Wine Yeast, Levadura Para Hacer Vino

[RobinsonGO]

I had a cultural question. Generally speaking Latin countries are wine drinkers. Germanic countries are beer drinkers. Why then is Argentina a much larger beer consumer?

As far as I can tell, Argentines drink a lot of both. We have great local wine along with many wine drinkers, as we are a Latin. We also have a lot of beer drinkers, seeing there have been many immigrants since the 2nd War. However, as far as I can tell, thus far, I like the good wines more than I like the few good beers.

 

[elhombresinnombre]

I had a cultural question. Generally speaking Latin countries are wine drinkers. Germanic countries are beer drinkers. Why then is Argentina a much larger beer consumer?

I don't necessarily think that she is. A litre of wine is not equivalent to a litre of beer on a like-for-like basis. Should you compare alcohol intake or the quantity that constitutes 'a drink'?

Per capita in 2004 (a year for which I have comparable figures) Germans drank 110 litres of beer to 24 litres of wine while Argentines drank respectively 43.2 litres and 29.0 litres. Which ever way you look at it, Germans appear to prefer beer over wine. Argentines, on the other hand, ingested far more of their alcohol via wine than beer and probably twice as many 'drinks' were wine rather than beer.

Sources: http://www.winebiz.com.au/statistics/world.asp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_beer_consumption_per_capita