(JS) - Want to sound like a beer aficionado or sommelier at Oktoberfest and Wine & Dine festivities? Recite these 15 beer and wine drinking statistics--they may surprise you!

1)     One glass of wine is drunk for every three bottles of beer.

2)     Wine is nearly 50 percent stronger than beer.

3)     The global beer industry is forecast to have a value of $496.6 billion in 2014. The global wine industry is expected to reach $327.8 billion in 2016.

4)     Snow Beer in China is the most popular beer, with 74.8 million barrels sold in 2012.

5)     The four key ingredients in beer are water, yeast, malt and hops.

6)     The key ingredient in wine? Grapes.

7)     In Czech Republic, the average person drinks 346 12-ounce bottles of beer per year — the most of any other country.