Again, not in Bavaria, by the way, but in the Czech Republic and Poland. It was the monks who let the church allow it with a trick, because alcohol was actually forbidden during Lent.
They sent a load of their fasting beer to Rome. On the way there, the brew spoiled, and when the Pope tried it, he found it so nasty that he allowed it as a fasting beer. OKtoberfest Map. Photo: Sebastian Lehner. Is Germany the world champion in drinking beer? Well, almost. Are 11 to 12 euros for a beer that expensive? Is beer unhealthy? If it causes men to pursue their avocations lazily or stupidly, it does not cause the irregularities and neglects of American inebriation.
Cases of pawning clothes and impoverishing families from the appetite for beer may occur, just as from laziness, but not as from the bewitching appetite for ardent spirits. In any case, it's kind of nuts that the people who brought you on-time trains also managed to crack 30 beers a night. Update: I had a couple questions about the strength of the German beer at the time. I can't say precisely what the average ABV of a German beer was in , but several texts, like this one from , seem to indicate it was pretty much what you'd expect: somewhere around 4 percent, or between a light and regular Bud.
And even if the beers were "light" at say 2. Additional Information. Prior year figures were taken from previous publications. Alcoholic Beverages. Ireland: annual volume of beer consumed per capita Wine: value added tax and excise duty in Ireland Alcohol consumption share in Ireland in , by category. This feature is limited to our corporate solutions. Please contact us to get started with full access to dossiers, forecasts, studies and international data. Skip to main content Try our corporate solution for free!
Single Accounts Corporate Solutions Universities. This statistic shows the annual average per capita consumption of beer, wine, sparkling wine and spirits in Germany in selected years from to In , the average German consumed an estimated average of Loading statistic Show source. Your opinion can help us make it better. We use cookies to improve our service for you. You can find more information in our data protection declaration. Germans continue to drink a bathtub's worth of beer, wine and spirits per year, according to a new study on addiction.
They also smoked nearly 75 billion cigarettes. Germans drank on average The study also found that 3 million Germans between the ages of 18 and 64 had an alcoholic disorder in Around 74, deaths per year in Germany are caused by alcohol or a combination of alcohol and tobacco, according to the study.
Read more: East Germans drink more alcohol. In , the study said, every German above the age of 14 drank According to the World Health Organization, Germany ranked fourth in the world in pure alcohol consumption per capita, behind only Moldova, Lithuania and the Czech Republic.
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