Time For A Beer? Must Be 6.14pm!

Time For A Beer? Must Be 6.14pm!
By Sky News SkyNews - 1 hour 32 minutes ago

It may seem like a nondescript time of the day but 6.14pm holds a special significance for British drinkers.

A survey has found that that is the time the average drinker makes it to the bar after work.

Spanish drinkers have their first drink at 5.45pm, and the French start drinking around 6pm.

In Denmark, drinkers arrive in the pub at 4.40pm and don't leave until 10.45pm - an average of more than six hours.

The research also found Britons spend longer in the pub than their continental neighbours.

The survey of drinking habits across Europe found drinkers in this country spent an average of four hours 27 minutes in the pub.

On average British drinkers leave the pub around 10.30pm.

In France they spend an average of around two hours 35 minutes drinking and in Holland three hours 30 minutes.

The research, by SAB Miller, also found Brits were more likely to go to the pub on Friday than on any other day.

And it revealed one in 10 workers in Britain have a pint at lunchtime, compared to more than 20% of Danes and 18% of Spaniards.

It found around half the alcohol consumed in the UK was drunk in beer.

The French drink only 15% of their alcohol in beer, and the Czechs nearly 65%.

:: SAB Miller surveyed 7,500 people in 15 countries.