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Filipinos’ love of drinking inspired ‘Vitamin Beer’ - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos

Filipinos’ love of drinking inspired ‘Vitamin Beer’


By Tessa Salazar
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 02:52:00 02/10/2008







MANILA, Philippines -- Invention is 5 percent inspiration and 95 percent perspiration, Thomas Alva Edison, one of the world’s greatest inventors, said.
For Filipino inventor Virgilio “Billy� L. Malang, who invented a vitamin-laced beer, that 5 percent inspiration came from the Filipinos’ love of drinking.
“Tubig sa atin ang beer (Beer is like water to us),� he told the Inquirer. “The Pinoy’s weakness is beer, and his next weakness is the next beer,� he added.
A 2004 Kirin Research Institute study ranks the Philippines as the 5th highest beer consumer in Asia (next to China, Japan, South Korea and Thailand), with 1.4 billion liters consumed annually and projected growth of 15.6 percent per annum. A Filipino drinks an average of nearly 20 liters of beer a year.