Smashing, get it?

The dark green wine bottle was an English invention, the work of Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-1665), a Catholic polymath and diplomat, who also managed his family's coal-fired gasworks. Previously wine had been kept in goat skin bags. In 2008 the British drank 1.66 billion bottles of wine. Even so, we still drink half as much wine per head as the French (but three times as much as Americans).

I struggle to believe some of this... I can't imagine the Brits drinking three times as much wine as country the times it's size - Doesn't add up, but, someone where called it a fact. So here it is.