For production, the barrel count is used for determining yearly production. For example, one of our local breweries can brew 60,000 barrels yearly, but they brew and sell 23,000 barrels. Meanwhile, Anheuser-Busch InBev made 426 million barrels in 2016. The homebrewer association wrote an interesting article putting their insanebarrel brewingcapacity in perspective. Basically, in 2016, the U.S. had 5,234 craft breweries, which combined made 24.6 million barrels of beer. So on average, each brewery produced 4,700 barrels per year. After crunching the numbers, Anheuser-Busch InBev made this amount every 5 minutes and 48 seconds.
