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Which State Drinks The Most (And Least) Beer?
On a day when the underlying reason for celebration in the US is often washed away by a few gallons of alcohol, we thought it timely to see just which states are the biggest soaks. It is likely no surprise that Utah is the driest state but the top 4 states seem head and shoulders above the rest with North Dakota topping the list at 45.8 gallons of beer per capita per year (or an average of just over 1 pint per day - which seems very reasonable?).
Only 4 states have seen consumption per capita rise in the last 5 years - Vermont (+8.34%), North Dakota (+7.5%), Maine (+3.45%) and New Hampshire (+0.34%) - while Nevada (-16.42%), Washington (-15.24%), and Florida (-15.01%) are sobering up the fastest...
Source: Bloomberg
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Hey... Oil boom jockies get thirsty!
An ale a day keeps the lager away.
Even North Dakota is WayBehind Czech Republic and Germany :)
Don't know what is wrong with Washington. I feel like I am doing more than my fair share. Yuppies and their cosmopolitan...
Three out of the top four states are the members of the tri-state militia. I kind of miss Montana: that's some pretty country; with the micro-brew revolution that has transpired in the States as well, it seems like it makes for a decent place to visit. Not to live, mind you, but surely a nice visit.
While the survival types tout montana, man there are some dumbass people there. And working fast is apparently against the law.
I thought that was funny. I grew up for 11 years in Coeur d'Alene. After my family moved there when I was a small child, I grew up occasionally hearing my mother's sarcastic impression of the locals: "I don't know, I'm from Idaho". Beautiful place, though. Spectacular, really.
Let's get a World Wide Alcohol Consumption perspective.....
http://chartsbin.com/view/1016
The only way Putin can maintain control is to keep his populace drunker than shit!
That's because the power of the beer lobby in places like Bavaria is such, that beer does not count as 'alcohol', and is therefore consumed regularly by workers on their lunch breaks.
Clearly this has NOT impacted their productivity or the quality of the Bavarian made cars (Audi, BMW). And many parts of their Autobahn still have NO speed limit.
Interestingly, Germans will tolerate high cigarette and gasoline prices (highly taxed), but not high alcohol prices.
Compared to most of the rest of Europe, German gasoline prices are not high.
"Source: Bloomberg'
Hello?
The North Dakota figures are distorted because of the massive beer consumption of the Indians who live on the reservations there. Not politically correct to point it out, but LAWDY those red skins can drink.
does whizkey count as beer?
Notice South Dakota close behind.
Hey... Oil boom jockies get thirsty!
Don't you ever call drilling crews "jockies", them roughnecks, WORM!
and "jockies" is spelled "jockeys", look at your g-string label fer cryn' out loud!
Now I know which states are most FREE! Thx!?
EDIT: Now I know a drunk man is a free man, lol.
http://freestateproject.org/
New Hampshire - who woulda thunk?
It's all the Mass-holes going north to party.
i hate all massholes, even the brewers of Sam Adams that forgot a part of the declaration in one of theif recent ads...who do they tjink they are, the president.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/04/do-you-notice-the-crucial-dec...
Dude (dumbass), even in the link you provide, it is acknowledged that Sam Adams did not forget to include the words 'by their creator', but didn't include them because of industry guidelines--also published in the link--(and perhaps also because of some intelligent people in their marketing department). Furthermore, the DoI was not being quoted--it was being paraphrased.
The shitheaded writer at 'theblaze' claims, "rights granted by God shouldn’t be taken away — rights given by man can change with the wind."
So, mofreedom, considering that your own so-called 'god' was created by uneducated people's small imaginations and fed to you as a baby, I'd say that any rights granted by such a 'god' don't actually exist at all. But you delusional types are just fucking hopeless. If you'd at least just stop materially and ideologically supporting the war machine (with your taxes and voting), then despite still being a blight on history for your stupidity, you would no longer be guilty of continuously committing crimes against humanity. By the way, I'm just trying to gauge your cognitive dissonance: how does your life-long contributions to genocide morally stack up with the fictional god you believe in? Or is it ok, because the people you help destroy believe in your god's fictitious cousin deity?
the decleration is not religion...paraphrasing it is treasonous...the rest of your crap is crap.
Aren't you far too illiterate to be on this site? GTFO of here, you stupid motherfucker.
i hate all massholes, cause they gave us ted kennedy and john kerry and the pussy red socks with those fucking beards.
