Chart of the Day: Alcohol Consumption

[woo me with science]

http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/02/daily_chart_global_alcohol_consumption

[Sabriel]

1. Wisconsin should be red

I personally have been skipping the brats and heading right for the "steamed in beer" part.

[endless october]

2. respectable showing, but it looks like we have some catching up to do.

[mainer]

3. Whoa, Russia.

That's some serious drinking going on there.

Would love to see similar charts for coffee and tea drinkers.

[TaylorWatts]

4. They have good wodka

[HereSince1628]

5. I suspect that Kvass drinking biases Russia a bit

Kvass is like near-beer and it's sold by street vendors and given to kids without much reservation.

Not to say that Russians can't be hard drinkers, but fermented everything seems to be a cultural strength in Karelia.

[AlabamaLibrul]

6. One litre of alcohol per person roughly every month on the high end, meh. n/t

[dmallind]

7. Is that litres of alcohol or litres of alcoholic beverages? nt

drg

[superduperfarleft]

8. See that tiny red dot on the east coast? I think that's my house. n/t

[woo me with science]

9. I thought that was Washington DC.

:rofl: