E-Malt.com News article: The Czech Republic: Study shows 90% of Czech men and more than 50% of Czech women sometimes drink beer

Ninety percent of Czech men and more than a half of Czech women sometimes drink beer, according to a survey conducted annually by the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences the results of which were released by the Czech Beer and Malt Association on December 2.

The share of beer drinkers among Czech men dropped one percentage point to 90 percent, while the share of women decreased four percentage points to 56 percent.

Men between the ages of 45 and 59, and women between 30 and 44 years old drink beer the most often.

"Although the share of women drinking beer moderately declined last year, according to this year's results, the trend overall does not differ from the survey that has been conducted for 10 years already," said Jiří Vinopal, who headed the survey.

"A timeline shows us the share of women drinking beer is between 50 percent and 60 percent in the long term," Vinopal said.

The popularity of alcohol-free beer has been falling, while demand for beer-based mixed drinks has been increasing, the survey showed.

The share of people who drink nonalcoholic beer if they cannot drink beer with alcohol moderately dropped compared with the previous years. The share of men choosing alcohol-free beer fell from 52 percent to 44 percent on the year, and the share of women decreased from 25 percent to 20 percent.

Beer-based mixed drinks are more popular among women than among men.

About a quarter of men have never tasted any beer-based mixed drink. In the category of women who are 18 years old or older, about 66 percent have tasted such a drink.

Almost one-third of women drink beer-mixed drinks regularly compared with only less than a quarter of men.

Despite their increasing popularity, most Czechs do not consider beer-mixed drinks to be beer and mostly say they are a specific type of alcoholic drink.

According to statistics, the Czech beer consumption of 150 litres per head per year is still the highest in the world despite the drop in recent years.

Czech breweries produced 19.3 million hectolitres of beer last year, a year-on-year increase of 0.6 percent.

Beer consumption in the Czech Republic dropped 1.1 percent year on year in 2013, while beer exports rose 9 percent.


05 December, 2014