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Time for some more random beer statistics plucked from a 19th-century newspaper. Beer production is what we're looking at.
Here are the numbers:
Beer production in 1892 |
|
gallons |
barrels |
Northern Germany |
630,380,850 |
17,510,579 |
Bavaria |
337,167,400 |
9,365,761 |
Wurtemburg |
69,817,000 |
1,939,361 |
Duchy Baden |
55,191,000 |
1,533,083 |
Alsace-Lorraine |
16,703,000 |
463,972 |
Germany |
1,051,664,000 |
29,212,889 |
Bohemia |
110,000,000 |
3,055,556 |
Lower Austria (including Vienna) |
44,000,000 |
1,222,222 |
Austria |
302,025,000 |
8,389,583 |
Belgium |
220,000,000 |
6,111,111 |
Denmark |
52,492,000 |
1,458,111 |
Norway |
37,673,000 |
1,046,472 |
Russia |
64,427,000 |
1,789,639 |
Switzerland |
26,101,000 |
725,028 |
Spain |
22,550,000 |
626,389 |
Italy |
3,029,000 |
84,139 |
Turkey |
3,080,000 |
85,556 |
Roumania |
220,000 |
6,111 |
Luxemberg |
2,066,000 |
57,389 |
Servia |
2,046,000 |
56,833 |
Greece |
213,000 |
5,917 |
Continental Europe |
3,036,000,000 |
84,333,333 |
USA |
812,209,000 |
22,561,361 |
Japan |
4,855,000 |
134,861 |
Australia |
35,447,000 |
984,639 |
Algeria |
550,000 |
15,278 |
Source: |
Nottingham Evening Post - Wednesday 21 February 1894, page 2. |
Notice one glaring absence? That's right, it's the UK. They only seem to have bothered with countries in Continental Europe. Annoyingly, I don't have numbers for the UK for 1892. These are the closest ones I have: 1891 31,927,053 barrels* and 1895 31,678,486 barrels**. So around 31 million barrels is a fair guess. Which means the UK was responsible for around 27% of Europe's beer production. And it had the largest beer production of anywhere in the world.
The biggest surprise to me is Belgium, which wasn't far behind Austria, a much larger and more populous country. And twice as much as Bohemia, not exactly a beer-free region and one with not that much smaller a population than Belgium.
* "Ireland Industrial and Agricultural", 1902, page 458.
** Brewers' Almanack 1928.
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