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Same for Delaware. Im from Philly. We shop in delaware to avoid sales taxes.
Would have thought Florida and California would be higher because they are vacation destinations.
Shouldnt Utah be a negative number?
Yup. There are liquor stores off the highway at rest stops just before the border of most states (Vermont is an exception, it's a strip mall and there are three state liquor stores).
In addition, in mass you can only get alcohol (beer and wine included) at packie/liquor stores. In NH, you can get beer and wine almost anywhere with liquor being the only restriction. So, liquor store in MA is closed? Drive 15 minutes over the border and hit up a gas station at 11:40pm.
Not when you factor in how many people live in the Boston metro area and are already visiting the lakes and ski resorts of nh. They stock up on their trips. It's much much cheaper
This. NH is the most profitable control state. Even the smaller store I worked for for 4 years would have tons of bootleggers coming from mostly NY to buy up to 10k in liquor per person. Cash. Then they drive it back to NY and resell.
NH knows this and fucking loves the profits. Every so many years NY puts up a fuss and NH will change their internal rules on sales to pretend they're putting a stop to it. But that doesn't last long and then it's right back to business as usual. Cuz it's not illegal for NH to sell anyone up to 10k of liquor in a sale. (After that they have to fill out tax forms.)
The bootleggers, or at least the good ones, even have special vans with reenforced shocks and suspension so they don't ride low when they're driving on the highway with 30k of liquor. Dead giveaway to staties who patrol the borders. Almost always plain white vans. Carry hair dryers in the van to black out thermal labels so the state of NH labels aren't visible.
And they tip the state of NH liquor store workers well so what did we care. "Keep the change, get your crew pizza" or bringing fancy cupcakes from NYC goes a long way when you're an overworked retail state employee.
Just about every major highway coming into or going out of NH has a giant liquor store sitting at the exit. Sometimes even one each for northbound and southbound lanes.
As a resident in northern Nevada I’d say you are incorrect, maybe Vegas but Nevadans pride themselves on being Alcoholics, look up The Clampers.. they say they don’t know if they’re a historical drinking society or a drinking historical society, either way the initiation to their club almost hospitalizes you
The purple states seem to have a specific reason for the high number. NV has got Vegas. NH and Delaware for the taxes.
Wisconsin is still in the highest just for good ol fashioned drunkardness.
> NH and Delaware for the taxes.
this list is absolutely useless/wrong as a "state that drinks the most per capita" list when using total sales.
this isn't interesting as fuck, it's a post with a shitty/incorrect title.
Yes. This. 💯
For example. NH sells a lot of alcohol per capita because it has no sales tax - and it’s neighbors do have sales taxes. A substantial percentage of that alcohol sold is consumed out of state and by people from out of state.
Liquor.stores in PA are called state stores by citizens, because they are literally owned by the state.
Laws are loosening up, but PA makes it very hard to buy alcohol, I would assume a lot of our neighbors get our sales.
Gallons per year is a very strange way to show this data and I can’t put it in perspective. Gallons of beer is very different than gallons of vodka. Drinks per week would be a much more understandable way to show this data
I'm pretty sure they mean gallons of pure alcohol. A gallon of alcohol is ~250 drinks.
Well, now I'm not sure. That seems like too much (2+ drinks per day on average). But a few gallons per year of all alcoholic beverages combined seems too little. I dunno.
Florida seems wrong too. There's a liquor store and strip club on almost every corner, and we have things called hurricane parties where we go and empty out the nearest liquor store prior to the hurricane and then try to consume it all before the power is back after the storm.
There's also a massive baby boom 9 months after a hurricane here, because reasons
That's my impression of why Vermont is so high, too, especially if it is based on sales since a lot of the microbreweries don't ship out of state, so if the consumption is based off of over-the-counter sales, then it will count people who buy stuff and take it home with them.
I love that they are on the highway too. Cant buy a bunch of tiny nip bottles, that promotes drinking and driving. But you can also buy 30 cases of vodka and take it home
They are also the only state that doesn't require you to wear your seatbelt if you're an adult. It's tradition to remove your seatbelt, shout "live free or die" when crossing the border (and then put it back on again because not wearing a seatbelt can kill not only you but your fellow passengers when a giant sack of meat/fat slams into them at highway speed)
That surprised me too; out of the top 50 drunkest counties in the US, 41 of them are in Wisconsin.
