INDEPTH: BEER
Beer Trivia
CBC News Online | July 21, 2004
It was customary in the 13th century to baptize children with beer.
Universities in Europe and America from the 1300s through the 1700s had in-house
breweries to provide beer to the students. Harvard had its own brew house in 1674 and five beer halls, each burned down by rioting divinity students.
1888: Citizens of Munich took to the streets and rioted after a beer price increase was announced.
1587: The first beer is brewed in the New World at Sir Walter Raleigh's colony in Virginia, but the colonists send requests to England for better beer.
1786: Molson Brewery is founded in what is now Canada.
1810: Munich establishes Oktoberfest as an official celebration.
Belgium has the most brands of beer in the world: 400
Czechs drink the most beer in the world per capita – an average of 160 litres a year per person.
SOURCES: Beerhistory.com, Texas Tech University, The Beer Institute, the Birmingham Beverage Company
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84.7 litres
The average amount of beer each Canadian 15 years and older bought in the year ending in 2002. That's about 250 341-millilitre bottles.
63.1 litres
The average amount of milk each Canadian drank in 2003.
12
In a survey of Canadian teens in 1998-99, the average age they took their first alcoholic drink is just over 12.
81 per cent
Of the 2.7 billion litres of alcoholic beverages sold in Canada in the year ending in 2002, 81 per cent was beer.
51 per cent
Of the $14.5 billion Canadians spent on alcohol in the year ending in 2002, 51 per cent was on beer.
5 per cent
The percentage of pure alcohol in regular Canadian beer. Table wines have 10-12 per cent pure alcohol, while whisky, vodka and other spirits have 40 per cent.
$6.7 billion
The amount Canadians spent on domestic beer in the year ending in 2002.
9.6 per cent
Imported beers have 9.6 per cent of the Canadian beer market.
Source: Statistics Canada
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