Best Drinkers??

[Bloodtangerine]

Malced’s little joke got me thinking……Who are the biggest drinkers in these Isles?

Traditionally it was obviously the Scots and the Irish (both Northern and Republic) with their Heavy, their Guinness, their differently spelled Whisky/Whiskey respectively.

I think in the last 30/35 years the English pisscans have really made a huge effort though and can probably stand their ground even with the finest drunkards that the Kilted Clan can produce. Can pour enough Strong Lager down their Gregorys to make a Dublin Man pay some respect.

The Welsh I never hear of in this regard. I assume alcohol may be banned there?


So which lot are Kings of the old Liver Damage nowadays in your honest opinion?

 

[Macseasider]

Quick Google says per person

Cook Islands
Latvia
Czechia
Lithuania

France the biggest drinkers round our way.

Ireland 15th

UK 24th but doesn't split up the home nations

Alcohol consumption per capita

www.cia.gov

 

[Chunkylad]

Malced’s little joke got me thinking……Who are the biggest drinkers in these Isles?

Traditionally it was obviously the Scots and the Irish (both Northern and Republic) with their Heavy, their Guinness, their differently spelled Whisky/Whiskey respectively.

I think in the last 30/35 years the English pisscans have really made a huge effort though and can probably stand their ground even with the finest drunkards that the Kilted Clan can produce. Can pour enough Strong Lager down their Gregorys to make a Dublin Man pay some respect.

The Welsh I never hear of in this regard. I assume alcohol may be banned there?


So which lot are Kings of the old Liver Damage nowadays in your honest opinion?

The English can afford enhanced drinking support from the magic marching powder.
That trumps all

 

[Meliora]

The jack tars of the 19th century British navy knew the answer to this question.

Gosport girls they drink for England,
Gosport girls they take their tot,
Rum and brandy, gin and whisky,
Gosport girls they drink the lot.

 

[BFC_BFC_BFC]

It's almost certainly the Scots, Irish & English... The Welsh are too focused on singing and rearing sheep from my experience of them...

Other nations will undoubtedly drink more per capita, purely because more people will drink sensible quantities over a longer period of time. Here in the UK and Ireland, the drinking is generally confined to smaller groups of professional drinkers, who consume large quantities over shorter periods.

 

[bill40]

I always rely on trusted sources for information for this so here is the Sun. Please bear in mind the North West figure dropped 22% when I stopped drinking. Reliable source

 

[Curryman]

In Yorkshire when I arrived here, they used to brag that they could drink 10 pints of Tetleys. Its ABV was around 3.7% from memory. But they couldn't drink 10 pints of Websters which was somewhat stronger, again from memory around 4.1%. so it was classed as crap.

Here's an interesting list.

Beer	ABV%	Original Gravity	Price (½pint)
Bristol Brewery Georges Bitter	3.4	1030.9	6½d
Ushers Bitter	3.0	1031.9	6½d
Friary Meux Bitter	3.6	1034.9	6½d
Greenhall & Whitley Bitter	3.7	1034.4	7d
Carlisle & District Bitter	3.9	1038.2	7d
Vaux Best Bitter	3.8	1034.8	7½d
Wilson's Bitter	3.9	1036.1	7½d
Greene King Bitter	4.0	1037.0	7½d
Ind Coope Bitter	3.8	1037.7	7½d
Hammonds United Best Bitter	4.1	1035.5	8d
Daniel Thwaites Bitter	3.8	1035.8	8d
John Smith's Best Bitter	3.4	1036.8	8d
Truman Hanbury Buxton Bitter	3.9	1037.6	8d
Tennants Best Bitter	4.2	1038.3	8d
Whitbread Bitter	3.6	1037.4	8½d
Courage & Barclay Bitter	3.9	1040.3	8½d
Ansells Bitter	4.5	1045.3	8½d
Tennants Queen's Ale	4.3	1041.7	9d
Bass Worthington 'E'	4.6	1041.8	9d
Bass Red Triangle	4.5	1043.1	9d
Younger's Bitter	4.3	1043.9	9d
Charrington IPA	4.1	1044.9	9½d
Watneys Special Bitter	3.7	1043.1	9½d
Fremlins Best Bitter	4.6	1044.7	10½d
Flowers Keg Bitter	3.4	1039.1	11d

Source: 'Beer' published by the Consumers' Association Ltd, in 'Which?' August 1960

Draught beers, 1972​

Beer	ABV%	Original Gravity	Price (pint)
Double Diamond	3.5	1037.4	15-18p
Ind Coope Super	3.5	1036.2	11-16p
Worthington 'E'	4.0	1037.8	14-18p
Bass Charrington IPA	3.8	1039.8	11-16p
Courage Tavern	3.8	1037.6	14-18p
Courage Best Bitter	4.3	1039.9	12-16p
Younger's Tartan	3.7	1035.9	14-18p
Younger's Scotch Ale	4.2	1041.3	11-16p
Watneys Red	3.7	1037.9	14-18p
Watneys Special Bitter	3.4	1036.0	12-16p
Whitbread Tankard	3.8	1038.5	14-18p
Whitbread Trophy	3.4	1034.3	11-16p
Guinness	4.2	1039.2	16-20p
Harp Lager	3.3	1032.8	17-19p