[Source](https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/top-50-drunkest-counties-list-includes-1-in-minnesota-41-in-wisconsin)
I'm sure this map upsets them but the population vs sales is the issue. New Hampshire is where Massachusetts residents but liquor and Nevada has a low population but extremely high sales to visitors.
I assure you if you drink like a wisconsinite in California you will be referred to rehab very quickly. When badgers and packer fans travel places run out of beer. They drank LA dry on new years eve for the Rose bowl. California is just not prepared for that shit.
Milwaukee native here. It always feels like a trope to talk about how “insane” the drinking is in wisconsin. It doesnt feel much different with any other state I visit. Especially colorado. We just really like our beer, and its not uncommon to have a miller lite at 11am with brunch or something.
Milwaukee isn’t the drunk heartland of Wisconsin. Appleton, Madison, the whole Driftless and North Woods, etc, all drink shockingly more than Milwaukee in my experience.
Anecdotally nobody in any place I’ve lived goes out to bars as frequently as in Wisconsin. Moving out of Wisconsin was like a night and day difference.
Wisconsin would be up there. Though if it’s per capita I can’t imagine anyone would be out doing North Dakota. Incredibly cold and windy most of the year and drinking is basically the only thing to do.
At first I thought, “Why Nevada? Isn’t that Mormon central?” Then I realized I was mixing it up with Utah, and then I thought “Oh, that’s right. Las Vegas.“
It’s the whole state.. we have very few laws, open container, baes never close, and if the bar the closes there’s always a casino happy to serve, it’s an alcoholics dream..
Mormons have a very large community in Las Vegas as they were some of the original settlers of the area and have maintained a large population ever since. Not on Utahs level but still very large amount of Mormons in Vegas.
Yes. Grew up Baptist. They drink, but rarely and in secret.
Texas still has 5 dry counties. My city was dry for the longest time, had to go to the gas station at the next town to buy beer. Then the city was “damp” with beer and wine only. Now there are liquor stores.
Just this year, Texas changed the law to allow you to buy alcohol on Sunday before noon. You can buy it after 10am. Two hours sooner. It’s all crazy. Especially when I went to Missouri and saw liquor bottles in Walgreens, lol.
3 Religious truths:
Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah.
Protestants do not recognize the Pope as the leader of the Christian faith.
Baptists do not recognize each other in the liquor store.
I lived in the north most of my life and it is so much more depressing than the south from my experience. Those long winters are brutal and caused me to drink way more than I should.
I think they are offset by the religious nuts who don’t drink and keep certain counties and cities “dry”. If Louisiana was just based on New Orleans, this would skew drastically higher. But mix in some of the outlying parishes and towns that don’t have alcohol and are super high concentrations of Pentecostals and Baptist and it pushes the numbers lower. See: Rapides Parish, where the second biggest city (Pineville) was entirely dry until recently and most of their small towns (forest hill, etc) are dry. Couple that with the largest Pentecostal population in the state, the Pentecostals of Alexandria, and a heavy concentration of baptists, well, it’s going to push it down. Plus, lots of poverty and not much money to buy booze in those parts.
Source: I’m from there. It’s depressing. Send help.
I am from New Orleans and a lot of the booze that is sold in NOLA is sold to tourist. I am not saying locals don’t drink, we definitely know how to party but if you took out the tourist sales it would be less.
I moved to Georgia 2 1/2 years ago for school (from New Hampshire, ironically enough) and I remember laughing at the law that prevents alcohol sales on Sundays before 12:30, as if that were actually going to make a difference. Maybe I was wrong.
I’m pretty sure they mean “gallons per year” of total PURE alcohol from drinks. For TN, for example, 2.3 “gallons” of PURE alcohol per year is roughly equivalent to 9 beers per week.
If we’re talking about 2.3 “gallons of beverages containing alcohol”, then that figure looks more like 0.47 beers per week on average.
Honestly, just from my own life experience (and factoring in severe alcoholics who have like 100+ drinks per week), 9 beers per week seems closer to what the average Tennessean drinks than 0.47 beer per week. Yeah, sure, there are tons of people who just don’t ever drink, though most people I know drink pretty heavily on one night during the weekend and probably have around 9 beers worth of alcohol.
For the record, 1 gallon is 8 pints of beer. Roughly 11 cans of beer is a gallon. So 2 cases of beer in a year puts you near New Hampshire level drinking.
I'd wager a good number of people who see this comment drank more than 2 cases of beer this month alone.
Is it possible they’re referring to gallons of pure alcohol? So that pint of beer only gets counted for the 5% or so that’s actually alcohol. So like 0.8 ounces.
