DDR beer production by Bezirk in 1987

Some more lovely numbers from "Die Brau- und Malzindustrie in Deutschland-Ost zwischen 1945 und 1989". As you all know, you can never have too many numbers.

I really like this set of numbers because they teach me something new. That there was a lot of tank beer in the DDR. I hadn't realised that there was any at all. 

I drank a lot of draught beer in Berlin. Given that almost 60% of draught beer was in tank form, the odds are that I drank it. And quite a bit, too. Without taking a look in the cellar, there was no way to tell. Unless you could find a chatty waiter.

The top three beer-producing Bezirks were, in descending order, Dresden, Karl-Marx_stadt and Berlin. Between them, they accounted for 37% of beer production. The least productive Bezirks were Cottbus and Franfurt an der Oder (both on the Polish border), Neubrandenburg and Schwerin (both in the North). Areas that weren't very heavily populated or industrialised.

A majority of beer was in bottled form everywhere, except Neubrandenburg and Franfurt an der Oder. Both Bezirks with relatively small beer production.

With regards to tank beer, in most Bezirks it was more common than kegs. I'd love to know more about when tanks were installed. And if they were still being installed in 1989. In the UK, tanks really went out of fashion in the 1980s. Not sure if it still exists at all. 

DDR beer production by Bezirk in 1987
Bezirk	Beer Production in 1000 hL
	Bottle	Draught	Tank	total
Cottbus	207.9	52.3	0	260.2
Dresden	2130	423	869	3422
Erfurt	1094.1	271	384.9	1750
Gera	859.5	215.1	362.3	1436.9
Halle	1319.5	456.5	536	2312
Karl-Marx-Stadt	2051.3	344	751	3146.3
Leipzig	1441	506.7	335.3	2283
Magdeburg	1255.2	364.8	200	1820
Neubrandenburg	404	185	331	920
Potsdam	702.9	262.7	366.6	1332.2
Rostock	923	175	354	1452
Schwerin	724	127	86	937
Suhl	576.5	148	106	830.5
Franfurt an der Oder	173.3	99	131.1	403.4
Berlin	1693	466.2	639.8	2799
total	15,555.20	4,096.30	5,453.00	25,104.50
Source:
Die Brau- und Malzindustrie in Deutschland-Ost zwischen 1945 und 1989, VLB, 2016, page 301.

DDR beer production by Bezirk in 1987 (%)
Bezirk	Bottle	Draught	Tank
Cottbus	79.90%	20.10%	0.00%
Dresden	62.24%	12.36%	25.39%
Erfurt	62.52%	15.49%	21.99%
Gera	59.82%	14.97%	25.21%
Halle	57.07%	19.74%	23.18%
Karl-Marx-Stadt	65.20%	10.93%	23.87%
Leipzig	63.12%	22.19%	14.69%
Magdeburg	68.97%	20.04%	10.99%
Neubrandenburg	43.91%	20.11%	35.98%
Potsdam	52.76%	19.72%	27.52%
Rostock	63.57%	12.05%	24.38%
Schwerin	77.27%	13.55%	9.18%
Suhl	69.42%	17.82%	12.76%
Franfurt an der Oder	42.96%	24.54%	32.50%
Berlin	60.49%	16.66%	22.86%
total	61.96%	16.32%	21.72%
Source:
Die Brau- und Malzindustrie in Deutschland-Ost zwischen 1945 und 1989, VLB, 2016, page 301.