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While we Americans pride ourselves in being #1 in just about everything, it turns out that the United States is “just” the second leading country in worldwide beer production, with an amount of about 224 million hectoliters. Also, #1 isn’t Germany, which is #4, it’s China. Brazil, by the way, is #3.
Our runner-up role is not from lack of trying: There are 3,464 U.S. breweries—nearly three times Germany’s number—helping provide that volume, with the landslide majority, 98% or 3,418, of those being craft brewers (beer sources: Statistica.com, CraftBeer.com and WorldAtlas.com).