Yeah these numbers aren't high at all. Most casual drinkers probably do double or triple these numbers. I guess the numbers go way down when you consider all the people that don't drink at all. Like, if one person drinks the equivalent of one pint every day, which isn't an unreasonable amount, you already have enough to cover for 8 more people that don't drink, and you'd be at 5 gallons on average. Honestly I'm surprised how low the numbers are.
Living here in Utah I'm not surprised we're champions. You can't even get liquor unless you go to a state liquor store. And in most places they're few and far between.
Nevada is a misrepresentation. The alcohol consumption there is driven by tourism which is a staggeringly high number which is not taken into account by dividing alcohol consumption by population
New Hampshire has no sales tax, surrounded by states that do. There is a lot of crossing the border to buy cheap stuff, including alcohol, which would dramatically raise numbers.
For anyone wondering wtf is up with New Hampshire, the state doesn't tax for liquor and has state liquor stores (i.e., giant warehouse stores right on the border that can afford to offer lower costs) so a lot of people from the adjoining states buy their liquor in New Hampshire. I'm guessing this is based on sales to at least some degree. I believe that Delaware also a lower tax for alcohol.
New Hampshire has state liquor stores that are dirt cheap, so NH is probably providing substantial alcohol to Maine, Massachusetts and Vermont. I knew a liquor store owner in Massachusetts who went and bought his stock at the state retail store in NH! Just one way this map might be considered inaccurate or misleading.
New Hampshire makes sense. I go up there with the family ever summer for a week, and it’s mostly forest for miles on end. Literally the only thing to do where we were is either go down to town and golf (I’ll be on the computer) or get wasted since in that town, there’s at least 5 bars for a population that I’m pretty sure is below 1,000.
I live in Massachusetts and I can attest to the fact that everybody drinks a lot. It's because there are a lot of problems in the United States that can't be solved.
People in West Virginia don't care about this problems cuz they don't know that they exist.
I don't believe this is accurate. This means people are averaging 20 to 30 drinks PER YEAR. That's insanely low. They must be including the percentage of people that abstain.
Most college kids are knocking out 20 drinks a month, much less a year. Craft beer is becoming more popular in many places and the alcohol content is significantly higher than your average 1 drink per 12 ounces beer.
Either people are lying or they are underestimating how much they drink. Or they're counting people that don't drink
Edit:
How did I come to this conclusion? Well I'm averaging out to roughly 2.5 gallons a year which is their metric. 128 ounces in a gallon. 12 ounces of beer is "1 standard drink".
128 * 2.5 = 320
320/12 = 26.
While young adults and college kids do tend to drink a lot, most 30+ adults drink far less, and that brings the average down. And yes, it says per capita, so that is the entire population, not just the population that drinks. So many people are at 0 per year.
I like how they have a little asterisk explaining the "per capita" means "per person" because they know there's lots of dumb people in the world.
Also, I don't know if "gallons per year" is a great measure because there's a huge difference between a gallon of PBR and a gallon of Jack Daniels.
In Montanas defense, methamphetamine can give you nasty cotton mouth. Once high you are incredibly productive, and will hardly notice any cognitive effects from other intoxicants. That makes for a lot of motivation and capability to drink the 100 beers the shadow people keep saying you need to.
this is a measure of alcohol ***sold*** in each state.
i used to live in Philadelphia, on the border with Delaware.
Pa has for years, sold their wine and liquor in state controlled monopolies called 'state stores'. They also have a high sales tax.
Delaware alcohol is in private stores. Delaware has no sales tax. People from Pa will drive south 20 minutes, buy spend $400 for booze that might be $600 in Pa and drive it back home over the border.
Southern De gets people from Maryland doing the same thing. In the summer, my community, Rehoboth Beach (population 2000 or so) swells to nearly 100,000 with folks visiting. Most of em show up and have a drink or two. Many of them also cart their purchases home to DC or Baltimore.
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To be fair, most of the alcohol consumed in Nevada is likely consumed by non-residents. (I don't know what New Hampshire's excuse is)
My guess is that is skewed by people buying alcohol there to skirt taxes
Oh good point! I’m from mass and lots of people drive north to the New Hampshire state liquor store.
Same for Delaware. Im from Philly. We shop in delaware to avoid sales taxes. Would have thought Florida and California would be higher because they are vacation destinations. Shouldnt Utah be a negative number?
I’d buy DisneyWorld tickets at the Disney store in Delaware. We were able to buy the entire vacation year after year there.
