canada and beer drinking: WTF?!?! [Archive]

thegelding

2004-07-23, 11:03

Though current comparative statistics are hard to come by, even as of 1999, U.S. drinkers ranked just 12th in beer consumption per capita, drinking 84.4 liters per year, according to the Kirin Brewery. That was barely half the per capita consumption of the world-leading Czech Republic (160.7 liters per man, woman and child). Surprisingly, Canada lagged even behind the U.S. at 68.1 liters per capita

WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFK

murbot, you is letting us down...get to work and catch up to those czechs

g

i like the "surprisingly" wording about canada...see, everybody (even forbes magazine) thinks they (our friends to the north) are drunken hosers

link to the article (http://www.forbes.com/home/business/2004/07/23/cx_da_0723topnews.html)

Kickaha

2004-07-23, 11:05

Wickers

2004-07-23, 12:04

:grumble:

Kickaha

2004-07-23, 12:38

Ooh \/\/icky-poo, you knows we loves you.

Chinney

2004-07-23, 12:50

They are.

They didn't count all the wine consumed in Quebec. Remove the Quebecois population (and I know plenty of Canadians who'd love to), and suddenly the other 300,000 Canadians* are consuming all the beer in the country.

:D

* Population estimate after eliminating the moose, beaver, and bears from the voting rolls.

Hey! :mad: We love the Quebecois - and I especially love my wife. (Actually we really do - most of us anyway. Clarification: That's not to say that most of the country 'loves' my wife, unless there is something kinky going on that I don't know about.)

Also, they drink plenty of brew in Quebec, and their mircrobreweries are, in my opinion, among the best - if not the best - in the country. I am just about to go up to my wife's family cottage on the Quebec side, so I'll be partaking liberally of the Quebec beer. And speaking plenty French too!.

So as we francophile anglos say: "eatez de la merde". ;)

Kickaha

2004-07-23, 12:58

*laugh*

Sorry, sorry, just taking the stereotypes and running them into the ground. :D

Moogs

2004-07-23, 13:39

I think Murbot by himself accounts for about 5.5% of all Canadian beer consumption, so it's up his countrymen to pick up the slack. What's the deal Burb... start chuggin!

;)

thegelding

2004-07-23, 13:44

hey, and it's friday...so start tapping those kegs early

kick, you forgot to mention the otters...aren't they on the voting rolls also?

g

DMBand0026

2004-07-23, 13:48

:grumble:

You're not allowed to be upset by this! You're not legally allowed to be part of the solution yet ;)

Therefore you can't be part of the problem either. However, if you wanna be a bad kid and drink a beer, I'm not stopping you. And make sure you enjoy it :)

billybobsky

2004-07-23, 21:02

you guys forget the key feature of this statistic:

lets for a moment envision the typical czech bar scene:
the walls of the czech bar (and indeed the floors and, strangely, the ceiling) are saturated with the remnants of this evening's mid-july oktoberfest. You literally cannot avoid stepping in puddles of wasted beer or vomit, which strangely enough seems to majorly contribute to the coloration of the wall. no less that 300 half full pitures of beer remained on the table at closing time.

alternatively the scene in canada is quite conservative:
we see the average canadian beer drinker to be quite tolerant of the drink and quite enigmatically particular about recovering every last drop. the canadian beer drinker, while clearly suffering the symptoms of mild alcohol intoxication, always remains the consumate gentleman and finishes his neighbors beer before ordering his twenty-fifth.

curiousuburb

2004-07-23, 21:07

WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFK

Surprisingly, Canada lagged even behind the U.S. at 68.1 liters per capita

murbot, you is letting us down...get to work and catch up to those czechs

g

i like the "surprisingly" wording about canada...see, everybody (even forbes magazine) thinks they (our friends to the north) are drunken hosers

link to the article (http://www.forbes.com/home/business/2004/07/23/cx_da_0723topnews.html)

Given how watery american beer is, Canadian consumption numbers still win. :D
68 litres of Yankee brew probably equates to about 40 litres of Canuck beer. :p

<sips Moosehead... chases beaver (http://www.adrants.com/images/beaver.mov)>
edit: link above is a 403 forbidden, but the directory above it is open (Ha!),
and once you're at the /images/ level all links function, including beaver.mov

Moogs

2004-07-24, 11:40

The Moose is Loose!

murbot

2004-07-24, 13:10

I call bullshit. Seriously.

:D

Powerdoc

2004-07-24, 14:42

I call bullshit. Seriously.

