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Numbers. numbers, numbers. It's been a while since I did a totally number-based post. As usual, it's something I tripped over while searching for something else.

I was trying to find out what varieties of hops were grown on the West Coast of the USA around 1900. Someone helfully pointed me at a couple of books on the internet. One of which had some lovely numbers. About beer production and hop consumption.

I realised that there was some interesting information that could be derived from these statistcs. The original table only contains the first four columns. I've calculated the others myself. What I find of particular interest is how many hops were being consumed in the UK.

600,000 zentners (a zentner is 50 kg) were consumed in the UK. Slightly more than in the whole rest of Europe. Even though the UK produced approximaately half a s much beer as the continent. The explanation is simple: British beer was for more heavily hopped: 0.76 kg. per hl. as opposed to 0.39 kg.

Everywhere else in Europe, hopping rates were much lower. Even the place with the highest, Bavaria, was way behind the UK with only 0.46 kg. per hl. Surprisingly, the only country to come close is the USA, at 0.70 kg per hl. Though perhaps that shouldn't be such a shock as considerable quantities of British-style beers were still being brewed in the USA.



Hop consumption and beer production in 1882


Countries
Hop Consump-tion. Centner.
Annual Beer Production. Hectoliter.
Annual Beer Consumption. Per Capita.
kg. hops per hl.
% of total hops consumed
% total beer production


North Germany
150,000
21,136,000
61
0.35
10.81%
16.47%


Bavaria
112,000
12,153,000
426
0.46
8.07%
9.47%


Austria- Hungary
98,000
12,212,000
30
0.40
7.06%
9.52%


Belgium
65,000
7,866,000
154
0.41
4.68%
6.13%


France
53,000
7,125,000
24
0.37
3.82%
5.55%


Wurtemberg
31,000
4,197,000
212
0.37
2.23%
3.27%


Russia
25,000
2,863,000
4
0.44
1.80%
2.23%


Netherlands
10,000
1,452,000
40
0.34
0.72%
1.13%


Denmark
9,000
1,140,000
60
0.39
0.65%
0.89%


Baden
8,000
1,086,000
67
0.37
0.58%
0.85%


Sweden
7,000
930,000
21
0.38
0.50%
0.72%


Alsace-Lorraine
6,000
789,000
48
0.38
0.43%
0.61%


Norway
5,000
615,000
28
0.41
0.36%
0.48%


Switzerland
5,000
724,000
30
0.35
0.36%
0.56%


Other States
4,000
533,000
1
0.38
0.29%
0.42%


Continent
588,000
74,821,000

0.39
42.36%
58.30%


England
600,000
39,250,000
118
0.76
43.23%
30.58%


Europe
1,188,000
114,071,000

0.52
85.59%
88.89%


America
200,000
14,261,000
19
0.70
14.41%
11.11%


total
1,388,000
128,332,000

0.54
100.00%



Source:


"Hop Culture in the United States" by E. Meeker, 188w, E. Meeker & Co., page 135.





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