World Beer Index 2021: The Cost and Consumption of Beer Around the World
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Also, no-one buys 330ml of beer except Americans.
Secondly, regarding your final comment, are you saying that 330ml seems smaller or larger than you would expect?
Yes, you can get some excellent beers for 30 cents in Czechia.
Isn't malt liquor just beer with high alcohol content? I haven't seen that much outside of craft beers, you're probably likelier to get something that's not a traditional beer if you're paying more than if you're paying less.
I wouldn't say there is much attempt to pass it off, people are buying the cheap stuff because it's cheap, not because they think it's beer.
500ml bottles are typical in Germany, but you'll find 330ml bottles in every supermarket, they're not rare at all.
Why talk so confidently about something you're ignorant about?
It's easy to see price per 100ml in the UK as the supermarkets have to show it on the price labels.
I see them everywhere in the UK and in France (although 330ml cans are more frequent)
Popular beers sell for maybe USD 2.50 a bottle I think?
On a side note: I can't remember ever seeing all three South African capital cities listed in a data table like this. Nice!
In the Oktoberfest time you can find bundles of a 1l can of Oktoberfest beer and the fitting Masskrug in the supermarkets. For Oktoberfest, special charges of beer are brewed. To compensate for the large servings (1 liter) it is even stronger than normal beer at about 6.5%. So the inexperienced should be careful with that, or they are going to make experiences. Been there, done that! :)
1) I would expect the name comes from "Steingut", which is a ceramic. It was traditionally used for making beer mugs, but today, mostly glass is used.
On the other hand, in France 330ml for beer is more common, indeed.
In Greece, they are staples in the supermarkets!
Most of good strong-ish craft beers (imperial stout, barley wine, etc.) are served in 330ml or even 250ml glasses and sold in 330 cans/bottles (~350 in case of USA-made).
Here in Germany most of the time I see beer prices at 3.00-5.00€ for 500ml in bars. However, I would say a large portion of beer consumption here is what people get from supermarkets, which is significantly cheaper, with most prices in the range of 0.70-1.00€ for a 500ml bottle.
Furthermore, nobody here really drinks well known brands such as Corona or Heineken, rather more regional beers.
Therefore, I don't see their conclusion that Germans spend an average of $1.9k on beer per year being valid.
I’d like real crowdsourced data.
There in lies the problem. I was wondering why some low income but high grain output countries like China and India have high beer prices. In case of China, it seemed odd that beer was even costlier than its rich neighbours like South Korea and Japan. If you look at the prices of imported beer which are subject to high import duties and shipment costs, it is not going to give a fair picture.
Weighted by volume sold it would probably be a lot closer between countries.
In a super market, brand beer is usually 0.79€/0.5L, store brand is at less in germany. That 4€ figure is what you pay for a beer in a moderately expensive restaurant.
Also those prices don't seem right. At least the last time I was in Prague 0.5L bottles of beer cost well under a dollar in super markets. Same for Germany where you can easily find beer for 0.5€ a bottle.
A better methodology might have been to compute the expected value of a beer (essentially weighting the price of a beer by the probability of purchase of that beer)
(Also, as others have noted, the standard size of a beer varies, so only including data for a particular size can bias the results). Knowing the price/ml might be an interesting statistic too, but it would have been good to know the price of a beer (for whatever ‘a beer’ means locally)
What kind of beer are you drinking? I find many of the craft ales give way worse hangovers than regular lagers.
There are also clean (which means low water production) ale yeasts.
As a minor nit all yeasts ferment in the whole column of liquid. Ale yeasts do often form a thick Krause though.
That makes little sense given the data provided. SA is cheapest at the hotel bar (where you can't buy bulk) but not cheapest at the super market (where you can).
Alternate theory: Cheap labour, cheap local inputs. Plus loads of capacity. Up until recently the worlds 2nd biggest producer was SABMiller. The SAB part stands for South African Breweries.
(I was going to add "in a pandemic", but perhaps that's the point: no-one is going to bars but maybe some are happy to pay bar prices at home.)
Anyone know where this is coming from? Although each shop carries a wide range of these cans, they all conform so closely, and they all appeared overnight, that I wonder whether there's been a change in packaging or distribution technology, or a new consortium of microbrewers?
On tap it's $3 or $4 for 16 fl-oz.
(this is in the US)
Really expensive small batch beer is often 10+% alcohol by volume.
Yeah, no : https://super.walmart.com.mx/cerveza-vinos-y-licores/cerveza...
1 USD ~ 20 Mexican pesos
From experience I can tell you beer is 1/3 the price in Ecuador as it is in South Africa.
Even nearby Angola, Congo and Cameroon have much cheaper beer than South Africa.
As for consumption, it would probably be a good idea to include Australia :)