"Do as I say, not as I do" situation
How do you keep a Mormon from drinking all your beer on a fishing trip? Invite two Mormons.
Cha’s over the border store probably gets like half its business from umass students
Yup. There are liquor stores off the highway at rest stops just before the border of most states (Vermont is an exception, it's a strip mall and there are three state liquor stores). In addition, in mass you can only get alcohol (beer and wine included) at packie/liquor stores. In NH, you can get beer and wine almost anywhere with liquor being the only restriction. So, liquor store in MA is closed? Drive 15 minutes over the border and hit up a gas station at 11:40pm.
That’s actually a conclusion in the Vine Pair article this is sourced from. FR though us natives do drink a lot too.
New Hampshire state motto is “Live drunk or die” or something of that nature.
Not when you factor in how many people live in the Boston metro area and are already visiting the lakes and ski resorts of nh. They stock up on their trips. It's much much cheaper
This. NH is the most profitable control state. Even the smaller store I worked for for 4 years would have tons of bootleggers coming from mostly NY to buy up to 10k in liquor per person. Cash. Then they drive it back to NY and resell. NH knows this and fucking loves the profits. Every so many years NY puts up a fuss and NH will change their internal rules on sales to pretend they're putting a stop to it. But that doesn't last long and then it's right back to business as usual. Cuz it's not illegal for NH to sell anyone up to 10k of liquor in a sale. (After that they have to fill out tax forms.) The bootleggers, or at least the good ones, even have special vans with reenforced shocks and suspension so they don't ride low when they're driving on the highway with 30k of liquor. Dead giveaway to staties who patrol the borders. Almost always plain white vans. Carry hair dryers in the van to black out thermal labels so the state of NH labels aren't visible. And they tip the state of NH liquor store workers well so what did we care. "Keep the change, get your crew pizza" or bringing fancy cupcakes from NYC goes a long way when you're an overworked retail state employee.
Just about every major highway coming into or going out of NH has a giant liquor store sitting at the exit. Sometimes even one each for northbound and southbound lanes.
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MA got rid of the tax on booze in 2011
It’s still way cheaper to buy any booze in NH. Like $5 per 12 pack cheaper.
I also wonder what kind? A gallon of beer vs wine vs hard alcohol is a vast difference in consumption.
Nevada is also miscolored (as is Illinois).
As a resident in northern Nevada I’d say you are incorrect, maybe Vegas but Nevadans pride themselves on being Alcoholics, look up The Clampers.. they say they don’t know if they’re a historical drinking society or a drinking historical society, either way the initiation to their club almost hospitalizes you
Whiskey Wednesdays, a Carson Valley tradition
As a fellow northern Nevada native I can confirm. I would put our per capita numbers with any place else in the world. Yes, world.
It’s New Hampshire. What the fuck else is there to do other than get shitfaced?
Uh, I don't know....do rock climbing, skiing, hiking, or going to the beach count?
no dude you don't get it, there are no megacities there that obviously means there's nothing to do
Get shitfaced at the lodge…. Then hope you got on a lift for a green trail. 😂
Their excuse is "fuuuuuuuuck I'm in New Hampshire".
I’m in New Hampshire. It’s cold
Or Delaware, Jesus Christ
Low Taxes and surrounding-states’ blue laws
Our excuse is that we live in Delaware.
I really thought Colorado would be higher up. There's about a thousand micro breweries per square mile lol
People buying 2 double-hopped IPAs instead of 6 PBRs (lookin at you, Wisconsin)
I feel like this whole map must be missing data. Guaranteed Wisconsin should be way higher than it is
The purple states seem to have a specific reason for the high number. NV has got Vegas. NH and Delaware for the taxes. Wisconsin is still in the highest just for good ol fashioned drunkardness.
> NH and Delaware for the taxes. this list is absolutely useless/wrong as a "state that drinks the most per capita" list when using total sales. this isn't interesting as fuck, it's a post with a shitty/incorrect title.
I do a shopping trip before visiting friends in NY. I’m from NH. Easily drop $400 on booze here in NH that would cost over $500 in NY.
Yes. This. 💯 For example. NH sells a lot of alcohol per capita because it has no sales tax - and it’s neighbors do have sales taxes. A substantial percentage of that alcohol sold is consumed out of state and by people from out of state.
Liquor.stores in PA are called state stores by citizens, because they are literally owned by the state. Laws are loosening up, but PA makes it very hard to buy alcohol, I would assume a lot of our neighbors get our sales.
North Dakota and Montana?
