The Telegraph Beer sales slump by largest amount in 14 years. Britain is turning away from beer with 212 billion fewer pints being sold in the last triplet months than the same period last year, new figures show.
The Publicans Morning Advertiser On-trade beer volumes fall 4.5%.
Press Association Beer sales slump by almost 10%.
The above were headlines in the beer press yesterday following the release of new figures from the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA). They show UK on-trade beer volumes dribble 6% in the year to June 2011, with sales down 4.5% in Q2. The Royal union and depenny weather in Q2 is credited with reducing the slowdown, although this was arm by the comparisons with the World Cup in Q2 2010.
The BBPAs every quarter Beer Barometer is based on data from their brewery members who account for 96% of beer brewed in the UK and it shows that overall beer volumes for the 12 months to June 2011 fell 7.1% and declined 9.8% in Q2 2011. The off-trade was hit harder by comparatives with the World Cup, with Q2 volumes down 15%. Across the full year, off-trade volumes fell 8.3%.
The figures show 2 billion pints were consumed in April, May and June 2011. This 9.
8 per cent fall on the comparative period in 2010 is however, the biggest every quarter fall seen in Britain since 1997, when the trade body started collecting elaborated data.
Nothing new in the figures here, because as everyone knows UK beer volumes have been in gradual decline since 1979; but it is the comment, the biggest quarterly fall seen in Britain since 1997, which concerns me. Just where will it all end?
The figures are staggering, the absolute majority of these been taken from a submission to the Treasury, by way of pen evidence, by the BBPA in March 2011.
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