It's pahty, not party. Fuck'an retahd, don't knah hah ta fuck'an tahk.
I rather get baked.
.
Its good medicine.
newsflash;
american beer is brown water
I own property next door to a 250,000 sq.ft. building being built that will supply NH's liquor stores. They are anticipating 75 tractor trailers in and out of there per day. The building is massive and hard to imagine NH drinks that much liquor........and this doesn't include beer which can be bought just about anywhere.
I want to dig some tunnels to the warehouse....
It's not that they drink more beer. The shitty tax laws in MA make people go to NH to buy their booze.
Taxachusetts.
Mass. Eliminated the sales tax on liquor, it caused a drop in sales in NH. The traffic on 93 and 95 is so bad it would not seem worth the trip for most.
New Hampshire is the only New England state with no deposit on carbonated beverage containers.
Yea but Californian's drink micro brews and the have higher alcohol so actual alcohol intake may vary.
I had a liter of Lagunitas IPA (6.2%) and a liter of Stone Ruination IPA (7.7%) last night. Surely felt like I had three liters... ;)
What's your average US beer? Aussie beer is usually around 4.5%. Some of the popular beers are in the mid-high 5's.
AnheuserBusch, MillerCoors, and the conglomerate generally spit out 5% beers. You won't find the average American pilsener/lager going higher than 5.4%.
In Commiefornia they don't drink beer, they drink cerveza.
North Dakota...aren't those big indian reservations up there?
Yea, and they are all drunk, see above statment ;-p
... or the below statement. Who in the world displays comments as oldest first?
A drunk....errr...free person?
fracking roughnecks I'd bet!
Bingo. If you have been there in the past couple years, you expected to see North Dakota at the top. I would imagine the towns in the Bakken areas would be double (or more) the state average.
I was going to say DC, but then remembered they get the newly minted green before everyone else and so drink from the top shelf.
There was some other data about DC stating that it has the highest hard liquor consumption per capita and incidence of alcoholism
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I might fit in in DC since I'm a hard liquor guy (cheap ass Admiral Nelson's rum tonight), but I should probably stay where I am. I'm not an angry drunk, but living in DC would make me Hulk out and break shit.
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That is a prime example of Senator Crapo of Idaho. Good Mormon Bishop who got tagged with a DUI and admitted he had strayed due to his preferece of gin/vodka tonics... Hello NSA.
Those in Michigan can't afford to buy beer, just homebrew.
Homebrew > Store-bought.
Just sayin'
yeah, in some ways.
it sure is nice to drink something you made yourself. and to know you're not supporting a tyrranical government with your money, which counts for a lot in my book.
but, there's also something to be said about specialization - it's hard to get your recipe just right and reach the quality that the professionals do.
yeah, but that's the fun of it,
especially when you grow your own barley & hops & flavorin.
How can CA possibly be so low with our strong microbrewing culture? Well, me an' my friends are doing our part to support local breweries!
YES....Suport the local breweries......fuck that corporate crap they call beer......its not beer, its goat piss..
Are you saying you don't like Budweiser? What are you, some kind of anti-murkan terris?
Budweiser or piss......tough choice.....
Piss is free, easy choice.
Corona is Corzine's piss.
"The craft brewing renaissance happened because American consumers fell in love with the taste of craft beer and the idea of craft beer: supporting small, family, local, artisanal businesses."
''and warning that big beer was using its power to "squeeze independent beer distributors" and "marginalize craft beer makers"—hurting both brewers and beer drinkers in the process.''
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/02/08/hopslam-how-big-beer-is-t...
these big brewers are using every trick in the book to fuck the little guy over......
fuck big beer.........
big brews have the distributor route owned so the little guy has a hard ti e getting on the shelf. it's the same bullshit, no matter what industry.
Thankfully there are plenty of liquor stores by me that carry local beer.....flying fish...., Brooklyn beer....., Ithaca brewing.....river horse.....I think in the past 5 years, the stores are taking the local brewers more seriously.....
Had an old timer tell me a joke a few years back that fits here:
Drinking Coors Lite is like having sex in a canoe. Funcking near water.
I prefer me a good Irish Stout.
Actually that's how the drink sex on the beach got its name. Its a woman's drink that has so little alcohol in it that is "f*cking close to water" ie like sex on the beach.
YEs I aM.....I just got tired of drinking 15 beers to catch a small buzz
like sex in a canoe... fucking close to water
You are aware the A/B beer are owned by the country of Belgium.