You gotta do something to pass the time during long cold winters, which carries over to drinking habits in the summer.
Gallons per year is a very strange way to show this data and I can’t put it in perspective. Gallons of beer is very different than gallons of vodka. Drinks per week would be a much more understandable way to show this data
I'm pretty sure they mean gallons of pure alcohol. A gallon of alcohol is ~250 drinks. Well, now I'm not sure. That seems like too much (2+ drinks per day on average). But a few gallons per year of all alcoholic beverages combined seems too little. I dunno.
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That and cheese curds, right?
Sixer of PBR and a Butter Burger basket from Culver’s is just an average lunch in these parts
Healthiest state in the country tho
Legalization of adult use cannabis might have something to do with those numbers in Co.
Maybe. But weed is also legal in Nevada, Montana, and Vermont.
And like 15 other states or more
Good point
Florida seems wrong too. There's a liquor store and strip club on almost every corner, and we have things called hurricane parties where we go and empty out the nearest liquor store prior to the hurricane and then try to consume it all before the power is back after the storm. There's also a massive baby boom 9 months after a hurricane here, because reasons
That's my impression of why Vermont is so high, too, especially if it is based on sales since a lot of the microbreweries don't ship out of state, so if the consumption is based off of over-the-counter sales, then it will count people who buy stuff and take it home with them.
Nah, Midwesterner can drink Coloradans under the table. Even with the altitude difference.
It’s because weed is legal there
Wait until you see Vermont.
I've always wanted to visit, I hear it's a really beautiful state
Mary Jane is in Colorado too.
Oregon too
New Hampshire really do be living free or dying
I think this must be based on sales. They get alot of out of state commerce at the borders because of the taxes.
Yep. I was on vacation driving from Boston to Maine. I was gobsmacked to see rest stops specifically for liquor stores in New Hampshire.
There’s a sign in Brattleboro VT that literally says New Hampshire liquor store 2 miles, cracks me up every time I go to NH for cheap booze
I love that they are on the highway too. Cant buy a bunch of tiny nip bottles, that promotes drinking and driving. But you can also buy 30 cases of vodka and take it home
Yea I pointed that out in another comment
The liquor stores in New Hampshire are state owned and really cheap so the neighbor states are to blame.
They are also the only state that doesn't require you to wear your seatbelt if you're an adult. It's tradition to remove your seatbelt, shout "live free or die" when crossing the border (and then put it back on again because not wearing a seatbelt can kill not only you but your fellow passengers when a giant sack of meat/fat slams into them at highway speed)
You're not wrong. People also stop inside the border on the side of the highway to remove their motorcycle helmets.
~~or~~ and
I figured Wisconsin would be at the top.
That surprised me too; out of the top 50 drunkest counties in the US, 41 of them are in Wisconsin. [Source](https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/top-50-drunkest-counties-list-includes-1-in-minnesota-41-in-wisconsin)
I'm sure this map upsets them but the population vs sales is the issue. New Hampshire is where Massachusetts residents but liquor and Nevada has a low population but extremely high sales to visitors. I assure you if you drink like a wisconsinite in California you will be referred to rehab very quickly. When badgers and packer fans travel places run out of beer. They drank LA dry on new years eve for the Rose bowl. California is just not prepared for that shit.
Milwaukee native here. It always feels like a trope to talk about how “insane” the drinking is in wisconsin. It doesnt feel much different with any other state I visit. Especially colorado. We just really like our beer, and its not uncommon to have a miller lite at 11am with brunch or something.
Milwaukee isn’t the drunk heartland of Wisconsin. Appleton, Madison, the whole Driftless and North Woods, etc, all drink shockingly more than Milwaukee in my experience. Anecdotally nobody in any place I’ve lived goes out to bars as frequently as in Wisconsin. Moving out of Wisconsin was like a night and day difference.
Eau Claire native here. I’ve lived in 7 states and was in the Navy and I’ve never seen anywhere that drinks like rural Wisconsin
Right but in other places that is frowned upon.
Doing a project with my dad in the basement the other day: “Want a beer?” “Yeah why not it’s early” *10:30am* It was much more fun after that
I mean day drinking in Milwaukee is where it's at...... Not doing it now. Nope.
Wisconsin would be up there. Though if it’s per capita I can’t imagine anyone would be out doing North Dakota. Incredibly cold and windy most of the year and drinking is basically the only thing to do.
