About the Breweries in Maine Market Research Report
What’s Included in the Breweries in Maine Market Research Report
Definition of the Breweries in Maine?
The Breweries industry primarily produces alcoholic beverages made from malted barley and hops such as beer, malt liquor and nonalcoholic beer. This industry excludes wine, brandy, cider and distilled beverages such as vodka and rum. Bottling purchased malt beverages and manufacturing purchased malt are also excluded from this industry.
What’s included in the Breweries in Maine?
The Breweries in Maine includes premium beer, sub-premium beer, super-premium beer, craft beer and malt beverages. Related terms covered in the Breweries in Maine industry report includes a brewery that has annual production of fewer than 6.0 million barrels and has less than 25.0% of its ownership in the hands of a non-craft brewer. it typically targets local and regional markets, breweries that each produce fewer than 15,000 barrels of beer per year with 75.0% or more of its beer sold off-site, breweries with annual beer production between 15,000 and 6.0 million barrels each. also referred to as small breweries, a restaurant-brewery that sells more than 25.0% of its beer on-site, a container for beer that is equivalent to two kegs, 31 gallons, 1.17 hectoliters or 330 12-ounce servings of beer, the general name for products made with malted barley or hops. it must derive the majority of its alcohol content from the fermentation of brewing ingredients, defined as a malt beverage with an alcohol content of higher than 6.0% in most states; this term has legal and tax implications for brewers and distributors, optional ingredients used during brewing process as either a supplement to the primary grain bill or as a replacement for more costly ingredients, optional beer clarifying agents added during the brewing process to coagulate proteins that would otherwise result in a cloudy or hazy beer presentation and the process by which grain-soaked water is filtered and drained before being boiled and ultimately fermented.
Industry Performance of the Breweries industry in Maine
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Breweries in Maine
#28 in Highest Revenue 0.4% of state's GDPRevenue (2025)
Annual Growth (2020-25)
Annual Growth (2025-30)
Breweries in the US
Revenue (2025)
Annual Growth (2020-25)
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Key Drivers of the Breweries industry in Maine
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Maine Economic Indicators
Population
Total Jobs
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US Key External Drivers
Per capita expenditure on alcohol
Excise tax on beer
Consumer spending
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County Data of the Breweries industry in Maine
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Key Statistics of the Breweries industry in Maine
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