Mumbai: When Banking Professionals Vini Mathew and Ujwala Khot recently hosted a party at the Sobo Bar to celebrate their working anniversary, the majority of their guests preferred to drink beer.
Khot said because people could not enjoy it during the locking Covid-19, it was the spirit of choice at the party.
Another reason beer is trending at the party because home delivery cannot maintain the temperature where beer is consumed, said Mathew.
Beer consumption beat big last year when the pandemic broke.
After the national locking took effect on the last week of March 2020, sending a liquor enclosure allowed from May 15-20 and so on.
However, consumption in Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) remains less than half in June and July compared to the same period in 2019 because people do not want to risk consuming frightening cold drinks against viruses.
Strangely, this year despite the consumption of beer halves in April and can follow the kuncian, it was taken in June and July and was far better than what in the same period last year.
Overall, consumption of liquor in MMR in 2021 has gone up compared to 2020 (see graphics) with the industry that hopes the third covid wave does not interfere with public life and consumption figures back to pre-pandemic periods.
The owner of Hariyali Restaurant and Bar in Wadala, Shivanand Shetty, said the permission was delayed to the bar for online sales and shutdown dining services in 2020 produced large stock of beer that reached expiration.
“In addition to scare Covid, this news adds fuel to the fire,” he said, showing that the stocking of beer and serving cold has become a problem with shipping home.
However, people now enjoy beer at a bar like a pre-covid period, he added.
The owner of the Maharaja restaurant chain, Pradeep Shetty, also connects the drive in demand for liquor for greater clarity about diseases between people, administrators in the government and doctors.
“Last year people were confused.
Because there are more clarity about this disease now there is now more consumption,” he said.