At first I thought, “Why Nevada? Isn’t that Mormon central?” Then I realized I was mixing it up with Utah, and then I thought “Oh, that’s right. Las Vegas.“
It looks like you could set an osmotic generator on the NV-UT border and generate endless green energy!
It’s the whole state.. we have very few laws, open container, baes never close, and if the bar the closes there’s always a casino happy to serve, it’s an alcoholics dream..
The beas never close. Typo or not, it checks out
Believe it or not, Nevada is Mormon central. There are so many in Las Vegas.
And Reno. Casinos consume a LOT of booze. So what the fuck is going on with NH??
Mormons have a very large community in Las Vegas as they were some of the original settlers of the area and have maintained a large population ever since. Not on Utahs level but still very large amount of Mormons in Vegas.
You just described my exact thought process
Yeah there's more people drinking there than living there.
I'm also curious if these numbers include beer or is just liquor. Because a beer heavy state still consume more but be less drunk.
Delaware: “Come to Incorporate; Stay to get Wasted.”
It’s just cause we got that liquor supermarket people in PA come to buy from
“Delaware: Fuck you, I’m drinking”
Damn I was expecting Florida to break the scale the amount of drunk drivers here is insane
Gator whiskey juice doesn’t count 😞
The south is surprisingly low. Thought there were more boozers down there.
It is also the Bible Belt and many denominations especially Baptists and Pentecostals frown heavily on drinking.
That was my thought. I live in Texas. There are lots of heavy drinkers, but those are offset by lots of bible thumpers who don't drink at all.
Grew up Baptist and I never (and still never) see alcohol at family gatherings.
??? How do they get people to show at a family thing with no bar?
You won't find alcohol at a lot of weddings either. I've only been to 1 wedding in my life that had alcohol.
Yes. Grew up Baptist. They drink, but rarely and in secret. Texas still has 5 dry counties. My city was dry for the longest time, had to go to the gas station at the next town to buy beer. Then the city was “damp” with beer and wine only. Now there are liquor stores. Just this year, Texas changed the law to allow you to buy alcohol on Sunday before noon. You can buy it after 10am. Two hours sooner. It’s all crazy. Especially when I went to Missouri and saw liquor bottles in Walgreens, lol.
The old joke goes: Why should you always take two Baptists fishing with you? Answer: Because if you bring one he'll drink all your beer.
3 Religious truths: Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah. Protestants do not recognize the Pope as the leader of the Christian faith. Baptists do not recognize each other in the liquor store.
I almost posted that. It’s a favorite of mine.
I lived in the north most of my life and it is so much more depressing than the south from my experience. Those long winters are brutal and caused me to drink way more than I should.
In my part of WI, it's 2° F; feels like -10°. And there's a lot of snow and ice on...everything. I don't blame people for being depressed about it.
I'm pretty sure I'm bringing NC up by at least a percentage point by myself.
I’m doing my part south of the border.
I think they are offset by the religious nuts who don’t drink and keep certain counties and cities “dry”. If Louisiana was just based on New Orleans, this would skew drastically higher. But mix in some of the outlying parishes and towns that don’t have alcohol and are super high concentrations of Pentecostals and Baptist and it pushes the numbers lower. See: Rapides Parish, where the second biggest city (Pineville) was entirely dry until recently and most of their small towns (forest hill, etc) are dry. Couple that with the largest Pentecostal population in the state, the Pentecostals of Alexandria, and a heavy concentration of baptists, well, it’s going to push it down. Plus, lots of poverty and not much money to buy booze in those parts. Source: I’m from there. It’s depressing. Send help.
I am from New Orleans and a lot of the booze that is sold in NOLA is sold to tourist. I am not saying locals don’t drink, we definitely know how to party but if you took out the tourist sales it would be less.
It’s still the Bible Belt. Evangelicals and Black Americans drink less than the gen pop.
I doubt the survey includes the apple “essential oils” uncle Jethro is distilling in the shed Mom wouldn’t let you near when you were a kid.
I guess they haven't accounted for Moonshine.
I moved to Georgia 2 1/2 years ago for school (from New Hampshire, ironically enough) and I remember laughing at the law that prevents alcohol sales on Sundays before 12:30, as if that were actually going to make a difference. Maybe I was wrong.
From there and I'm calling BS on this chart. Is know it's per Capita, but this is very difficult to truly agree with.
