Beer in Poland

[1] Following the Second World War, most breweries were nationalized by the Communist Government of the Polish People's Republic.

According to a 2009 Ernst & Young report, Poland is Europe's third largest beer producer.

[1] Following consecutive growth in the home market, Związek Pracodawców Przemysłu Piwowarskiego (the Union of the Brewing Industry Employers in Poland), which represents approximately 90% of the Polish beer market, announced during its annual brewing industry conference that consumption of beer in 2008 rose to 94 litres per capita, or 35,624 million hectolitres sold on the domestic market.

Statistically, a Polish consumer drinks some 92 litres of beer a year, which places it third behind the Czech Republic and Germany.

[2] In 2009, beer sales paid some PLN 3.097 bn in excise taxes to the Polish government.