{"id":19276,"date":"2025-08-08T13:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=19276"},"modified":"2025-08-09T06:31:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T12:31:53","slug":"median-german-drinks-20-less-beer-than-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/median-german-drinks-20-less-beer-than-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Median&#8217; German drinks 20% less beer than 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story is behind a paywall, but you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/europe\/2025\/08\/07\/why-the-germans-are-falling-out-of-love-with-beer\">get a look<\/a> if you share your email address.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 2005 the median German quaffed 112 litres of the stuff. The figure is now less than 90. Germany remains the sixth-biggest beer market in the world. But whereas Germans once downed more than anyone bar the insatiable Czechs, they are now eighth in the per-person league table. Worse, the decline is gathering pace. &#8216;Panic&#8217; has gripped some breweries, says Gerrit Bl\u00fcmelhuber, a consultant.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story is behind a paywall, but you can get a look if you share your email address. &#8220;In 2005 the median German quaffed 112 litres of the stuff. The figure is now less than 90. Germany remains the sixth-biggest beer market in the world. But whereas Germans once downed more than anyone bar the &#8230; <a title=\"&#8216;Median&#8217; German drinks 20% less beer than 2005\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/median-german-drinks-20-less-beer-than-2005\/\" aria-label=\"More on &#8216;Median&#8217; German drinks 20% less beer than 2005\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[726],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-the-numbers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-50U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19276"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19281,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19276\/revisions\/19281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}