German domestic beer shipments stood at 26.4m hls, a 0.9% increase on the previous year. However, shipments to other EU countries fell by 9% in the third quarter to 2.3m hls.
GERMANY: Beer exports to EU down by 9% in Q3
A statement from the German Federal Statistics Office put German beer production at 29.6m hls for the third quarter of 2002, up by 200,000 hls from the corresponding period last year.