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I realise I've been ever more number-obsessed than usual recently. Must be the warm weather.
We're looking at a final set of three Austro-Hungarian provinces: Galicia, Silesia and Hungary and Siebenbergen, Funnily enough, these are also contiguous territories, amking up the bulk of the northeast of the Empire. But very different from each other in many ways. Galicia was predominantly Polish and Ukrainian speaking, Silesia was a mix of Germans and Czechs, while in Hungary and Siebenbergen Hungarian, Roumanian and Slovak were spoken, with odd clumps of German speakers scattered around.
So it shouldn't come as a shock that the gravity of the beer these provinces brewed was also diverse. But first some general comments. The three provinces combined produced 1,505,278 hl of beer, or 11.5% of the total for the Empire. Pretty pathetic when you realsie that between them they were home to 23.7 of the 40 million people living in the Empire in 1888. That's about 70%.
This table shows just how pathetically small beer output was per head. Apart from tiny Silesia:
Beer output per head of population in 1888
Province
population
beer output
litres/head
Hungary
16,781,800
490,831
2.92
Galicia
6,370,800
708,373
11.12
Silesia
590,500
306,074
51.83
Empire
40,066,600
13,142,429
32.80
Source:
http://www.populstat.info/
Here's the proper table:
Austrian Beer output by º Balling in 1888 (hl)
º Balling
Galicia
%
Silesia
%
Hungary and Siebenbergen
%
Total
%
6
0
0
0
2,233
0.02%
7
0
0
0
54
0.000%
8
0
0
0
0
0.00%
9
40,856
5.77%
3,517
1.15%
108
0.02%
278,431
2.12%
10
262,745
37.09%
81,168
26.52%
31,698
6.46%
7,226,651
54.99%
11
240,066
33.89%
172,436
56.34%
36,259
7.39%
1,924,339
14.64%
12
147,901
20.88%
35,162
11.49%
143,647
29.27%
2,126,679
16.18%
13
13,191
1.86%
12,723
4.16%
228,490
46.55%
1,173,621
8.93%
14
627
0.09%
362
0.12%
56,419
11.49%
254,212
1.93%
15
524
0.07%
66
0.02%
3,014
0.61%
148,318
1.13%
16
405
0.06%
460
0.15%
196
0.04%
4,973
0.04%
17
1,197
0.17%
0
0
1,497
0.01%
18
189
0.027%
180
0.059%
0
441
0.003%
19
0
0
0
200
0.002%
20
624
0.09%
0
0
732
0.01%
22
48
0.01%
0
0
48
0.00%
total
708,373
5.39%
306,074
2.33%
490,831
3.73%
13,142,429
active breweries
174
8.96%
44
2.27%
88
4.53%
1942
inactive breweries
6
2.07%
9
3.10%
30
10.34%
290
average output per brewery
4,071
6,956
5,578
6,767
Starting with Galicia, here 10º is the most popular strength accounting for 37% of production. 11º follows closely on 34%, then 12º on 21%. In Silesia 11º is first with a 56% share, followed by 10º on 27% and 12º on 11%. Hungary is the oddest looking, with 13º having a 47% share, 12º 29% and 14º on 11%. Unsurprisingly, Silesia shows similar preferences to Bohemia and Moravia, provinces which share a modern country, the Czech Republic, with it. Not sure what to make of Galicia. Hungary just liked stronger beer.
Here's the final table, grouping the gravities together to match (approximately) Schankbier, Lagerbier, Märzen/Export and Bock.
º Balling
Galicia
%
Silesia
%
Hungary and Siebenbergen
%
6 to 10
303,601
42.86%
84,685
27.67%
31,806
6.48%
11 to 12
387,967
54.77%
207,598
67.83%
179,906
36.65%
13 to 15
14,342
2.02%
13,151
4.30%
287,923
58.66%
16 to 22
2,463
0.348%
640
0.21%
196
0.04%
What does it tell us? That Galicia produced a large percentage of the Empire's Bock. Otherwise they liked Schankbier and Lagerbier. It was a similar story in Silesia, with 95% of output in those two classes, but with a somewhat larger preference for the latter than Galicia. Whereas in Hungary Märzen/Export was far and away the most popular with Lagerbier a long way behind.
I'm still not quite done with my Austro-Hungarian number-wrangling. Bet you're glad to hear that.
More... (http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2014/08/austrian-beer-output-by-balling-in-1888_12.html)
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I realise I've been ever more number-obsessed than usual recently. Must be the warm weather.
