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I came across an interesting statistic via some research of Dr Jacoby's.

Can anyone guess what percentage of the Irish beer market is "specialty beer"? This would include (correct me if I'm wrong, tradespeople) all of the imported Belgian, American and British ales we get, and the German lagers, weissbiers etc, plus your Desperados, Salitos and similar. The answer is in terms of money rather than volume of beer.

Any guesses?

Well considering almost every pub in Ireland has the big 4 on tap, and nearly every off licence does something similar I'd guess around the......5% mark?

i'm gonna guess somewhere around the €100,000 mark. but i'm probably miles off

"beeristhereason":1quhsylu wrote: i'm gonna guess somewhere around the €100,000 mark. but i'm probably miles off[/quote:1quhsylu]I'm looking for a percentage, but I can see that the Irish beer market is worth $4bn, and you're saying $137,000, so that's 0.003% by my calculation, assuming an American billion. Happy with that?

i'd say 200 milltion euro - 2%

I'd guess something around 7% ish, plus or minus 2 or 3. (Think I've covered my basis there).