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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).

Comments

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

I couldn't tell from the Strange Maps write-up whether those belts were based on where which alcohol was produced, where the most was sold? consumed? exported? There must be more info, but I wasn't finding any of the data or back-story to the classifications.

[tcb.livejournal.com]

Interesting.. It seems to roughly correlate to cool, colder, and fuck-its-cold climates.

[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....

[contrariety.livejournal.com]

Why, gosh, it almost looks like that might have something to do with latitude...

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

Just seeing that picture made me really want to play an old-school turn-based wargame.