We're looking at a final set of three Austro-Hungarian provinces: Galicia, Silesia and Hungary and Siebenbergen, Funnily enough, these are also contiguous territories, amking up the bulk of the northeast of the Empire. But very different from each other in many ways. Galicia was predominantly Polish and Ukrainian speaking, Silesia was a mix of Germans and Czechs, while in Hungary and Siebenbergen Hungarian, Roumanian and Slovak were spoken, with odd clumps of German speakers scattered around.
So it shouldn't come as a shock that the gravity of the beer these provinces brewed was also diverse. But first some general comments. The three provinces combined produced 1,505,278 hl of beer, or 11.5% of the total for the Empire. Pretty pathetic when you realsie that between them they were home to 23.7 of the 40 million people living in the Empire in 1888. That's about 70%.
This table shows just how pathetically small beer output was per head. Apart from tiny Silesia:
Beer output per head of population in 1888
Province
population
beer output
litres/head
Hungary
16,781,800
490,831
2.92
Galicia
6,370,800
708,373
11.12
Silesia
590,500
306,074
51.83
Empire
40,066,600
13,142,429
32.80
Source:
http://www.populstat.info/
Here's the proper table:
Austrian Beer output by º Balling in 1888 (hl)
º Balling
Galicia
%
Silesia
%
Hungary and Siebenbergen
%
Total
%
6
0
0
0
2,233
0.02%
7
0
0
0
54
0.000%
8
0
0
0
0
0.00%
9
40,856
5.77%
3,517
1.15%
108
0.02%
278,431
2.12%
10
262,745
37.09%
81,168
26.52%
31,698
6.46%
7,226,651
54.99%
11
240,066
33.89%
172,436
56.34%
36,259
7.39%
1,924,339
14.64%
12
147,901
20.88%
35,162
11.49%
143,647
29.27%
2,126,679
16.18%
13
13,191
1.86%
12,723
4.16%
228,490
46.55%
1,173,621
8.93%
14
627
0.09%
362
0.12%
56,419
11.49%
254,212
1.93%
15
524
0.07%
66
0.02%
3,014
0.61%
148,318
1.13%
16
405
0.06%
460
0.15%
196
0.04%
4,973
0.04%
17
1,197
0.17%
0
0
1,497
0.01%
18
189
0.027%
180
0.059%
0
441
0.003%
19
0
0
0
200
0.002%
20
624
0.09%
0
0
732
0.01%
22
48
0.01%
0
0
48
0.00%
total
708,373
5.39%
306,074
2.33%
490,831
3.73%
13,142,429
active breweries
174
8.96%
44
2.27%
88
4.53%
1942
inactive breweries
6
2.07%
9
3.10%
30
10.34%
290
average output per brewery
4,071
6,956
5,578
6,767
Starting with Galicia, here 10º is the most popular strength accounting for 37% of production. 11º follows closely on 34%, then 12º on 21%. In Silesia 11º is first with a 56% share, followed by 10º on 27% and 12º on 11%. Hungary is the oddest looking, with 13º having a 47% share, 12º 29% and 14º on 11%. Unsurprisingly, Silesia shows similar preferences to Bohemia and Moravia, provinces which share a modern country, the Czech Republic, with it. Not sure what to make of Galicia. Hungary just liked stronger beer.
Here's the final table, grouping the gravities together to match (approximately) Schankbier, Lagerbier, Märzen/Export and Bock.
º Balling
Galicia
%
Silesia
%
Hungary and Siebenbergen
%
6 to 10
303,601
42.86%
84,685
27.67%
31,806
6.48%
11 to 12
387,967
54.77%
207,598
67.83%
179,906
36.65%
13 to 15
14,342
2.02%
13,151
4.30%
287,923
58.66%
16 to 22
2,463
0.348%
640
0.21%
196
0.04%
What does it tell us? That Galicia produced a large percentage of the Empire's Bock. Otherwise they liked Schankbier and Lagerbier. It was a similar story in Silesia, with 95% of output in those two classes, but with a somewhat larger preference for the latter than Galicia. Whereas in Hungary Märzen/Export was far and away the most popular with Lagerbier a long way behind.
I'm still not quite done with my Austro-Hungarian number-wrangling. Bet you're glad to hear that.
More... (http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2014/08/austrian-beer-output-by-balling-in-1888_12.html)