Here are a couple I added this week. relating to beer production straddling the years of WW II. Sadly, only for a small selection of countries.
World beer production 1938 - 1942 (1,000 barrels) | |||||
Country | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 |
U.K. | 24,035 | 25,532 | 25,499 | 29,101 | 29,170 |
Australasia | 2,809 | 2,960 | 3,117 | 3,451 | 3,595 |
Canada | 1,759 | 1,847 | 2,195 | 2,808 | 3,027 |
U.S.A. | 40,393 | 38,623 | 39,355 | 39,586 | 45,682 |
Belgium | 8,454 | 7,890 | 6,252 | 3,648 | 3,114 |
Czechoslovakia | 3,839 | 4,054 | 3,659 | 3,818 | 3,833 |
France | 14,102 | 11,140 | 11,089 | 9,106 | 2,676 |
Germany | 29,395 | 31,326 | 29,774 | 28,733 | 25,976 |
Other | 17,327 | 18,693 | 18,252 | 19,492 | 18,391 |
Total | 142,611 | 142,064 | 139,192 | 139,742 | 135,465 |
Source: | |||||
Brewers' Almanack 1951-52, page 58. |
World beer production 1943 - 1947 (1,000 barrels) | |||||
Country | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 | 1946 | 1947 |
U.K. | 29,956 | 31,472 | 32,667 | 30,580 | 29,802 |
Australasia | 3,423 | 3,510 | 3,587 | 3,804 | 4,322 |
Canada | 2,891 | 3,403 | 3,859 | 4,328 | 4,811 |
U.S.A. | 50,916 | 58,593 | 62,091 | 60,925 | 62,989 |
Belgium | 2,970 | 2,943 | 4,809 | 6,600 | 7,696 |
Czechoslovakia | 3,512 | 3,413 | 4,534 | 4,538 | 5,405 |
France | 8,657 | 7,970 | 5,656 | 6,768 | 7,373 |
Germany | 26,496 | — | — | 10,743 | 10,785 |
Other | 18,437 | — | — | 20,805 | 27,089 |
Total | 147,258 | — | — | 149,091 | 160,273 |
Source: | |||||
Brewers' Almanack 1951-52, page 58. |
Quite easy to spot which countries were on the winning side.
1 comment:
It's interesting to see Canada and Australia take off. I'd be curious if it was due to a big drop of imported beer from the UK, or if was more like the US which was probably a combination of an end to the depression and a huge increase of money in the pockets of consumers from all of the wartime employment.
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