OREANDA-NEWS. On 02 June 2009 was announced, that Belarus’ beer output decreased 5.6% on the year in January-April 2009 to 10.4 million decaliters, a representative in the National Statistics Committee told.

Beer inventories amounted to 1.5 million decaliters of beer as of May 1, 2009, up 21.3% from May 1, 2008, or 58.9% of the average monthly output.

Beer sales rose 4.8% on the year to 7.174 million decaliters.