BEER DRINKING ABROAD

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 19, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 54.

BEER DRINKING ABROAD.

GERMANY leads the list of beer-producing countries, according to the trade report for 1893, just published, with 1,202,132,074 gallons, an increase of over 34,000,000 gallons over 1892; 33½ gallons a head was the average for the empire, the product ranging from 62 gallons in Bavaria to 12 in Alsace-Lorraine. Great Britain was a good second, with 1,164,752,952 gallons of malt liquor, over 30 gallons a head. America (including South America) came next, with 1,084,433,460 gallons, 16 gallons a head. Then come Austria, with 385,257,168 gallons; Belgium, with 209,856,174; France, with 196,630,500 gallons; Russia, with 98,638,892 gallons; Denmark brewed 45,000,000 gallons; Holland, 33,000,000; Sweden, 28,333,333½; Switzerland, 28,666,666½ gallons. The other countries for which statistics are given all produced less than 29,000,000 gallons apiece. The total output of malt liquors in Europe and America was 4,500,000,000 gallons, in making which 7,270,000 tons of malt and 82,000 tons of hops were used.—Selected.