Hip hip hooray! World beer production hits record high in 2011!

According to this article, global beer production hit a record high of 50.9 billion gallons (that's a whole lot of beer!) in 2011 - up 3.7% from 2010. 
 
Did you know that China is the world's largest producer of beer and has been for 10 straight years? For some reason I naturally assumed it was the U.S. 

I'm glad I was able to contribute to the Record!
If every male Chinese drank just one bottle of beer a year, that's 3 Billion bottles of Beer on the Wall (Of China). If one of them should happen to fall-----------