Somehow rice beer just doesn't sound right and it certainly doesn't taste right.
Sorry but I never tried to drink real goat piss so I do not know what it tastes like. When did you drink some? Did you buy a goat?
try budweiser, or coors, or corona, or any of the other mega corporate inspid goat piss brews...........you will get the idea.......
That is very disrespectful of goat piss, sir! My goats are highly offended and demand retraction of that statement.
They must not be including the great Mexican beers imported into Southern California: Dos Equis, Corona, Cerveza etc.
the mexicans piss in their vats and wipe their butts with their bare hands before packing the beer in cases.
"How can CA possibly be so low with our strong microbrewing culture?"
Because this is measuring gallons consumed, not dollars spent, or hours spent ruminating about hoppiness.
they're shipping it all out east.
Flying Dog (Frederick, MD) 20 mins up the road. Most of their IPA's are too hoppy for me, but still damn good, I'm more of a stout fan.
Opiate for the masses
Liquid courage at the bar
Liquid submission as a citizen
I'm from Wisconsin and I love beer!
Clearly beer consumption is proporationate to
a) States with a large rural population relative to total population.
b) Farming and farming support activities.
c) Not being Mormon.
Knowing this, I wonder what the tap-house/micro-brew situation looks like in ND, SD, MT please comment.
I think the consumption levels has to do with your ancestry. I live in an area of WI made up of Danish/Dutch/German people who migrated over as farmers. Most of these people drank alot of beer back then and that tradition has continued on.
Frequent heavy consumption of cheap beer is a long standing Wisconsin tradition...
I figure CT, NY and NJ have low beer consumption because they can afford wine.
Beer is for flyover states.
/attitude
Who drinks wine? Just the French and the gay...
(channelling the Most Interesting Man in the World:)
I don't always drink wine, but when I do, my pants are tucked into my boots.
Simon Black has a Spanish accent?
there are great bottles of wine for 10-15 bucks....hardly expensive when accounting for a six pack of quality micro brew for 6-9 bucks..........there is a time place and season for both wine and beer.....................
As a person from the Louisville, Ky area....
how about a chart of Bourbon per capita?
State of WA drinks near the least amount of beer? LOL....this is a joke right?
Some of these polls make zero sense to me.
thats because these polls are put out by the BLS......................
Utah: Lizards and Spooks everywhere.
There's a real reason the Russians don't trust anyone who doesn't drink like a fish: they can't handle it.
bingo
Whew, just as long as Texas beat out Louisiana.
Texas has a fair number of towns and areas that where settled by beer drinking Europeans, Germans and Bohemians. One kid from a German town showed up Baylor Universitey, a dry Baptist campus, and started to unload his car. He was heart broken when told he couldn't take the two cases of beer up to his dorm room. Texas A&M, on the other hand,supports three beer distributorships.
As Johan Golberg has said, Budweiser is a beer for when you just want a beer and no surprizes. It's not greqt, it's not bad, it is the closest thing to generic beer you are going to find. No matter where you go it tastes the same. It is popular with the hot and sweaty outdoor working crowd. You can knock back a couple and not fall on your behind.
Foster's on the other hand, is what you drink when you have kids.
The three people in North Dakota must be drunk most of the time and I can't say I blame them.
For the benefit of Utah, I'd like to see a graph of magic underwear sales by state.
Scientology - making Mormons look sane since 1952.
Scientology is great for Catholics, too!
/Catholic
Had three beers today here in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. My first beers in months. Samuel Adams White Lantern, to be exact.
I'm usually a whiskey guy.
Washington used to be a beer state, now it's a state of annoying wine snobs.
you are such a beer snob.................................
No, I'm not.
But Terminal Gavity IPA, brewed in Enterprise, Oregon, is God's own beer.
I normally drink Kokanee, aka B.C. Bud.
/poor
/love beer
From WA, - Red Hook IPA- tasty!
A lot of "jack" Mormons in Idaho... LOL
North Dakota is not dominated by Wall Street like the other 49 states. People there have work and make good wages. They work hard and play hard. You can't buy beer with food stamps; only meth. That's why they drink beer in North Dakota and there is hardly any meth.
Nevada, Washington and Florida are trading in Miller Light for OxyContin.
Florida and Nevada both rely heavily on tourism. Probably misrepresented on the high side when the economy is robust while much of their drop is due to tourism dropping off.
