What is the alcoholic drink of choice in your country?

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1. Traditionally in Sicily,wine.Local wine is very widespread and inexpensive,mostly good quality and many people will have a glass of wine every day,or almost,with their meal.

   Its still the most popular alcoholic drink today,though a lot of people nowadays also drink beer.Drinking without food is quite unusual here.

   Apart from those,the most drunk are probably things like a ‘digestivo’ that is drunk after meals,but that is much more for older rather than younger people.

2. Beer. Every town has its own types and comes in all varieties.

   Im Belgian needless to say.

3. Depending on the occasion, rakı or beer. Beer for just chilling and socialising, rakı for more elaborate tablea with different meze or grilled meats, fish etc.

4. There isn’t one. The parts formerly occupied by the Roman empire are wine territory, the rest is beer country. We have a large number of distilleries. Most of them are rather small and make fruit brandy, the north does enjoy a wheat spirit every now and then, but we even have more whisky distilleries than Scotland.

   Beer styles can be quite local. I think that the Czech Pils style is pretty great.

   Some beers are even seasonal. For example Wittbier is a beer older than the convention of putting hops into beer. It is spiced with coriander seeds and orange peel along with its rather light character and low alcohol content makes it very well suited to be enjoyed in the summer heat.

5. Well, in many statistics we rank second to Czechia in per capita beer consumption – worldwide. However, there are also regions where wine might be more popular. A very popular Austrian drink is a ‘Spritzer’ – that’s wine mixed with fizzy water.

   Distilling your own spirits is also a somewhat common tradition here, especially with farmers or people that have an orchard. People make all kinds of ‘Schnapps’-es with apricot, plum and ‘Obstler’ (mix of fruits) being the most common.

6. For Spain I’d say wine, with beer coming a strong second.
   Cañas are the most usual aperitif & start-of-the-evening drinks. But wine is a must-have in all gatherings including some sort of seated food eating

7. The alcohol consumption according to Systembolaget, the alcohol monopoly, is:

   * Wine – 46%

   * Class III Beer (+3.5%) – 31%

   * Spirit – 17%

   * Class II Beer (2.25-3.5%) – 5%

   * Cider and mixed beverages – 2%

   In 2021 the average Swede, 15 years and older, consume 8.67 litres pure alcohol per year. Compared with 2004 when the average Swede consumed 10.67 litres pure alcohol per year.

   Source: https://www.omsystembolaget.se/folkhalsa/samhalle/rapporter-och-seminarier/alkoholkonsumtion-i-sverige-och-varlden/sa-dricker-vi-i-sverige/

8. Not necesarily of choice, but of tradition/culture

   Since it’s not that long to christmas, have to say the [Aquavit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akvavit). Probably the closest you get to a “national liquor” in Norway. It’s the type that _must_ be there at the christmas dinner, and it’s normally at that time of year when it’s consumed. It’s made from/of grain/potatoe, so it’s as close as you get to Norway (Norway = Potatoe). Much of its taste is given by the [caraway](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caraway) plant.

   Some brands even have some “gimmicks”.. The “[Linie Akevitt](https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/arcus-upload/1206701-1.jpg)” put their akevitt in barells on a ship [that crosses the equator two times.](https://img.atlasobscura.com/Jdw1ZB6k_-cuDbsDEwGMNp9eAozK1xnvTq_0qf9VI74/rs:fill:12000:12000/q:81/sm:1/scp:1/ar:1/aHR0cHM6Ly9hdGxh/cy1kZXYuczMuYW1h/em9uYXdzLmNvbS91/cGxvYWRzL2Fzc2V0/cy84Y2JjNGJjZGIx/NWY2YzVlNDJfTmV3/IG1hcCB3aXRoIHRo/ZSBMaW5pZSBqb3Vy/bmV5LmpwZw.jpg). saying that the “rolling on the waves” will give its taste… Other popular brands might be [Gammel Opland](https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/arcus-upload/1230303-1.jpg) , [Løiten](https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/arcus-upload/1039702-1.jpg) , [Gilde](https://www.appetitt.no/uploads/library/begge-kopi_c.jpg)

   The sales of aquavit is massive given that most of it is sold in november/december.. Most other types of alcohol is sold/consumed during all the months of the year..

9. Traditionally probably dark beer/real ale but a lot of people drink lager, there are also regions, mostly across the south, where cider/scrumpy is the traditional drink but I’d say still not as ubiquitous as lager.

10. When it comes to big three than : Spirits 46.2 %, Beer 30.1 % and Wine 18.3 %(2015 data).

    Personally :

    1.Just regular vodka or good homemade alcohol aka Domáca pálenka, so spirits.

    Second place would be wine, either fruit wines like cassis(blackcurrant) or burčiak(young wine).

    Last place from big three is beer. Not a big fan of beer. Hard to get drunk from it and you piss a lot lol.

11. Mainly wine but beer is growing fast.

    A couple decades back beer was seen as less noble as market was dominated by Pilsners which are not a very interesting type of beer if we are honest. They were called « bière de soif » – « thirst beers » so refreshing beverages you would enjoy after a day of work but that’s about it.

    Nowadays with the growth of more varied types of specialty beers people here are truly getting into it and beer is getting more and more respected.

12. It is beer due to crazy alcohol taxes. But probably if we count home-production it would be Rakı which is a spirit that probably originated from Levant.

    It is traditionally drank along with traditional music with [meze](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meze)

13. Nothing special. Mostly beer and wine. I prefer some speciality beers, plenty good beers from our own country. I like the beer of the abbey nearby. We have our local spirits, most well known is probably jenever.

14. Produced and consumed since the Middle Ages, incl. in Poland and Lithuania Polish Mead (Miód Pitny) – It is mentioned in medieval sources as a drink popular in Poland. There was a shortage of wine in the Piast state, which was replaced with more easily available alcoholic beverages: beer and mead. The Venetian diplomat Ambrogio Contarini wrote about the customs of Poles: “When they have no wine, they make a certain drink from honey, which makes people much more drunk than wine.” The saturated honey enjoyed a great reputation, it was rarely drunk, most often on important occasions such as weddings. It was a luxurious and expensive drink. Honey stored in oak barrels, called dębniak, mentioned above was valued higher than others. by Mickiewicz in Pan Tadeusz (Rev. VIII, c. 793). However, as early as the 16th century, each wealthier landowner fed his own honey. As Jakub Haur wrote in Oekonomika: “This drink, among others, is not inferior when it is well brewed, protruding and clear (…) it is not so bad for the head and stomach, yes, it is nourishing, a person is satisfied and health is strengthened when moderately consumed”

    [Miód Pitny](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi%C3%B3d_pitny)

    [Mead](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mead)

15. There isn’t a single one which would be the universal default choice. We make various kinds of wine, beer and spirits. What we drink depends on the occasion and personal preferences. When it comes to my social circle, with a meal we’ll often drink wine, in a bar with friends or after work with colleagues rather beer, and when playing games at home in the evening rather spirits. Most common spirits in my region are fruit brandies.

16. I’d say primarily beer. There are more wine-loving regions on Germany, which are “coincidenrally” the wine-growing regions, but mainly, it’s beer. Oftentimes, people prefer the local or regional sorts, and we have a lot of them – of widely ranging quality.