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Offline brushvalleybrewer

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Only 79 Liters Per Person?
« on: August 21, 2010, 01:39:03 pm »
I just saw a post at The Economist with a chart showing Americans only drinking 79 Liters per person per year. That’s less than 10 cases. Less than one beer a day!

I think I must be pulling up the average!  ;)
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Offline blatz

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Re: Only 79 Liters Per Person?
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2010, 02:03:03 pm »
I saw that too - We're both doing our fair share!
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Offline BrewArk

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Re: Only 79 Liters Per Person?
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2010, 03:35:18 pm »
I know they are not counting my homebrews in that average!
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Re: Only 79 Liters Per Person?
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2010, 04:46:59 pm »
Good point. Our homebrew probably isn't counted at all.
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Re: Only 79 Liters Per Person?
« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2010, 07:54:55 pm »
If they're going off sales then maybe homebrewing is bigger than I thought. ;D

Then again my consumption is probably skewing the curve.... ::)
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Offline tygo

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Re: Only 79 Liters Per Person?
« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2010, 08:31:32 pm »
Going off of the demographics thread that was on here a while ago:  http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/forum/index.php?topic=2019.0

Let's say there are 500,000 homebrewers brewing their 200 gallons per year.  That's another 100,000,000 gallons not being accounted for.  With a US population of about 300M that's about a third of a gallon per capita not being accounted for.   ;)
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