Boozy stats: Beijingers drink 127 beers annually, study says

Bottoms up!

Beer. It's no secret we are partial to the ice-cold frothy stuff in Beijing, thanks to the good people who are brewing it and places to drink it. Beijingers sure love their pints, especially when we brew them ourselves, but how do we stack up against the rest of the world? 

A boozy new study has delved into the finances behind beer — namely, how much a bottle will cost beer drinks around the globe and which countries are drinking it all. Conducted by Expensivity, the World Beer Index 2021 is jam-packed with sudsy insight that beer nerds and world travelers will find fascinating. 

According to the 58-city study, residents in Beijing apparently spend an average of $982.44 (about 6352RMB) per year on brewskis and consume 127 bottles of beers per year (that's about 0.34 bottles of beer per day and 2.4 bottles per week if you break it down). The average local gulping of beer should make us relatively responsible drinkers though, if compared to those in Germany, who on the other end of the spectrum, spend an average of $1,907.78 per year on beer and, to no one's surprise, drink a whole lot of it (411 bottles annually). 

However, the average cost of beer in the capital doesn't come cheap. At an average of $7.71 per bottle, the cost of beer in Beijing ranks the second most expensive in Asia after Qatar, Doha, where an ice-cold glass of ale will cost you an average of $11.26 due to a 100 percent tax on alcohol imports ahead of the 2022 World Cup. The reason being is that the study averaged out the price for a beer in hotel bars ($13.61) and in the supermarket ($1.81) in Beijing.

Where to go for dirt-cheap brews you ask? Beer aficionados on a budget should put South Africa on their travel wish list: The country boasts the cheapest beer in the world, with the average bottle ringing up at $1.68. 

It's important to note that Expensivity analyzed 330-milliliter bottles of beer from big-name brands like Corona and Heineken. The cost per bottle is an average of supermarket and hotel bar prices, and alcohol-consumption stats were pulled from the World Health Organization. 

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