The Top 10 Beer Drinking States

[Comrade Grumpy]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/04/beer_n_5558782.html

Here's the list, highest first:

1. North Dakota
2. New Hampshire
3. Montana
4. South Dakota
5. Vermont
6. Wisconsin
7. Nevada
8. Maine
9. Nebraska
10. Iowa

Hmmm...the Upper Midwest and New England really like their suds. They also rank high in other alcohol indicators.

Plenty more at the link.

[Jackpine Radical]

1. How sad.

Wisconsin has fallen to 6th.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. No kidding

[HereSince1628]

8. WI total Alcohol Consumed = 39.5 gallons per person

That's more than 60 gallons a yearfor WI households and requires most WI homes to have a 2nd and customized refrigerator in the garage or basement.

[Comrade Grumpy]

9. I saw that in Milwaukee in the 1970s.

And paved alleys, too. I was impressed.

[Rod Beauvex]

2. I live in Tennessee.

They're more into eating pills like candy here.

[cyberswede]

3. Whew...we barely made it! (10th)

I guess I'll have to redouble my efforts.

[progressoid]

5. woohoo! #10

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. I'm doing my part....come on, NC!

[theHandpuppet]

7. Now compare that with violent crime ranking

Lowest violent crime rates per 100,000 population (2006)

50th Maine*
49th North Dakota*
48th Vermont*
47th New Hampshire*
46th South Dakota*
45th Utah
44th Rhode Island
43rd Wyoming
42nd Idaho
41st Montana*

* Among top ten beer-drinking states.

Maybe what America needs is another six-pack.

[Comrade Grumpy]

12. Ain't that sumthin'! What an interesting correlation.

Of course, it may be spurious. Those states with lowest crime rates are all among the least populous and most rural in the US.

Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Montana, Iowa, and the Dakotas are all more than 50% rural:

http://www.dailyyonder.com/how-rural-are-states/2012/04/02/3847

[Uncle Joe]

10. The percentage of German Americans living in those states plays a large part of this.

Five of those states are in the top ten of having the highest % of German Americans in the U.S.

Thanks for the thread, Comrade Grumpy.

[cloudbase]

11. It seems I have some work to do.

Duty calls.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

13. I drank beer generally only when I couldn't easily get something else.

My preferences ran more towards, erm, fru-fru drinks. Strawberry margaritas, pina coladas, and various sorts of cider, although there was a period where I tried out a lot of single malts. Nowadays, I'm pretty close to a tee-totaller, though not for any really dogmatic reasons. (good tasting) Alcohol is too expensive, and you can do 'virgin' versions that taste pretty much just as good. Plus, I haven't been on the dating scene for a decade and a half, so there's none of that spending time in bars any more.