Which is the heaviest drinking European nation?

[Stanley]

Brits are not as bad as our Euro cousins simply because they normally in a bar from opening to closing

Leighsie's post got me thinking

Does this Dutch courage reputation still date back to our historic siege mentality as an island, having to fight back its foreign marauders?

Or are we out-drunk now by other countries?

[Gtleighsr3]

i was in cyprus in july and met this hammered norwegian couple. they was smashed beyond and back. Then they say it so cheap here as they pay 18 euros a pint back home.

[corbray]

i think the scots are actually the heaviest drinkers in europe which i can believe tbh. i go to glasgow a few times a year to visit the missus' family and there are junkies and drunk people everywhere, i even saw a trio of deaf junkies just signing to eachother whilst drinking a 2l bottle of strongbow

[Hubble]

We're way down the list:
Countries With The Highest Alcohol Consumption per Capita

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1	Belarus	17.50
2	Moldova	16.80
3	Lithuania	15.40
4	Russia	15.10
5	Romania	14.40
6	Ukraine	13.90
7	Andorra	13.80
8	Hungary	13.30
9	Czech Republic	13.00
10	Slovakia	13.00
11	Portugal	12.90
12	Serbia	12.60
13	Grenada	12.50
14	Poland	12.50
15	Latvia	12.30
16	Finland	12.30
17	South Korea	12.30
18	France	12.20
19	Australia	12.20
20	Croatia	12.20
21	Ireland	11.90
22	Luxembourg	11.90
23	Germany	11.80
24	Slovenia	11.60
25	United Kingdom	11.60

From: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/...y-country.html

[Stanley]

i was in cyprus in july and met this hammered norwegian couple. they was smashed beyond and back. Then they say it so cheap here as they pay 18 euros a pint back home.

Probably most of that was tax, as they're incredibly high in Scandinavia. I'm sure Shania can confirm.

[Stanley]

We're way down the list:
Countries With The Highest Alcohol Consumption per Capita

Surprising. We must have really dropped down in recent years. I'm sure we never used to be that low.

[UpperP]

Doing my best to improve our ranking :-)

[Kirill]

Interesting because I saw a list recently where Norway was first and Estonia was second,
I guess they used a different calculation method or were too drunk to get it right.

[Itsonlyagame]

Scotland would be right up there in that list if the UK wasn’t measured as a whole. And England would be even lower.

[12321]

Ireland would be a lot higher if only the drinkers were included, there’s a very high percentage of “pioneers”, people who don’t touch it for religious reasons.
The rest of them more than make up for it though...

[Itsonlyagame]

Ireland would be a lot higher if only the drinkers were included, there’s a very high percentage of “pioneers”, people who don’t touch it for religious reasons.
The rest of them more than make up for it though...