Carlsberg trackers

Every beer-volume series we can get free, one market at a time. Tick what to keep; the charts below follow. Ticks are my recommendation to start with and are saved in your browser.

What we track — keep or drop

Nothing above needs a login. "Manual" means I refresh that file by hand from a free source; the rest refresh from an API. "Tracks beer" is only computed for on-trade series: how closely they move with the market's production index.

Charts

Appendix: notes and what does not exist

• Beer vs not beer. Germany, France, Poland, China, Norway, UK and Vietnam are beer. Denmark, Finland are beverages (soft drinks and water included); Sweden and Switzerland are wider still. Nothing is summed across markets.
• Faint line is the raw print, solid line a 12-month average (4-quarter for Norway).
• On-trade value (France, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Switzerland) is hospitality turnover: restaurants and bars including food, so it carries menu prices, wages and rents. France reads +9% a year while its beer output is flat, and correlates 0.07 with it. Only Germany publishes an on-trade volume, and that one tracks beer at 0.83.
• UK clearances are litres of alcohol, so they move with strength mix, not just beer volume. UK data only starts Aug 2023.
• Norway is duty-paid sales (shipments), quarterly, not production.
• China February is a Jan+Feb total and is dropped from the monthly tests.
• Nothing free exists for: Sweden or Switzerland at beer level, Denmark beer monthly, UK on-trade, India monthly beer (its API ignores the month).
• Not verified, might fill the gaps: retail monopolies (Systembolaget, Alko, Vinmonopolet), national brewers' associations, and paid panels (NIQ, CGA, Euromonitor). The paid ones would need a licence from you.