• Martin@feddit.nu
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    I was a bit surprised by the wine in Sweden. I sometimes feel like an outcast with my wine on AWs and other outings. It seems that most people around me prefer beer. Maybe it’s a matter of selection bias since I tend to be around the same group of people.

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        The diagram is the amount of pure alcohol. Beer typilally contains 3.5 % - 5 % alcohol and wine 12 %, thus the consumption of beer in litres is larger than wine.

        However, I was also surprised how much wine (with or without alcohol) is consumed in Sweden considering its price.

        Edit: phrasing

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            Yes, beer with up to 3.5 % you can buy in a supermarket. Beer above 3.5 % is called strong beer (starköl) which you can only buy at Systembolaget, the governmental alcohol store. Considering a large part of the beer is light beer (lättöl) or folks beer (folköl) below 3.5 %, the amount of beer to cover the 36 % pure alcohol is even higher.

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            No, the calculation is like 0.5 litre beer with 5 vol.% alcohol contain 25 ml pure (100 %) alcohol and these 25 ml go into the statistics as alcohol from the consumption of beer.

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      I would have thought that 10 years ago, but wine has become a lot more popular since then. I know it’s partly my age and the age of people I mingle with but I’ve noticed it for younger people too when I’m out and about, common to see groups of ~20 year olds with those 1l or 3l tetra pak wines during weekends.