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This map of the alcohol belts of Europe got written up on Strange Maps recently. It divides Europe into distilled spirits (blue), beer (gold), and wine (red).

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[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

I think it's basically right, though I would love to see overlapping shading on this thing, because my mother's family's town is sort of in a half beer half spirits part of eastern Slovakia. I think that would be really awesome....

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's on one of the other linked maps on the Strange Maps page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alcohol_belt.PNG

They don't think that's completely accurate, either.

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that one doesn't represent all the Becherovka drunk in my part of Slovakia, and hell, Becherovka is made all the way over by the German border edge of Czech Republic, in Karlovy Vary!

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

Teriakovce. (Via Crabtree PA, via Champion OH, via various rural locations in Ohio.)

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

Cool! What surname, if you don't mind my asking? Ours is Hovanic.