Franconian Beer Message Board

Whenever anyone starts waving statistics around like Harry Potter's wand, it's worth doing some quick mental arithmetic as their “argument” develops. So it is when one reads that “German brewers produce about 95,000,000 liters of beer”, which doesn't sit so well with a German population of eighty million or so. Sure enough, annual production is actually in the order of 95 million hectolitres a year – a hundred times greater.

As the closing line of Some Like It Hot points out, “Nobody's perfect!”