Reading all this snobbery and wine faggotry make me miss Lucky Lager.....11 oz. bottles and a word puzzle under every cap.
Tape a little bag of beernuts to every bottle and that would be the most money-raking marketing scheme ever.
Hey ... my bros on the res drink Lucky!
Budweiser makes it now ;)
Beer takes longer to get drunk than bourbon. Why waste the time?
Here are some stats for Canadians (I am in BC) ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_beverages_in_Canada
I like beer.
During the summer my favourite is St. Ambroise Apricot Wheat Ale from McAuslan Breweries and I am lately also enjoying a Raspberry Ale they make too.
During the winter I like Granville Island Lions Winter Ale.
lol Quebec is #2 in alcohol consumption!! I am from Quebec, but now live in BC, and GOD BOOZE IS EXPENSIVE HERE.
My personal favorite: La Fin Du Monde by Unibroue: 9% strong craft beer; not for pussies.
http://www.unibroue.com/en/beers/15/
do they still brew molson xxx?
XXX is the preferrref brew for boat races. On your mark set GO.
C'mon Sconnie, gotta do better than 5th!!!!!
if i recall correctly, ND has the lowest debt of any state and also is the only state to have a state bank.
co-inki-dink?
Correlation with ganja smoking?
Take a hit from the bong, and go right to the rock, mon.
Nah no one who just hit the bong feels like going on a beer run..
Sad,fuckin sad we have to go here.
yes, but predictable
(in hindsight of course)
Thanks to QE, I now drink $10 reds.
That chart is racist! Starting the graph at 20 gallons instead of 0 makes Utah and others look as if they are a fraction of ND when they are just half. I mean they still drink over 20 gallons.
Can't go wrong with a 32 High Life or 40 PBR. Classic drinks. Edward 40Hands, anyone?
I'm buying my share, what else can I do?
Making some of my own too.
Seeing South Dakota, North Dakota, and Montana in the bottom four makes sense .. they all have Indian reservations (and drinking problems for the people living on them). But I can't figure why New Hampshire is in that group.
What the fuck do they do in Utah for fun?
Cheat, and eat a lot of Jello and Ice Cream.
Also, highest use of anti-depressants in the Nation.
I'm a little disappointed that Wisconsin is not number one. It's 5 AM here and I am going to crack one open. What time in the morning do they start drinking in NoDak. 4 AM? Jeebus, how about a little temperance there NoDak?!
Fucking Blackberry. Never buy one of these fucking things.
The Free Shit Army of crows has just moved in. They remind me of MSM with their incessant cawing. There are one less of them now. Nothing better than starting off the day with a casualty. Now go pick over the carcass of one of your own. Fly off.
we don't drank beer in the souf. We drank the syzzrup
Alcoholism is not a disease but rather the condition that is acheived by an individual who has been subjected to prolonged exposure to Federal Reserve FOMC press releases.
Acute alcoholism can also occur from prolonged exposure to the US Supreme Court, the US Congress, the President of the United States or any combination thereof.
Avery Brewing in Boulder has Hog Heaven, Avery IPA, Dugana, all good brews.
Boulder Brewing has Mojo India Pale Ale. An excellent IPA.
In Longmont, Left Hand Brewing has Warrior IPA. It's good too.
Ranger IPA from New Belgium is a top notch IPA.
Torpedo from Sierra Nevada is a great ipax2.
In Montana, Bent Nail from Red Lodge Brewing is a good brew.
However, O'Dell's Brewing in Fort Collins is by far and away the finest brewery in the US.
Their IPA is one great brew.
As I have mentioned here on another post, Crooked Tree IPA is one great ipa.
Colorado has the edge for the best brews brewed in the US.
Summit's Extra Pale Ale is a good brew too. It's brewed in Minnesota.
Sam Adam's Latitude 48 is an ok ipa, but not great.
Red Hood IPA is ok.
If you haven't had a Furious, you're missing out.
Ethos from Tall Grass is an excellent brew.
Ich trinke gern bier.
I forgot to mention Dale's Pale Ale and Deviant Dale's Sinister Pale Ale.
You can go to Lyons, CO and drink them at Oskar Blues.
To be fair tobthe NorDak'ers, there's nothing much else to do up there... It seems like every small town has a bar that's the social hub of the community
DUP
The only reason Ky. drinks so little is due to the Perc 30 addiction.
The pain clinic is the new liquor store...
Even though I am not Austrian, I like beer with breakfast. Steak, eggs, beer... sold!