Even in a down economy, and a slow winter on the hot-stove front, Brewers tickets are in high demand.

The team announced Monday that it had already sold 1 million tickets for the 2009 season, the earliest date in team history that the milestone has been reached.

Last year, the Brewers passed the one-million mark on Feb. 2 and, thanks to the team's first playoff appearance in 26 years, set a new record with 3,068,638 -- an average of 37,884 fans per game.

All of those tickets have been sold through season and partial season-ticket packages. Single-game tickets won't go on sale until sometime in February.

"Typically, we do not reach the one million mark until group tickets are made available, but this year the pace has been extraordinary and we reached the milestone through selling multi-game packages alone," said Brewers Executive Vice President -- Business Operations Rick Schlesinger in a statement released by the Brewers.

"Fan enthusiasm was at an all-time high at the end of last season, and that has carried over to give us tremendous momentum in early 2009."

A limited supply of Opening Day tickets is still available with the purchase of a nine-game package.