The Beer Institute released its updated Packaging Mix Report showing the distribution of beer volume by aluminum cans, glass bottles, and keg by state. The report shows that cans have made a gain in 2023 after showing a decline in 2022, and draft continues a slow upward trend since the pandemic.
The current distribution for 2023 is 64.1% aluminum cans, 26.9% glass bottles, and 8.9% draft. Imported beer remains predominantly packaged in glass bottles, with 55% of imported beer volume.
Bottles are at the lowest share in 31 years while cans at down from their peak of 66.5% in 2020.
Draft has still not recovered from pre-pandemic levels of 10.4% in 2019 but remain fairly static over the last 40 years. The highest percentage of draft was 13% in the early 80s.
The BI report is the longest-running source of beer packaging trends and dates back to 1981. More details from the report here.