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There was a moment in our recent history when the phrase "I'm Spanish, what do you want me to beat you at?"

It ran from mouth to mouth.

It was the

golden age

of our sport, where gold medals were common and on the podium our flag was the one that reached the top.

In something that the Spanish cannot win, but we are close, it is in beer consumption.

According to the Expensivity website, Spaniards are the

second country in beer consumption per capita

.

Specifically, each Spaniard drinks 417 cans of beer a year, more than one a day.

The only ones who surpass us are other Europeans with a long brewing tradition, the

Czechs

, who drink 468 beers a year.

Its capital, Prague, was the fourth most visited city in Europe in 2019 with more than nine million tourists, according to Euromonitor.

Barcelona received about seven million and Madrid just over 5.5 million.


The inhabitants of the United States, a country with a long brewing tradition and where the craft sector has a significant market share, consume 282 beers a year, less than one a day.

Belgium, where beer is almost a religion, stays at one beer a year out of 300.

Not even Germany, a

country with a long brewing tradition

and which has a Purity Law for this drink, reaches Spain in terms of consumption.

Germans stay at 411 beers a year.

The member countries of the Union take the top five places on the list: Czech Republic, Spain, Germany, Poland and Austria.

The next country is Panama, with 372, far from the 468 of the Czechs.

At the bottom of this list, Haiti and its capital Port-au-Prince, where its inhabitants barely drink four beers a year, according to Expensivity and its

World Beer Index 2021

, which has used data from the World Health Organization to obtain these figures.

Cans at almost 10 euros

Where we are not leaders is in the price of beer.

Spain ranks 15th among the countries where this drink is cheaper,

averaging the price paid for a 33 cl can in a supermarket and in a hotel

.

According to the website, that average is 2.74 dollars (2.27 euros).

The leader in this category is South Africa, where the average is 1.68 dollars (1.41 euros), followed by Ukraine with 1.76 dollars (1.48 euros) and Argentina with 1.79 dollars (1.50 euros). ).

The most expensive country is Qatar, where you have to spend an average of 11.26 dollars (9.44 euros) to get a beer, followed by Jordan, with 9.4 dollars (7.88 euros) and China with 7.71 dollars (6.46 euros).

The Arab emirate has recently modified the

taxes on

imported

alcohol

, placing it at 100%, which explains the high price that must be paid.

In addition, you must have an authorization to buy alcoholic beverages.


Among the 10 cheapest countries there is only one that belongs to the European Union, the Czech Republic.

In tenth place, you can get a beer for $ 2.49 on average (2.09 euros).

With these data, and crossing them with the total consumption of beer,

Germany is the nation whose citizens spend the most on this drink

, with a total of 1,907 dollars (1,599 euros), followed by Poland, with 1,737 dollars (1,456 euros) and Lithuania, with 1,585 dollars (1,329 euros).

The

Spaniards

spent 1,142 dollars (

957 euros

), placing at number 12.


If we only take the data of how much a beer costs in a supermarket,

Spain once again enters the podium

, although this time in third position tied with Ghana.

For 0.68 cents (just over 0.55 euro cents) you can get a can, both in our country and in the African nation.

Two neighbors of the EU, Poland in second place with 0.62 cents (0.52 cents) and Italy, with 0.58 cents (0.49 cents), occupy the first two places respectively.

This ranking does not take into account the consumption of

non-alcoholic beer

, where Spain is the leader in Europe with a 14% market share.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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