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You may have noticed that I have a bit of a thing about statistics. I can't get me enough of them. Well, as long as they're related to beer and brewing.Brewing technical journals are a great source of them. I've spent many a happy hour collecting numbers from all sorts of trade journals in multiple languages. Though mostly in English or German. So I was delighted to be pointed in the direction of a Polish trade magazine by Gary Gillman, who wanted some help with a table heading.
A heading in the table below. The one for the last column, which shows hops usage in thousands of zentners (50 kg). I couldn't help posting about it, as it tells us quite a lot.
It doesn't surprise me that the UK and Ireland were the heaviest hoppers, with the latter topping the last. Why did Ireland come out so high? Because most of the beer brewed there was Stout. A beer which was both quite strong and heavily hopped. The UK average rate was double, and Ireland's triple, that of Continental Europe. That's a pretty big difference.
Between them, the UK and Ireland were using over 30% of the world's hops. Mightily impressive, but down from the late 19th century when the two countries consumed over 50% of the world's supply.
No shock either that Czechoslovakia led the pack in Continental Europe. Followed by other bits of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Elsewhere in the world, bits of another empire scored highly - the British Empire. With Australia & New Zealand just a little behind the UK. As was India. Which I can understand, what with the climate there. You'd want plenty of hops to prevent infection. I was a bit surprised at the high rate in Canada, which I would have expected to be more in line with the USA.
Hops worldwide in 1935
Country
beer production 1935 hl
hops gm/hl
hop usage in 1,000 zentner
Austria & Hungary
2,484,000
260
12,917
Balkans
141,000
250
705
Belgium & Luxembourg
13,913,000
225
62,608
Czechoslovakia
7,748,000
300
46,488
Denmark
2,209,000
165
7,290
France
15,163,000
185
56,103
Gdansk
75,000
250
375
Holland
1,373,000
215
5,904
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland
551,000
275
3,031
Germany
39,754,000
224
178,098
Norway
411,000
215
1,767
Poland
1,065,000
250
5,325
Roumania and Yugoslavia
666,000
300
3,996
Russia *
3,700,000
250
18,500
Sweden
2,530,000
165
8,349
Switzerland
2,315,000
200
9,260
Italy, Spain & Portugal
1,158,000
250
5,790
Continent
95,256,000
223.9
426,506
Ireland
3,092,000
750
46,380
UK
26,587,000
500
265,870
Europa
124,935,000
295.7
738,756
Africa
529,000
350
3,703
Australia & New Zealand
3,109,000
450
27,981
Central America
1,288,000
250
6,440
South America
3,929,000
250
19,645
East Asia
2,101,000
250
10,505
India
72,000
450
648
Canada
2,098,000
375
15,735
USA
53,076,000
255
270,688
Total
191,137,000
286.2
1,094,101
* no specific consumption data available.
Source:
Przegląd Piwowarsko-Słodowniczy: organ Związku Piwowarów w Polsce 1936 wrzesień R.2 Nr3 (https://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/metadatasearch?action=AdvancedSearchAction&type=-3&val1=Title:Przegl%C4%85d+Piwowarsko%5C-S%C5%82odowniczy%5C:+organ+Zwi%C4%85zku+Piwowar%C3 %B3w+w+Polsce+1936+wrzesie%C5%84+R.2+Nr3)
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You may have noticed that I have a bit of a thing about statistics. I can't get me enough of them. Well, as long as they're related to beer and brewing.Brewing technical journals are a great source of them. I've spent many a happy hour collecting numbers from all sorts of trade journals in multiple languages. Though mostly in English or German. So I was delighted to be pointed in the direction of a Polish trade magazine by Gary Gillman, who wanted some help with a table heading.
A heading in the table below. The one for the last column, which shows hops usage in thousands of zentners (50 kg). I couldn't help posting about it, as it tells us quite a lot.
It doesn't surprise me that the UK and Ireland were the heaviest hoppers, with the latter topping the last. Why did Ireland come out so high? Because most of the beer brewed there was Stout. A beer which was both quite strong and heavily hopped. The UK average rate was double, and Ireland's triple, that of Continental Europe. That's a pretty big difference.
Between them, the UK and Ireland were using over 30% of the world's hops. Mightily impressive, but down from the late 19th century when the two countries consumed over 50% of the world's supply.
No shock either that Czechoslovakia led the pack in Continental Europe. Followed by other bits of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Elsewhere in the world, bits of another empire scored highly - the British Empire. With Australia & New Zealand just a little behind the UK. As was India. Which I can understand, what with the climate there. You'd want plenty of hops to prevent infection. I was a bit surprised at the high rate in Canada, which I would have expected to be more in line with the USA.
Hops worldwide in 1935
Country
beer production 1935 hl
hops gm/hl
hop usage in 1,000 zentner
Austria & Hungary
2,484,000
260
12,917
Balkans
141,000
250
705
Belgium & Luxembourg
13,913,000
225
62,608
Czechoslovakia
7,748,000
300
46,488
Denmark
2,209,000
165
7,290
France
15,163,000
185
56,103
Gdansk
75,000
250
375
Holland
1,373,000
215
5,904
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland
551,000
275
3,031
Germany
39,754,000
224
178,098
Norway
411,000
215
1,767
Poland
1,065,000
250
5,325
Roumania and Yugoslavia
666,000
300
3,996
Russia *
3,700,000
250
18,500
Sweden
2,530,000
165
8,349
Switzerland
2,315,000
200
9,260
Italy, Spain & Portugal
1,158,000
250
5,790
Continent
95,256,000
223.9
426,506
Ireland
3,092,000
750
46,380
UK
26,587,000
500
265,870
Europa
124,935,000
295.7
738,756
Africa
529,000
350
3,703
Australia & New Zealand
3,109,000
450
27,981
Central America
1,288,000
250
6,440
South America
3,929,000
250
19,645
East Asia
2,101,000
250
10,505
India
72,000
450
648
Canada
2,098,000
375
15,735
USA
53,076,000
255
270,688
Total
191,137,000
286.2
1,094,101
* no specific consumption data available.
Source:
Przegląd Piwowarsko-Słodowniczy: organ Związku Piwowarów w Polsce 1936 wrzesień R.2 Nr3 (https://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/metadatasearch?action=AdvancedSearchAction&type=-3&val1=Title:Przegl%C4%85d+Piwowarsko%5C-S%C5%82odowniczy%5C:+organ+Zwi%C4%85zku+Piwowar%C3 %B3w+w+Polsce+1936+wrzesie%C5%84+R.2+Nr3)
https://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/publication/401137/edition/314443/content
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