Well, according to this list Australia is pretty high up on the list on
per capita beer consumption:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_consumption_by_country
They say Darwin sticks out as being top of the world at 230l/yr although
I doubt that would beat some Bavarian towns. Wonder why that is,
aftermath of cyclone Tracy or something? That was more than 30 years ago
but still a rather terrifying event.
If you have ever visited Darwin (as I have, and during Easter 2003), you
would know that it can be very, very, "warm". (The "Top End" has a "wet
season" and a "dry season", and the time I visited coincided with the end of
the former and the start of the latter. That said, I strongly suspect it is
typically pretty hot there on a year-round basis.)
Someone supposedly once remarked that the railway between Alice Springs and
Darwin (which had yet to be fully completed at the time I visited) would end
up only being used to carry beer into Darwin, and as I saw no evidence of
any "standard" size brewery at the time I visited, it would probably still
be well-used for that purpose alone.
(In addition to that usage though,
the "Ghan" passenger train service, which now makes two return trips per
week between Adelaide and Darwin, is very well patronised, and the train is
reputably normally over one kilometre in length.)
Regards,
Geoff Harland.
[email protected]
(Transpose m & s in address
provided - then also remove
cuberoot of 10^3 + 9^3 - 1^3.)
