A French government advisory body, France AgriMer, has estimated that French vineyards are expected to produce 37.2 million
hectolitres in the 2017 grape harvest now underway, about 18 per cent below the lower - than - usual 2016 vintage.
The news was announced when China's domestic wine production has been dropping for five years now, with production in 2017 totalling only at 10 million
hectolitres as a result of fierce competition from imported wines.
The new 30,000
hectolitre brewery will also contain a visitor centre for brewery tours and an on - site pub which will double up as a venue for music, events and functions.
«They're the second - largest Canadian - owned brewer after Moosehead,» he says, noting that the company pumps out just over 200,000
hectolitres of beer each year.
A second phase could increase the capacity of the SAB Miller brewery to 1 million
hectolitres per year.
According to the Dairy Farmers of Ontario,
a hectolitre of milk produced on a small farm requires 1.94 total hours of labour, whereas on a large farm (still pretty rinky - dink by U.S. standards), only 0.81 total hours are required.
There's also growth in the number of brewers who produce anywhere from 2,000 to 50,000
hectolitres.
Meanwhile, the biggest increase is for the smallest of microbreweries — those producing less than 2,000
hectolitres a year (or less than 25,000 cases of 24)-- which jumped from 220 to 490 since 2010.
Pacific Beverages designed the plant to ultimately have an annual capacity of 1.5 million
hectolitres, while targeting a reduction in water usage to 2.2 l / 1 litres of beer produced for the Australian market, which has one of the world's top 10 annual beer consumption levels, at 83 litres a head.
The International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) said world production was down around 6 per cent in 2012 at 251 million
hectolitres (Mhl), a level it described as very low.
The brewery is able to produce four million
hectolitres (400 million litres) of Grolsch beer annually.
«The brewery is able to produce four million
hectolitres (400 million litres) of Grolsch beer annually as of 2005.»
There are tentative plans for a future expansion to six million
hectolitres; this is still under consideration but the facility already has the necessary infrastructure.
After five years a second phase is envisaged, which could increase capacity to one million
hectolitres.
The 2014 vintage yielded 1,385,500
hectolitres across the Côtes de Provence, Coteaux d'Aix - en - Provence and Coteaux Varois en Provence appellations, compared to 1,197,000 hectolitres in 2013.
The capacity of the old Blue Tongue Brewery is around 50,000
hectolitres per year and the new brewery will give ten times more capacity.
The brewery will have a capacity of around 500,000
hectolitres a year and one million bottles a day.
SPAIN exported the most red wine in the world last year - beating Italy and France by millions of
hectolitres.
Italy's 2016 harvest, at approximately 46 - 47 million
hectolitres, will be the world's largest.
Canada saw brand volume increase by 0.8 % in the fourth quarter boosted by higher sales of import and craft brands while revenue net sales per
hectolitre were up 1 % in local currency.
These will operate alongside its current brewing facilities which are capable of producing 1 million
hectolitres of beer each year.
Since Duvel first invested in the company in 2016, the Italian brewer has increased its output from 5,000
hectolitres to 9,000 hectolitres a year and installed a new bottling line.
Domestic wine production, as reported by dbHK, has been steadily declining, and for the fifth year its volume dropped to a new low at 10 million
hectolitres, while imported wine has been steadily growing as a category.
Beer production in the country saw a slight drop of 0.66 % to 440.1 million
hectolitres last year, while the volume of imported beer grew by 10.8 % to 7.162 million hectolitres.