Has Covid-19 pushed Pune tipplers off beer? A look at the numbers
Sales data for various liquor segments country-liquor, hard liquor (IMFL), beer and wine could serve as an indicator of the social and economic situation in a society. Updated: December 16, 2020 3:44:00 pm
As per excise officials, beer consumers seem to have shifted to Indian Made Foreign Liquor (cheaper rum/whisky) brands.
Year-over-year comparisons of liquor sales show Puneites have consumed much less beer this year although the liquor sale in the district has hurtled back to normal in the last two months. It also shows that consumption of country-liquor was badly hit in the months after large-scale flight of migrant labourers in the first few months of COVID-19 lockdown and is slowly returning to the average threshold in recent months.