For the first time in France's recorded history, the country's inhabitants are drinking more beer than wine.
It's been gaining for some time, but newly released data from 2025 shows that for the first time beer was the most-consumed alcoholic drink in France, overtaking wine.
The Organisation internationale de la vigne et du vin has released its annual statistics for 2025, showing that in France people drank 22 million hectolitres of wine.
According to the French brewery association Brasseurs de France, in the same year the French consumed 22.1 million hectolitres of beer, just a drop over but representing the first time that France has officially favoured beer over the more traditional drink of wine.
The change has been expected for some time as the French beer scene has been steadily expanding with an explosion in the number of craft beer breweries and microbreweries - especially outside the traditional beer-drinking region of north-east France.
