Canadian beer drinkers who consumed microbrewery or craft beer by city 2018

According to a survey carried out among beer drinking Canadians in May 2018, Québec City was the city where consumers were most likely to have drunk microbrews or craft beers within the last month - some 50 percent of respondents there had done so. Ottawa-Gatineau was the city with the second highest share of microbrew and craft beer drinkers at that time. What are microbrews or craft beers? Micro- and craft breweries are generally independently owned and produce smaller quantities of beer than their large-scale corporate counterparts. Also referring to the size of the establishment, the terms micro and craft also represent an alternative approach to flavors, experimentation and customer service within the beer industry. A brewery can be classified as so if it produces fewer than 1.8 million liters of beer annually. The beer industry in Canada In 2018, there were almost 1,000 licensed breweries across Canada, this equated to 3.4 breweries per every 100,000 legal drinking age adults. In the same year, around 22.08 million hectoliters of beer were sold in Canada.

根据2018年5月对饮酒的加拿大人进行的一项调查，魁北克市是消费者在过去一个月内最有可能饮用精酿啤酒或小型啤酒的城市——该市约50%的受访者曾如此。当时，渥太华-加蒂诺是拥有最高比例小型啤酒和精酿啤酒饮用者的城市。何谓精酿或小型啤酒？小型及精酿啤酒厂通常为独立所有，且生产的啤酒数量少于其大规模企业对手。此外，从企业规模的角度来看，'小型'和'精酿'这两个术语还代表着啤酒行业对风味、实验和客户服务的另一种替代性方法。若一家啤酒厂每年生产的啤酒少于180万升，则可被归类为小型啤酒厂。2018年，加拿大有近1000家获许可的啤酒厂，这相当于每10万合法饮酒年龄的成年人拥有3.4家啤酒厂。同年，加拿大啤酒销量约为2208百万升。