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Happy #BeerDay🍻 A mini 🧵Over the past two decades, companies such as @AnheuserBusch @abinbev, @Heineken or @carlsberg have consolidated hundreds of beer brands under their roofs, creating an illusion of choice for consumers around the world.
Nobody in Europe comes close to the Czechs when it comes to drinking beer. According to data from the our Consumer Market Outlook, Czechs get through more than 100 liters of the booze on average per capita each year.
#Germany comes in at second place, with an average of 75 liters of beer consumed per capita in a year, just ahead of neighboring #Austria (71 liters). The #UK comes a few rungs down the ladder (51 liters), after Ireland (62 liters) and the Netherlands (60 liters).
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It's #BeerDay, so raise a glass to Göbekli Tepe in 🇹🇷.

This ~12,000-year-old site is an early monument made by hunter-gatherers. It features some of the oldest possible evidence of beer drinking, made from wild cereals.🍻

🔗 from 2012 (🆓) buff.ly/3gmerNk Excavations revealing a series of three large circular stone
Troughs at the site contain traces of the grains that could be used to make beer.

Alternatively, the grains could have been used to make porridge (the researchers can't tell if it was fermented or not). But beer seems like a great motivator to build such a monumental site.
Throughout history, people have gone to extreme lengths for beer.

Like in Iceland, where the cold meant growing barley was hard. But Vikings did it so they could make beer.

🔗 from 2013 (£) buff.ly/3icyf6d
📷: A Viking hall where the beer was likely consumed
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