I would be curious to know how much beer/alcohol people in other countries generally consume.
Czech are top drinker pro capita if you consider each country (I'm talking about beer). But if Bavaria would be a country his inhabitants would be at top of that ranking. about europe, mediterranean country are at the bottom of the ranking for historical reason (we can plant field with vines, not with hops or barley) so that Italy, Greece, France, Spain and Portugal don't have an actual beer culture :D
Actually here in italy we started our craft beer movement in 1996 (similar to the one started in usa by sierra nevada and others in the early 80's) and now we have almost 500 microbreweries or brewpub.