Beer contains approximately 90% water, and the importance of the liquor to final beer quality cannot be over-estimated. Historically a correlation was observed between the liquor composition of an area and the type of beer that the region could best brew. There are several steps in the brewing process, which include malting, milling, mashing, lautering, boiling, cooling, fermenting, maturation, filtering, and packaging. The production of malt beverages, or beer, comprises four main stages: brew house operations, fermentation, aging or secondary fermentation, and packaging.
The annual growth in the Indian beer market has been around 8% in the recent years, which compares well with the growth in China. But the Chinese market of 20 mn kl is over 25 times more than the Indian market of over 900,000 kilolitres. The Beer market in India will grow at a CAGR of 16.94 percent and 14.57 percent on the basis of revenue and volume. The Global Beer Market was valued at $593,024 million in 2017, and is projected to reach $685,354 million by 2025, growing at a CAGR of 1.8% from 2019 to 2025. As a whole there is a good scope for new entrepreneur to invest in this business.
Few Indian major players are as under
· Appollo Distilleries & Breweries Pvt. Ltd.
· Arthos Breweries Ltd.
· Aurangabad Breweries Ltd.
· Castle Breweries Ltd.
· Devans Modern Breweries Ltd.
· Doburg Lager Breweries Ltd.
· Doon Valley Brewers Ltd.