Random Fact 8: List of countries by beer consumption per capita
A couple of nights ago I was looking up beer, how it’s made and how they differ on Wikipedia and came across this very interesting list.
The following list as the title of this blog post suggests, is a list of countries ordered by beer consumption per capita (or per person).
| Rank | Country | Consumption (L/yr) |
US Gallon/yr |
Keg/yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Czech Republic |
156.9 | 41.5 | 2.67 |
| 2 |  Ireland |
131.1 | 34.7 | 2.24 |
| 3 |  Germany |
115.8 | 30.6 | 1.97 |
| 4 |  Australia |
109.9 | 29.0 | 1.87 |
| 5 |  Austria |
108.3 | 28.6 | 1.85 |
| 6 |  United Kingdom |
99.0 | 26.2 | 1.69 |
| 7 |  Slovenia |
93.3 | 24.7 | 1.59[c] |
| 8 |  Belgium |
93.0 | 26.6 | 1.59 |
| 9 |  Denmark |
89.9 | 23.8 | 1.53 |
| 10 |  Finland |
85.0 | 22.5 | 1.45 |
| 11 |  Luxembourg |
84.4 | 22.3 | 1.44 |
| 12 |  Slovakia |
84.1 | 22.2 | 1.43 |
| 13 |  Spain |
83.8 | 22.1 | 1.43 |
| 14 |  United States |
81.6 | 21.6 | 1.39 |
| 15 |  Croatia |
81.2 | 21.5 | 1.38 |
| 16 |  Netherlands |
79.0 | 20.9 | 1.35 |
| 17 |  New Zealand |
77.0 | 20.4 | 1.31 |
| 18 |  Hungary |
75.3 | 19.9 | 1.28 |
| 19 |  Poland |
69.1 | 18.3 | 1.18 |
| 20 |  Canada |
68.3 | 18.1 | 1.16 |
I have only taken the top 20, but you can see more from the original Wikipedia article.
For me it was amazing to see that Czech Republic was the number one consumer of beer. I would have placed all money on someone like Germany, Ireland or even the United Kingdom. Also it’s surprising to see United States so low on the chart when they have so many large beer companies.
But the most shocking was seeing my home country of Australia 4th on the list… I mean we have some of the worlds worst beers *cough* Victoria Bitter *cough* but hey, we do love a cold one 
All in all, it’s a list I found quite interesting.
[via List of countries by beer consumption per capita]
Thanks,
Marat
I can shed some light on why the Czechs are first. In short, they’ve been making beer for centuries and centuries and they’re bloody good at it. They developed the “pilsener” beer and make some highly commendable others besides, including BB Burgerbrau, which is REAL Budweiser (from the city of Budweis), contrasted with the American donkey’s urine which they have the gall to title “Budweiser”.
Nick Kashin
April 11, 2008 at 20:18
Poland 35,6 mln hektol. in 2008, pro person is now 96 l pro year
quil
September 23, 2009 at 21:39