Beer…By the Numbers

February-28-2013 10:35 Filed in: Beer | Trivia

Days until Founders Brewing Company releases Kentucky Breakfast Stout at its tap room: 28.

What Founders charges for a 12-pack of KBS: $62 (includes the $5 charge for a release ticket).

Highest reported bid on eBay for a release ticket: over $500.

Beer brands owned by AB InBev and SABMiller: 210.

Countries in which those brands are headquartered: 42.

Number of monks at St. Sixtus Abbey in Vleteren, Belgium: 21.

St. Sixtus’s annual production of Westvleteren 12: about 4,200 barrels.

Price of a six-pack of Westvleteren at the abbey: $27 U.S.

Percent of Myanmar’s males who call themselves “drinkers”: 50.

Percent who say they have five or more drinks daily: 25.

Germany’s beer consumption last year: 82.3 million barrels.

Percent of that beer that was served with cola and juice: 4.5.

Estimated cost of the Michigan Brewers Guild’s Winter Beer Festival: $175,000.

Cost of the beer itself: $90,000.

The Guild’s profit margin on the festival: 30 percent.