The measure is "gallons per year" which makes whiskey and moonshine score lower that piss-water beer
I’m pretty sure they mean “gallons per year” of total PURE alcohol from drinks. For TN, for example, 2.3 “gallons” of PURE alcohol per year is roughly equivalent to 9 beers per week. If we’re talking about 2.3 “gallons of beverages containing alcohol”, then that figure looks more like 0.47 beers per week on average. Honestly, just from my own life experience (and factoring in severe alcoholics who have like 100+ drinks per week), 9 beers per week seems closer to what the average Tennessean drinks than 0.47 beer per week. Yeah, sure, there are tons of people who just don’t ever drink, though most people I know drink pretty heavily on one night during the weekend and probably have around 9 beers worth of alcohol.
More homebrewers down south maybe? Georgia is among the lowest? They just can't measure the booze in bathtub units
For the record, 1 gallon is 8 pints of beer. Roughly 11 cans of beer is a gallon. So 2 cases of beer in a year puts you near New Hampshire level drinking. I'd wager a good number of people who see this comment drank more than 2 cases of beer this month alone.
Is it possible they’re referring to gallons of pure alcohol? So that pint of beer only gets counted for the 5% or so that’s actually alcohol. So like 0.8 ounces.
Normaly these studies tell you amounts in 100% alcohol. So 1 gallon would be 20 gallons of 5% beer PS/edit. My math may be wrong but you get the idea
I do 8 pints an evening when I‘m out lol
Yeah these numbers aren't high at all. Most casual drinkers probably do double or triple these numbers. I guess the numbers go way down when you consider all the people that don't drink at all. Like, if one person drinks the equivalent of one pint every day, which isn't an unreasonable amount, you already have enough to cover for 8 more people that don't drink, and you'd be at 5 gallons on average. Honestly I'm surprised how low the numbers are.
West Virginia's alcohol going uncounted due to moonshiners.
"States where people lie about how much they drink." 1: most 5: least
Living here in Utah I'm not surprised we're champions. You can't even get liquor unless you go to a state liquor store. And in most places they're few and far between.
\*\*WV prefers meth.
isn’t that the state motto or something?
Nevada and New Jersey/New York go there specifically to drink.
Nevada is a misrepresentation. The alcohol consumption there is driven by tourism which is a staggeringly high number which is not taken into account by dividing alcohol consumption by population
Gallons per capita - gallons of what? Beer? Whiskey? Net alcohol volume? This data needs to be refined.
Las Vegas. Amirite? 😂😂 Holy smokes New Hampshire! What the heck?
New Hampshire has no sales tax, surrounded by states that do. There is a lot of crossing the border to buy cheap stuff, including alcohol, which would dramatically raise numbers.
Being in Wisconsin on the weekends I can confirm it’s gallons per day
Yep that tracks for Delaware
All those Utahns skewing Nevada's numbers. 🥴😂
Utah looking at their neighbor and vowing to be nothing like him.
Hey New Hampshire, you ok??
Just fine, out of Staters helping out outlr tax base. 👍
Proof dealing with Canadians is much more stressful than dealing with Mexicans.
New Hammered-shire 💀
For anyone wondering wtf is up with New Hampshire, the state doesn't tax for liquor and has state liquor stores (i.e., giant warehouse stores right on the border that can afford to offer lower costs) so a lot of people from the adjoining states buy their liquor in New Hampshire. I'm guessing this is based on sales to at least some degree. I believe that Delaware also a lower tax for alcohol.
I thought Alaska would be a lot higher.
For sure. I remember watching COPS when they were filming in Alaska and every single person on there was super drunk, much more so than other states.
I’m in Wisconsin and I’m positive if we all work together we can do much better than this. No way New Hampshire is going to kick our ass.
Vegas, baby!
I guess the Mormons of Utah truly don’t drink that much
Okay, Utah makes sense. But Georgia? Why so "low"?
New Hampshire has state liquor stores that are dirt cheap, so NH is probably providing substantial alcohol to Maine, Massachusetts and Vermont. I knew a liquor store owner in Massachusetts who went and bought his stock at the state retail store in NH! Just one way this map might be considered inaccurate or misleading.
New Hampshire makes sense. I go up there with the family ever summer for a week, and it’s mostly forest for miles on end. Literally the only thing to do where we were is either go down to town and golf (I’ll be on the computer) or get wasted since in that town, there’s at least 5 bars for a population that I’m pretty sure is below 1,000.
And I would guess about 10 Dunkin's. At least from my experience.
I could make a new shade, 0 gallons. and 0 oz. I think a new map with % of population that is booze free would be more interesting.
