Whether your tipple of choice is a warm dark ale or a clear cool liquor, the price of alcohol is soaring (but there is still no inflation anywhere remember - especially in Europe) and so is demand [4]. From watered-down beer in the UK [5] to rubbing-alcohol split scotch in New Jersey [6], stealth inflation is growing. So who is most responsible for this demand-pull (and cost-push) driven inflation in alcohol? Germany and Czech Republic (beer) and Russia (liquor) are topping the charts in per-capita demand and it seems the Italians, not content with spending less on gifts are also not drinking much...
Biggest European Beer drinkers...
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Heaviest European Liquor consumers...
[8]
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