WHAT EUROPE DRINKS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 19 January 1912, Page 3

WHAT EUROPE DRINKS.

A French paper, the Cosmos, gives some interesting statistics concerning the drinking habits of Europe. The Dane drinks annually 104 quarts of beer, little or no wine, and 24 quarts of brandy; the Swede absorbs 56 quarts of beer and 9 quarts of alcohol/ while the Norwegian is content with 31 quarts of beer and 3 quarts of brandy. The! Russian requires only 5 quarts of beer and 5 of brandy (vodka);. the Frenchman must have 32 quarts of. beer, 108 of wine, and 10 of brandy. The Eng--lishmaan consumes 6 quarts of gin or whisky, little wine (scarcely 2 quarts), and 152 quarts of beer, ale, or stout, the Dutchman 38 quarts of beer and Si of. brandy; the Belgian 221 quarts of beer and 9 quarts of alcohol. The Austrian absorbs 16 quarts of wine, 80 quarts of beer, and nearly Hi quarts of brandy. The Italian drinks little beer (scarcely 2 quarts), 98 quarts of wine, and 1.3 quarts of brandy; he is the least alcoholic of Europeans. The Ger-

man is not included in this list. He drinks on an average 7 quarts of wine, 6£ of brandy, and 125 quarts of beer. The Germans in the great cities of Berlin, Frankfurt and, Munich easily beat British working men in the average of beer-drinking; for in Berlin 200 quarts are annually drunk by each inhabitant, while in Frankfurt the average rises to 432 and in Munich to the astonishing total of 570 quarts, and this includes women and children and old people who cannot drink very much.