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Look, it's a holiday weekend. I've just stuck my hand into my bag of Dutch beer statistics and plucked out this one. I still need to take a post Sunday dinner walk while the sun is shining. Which it's only done for 5 minutes in the past fortnight. The cloud has been so low, I couldn't even see the planes coming in to land at Schiphol. Usually you can wave to the pilot, they're that close to the ground.
On with today's dull set of numbers. Starting with a caveat. These raw numbers don't take into account inflation. They don't tell us anything about the volume of beer being consumed. Hang on. I have the consumption numbers for some of the period. I can work out the average price per litre.
I don't have the consumption figures to hand for much of the pre-war period. But I'd guess the price was pretty constant in the 1930s. Unsurprisingly, it shoots up after the war. Though some of it is explained by a switch from Lagerbier to the more expensive Pils.
I'm fascinated by the balance between beer and spirits, as it swings from the latter to the former between the wars. Then back again ending up in just about equilibrium.
Dutch expenditure on alcohol (millions of guilders)
all alcoholic drinks
beer
spirits
wine
consumption (hl)
price per litre (guilders)
1923
167
47
59
36
1924
170
50
55
40
1925
173
51
53
44
1926
175
53
53
44
1927
178
53
53
47
1928
186
59
55
47
1929
173
60
44
44
1930
170
60
39
46
1931
170
56
47
42
1932
149
48
44
32
1933
137
43
39
30
1934
127
40
35
27
1935
121
36
33
27
1936
117
33
33
26
1937
120
33
33
29
1,295,116
0.25
1938
124
35
35
29
1,422,923
0.25
1939
150
38
35
32
1,602,662
0.24
1947
247
80
-
-
1,310,470
0.61
1948
300
73
-
-
1,008,805
0.72
1949
291
67
-
-
1,069,431
0.63
1950
290
71
-
-
1,087,868
0.65
1952
-
148
-
-
1,155,647
1.28
1953
-
168
-
-
1,295,376
1.30
1954
-
184
-
-
1,433,577
1.28
Source:
De Nederlandse Brouwindustrie in Cijfers, by Dr. H. Hoelen, Centraal Brouwerij Kantoor, 1955, held at the Amsterdam City Archives, pages 31 and 46.
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Look, it's a holiday weekend. I've just stuck my hand into my bag of Dutch beer statistics and plucked out this one. I still need to take a post Sunday dinner walk while the sun is shining. Which it's only done for 5 minutes in the past fortnight. The cloud has been so low, I couldn't even see the planes coming in to land at Schiphol. Usually you can wave to the pilot, they're that close to the ground.
On with today's dull set of numbers. Starting with a caveat. These raw numbers don't take into account inflation. They don't tell us anything about the volume of beer being consumed. Hang on. I have the consumption numbers for some of the period. I can work out the average price per litre.
I don't have the consumption figures to hand for much of the pre-war period. But I'd guess the price was pretty constant in the 1930s. Unsurprisingly, it shoots up after the war. Though some of it is explained by a switch from Lagerbier to the more expensive Pils.
I'm fascinated by the balance between beer and spirits, as it swings from the latter to the former between the wars. Then back again ending up in just about equilibrium.
Dutch expenditure on alcohol (millions of guilders)
all alcoholic drinks
beer
spirits
wine
consumption (hl)
price per litre (guilders)
1923
167
47
59
36
1924
170
50
55
40
1925
173
51
53
44
1926
175
53
53
44
1927
178
53
53
47
1928
186
59
55
47
1929
173
60
44
44
1930
170
60
39
46
1931
170
56
47
42
1932
149
48
44
32
1933
137
43
39
30
1934
127
40
35
27
1935
121
36
33
27
1936
117
33
33
26
1937
120
33
33
29
1,295,116
0.25
1938
124
35
35
29
1,422,923
0.25
1939
150
38
35
32
1,602,662
0.24
1947
247
80
-
-
1,310,470
0.61
1948
300
73
-
-
1,008,805
0.72
1949
291
67
-
-
1,069,431
0.63
1950
290
71
-
-
1,087,868
0.65
1952
-
148
-
-
1,155,647
1.28
1953
-
168
-
-
1,295,376
1.30
1954
-
184
-
-
1,433,577
1.28
Source:
De Nederlandse Brouwindustrie in Cijfers, by Dr. H. Hoelen, Centraal Brouwerij Kantoor, 1955, held at the Amsterdam City Archives, pages 31 and 46.
More... (http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2022/01/dutch-expenditure-on-alcohol_0382272236.html)