Czech beer exports in 1935 and 1936

More lovely numbers from that Polish industry journal. This time relating to Czech brewing. A topic very dear to my heart.

The numbers are for Czech beer exports. Unsurprisingly, their biggest market was in Germany. Their neighbour taking 59% of the total. The quantity having increased considerably from 1935. Luckily for the Czechs, as several other countries took considerably less Czech beer in 1936 than in 1935. Only Germany, the USA and the UK increased their imports.

I'm a little surprised Austria didn't import Czech beer, the two having been in the same country less than two decades previously. And what was going on in Italy? Why did imports fall so dramatically from 1,345 hl to just 3 hl?

I assume that most of the beer being was Pilsner Urquell along with some Budvar.

Let's put the numbers into context. Assuming the annual total was double that of a half year at 80,000 hl. That's about 50,000 UK barrels. In 1936, the UK exported 325,058 barrels, or nearly seven times as much. At the time the UK population was about 47 million and Czechoslovakia's about 15 million. Meaning that, per head of population, Czechoslovakia's beer exports were only about half that of the UK.

Czech beer exports in 1935 and 1936
Country	1st half 1935		1st half 1936
	hl	crowns	hl	crowns
Germany	18,008	3,458,925	23,493	4,450,145
USA	2,702	728,063	3,599	876,810
Great Britain	3,274	614,499	3,845	650,563
Belgium	2,380	429,420	2,211	399,094
Switzerland	1,631	263,900	1,612	247,013
Netherlands	1,414	266,900	1,316	245,648
Austria	1,287	147,807	1,145	133,018
Egypt	916	131,955	738	103,378
France	800	133,609	716	123,274
Poland	632	119,393	392	71,934
Yugoslavia	390	52,758	277	39,388
Palestine	481	161,619	118	31,993
Italy	1,345	245,335	3	1,475
Other countries	499	113,663	318	89,432
total	35,759	6,867,846	39,783	7,463,165
Source:
Przegląd Piwowarsko-Słodowniczy: organ Związku Piwowarów w Polsce 1936 wrzesień R.2 Nr3, page 65.