Billions of throats

摘要

Drinking beer is not a competitive sport-unless you are a student or a rugby player. But if it were, Asia would now have the bragging rights. Recent figures from Japan's Kirin Institute of Food and Lifestyle (owned by the Kirin brewery) show that in 2009 Asia overhauled Europe in beer production for the first time. Almost all beer is consumed where it is made, so Asians collectively chug more rnthan the boozers of any other continent.