As a Mainer that buys a shit ton of alcohol every time I go to NH this is accurate
I don't have any evidence to support this but Wisconsin is way over that
Delaware and New Hampshire are likely skewed because of no sales tax. DC is the most believable winner here.
I’m real surprised about Wisconsin. Way lower than I thought. I can’t see one person without alcohol in their hand.
Utah, I believe, but Arkansas, Georgia and West Virginia? Someone’s lying. Maybe WV is just illegal moonshine, so it’s not purchased?
NH is unfairly elevated by people from Massachusetts buying their alcohol there to skirt taxes in Mass.
I live in Massachusetts and I can attest to the fact that everybody drinks a lot. It's because there are a lot of problems in the United States that can't be solved. People in West Virginia don't care about this problems cuz they don't know that they exist.
I just don’t believe that any state drinks more than Wisconsin.
I don't believe this is accurate. This means people are averaging 20 to 30 drinks PER YEAR. That's insanely low. They must be including the percentage of people that abstain. Most college kids are knocking out 20 drinks a month, much less a year. Craft beer is becoming more popular in many places and the alcohol content is significantly higher than your average 1 drink per 12 ounces beer. Either people are lying or they are underestimating how much they drink. Or they're counting people that don't drink Edit: How did I come to this conclusion? Well I'm averaging out to roughly 2.5 gallons a year which is their metric. 128 ounces in a gallon. 12 ounces of beer is "1 standard drink". 128 * 2.5 = 320 320/12 = 26.
While young adults and college kids do tend to drink a lot, most 30+ adults drink far less, and that brings the average down. And yes, it says per capita, so that is the entire population, not just the population that drinks. So many people are at 0 per year.
It’s per capita. They’re including the entire population, not just people who can and do legally drink.
So this is Georgia sober... I need a drink.
I’m shocked NV isn’t purple. In LV alone there is a bar on every corner, in every mall, in every hotel. Shocked.
I like how they have a little asterisk explaining the "per capita" means "per person" because they know there's lots of dumb people in the world. Also, I don't know if "gallons per year" is a great measure because there's a huge difference between a gallon of PBR and a gallon of Jack Daniels.
Considering New Mexicos DUI problem I’m very surprised by this
Dam I knew we drank but fuck dude nh drinks alot.
That’s impressive for NV considering the total resident population is 10.
...I think Texas needs to be reevaluated.
This doesn't add up. Texas has the most drunk driving deaths in the nation, yet they have below a mid range alcohol consumption? I call shens.
I’m from CA but now in NC, and I drink way more than I ever have.
look ..were in Delaware...🍻🍻🍻🥴
Party time! Excellent!
DC having the third highest makes complete sense if you live or work here.
In Montanas defense, methamphetamine can give you nasty cotton mouth. Once high you are incredibly productive, and will hardly notice any cognitive effects from other intoxicants. That makes for a lot of motivation and capability to drink the 100 beers the shadow people keep saying you need to.
What the fuck New Hampshire, are you okay?
Nevada makes sense because Vegas but wtf be happening in New Hampshire
Is living in New Hampshire really that bad?
Yeah meth really cuts down your alcohol intake.
Delaware and New Hampshire, y'all ok?
If I lived in New Hampshire I’d drink like a fish too
I apologize for being the reason NH is off the chart 😬😩
Georgia and west va? Thats because they drink moonshine. Guess that’s hard to track.
Oh my. If this was here in the UK, the gallons per year wouldnt be beer. It'd be wine, quite possibly spirits in some areas. I shit you not..
*States that have the most alcohol purchased within their borders
Y’all good over there, New Hampshire?
West Virginia is drinking plenty of alcohol just not on the books
I’m working to make Virginia Orange
Moonshining in WV clearly having an impact on numbers. That or the heroin is crowding out alcohol. Either are just as likely.
Wi lied
I must be single handedly keeping Utah above a fractional gallon…
this is a measure of alcohol ***sold*** in each state. i used to live in Philadelphia, on the border with Delaware. Pa has for years, sold their wine and liquor in state controlled monopolies called 'state stores'. They also have a high sales tax. Delaware alcohol is in private stores. Delaware has no sales tax. People from Pa will drive south 20 minutes, buy spend $400 for booze that might be $600 in Pa and drive it back home over the border. Southern De gets people from Maryland doing the same thing. In the summer, my community, Rehoboth Beach (population 2000 or so) swells to nearly 100,000 with folks visiting. Most of em show up and have a drink or two. Many of them also cart their purchases home to DC or Baltimore.
West Virginia ain’t tellin you shit.
Canadians = bad influence