America's Tastes in Beer, in Five Maps

Really cool maps, thanks!

 

very interesting I'll have to pull this up on my computer. iPhone screen too small.

 

Thank God we have a 5cent deposit in IA or we'd walk on Busch Light beer cans.

If I had a twitter account I'd tweet this just so I could have an effect on the next God - v - Beer map.

 

Saddens me that somehow Corona rules NJ/NY...

 

Very interesting how even the national brands like Budweiser, Coors, and Sam Adams still have regional concentration.

 

Love the maps other than the 1st one. It didn't seem to really tell me much...

 

The third map about regional favorites is interesting for Michigan. I don't think I've seen Saranac here in a long time.

 

Ya. I'm definitely in Busch Light country.

 

Not at all surprised that the coastal states prefer wine over beer, gotta maintain that elitist stereotype they've worked so hard to cultivate.

 

Cant tell if your drunk posting or trolling? Your comment is hilarious.

 

Well, he's right about the east coast at least. I can't speak for the west coast though.

 

Thank goodness I live in the heathen, wine swilling, Bud light hating, grocery store addicted Pacific Northwest. (Olympia? WTF?) Nice maps, thanks.

 

Grain Belt RULES!!!....Nice/fun maps!

 

Really interesting.

As a data set, tweeters are a limited population group that might not accurately represent a good cross-section of the population. For instance, tweeters are probably skewed towards a younger population and an income level above the poverty line - while in actuality there's a ton of drinking going on by Baby Boomers and lower-income groups.

But as entertainment and a starting point for some real research, this is pretty cool.

 

Not to mention, the grocery stores we DO have, are chock full of beer.

 

Budweiser, St Louis and the Gateway to the west..."I don't drink BMC beers all the time but when I do..."

 

Living in Missouri I did notice one thing about map 1 that I thought interesting...Missourians dabble in both beer and wine...variety is the spice of life. Well rounded means well grounded.

 

It says that about my neck of the woods, NE OK. So many tea totalers here, not sure I buy it. I suspect this map is driven by sales, vice demographics... oops I guess it says crowd sourcing. I could see how that might skew some results...

I'm also sure wine is seen as more sophisticated, as many around here consider the watered-down piss Walmart & most gas stations sell around here beer.

If you want anything drinkable you must go to a liquor store...

 

I can't speak for the rest of the country but we have had a renaissance of such in the last 10/15 years in the wine industry. I live in SE Missouri and there are easily 100 wineries within a two hour drive in any direction. Fortunately many of those same wineries jumped on the craft-beer scene before the mainstream caught on and brew some mighty fine beer.

Locally I see the same thing now happening with breweries that happened with wine a few years back, breweries are sprouting up rather quickly. Some see this as the boom and the stages of a crash but as long as the beer is good and a local economy can support a small brewery without that said brewery thinking it has to be a mega business to survive...then many should thrive? Cheers!