Beer production in 1892

Time for some more random beer statistics plucked from a 19th-century newspaper. Beer production is what we're looking at.

Here are the numbers:

Beer production in 1892
	gallons	barrels
Northern Germany	630,380,850	17,510,579
Bavaria	337,167,400	9,365,761
Wurtemburg	69,817,000	1,939,361
Duchy Baden	55,191,000	1,533,083
Alsace-Lorraine	16,703,000	463,972
Germany	1,051,664,000	29,212,889
Bohemia	110,000,000	3,055,556
Lower Austria (including Vienna)	44,000,000	1,222,222
Austria	302,025,000	8,389,583
Belgium	220,000,000	6,111,111
Denmark	52,492,000	1,458,111
Norway	37,673,000	1,046,472
Russia	64,427,000	1,789,639
Switzerland	26,101,000	725,028
Spain	22,550,000	626,389
Italy	3,029,000	84,139
Turkey	3,080,000	85,556
Roumania	220,000	6,111
Luxemberg	2,066,000	57,389
Servia	2,046,000	56,833
Greece	213,000	5,917
Continental Europe	3,036,000,000	84,333,333
USA	812,209,000	22,561,361
Japan	4,855,000	134,861
Australia	35,447,000	984,639
Algeria	550,000	15,278
Source:
Nottingham Evening Post - Wednesday 21 February 1894, page 2.

Notice one glaring absence? That's right, it's the UK. They only seem to have bothered with countries in Continental Europe. Annoyingly, I don't have numbers for the UK for 1892. These are the closest ones I have: 1891 31,927,053 barrels* and 1895 31,678,486 barrels**. So around 31 million barrels is a fair guess. Which means the UK was responsible for around 27% of Europe's beer production. And it had the largest beer production of anywhere in the world.


The biggest surprise to me is Belgium, which wasn't far behind Austria, a much larger and more populous country. And twice as much as Bohemia, not exactly a beer-free region and one with not that much smaller a population than Belgium.





* "Ireland Industrial and Agricultural", 1902, page 458.
** Brewers' Almanack 1928.