What Europe Drinks.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 17 January 1912, Page 4

What Europe Drinks.

A French paper, the "Cosmos" gives pome interesting statistics concerning the drinking habits of Europe, The Dane drinks annually )04 quarts of beer, little or no wine, and 24 quarts of-brandy; the Swede absorbs 06 quarts of beer and 9 quarts of alcohol, wlvta the Norwegian is content with 31 quarts of beer and 3 quarts of brandy. The Russian requires only 5 quarts of beer and sof brandy (yodka); the .Frenchman must have 32 quarts of beer, 108 of wine, and 10 oi brandy. The Englishman consumes 6 quarts o- B gin or whisky, little wine (scarely 2 quarts), and 152 quarts of beer, ale, or stout; the Dutchman 38 quarts of beer and 8i of brandy; the Belgian 221 quarts beer and 9 quarts of alcohol. The Austrian absorbs 16 quarts of wine, 80 quarts of beer, and nearly 1 l-i of brandy. The Italian diinks little "beer ( scarcely 2 quarts), 98 quarts of wine and 1.3 quarts of brandy ; he is least alcoholic of Europeans. The German is not included in this list. He drinks on the average 7 puarts of wine, 6A- oi brandy, and 125 quarts of beer. The Germans in the great cities of Berlin, Frankfurt, and Munich easily beat British working men in the averagejof beer-drjmking; for in Berlin 200 quarts are annually drunk by each inhabitant, while in Frakfurt the average rises to 432 aud in Munich to the astonishing total of 570 quai ts, and this includes women and children aud old people who cannot drink very much.