The total 9.681 decaliters produced of Latvians’ favorite traditional alcoholic beverage couldn’t keep up with the amounts produced in 2013, before leading brewery Aldaris moved a large portion of its beer production abroad.
However, the State Revenue Service also reported a growing trend in microbrewed beer production from 26 smaller companies registered in Latvia last year, producing 23% of the country’s total beer output, up 16% from the size of the microbrew segment 2013.