What better way to relax on a weekend than chilling out with beer with your friends! Even the global financial downturn seems to have little impact on people’s spending and buying behaviour, when it comes to Beer. Most people enjoy having a few sip of icy cold beer after a hectic week of work. While it has become a fashion nowadays, NewsMobile brings you some interesting facts on the pricing and qualities of Beers and the Beer Bars.
The world’s priciest beer Antarctic Nail Ale (Australia) costs $800-$1,815 per 500 ml bottle. It is expensive because it gets brewed with water from an Antarctic Iceberg. The Sea Shepherds fly to Antarctica in a helicopter, dig up the ice, melts it in Tasmania then fly back it to Perth.
The top 5 priciest beers of the world are:
-         Antarctic Nail Ale (Australia) – $800 to $1,815 per bottle
-        BrewDog End of History (Scotland) – $765 per bottle
-        Carlsberg Jacobsen Vintage No. 1 (Denmark) – $400 per bottle
-        Schorschbrau Schorschbock 57 (Germany) – $275 per bottle
-        Crown Ambassador Reserve Lager (Australia) – $90 to $800 per bottle
Three out of the four bestselling beers in the world are Chinese. Among the top ten bestsellers of world are Budweiser, Heineken and some of the American and the Brazilian brands.
India is one of the largest beer markets. The beer market in India was estimated to be more than 200 billion in 2012. It is expected to be 430 billion by 2017. Â The largest selling Indian beer brand is Kingfisher. Other brands that satisfies the Indians are Haywards, Knock Out and Zingaro.
While India has per capita beer consumption of two litres, Czech Republic tops the chart with 149 litres followed by Australia and Germany with 108 and 106 litres respectively.