How many beer bottles are sold in the world per year?

I would like to know how many beer bottles are sold every year in the world, and in north america? Also what is the ratio of the beer consumed by bottles, cans, or tap?|||So would I my friend, so would I. This is really a great "worthless bar trivia" that I would like to know the answer to. We know that the large brewers produce millions of barrels of beer each year. Even is %60 of that is bottled or canned that leaves millions of gallons of beer by just one brewer. Take a dozen and a half large brewers multiplied by the millions of gallons of beer produced then add the med-sized and small scale brewers and we can conservatively figure there are billions of bottles and cans of beer produced the world over each year.|||At least 14.