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The most consumed type of alcoholic drink in Europe (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For people surprised by the UK, here is the 2018 report: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241565639

It says that the recorder alcohol consumption by percentage was 35.7% wine and 35.0% beer, so a close one.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Found this table from the source, wine seems to be quite ahead!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

The diagram is the amount of pure alcohol. Beer typilally contains 3.5 % - 5 % alcohol and wine 12 %, thus the consumption of beer in litres is larger than wine.

However, I was also surprised how much wine (with or without alcohol) is consumed in Sweden considering its price.

Edit: phrasing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"Pure" ? You mean generally 40 ethanol?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

No, the calculation is like 0.5 litre beer with 5 vol.% alcohol contain 25 ml pure (100 %) alcohol and these 25 ml go into the statistics as alcohol from the consumption of beer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure in sweden supermarket sold beer maxes out at 3.5% alc if i remenber that right.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yes, beer with up to 3.5 % you can buy in a supermarket. Beer above 3.5 % is called strong beer (starköl) which you can only buy at Systembolaget, the governmental alcohol store. Considering a large part of the beer is light beer (lättöl) or folks beer (folköl) below 3.5 %, the amount of beer to cover the 36 % pure alcohol is even higher.