Beery Side of Poland

Do Polish people enjoy drinking beer? Recent research shows that 88% of Poles have a beer at least once a year. Polish people consume 121.5 litres of beer per person every year. This puts Poland in third place in Europe. Lager is the most consumed type of beer in Poland, what is more, the significant increase in popularity of flavoured beer has […]

Polish Breweries

Poland has over 100 breweries. The fashion for niche beers has meant that breweries in Poland are being established at a lightning rate. “The number of breweries has at least doubled,” according to Rzeczpospolita. There are now exactly 101 breweries in Poland. There have not been this many since the 1990s. The fashion for regional […]

Price of Beer

Of the PLN 3 spent on a 1.5l bottle of beer, only a few groszy are spent on the products actually needed to produce it. The rest account for transport costs, advertising, agents, taxes and the brewery’s income. Last year, the Polish beer market leader, Kompania Piwowarska, had an income of over PLN 700 million. The […]