TY - JOUR
T1 - Evolving from a rum state
T2 - Australia's alcohol consumption
AU - Anderson, Kym
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/7/1
Y1 - 2020/7/1
N2 - Europeans settlers in the Australian colonies had a reputation of being heavy drinkers. Rum dominated during the first few decades, followed by beer. It took until the 1970s before Australia's annual per capita consumption of wine exceeded 10 L, and even then, wine represented only one-fifth of national alcohol consumption. But over the next two decades, per capita wine consumption nearly trebled and beer consumption shrunk – the opposite of what happened to global alcohol consumption shares. This paper draws on newly compiled data sets to (i) reveal that Australia was not much more alcoholic than Britain or southern Europe during the nineteenth century and (ii) help explain why it took so long for a consumer interest in wine to emerge in Australia.
AB - Europeans settlers in the Australian colonies had a reputation of being heavy drinkers. Rum dominated during the first few decades, followed by beer. It took until the 1970s before Australia's annual per capita consumption of wine exceeded 10 L, and even then, wine represented only one-fifth of national alcohol consumption. But over the next two decades, per capita wine consumption nearly trebled and beer consumption shrunk – the opposite of what happened to global alcohol consumption shares. This paper draws on newly compiled data sets to (i) reveal that Australia was not much more alcoholic than Britain or southern Europe during the nineteenth century and (ii) help explain why it took so long for a consumer interest in wine to emerge in Australia.
KW - alcohol beverage consumption mix
KW - beverage consumption intensity index
KW - wine globalisation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85087969773&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/1467-8489.12382
DO - 10.1111/1467-8489.12382
M3 - Article
SN - 1364-985X
VL - 64
SP - 724
EP - 749
JO - Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
JF - Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
IS - 3
ER -