Specialty Beer Market: Growing Demand to Impact Revenue Share during 2017-2022

Posted by Arslan on March 20th, 2019

The global specialty beer market is expected to grow at a moderate growth rate. When regular beer is added with flavors and processed with new fermenting techniques, a specialty beer is obtained. The global specialty beer market is impacted by factors such as rise in the exports, rise in demand for specialty beer, increase in disposable income, rise in demand from emerging economies, etc. This report, published by Fact.MR, provides in-depth analysis of the global specialty beer market for the forecast period 2017-2022, and offers key insights about future market direction.

Specialty beers are regular beers brewed to obtain a classic taste and style with some new addition of flavors. The addition of herbs, fruits and spices along with miscellaneous flavorings like smoke, hot pepper and licorice, turns an ordinary or regular beer into a specialty beer. In this category of beers, unusual fermentation techniques and fermentables are used for their production.

According to Fact.MR’s research report on the global specialty beer market, the market is anticipated to reach a value more than US$ 15 Bn by 2022 reflecting a moderate CAGR during the forecasted period of 2017-2022.

Fruit Beers Show Dominance over Other Specialty Beer Types

The fruit beers segment by product type reflect a higher market share by revenue as of 2017, and are growing at a moderate rate. This type experiences the highest market share of 35.7% and this trend is expected to run the show by the end of 2022. Following fruit beers segment, the herb and spice beers segment is the second highest segment in terms of market share by revenue. Europe region can be considered as a good opportunity yielding region for the fruit beers and herb and spice beers segments.

Herb and Spice Beers Segment Show Higher Growth Rate

The herb and spice segment are not only in second position with respect to market share by revenue, but reflect the highest growth rate as compared to other segments in product type and is anticipated to reflect a CAGR of 4.6% throughout the period of forecast, 2017 to 2022. As far as growth rate is concerned, following the herb and spice beers segment, the wassail segment comes next, but it has a low market share. The herb and spice beers segment is also expected to gain a high BPS by the end of 2022.

Europe Region is the Most Dominating

The Europe region shows higher market attractiveness index and can be considered as the most lucrative region for the specialty beer market. This region dominates other regions in terms of market share by revenue in 2017 and this trend is anticipated to grow throughout the period of forecast of 2017 to 2022. The growth rate in this region, however, as compared to other regions, is a shade less. The Asia-Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) region is expected to report the highest growth rate throughout the period of forecast and is poised to register a CAGR of 3.9% during 2017 to 2022. Following APEJ, North America region also shows a higher growth rate as compared to Europe region. But this growth rate would not hamper much owing to Europe’s comparatively high market share in this market.

American Sour Seems Extremely Attractive

The American sour segment by fermenting style is anticipated to grow at a comparatively higher growth rate and is poised to register a CAGR of 4.1% during the period of forecast of 2017 to 2022. Moreover, this segment also shows higher market share by revenue thereby establishing dominance over other segments in the fermenting style category. This segment is also expected to gain a higher BPS by the end of 2022. Following American sour segment, the Belgian Gueuze segment stands in the second position both in terms of growth rate and market share and this trend is expected to continue till the end of 2022.

Microbrewery Anticipated to Grow Macro

The microbrewery segment by distribution channel is expected to grow at a comparatively higher rate and also reflect a higher market share by revenue during the period of forecast. The segment is also anticipated to experience a higher gain in the BPS by the end of 2022. The microbrewery segment is expected to register a CAGR of 4.2% during the forecast period of 2017 to 2022.

Competition Tracking

The report also profiles companies that are expected to remain active in the expansion of the global specialty beer market through 2022, which include The Boston Beer Company, Inc., D.G. Yuengling & Son, Inc., Stone Brewing Co., Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV, Molson Coors Brewing Company, Heineken Holding N.V, Duvel Moortgat NV, Bells brewery Inc., SweetWater Brewing Company, LLC, North American Breweries Inc., Diaego Guinness USA Inc., and Deschutes Brewery, Inc.        

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