It’s that time of the year. A look back at the annual statistics for Pennsylvania Craft Beer. As you may know, the Brewers Association releases public data available on beer production on an annual basis. (You can see all past details on PA Beer stats here).
As we reported last year Pennsylvania craft beer rebounded very well from the Covid pandemic with overall production increasing by almost half a million barrels. However, it now appears that the post-pandemic growth has stayed flat.
As you can see in the list below, beer production for 2022 dipped by roughly 120,000 barrels of beer:
2016: 3,905,620
2017: 3,724,010
2018: 3,719,475
2019: 3,606,444
2020: 3,156,074
2021: 3,244,840
2022: 3,126,983
This dip in production is reflected throughout the country as a whole as Pennsylvania did not see a change in production versus the rest of the country. At 3.12 million barrels of beer produced Pennsylvania continues to find itself in the #2 overall spot throughout the United States. For another year, Pennsylvania found itself trailing California for the number 1 spot. With 3.5 million barrels produced, California bested Pennsylvania in just about 400K more barrels of beer produced in 2022 (which is a 200K increase in separation between these two states from the previous year).
In addition to production, Pennsylvania remained in the top part of the country in many other areas as well. In fact, in most major categories the state ranks no lower than #7. Pennsylvania remained the #2 state in the country in economic impact, came in at #4 in gallons per 21+-year-old adult, and #7 in impact per capita (up from #8 as of 2021). A total of 42 net new breweries were added from 2020 to 2021.
See all of the 2022 stats for yourself:
TRENDING FLAT
Unlike previous years, Pennsylvania didn’t see much of a decrease in a variety of areas, rather a lot of the data stayed flat. The 5.5 million dollars economic impact dipped slightly to 5.3. In addition, the breweries per capita of 21+ adults jumped from 5 in 2021 to 5.4 in 2022.
In addition to the data above brewery net new growth also remained flat. As you can see in the chart below, the number of breweries opening year over year in the state has trended up for the first time in six years. From 2017 to 2021 the number of net new breweries has been trending downward. (However, the number of operating breweries in the state has been increasing). 45 net new breweries opened in 2022 which is up from 42 in 2021. As of 2022 Pennsylvania has 531 breweries (the most ever in the history of PA craft beer).
