This document provides for an overview of the advertising regulation applying to beer, wine and spirits in the 28 European Union Countries as well as Turkey, Norway and Switzerland. It covers TV, radio, outdoor, online, cinema and stadium advertising.
This document provides for an overview of the different keg distribution channels and systems that are in place in the 28 European Union Countries as well as Turkey, Norway and Switzerland and has been updated in July 2020.
This Guidance is designed to assist breweries in listing the ingredients and, where necessary, in indicating the quantity of the ingredients, following the rules laid down in the Food Information to Consumers Regulation (Regulation (EU)1169/2011) that applies to beer throughout the European Union.
It has been updated in July 2020 to take into account the new provision of the Spirit Drink Regulation regarding allusions that will be applied as of May 2021.
This Guidance is designed to assist breweries in understanding the rules pertaining to the origin indication as laid down in the Food Information to Consumers Regulation (Article 26 of Regulation (EU)1169/2011) that applies to beer throughout the European Union.
This Guidance has been updated in February 2020 to assist breweries in understanding the rules laid down in Implementing Regulation (EU) 775/2018 on the indication of the origin of the primary ingredients of food.
This document presents the 2019 Beer Statistics edition of The Brewers of Europe. It contains data over beer production, beer consumption, the on-trade/off-trade repartition, import and export, number of breweries, direct employment and excise duty revenues.
Statistics from previous years are available for download
This Guidance is designed to assist breweries in implementing the mandatory allergen declaration as laid down in the Food Information to Consumers Regulation (Regulation (EU)1169/2011) that applies to beer throughout the European Union
This document presents the 2018 Beer Statistics edition of The Brewers of Europe. It contains data over beer production, beer consumption, the on-trade/off-trade repartition, import and export, number of breweries, direct employment and excise duty revenues.
This infographic is designed to help you, brewers, to assess whether your beer is impacted by the Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/775 that will apply as of 01st April 2020 and that sets rules with regards to the indication of the origin of a food's primary ingredient(s) where the origin of the food is indicated and that it is different than that of the primary ingredient(s).
The infographic details the steps to follow to assess whether your beer is impacted and, in case it is, it also lays down the main labelling impacts.
If you want to go further, you can refer to The Brewers of Europe Guidance Note on Origin Labelling available on BrewUp available here.
This Toolkit, that embeds a calculator, will help you to understand the Minimum Unit Pricing Regulation that is applied as of 01 May 2018 in Scotland and to calculate the price of your beer using the embedded calculator.
This toolkit has been developed jointly by The Brewers of Europe and the European Brewery Convention (EBC) and aims at helping brewers to determine the nutritional values of their beers in order to share:
The toolkit has been designed to draw brewers' attention to available methods that would help them to calculate the nutritional values of their beer. It contains references to existing (and publicly available) methods and also advice on how they are able to deduce or calculate the data based on data available.
This table presents an overview of the national legal purchasing and drinking age for beer, wine and spirits across the 28 European Union Countries and Turkey, Norway and Switzerland
This document provides for an overview of the different kegs deposit fees that apply in the 28 European Union Countries as well as Turkey, Norway and Switzerland.
This document presents the 2016 Beer Statistics edition of The Brewers of Europe. It contains data over beer production, beer consumption, the on-trade/off-trade repartition, import and export, number of breweries, direct employment and excise duty revenues.
Statistics from previous years are available for download
This document provides for an overview of the alcohol sales regulation in petrol station in the 28 European Union Countries as well as Turkey, Norway and Switzerland.
This Guidance is designed to assist breweries in providing the nutrition declaration for their beers (mandatory for beers up to 1.2% abv and voluntary for beers of more than 1.2% abv) as laid down in the Food Information to Consumers Regulation (Regulation (EU)1169/2011) that applies throughout the European Union.
This document provides for an overview of the alcohol sales regulation in stadium in the 28 European Union Countries as well as Turkey, Norway and Switzerland.
This Manual aims at helping European brewers and trade associations to interpret the Guidelines for Beer Commercial Communication issued by The Brewers of Europe
The Beer Image Tracker study 2016 provides for useful insights on beer perception throughout different European Union countries.
This Guidance is designed to assist breweries in implementing the EU legislation with respect to the ‘gluten-free’ and ‘very low gluten’ labelling.
The Love Beer website, whose access is restricted to members of The Brewers of Europe, offers tools that can be activated against a set of rules in order to promote the beer category at national level. Access request to Love-Beer.eu
