Only 79 Liters Per Person?

I just saw a post at The Economist with a chart showing Americans only drinking 79 Liters per person per year. That’s less than 10 cases. Less than one beer a day!

I think I must be pulling up the average!  :wink:

I saw that too - We’re both doing our fair share!

I know they are not counting my homebrews in that average!

Good point. Our homebrew probably isn’t counted at all.

If they’re going off sales then maybe homebrewing is bigger than I thought. ;D

Then again my consumption is probably skewing the curve… ::slight_smile:

Going off of the demographics thread that was on here a while ago:  http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/forum/index.php?topic=2019.0

Let’s say there are 500,000 homebrewers brewing their 200 gallons per year.  That’s another 100,000,000 gallons not being accounted for.  With a US population of about 300M that’s about a third of a gallon per capita not being accounted for.  :wink: