Craft beer catching on with Poles

Craft, regional or local beer is becoming more popular in Poland. There are already many craft breweries in neighboring Germany and Czech Republic, but the Polish craft brewery count should increase to 120 by the end of the current year. Ciechan is seen as the most successful Polish regional brewery. Poland is the fourth largest per capita consumer of beer in the world, just after the two countries mentioned above and Austria. Dziennik Gazeta Prawna also mentioned that Poland has the ninth largest beer production in the world. While craft beers make up only 10 percent of the market, their market value is about 12-13 percent. Consumers seem to be increasingly interested in the quality of beer, including better taste, longer fermentation periods, better ingredients and natural production processes. Flavored beers are also quite trendy nowadays.