Sat and read a piece from Focus....two days ago....alcohol consumption/alcoholics per region in Germany. You can read the article....here.
Gazing at the map....the least drinking state in Germany....oddly enough....is the Pfalz (I wouldn't have said that).
The heavy consumption states? Mostly eastern states (old DDR), Bremen, and Berlin-City.
Bavaria? Mostly average consumption (I would have said otherwise).
Any reason for wide display of numbers? I'd suggest that where you have higher unemployment....you have higher drinking rates.
Drinking rates less than the 1960s/1970s? From my prospective...1978/1979....Germans were mostly drinking only beer, with wine and cocktails being far second. Data says....around 1979 to 1985...the peak for consumption was 'hit' and Germans were consuming less.
Oddly, Germans drink more today, than in the 1960s....but less than early 1980s.
The one thing you notice....especially in smaller rural villages....village pubs/gasthauses have disappeared. Even in my village....which had three pubs through the 1980s....is down to one single drinking establishment today.
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