I'm not totally sure what is meant by beer exports in this table. It could include shipments to other parts of Germany. Given that the amount exported increased in 1915, that's probably the case. Whatever the exact details, you can see that, although they were only responsible for about 25% of beer production, around 50% of Bavarian exports came from Munich breweries.
What's also obvious is that the huge number of Weissbier breweries produced bugger all beer. Before the war only 40-odd hectolitres each.
I was pleasantly surprised to se the number of Kommunbrauers making beer for personal use increased between 1912 and 1913. Though it did start dropping once war started. These Kommunbrauer were almost all in two regions: around Bamberg and Schweinfurt. On the eve of war there were a very respectable 490 communal breweries. I doubt there are 20 left today.
The organisation of the majority of bottom-fermenting breweries was still pretty old-fashioned, as only 80-odd out of 3,000 plus were limited companies. I'd bet a good percentage of those 80 were located in Munich and Nuremberg.
The proportion of top-fermented beer was tiny, under 1% for all of these years. I'm sure that's very different now, given the huge surge in popularity of Weissbier since the 1970's.
I've done a little maths on the beer production and malt usage statistics to come up with an average gravity figure. But I'm saving that for next time.
|The brewing industry in Bavaria 1910 - 1915|
|malt usage (D -Ztr)||3,515,466||3,719,250||3,585,684||3,531,458||3,089,019||2,327,042|
|beer production total||18,119,473||19,641,640||19,300,262||19,088,071||17,020,404||14,191,893|
|beer imports (Zollgebiet)||71,498||76,617||74,982||73,723||72,737||58,334|
|beer imports (abroad)||4,080||4,354||1,775||1,948|
|malt usage (D -Ztr)||956,941||905,632||889,952||742,603||642,840|
|beer production total||4,853,994||4,638,063||4,528,741||3,854,735||3,749,708|
|1910 - 1913: Bayerisches Brauer-Journal 1914, pages 375-376|
|1914 - 1915: Bayerisches Brauer-Journal 1916, pages 241-242|