2012 US Per Capita Beer Consumption by State

I'm sad to say my home state is ranked #47th. Guess we got some drinkin' to do!

 

Sme of the reservations are dry in South Dakota, so they drive to Nebraska and bring it back. I seem to recall that there was some sort of lawsuit a while back

As for the Dakota's and Montana, lots of small town with not much to do. Wisconsin on the other hand, they're just drunks. But thank goodness they sell beer on Sundays

 

I'd be quite happy if you sent some trees this way haha

 

For some reason, I thought they didnt cover anything under 0.5% abv. Doh! My bad.

I realize where I went wrong, I was thinking of the definition of beer in 26 USC 5052 and 27 CFR 25.11.

What I was remembering, and thus screwed up the other part, is that there are things that are "beer" but not "malt beverages" ( for example, beers made without hops and beers made with grain other than barley) and thus dont fall under ALL of the TTB regulations but fall under the USDA regulations instead.

 

Wait! Doesn't that exclude quite a number of beers, especially the unhopped ones? But Kvas might be included...

 

Yeah, a "number" but it's a relatively small number

As rlcoffey notes above, there are two different Federal definitions of beer/malt beverages, and the TTB's (which I quoted) mandates both barley malt and hops. "Beers" and other grain-based, fermented beverages that don't fall under the TTB definition of "malt beverage" have to meet the stricter FDA labeling requirements. (Some where on one of their websites there are the memos back 'n' forth between the FDA and TTB about those sorts of beers).

That's why a beer like Dogfish Head's T'weason Ale has a "food" type label, with mandatory Nutrition Facts box, and ingredient list, etc.




Some US brewers will add the required hops to beer styles that don't normally call for them, like gruits, to avoid the hassle of dealing with yet another labeling regulatory agency. The required amount hops isn't very much to begin with, its a great way to use up old hops and there's no mandate for how long the hops have to stay in the brew, etc.

 

http://www.ttb.gov/rulings/2008-3.pdf

The bigger problem is the barley-free beers, as adding enough barley to qualify can defeat the purpose, like with a gluten-free beer.

 

I would like that PDF a lot more if it was listed in rank order rather than alphabetical.

Also, there is not a 1:1 relationship between how boring one's state is and the amount of per capita beer they consume. My state is 33rd and we're pretty damn boring.

Pretty sure we're ranked at or close to 50th in terms of tourism.

 

I'll try to round you up some live oaks ... can those handle big snow?

 

You have pretty good football teams ?

 

Interesting that North Dakota has practically no craft breweries yet still drinks second most per capita.

 

The title is consumption but is really sales. The only way to accurately measure consumption is to put tracers on all of the beer sold. Otherwise, how do you know where it is consumed? Just because I live in NY, I don't buy all my beer in NY and nobody has called me to ask me how much beer I have consumed in NY. Therefore, the easiest way to measure how much beer is "consumed" per capita is to add up all the sales and divide by the population.

 

Haha - yeah - just not near the tops in the categories that really count

 

We can find out?

 

Because most people here drink crap beer. Although craft beer has been sky rocketing in popularity in the last year or so.