Not more Dutch numbers

Fancy some more Dutch beer statistics? I thought not. Bugger you, that's what you're getting. The title is just a blatant lie. Or as I prefer to put it, my own personal interpretation of the truth. Everyone is at that sort of crap nowadays, why shouldn't I join in. The truth has become a rather tenuous concept.

Just a load of numbers today. Because I'm lazy and have other things to be getting on with. Don't expect a huge amount of analysis.

Here's the absolute minimum. The consumption of all alcoholic drinks fell over the period covered. Beer by 58%, wine by 62% and spirits by a massive 75%. Though Dutch consumption of spirits was very high in the 19th century. Almost 10 litres per head is a shitload.

While spirits consumption was already in sharp decline in the Edwardian period, it was WW I which really put a dent in the beer numbers. The reason was quite simple: they ran out of malting barley and simply couldn't brew any more beer than they did. Beer, at least until 1954, never fully recovered.

Except, these number stop before the big turnaround as Dutch drinkers regained their love of beer. Its popularity rose in the following decades,with consumption peaking at 88 litres per capita in 1988.

Dutch consumption of alcoholic drinks 1875 - 1854
year	beer	spirits	wine
1875	33.3	9.37	2.45
1880	33.8	9.80	2.57
1885	33.7	9.16	2.20
1890	36.4	8.91	2.05
1895	39.6	8.68	1.90
1900	42.0	8.23	2.16
1905	40.4	7.42	1.82
1910	35.8	5.21	1.63
1914	37.9	5.55	1.05
1915	37.9	4.51	1.00
1916	36.9	4.75	1.50
1917		4.98	0.46
1918	10.0	3.23	0.38
1919	13.0	4.25	2.43
1920	17.5	5.16	1.59
1921	23.0	2.90	1.69
1922	24.6	2.81	2.02
1923	26.0	2.36	1.36
1924	25.1	2.21	1.68
1925	25.2	2.11	1.98
1926	25.8	2.03	2.12
1927	25.4	1.99	1.85
1928	27.8	1.91	1.83
1929	28.0	2.39	1.84
1930	27.5	2.54	1.71
1931	25.3	2.31	1.45
1932	21.6	1.97	1.13
1933	19.0	1.82	0.90
1934	17.5	1.61	0.91
1935	15.3	1.49	0.93
1936	14.0	1.44	1.05
1937	14.1	1.45	1.20
1938	14.9	1.46	1.14
1939	15.2	1.57	1.31
1946	19.1	1.27	0.54
1947	16.9	2.33	0.77
1948	13.6	3.18	1.09
1949	10.4	3.20	0.54
1950	10.9	2.95	0.50
1951	10.9	2.67	0.62
1952	11.3	2.23	0.51
1953	12.7	2.15	0.65
1954	13.9	2.31	0.92
Source:
De Nederlandse Brouwindustrie in Cijfers, by Dr. H. Hoelen, Centraal Brouwerij Kantoor, 1955, held at the Amsterdam City Archives, pages 52 - 53.