How microbreweries flooded Europe: mapping a new phenomenon in the beer industry

Kryštof Materna, Veronika Bernhäuserová, Jiří Hasman and David Hána

Journal of Maps, 2022, vol. 18, issue 1, 18-25

Abstract: Europe has experienced a major boom of new breweries over the last thirty years, with thousands of new breweries being set up, even in regions where brewing has no history. So far, however, this microbrewing wave has not been systematically mapped. This paper presents a unique database of European breweries from 1990–2020. Using a series of maps and statistical analyses, it shows how breweries have gradually spread across Europe. Initially, microbreweries were being established in countries that are in a declining stage of the beer life-cycle from industrial breweries. After 2005 (and particularly in the 2010s), breweries reached other regions through neighbouring and hierarchical spatial diffusion.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2021.2012536

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