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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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