres; 15.5%), followed by Poland (3.5 billion litres; 10.2%). The top five list was completed by the Netherlands (2.4 billion litres; 6.9%) and France (2.1 billion litres; 6.0%).