Beer in the United States Beer in the United States Beer in the United States is manufactured by more than 3,000 breweries, which range in size from industry giants to brew pubs and microbreweries. The United States produced 196 million barrels () of beer in 2012, and consumes roughly of beer per capita annually. In 2011, the United States was ranked fifteenth in the world in per capita consumption, while total consumption was second only to China. Although beer was a part of colonial life in the United States, the passing of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1919 resulted in the
Beer in France uses data from the WHO Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health 2011, At 30 l per capita, France is not even listed in the List of countries by beer consumption per capita(Please note that this number considers total beer volume - which includes beers with various alcohol content - whereas the World Health Organization number above considers total alcohol only). Overall alcohol consumption is down 25% since 1960 (17.9 l alcohol/inhabitant in 1961 compared to 10.5 l in 2008) and beer currently represents 16% of the total. Similar data is shown by the World Health Organization Global Status Report