Bottoms Up!

By volume, China is the world’s largest consumer of beverage alcohol, followed by the Czech Republic. But the biggest drinkers per person on Earth are Romanians, who quaff an estimated 17 liters of pure alcohol a year - roughly equivalent to a weekly consumption of 18 bottles of beer (355 mL each) or 3.6 bottles of wine (750 mL each) (by contrast, the Republic of Ireland is at 10 liters a year and Italy consumes just 6.97 liters). This, however, is where things get interesting.