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More lovely numbers from that Polish industry journal. This time relating to Czech brewing. A topic very dear to my heart.The numbers are for Czech beer exports. Unsurprisingly, their biggest market was in Germany. Their neighbour taking 59% of the total. The quantity having increased considerably from 1935. Luckily for the Czechs, as several other countries took considerably less Czech beer in 1936 than in 1935. Only Germany, the USA and the UK increased their imports.
I'm a little surprised Austria didn't import Czech beer, the two having been in the same country less than two decades previously. And what was going on in Italy? Why did imports fall so dramatically from 1,345 hl to just 3 hl?
I assume that most of the beer being was Pilsner Urquell along with some Budvar.
Let's put the numbers into context. Assuming the annual total was double that of a half year at 80,000 hl. That's about 50,000 UK barrels. In 1936, the UK exported 325,058 barrels, or nearly seven times as much. At the time the UK population was about 47 million and Czechoslovakia's about 15 million. Meaning that, per head of population, Czechoslovakia's beer exports were only about half that of the UK.
Czech beer exports in 1935 and 1936
Country
1st half 1935
1st half 1936
hl
crowns
hl
crowns
Germany
18,008
3,458,925
23,493
4,450,145
USA
2,702
728,063
3,599
876,810
Great Britain
3,274
614,499
3,845
650,563
Belgium
2,380
429,420
2,211
399,094
Switzerland
1,631
263,900
1,612
247,013
Netherlands
1,414
266,900
1,316
245,648
Austria
1,287
147,807
1,145
133,018
Egypt
916
131,955
738
103,378
France
800
133,609
716
123,274
Poland
632
119,393
392
71,934
Yugoslavia
390
52,758
277
39,388
Palestine
481
161,619
118
31,993
Italy
1,345
245,335
3
1,475
Other countries
499
113,663
318
89,432
total
35,759
6,867,846
39,783
7,463,165
Source:
Przegląd Piwowarsko-Słodowniczy: organ Związku Piwowarów w Polsce 1936 wrzesień R.2 Nr3, page 65.
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More lovely numbers from that Polish industry journal. This time relating to Czech brewing. A topic very dear to my heart.The numbers are for Czech beer exports. Unsurprisingly, their biggest market was in Germany. Their neighbour taking 59% of the total. The quantity having increased considerably from 1935. Luckily for the Czechs, as several other countries took considerably less Czech beer in 1936 than in 1935. Only Germany, the USA and the UK increased their imports.
I'm a little surprised Austria didn't import Czech beer, the two having been in the same country less than two decades previously. And what was going on in Italy? Why did imports fall so dramatically from 1,345 hl to just 3 hl?
I assume that most of the beer being was Pilsner Urquell along with some Budvar.
Let's put the numbers into context. Assuming the annual total was double that of a half year at 80,000 hl. That's about 50,000 UK barrels. In 1936, the UK exported 325,058 barrels, or nearly seven times as much. At the time the UK population was about 47 million and Czechoslovakia's about 15 million. Meaning that, per head of population, Czechoslovakia's beer exports were only about half that of the UK.
Czech beer exports in 1935 and 1936
Country
1st half 1935
1st half 1936
hl
crowns
hl
crowns
Germany
18,008
3,458,925
23,493
4,450,145
USA
2,702
728,063
3,599
876,810
Great Britain
3,274
614,499
3,845
650,563
Belgium
2,380
429,420
2,211
399,094
Switzerland
1,631
263,900
1,612
247,013
Netherlands
1,414
266,900
1,316
245,648
Austria
1,287
147,807
1,145
133,018
Egypt
916
131,955
738
103,378
France
800
133,609
716
123,274
Poland
632
119,393
392
71,934
Yugoslavia
390
52,758
277
39,388
Palestine
481
161,619
118
31,993
Italy
1,345
245,335
3
1,475
Other countries
499
113,663
318
89,432
total
35,759
6,867,846
39,783
7,463,165
Source:
Przegląd Piwowarsko-Słodowniczy: organ Związku Piwowarów w Polsce 1936 wrzesień R.2 Nr3, page 65.
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