Alcohol production in Russia fell

Based on the results of the first three quarters of 2026, the production of alcoholic beverages in Russia decreased by 1.8 percent, to 805.85 million deciliters. Kommersant writes about this with reference to data from Rosalkogoltabakkontrol (RATK).

For alcoholic drinks stronger than nine degrees, the drop was 6.1 percent, including vodka bottlings decreased by 6.7 percent, to 48.88 deciliters, and cognac - by 13.5 percent, to 4.93 million deciliters. An increase of 4.9 percent, to 14.05 million deciliters, is demonstrated only by alcoholic beverages.

Production of low-alcohol products collapsed by 54.9 percent, to 510.4 thousand deciliters. The output of still wine fell by eight percent, to 24.63 million deciliters, sparkling wine - by 5.6 percent, to 11.54 million deciliters, liqueur - by 42.6 percent, to 563.7 thousand deciliters, and fruit products - by 30.8 percent, to 804.3 thousand deciliters.

The production of fermented drinks remained almost at the level of the previous year - 694.07 million deciliters (minus 0.8 percent), including 593.09 million deciliters of beer (minus 0.6 percent), and beer drinks - 88.44 million (minus 3.3 percent). Cider, mead and poiret added 7.5 percent (12.53 million deciliters).

President of the Alcopro guild Andrey Moskovsky explained the dynamics due to the uncertain economic situation. Due to the decline in consumption of official products, retail chains and enterprises do not want to take risks and prefer to work from order to order.