:D

Now I understand why you want to visit Pragues, it's not for music, it's for beer !!! ;) :D :p

Moogs

2004-07-24, 15:59

I dunno, there's a picture in the Chicago Tribune's pictorial section today of Gerhard Schroeder drinking down some German brew from a MASSIVE (think two hands to hold it) mug. Says Germans are the biggest beer drinkers in Europe, followed by Brits, which I am inclined to believe.

InactionMan

2004-07-24, 17:47

I'll have a few beers after dinner to do my part. But it won't be a freakin' Molson Canadian. Molson-Coors my ass. Me, I prefer the sweet brew of Nova Scotia. Nothing better than a Moosehead Dry.

teknomadik

2004-07-25, 22:42

Given how watery american beer is, Canadian consumption numbers still win. :D
68 litres of Yankee brew probably equates to about 40 litres of Canuck beer.

A very good point, that!

Forbes didn't their homework, though, since the latest stats show a Canadian average consumption of 85 litres, not 68:

http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/030709/d030709b.htm

You'll also notice that Quebec ranks third for per capita beer guzzling (after Newfoundland and the Yukon) and second in overall sales. If you've ever been to Montreal, you know why: people like to party here. You all should come up and check it out--if you can handle the higher alcohol content in our brew, that is.

:lol:

So eat your words and... buvez de la bi�re! ;)

Kickaha

2004-07-25, 22:55

Mmmmm... Montreal. Wife and i spent a few great days there last fall.

Well actually, she spent a few great days there, I spent a few days at a conference. :P But, got to hit the Gardin Botanique for a day... OMG, absolutely amazing, and each night was an adventure of picking a restaurant, usually in the Latin Quarter. Kama Sutra was fun too. ;)

Definitely a city we'd love to hit again sometime.

Now if they only spoke *English*...

teknomadik

2004-07-25, 23:25

Now if they only spoke *English*...
Someone once said that English is essentially an imprecise dialect of Java, without the object orientation.

Seriously, though, I live in Montreal and you can get by reasonably well in English pretty much anywhere, provided you know your bonjours and mercis.

And what would Montreal be without French? Pretty damn boring, that's what.

Kickaha

2004-07-26, 02:42

Actually, I found it to be the most European city I'd been to outside of Europe... language or not. Very cool place.

I grew up on the northern edge of the US West, so my exposure to Canada was mostly British Columbia, where everybody speaks English, but endure the added expense of double-printing *everything* in French due to pressure from a certain Eastern-ish province. I *assumed* that when I got to Montreal/Quebec that the tables would be flipped, and English would be secondary by local choice, but as in evidence as French is in BC. Ha. For some reason that really steamed me and seemed highly unfair. But that's a quibble.

Back to the beer.

BarracksSi

2004-07-26, 11:32

Given how watery american beer is, Canadian consumption numbers still win. :D
68 litres of Yankee brew probably equates to about 40 litres of Canuck beer. :p

That's just about what I was going to say.. :D

The last time I had Yankee beer, it was free. Gotta love those company picnics, especially when a recent retiree now works with a Budweiser distributor (although nearly any other brand would be better!).

curiousuburb

2004-07-26, 19:41

Quebec gets huge respect from thirsty Canadians due to damn fine brews (http://www.unibroue.com/english.cfm)
All of the Unibroue labels look like Maxfield Parrish paintings... gorgeous artwork.

Their Maudite (with the Devil on the front) is wicked (and 8% alcohol). http://www.unibroue.com/images/maudite-medaillon.gif

Most have 'sediment' (being unfiltered) so pouring takes care, but they're worth it.

curiousuburb

2004-07-26, 19:43

Our beers also look cooler than your beers at Microscopic levels (http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/beershots/).
Especially after a few. :D

xionja

2004-07-26, 19:54

Canada's rockin the quality over quantity. . .

but seriously, I just spent 4 days helping America in the struggle against the czechs . . .if we stay together and keep strong we can win. . . American beer is pretty nasty though, I'm about sick of it after grassroots. (was anybody else at the festival, or ever been?)

Windswept

2004-07-26, 20:26

I think Canada has the best-looking guys in the world. WOW!!!!!

American guys are better built :D (you know it's true), but Canadian guys are effing gorgeous !!!!! OMG!!!

Oh, yeah, and the beer's good too. :lol:

(first things first :D )

PS - Quebec City is incredibly European and wonderful. But the shopkeepers get inhospitable if your French isn't up to their standards. Tsk. :grumble:

billybobsky

2004-07-26, 21:21