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Time for some more random beer statistics plucked from a 19th-century newspaper. Beer production is what we're looking at.
Here are the numbers:
Beer production in 1892
gallons
barrels
Northern Germany
630,380,850
17,510,579
Bavaria
337,167,400
9,365,761
Wurtemburg
69,817,000
1,939,361
Duchy Baden
55,191,000
1,533,083
Alsace-Lorraine
16,703,000
463,972
Germany
1,051,664,000
29,212,889
Bohemia
110,000,000
3,055,556
Lower Austria (including Vienna)
44,000,000
1,222,222
Austria
302,025,000
8,389,583
Belgium
220,000,000
6,111,111
Denmark
52,492,000
1,458,111
Norway
37,673,000
1,046,472
Russia
64,427,000
1,789,639
Switzerland
26,101,000
725,028
Spain
22,550,000
626,389
Italy
3,029,000
84,139
Turkey
3,080,000
85,556
Roumania
220,000
6,111
Luxemberg
2,066,000
57,389
Servia
2,046,000
56,833
Greece
213,000
5,917
Continental Europe
3,036,000,000
84,333,333
USA
812,209,000
22,561,361
Japan
4,855,000
134,861
Australia
35,447,000
984,639
Algeria
550,000
15,278
Source:
Nottingham Evening Post - Wednesday 21 February 1894, page 2.
Notice one glaring absence? That's right, it's the UK. They only seem to have bothered with countries in Continental Europe. Annoyingly, I don't have numbers for the UK for 1892. These are the closest ones I have: 1891 31,927,053 barrels* and 1895 31,678,486 barrels**. So around 31 million barrels is a fair guess. Which means the UK was responsible for around 27% of Europe's beer production. And it had the largest beer production of anywhere in the world.
The biggest surprise to me is Belgium, which wasn't far behind Austria, a much larger and more populous country. And twice as much as Bohemia, not exactly a beer-free region and one with not that much smaller a population than Belgium.
* "Ireland Industrial and Agricultural", 1902, page 458.
** Brewers' Almanack 1928.
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Time for some more random beer statistics plucked from a 19th-century newspaper. Beer production is what we're looking at.
Here are the numbers:
Beer production in 1892
gallons
barrels
Northern Germany
630,380,850
17,510,579
Bavaria
337,167,400
9,365,761
Wurtemburg
69,817,000
1,939,361
Duchy Baden
55,191,000
1,533,083
Alsace-Lorraine
16,703,000
463,972
Germany
1,051,664,000
29,212,889
Bohemia
110,000,000
3,055,556
Lower Austria (including Vienna)
44,000,000
1,222,222
Austria
302,025,000
8,389,583
Belgium
220,000,000
6,111,111
Denmark
52,492,000
1,458,111
Norway
37,673,000
1,046,472
Russia
64,427,000
1,789,639
Switzerland
26,101,000
725,028
Spain
22,550,000
626,389
Italy
3,029,000
84,139
Turkey
3,080,000
85,556
Roumania
220,000
6,111
Luxemberg
2,066,000
57,389
Servia
2,046,000
56,833
Greece
213,000
5,917
Continental Europe
3,036,000,000
84,333,333
USA
812,209,000
22,561,361
Japan
4,855,000
134,861
Australia
35,447,000
984,639
Algeria
550,000
15,278
Source:
Nottingham Evening Post - Wednesday 21 February 1894, page 2.
Notice one glaring absence? That's right, it's the UK. They only seem to have bothered with countries in Continental Europe. Annoyingly, I don't have numbers for the UK for 1892. These are the closest ones I have: 1891 31,927,053 barrels* and 1895 31,678,486 barrels**. So around 31 million barrels is a fair guess. Which means the UK was responsible for around 27% of Europe's beer production. And it had the largest beer production of anywhere in the world.
The biggest surprise to me is Belgium, which wasn't far behind Austria, a much larger and more populous country. And twice as much as Bohemia, not exactly a beer-free region and one with not that much smaller a population than Belgium.
* "Ireland Industrial and Agricultural", 1902, page 458.
** Brewers' Almanack 1928.
More... (http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2013/08/beer-production-in-1892.html)