America reportedly drinks well-nigh 6.three billion gallons of beer every year. Just which states beverage the nearly? According to data from the National Institute on Alcohol Corruption and Alcoholism, beer consumption per capita varies significantly by state and region.

Midwesterners drink more than beer than those in other regions, while Northeasterners drink the least. Yet, New Hampshire residents drink by far the near beer per capita of whatever state — likely due to the land'due south unique lack of tax on alcohol. Meanwhile, Utah unsurprisingly drinks the least corporeality of beer per capita, as the predominantly Mormon state largely abstains from alcohol.

VinePair's color-coded maps show these and other results of American beer consumption in 2018.

United states THAT DRINK THE MOST BEER PER CAPITA

After New Hampshire, usa that claim the almost beer drinking per capita are Montana, Vermont, and North Dakota.

U.s.a. THAT Beverage THE Nearly BEER OVERALL

Unsurprisingly, highly populated states such as California, Texas, and Florida elevation the list of states drinking the most beer overall — with Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New York trailing behind.

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Rank Country Gallons of Ethanol Per Capita*
1 New Hampshire ane.79
2 Montana ane.6
3 Vermont 1.53
4 North Dakota 1.fifty
5 Due south Dakota 1.37
6 Nevada 1.35
7 Maine ane.34
eight Wisconsin one.29
8 Pennsylvania one.29
10 Hawaii i.28
11 Iowa 1.24
12 Louisiana 1.23
13 Nebraska 1.22
13 Wyoming 1.22
xv Mississippi ane.21
15 Oregon 1.21
xv Texas 1.21
18 West Virginia 1.15
19 Colorado 1.14
19 Minnesota 1.14
21 Delaware 1.11
21 Missouri ane.eleven
21 South Carolina ane.11
24 Ohio 1.10
25 Arizona 1.08
25 Dist. Of Columb. i.08
25 Illinois 1.08
28 New United mexican states one.07
29 Alaska 1.06
thirty Florida 1.05
31 Alabama 1.04
31 Northward Carolina 1.04
33 California 1.00
33 Michigan i.00
33 Oklahoma one.00
36 Kansas 0.99
37 Tennessee 0.98
38 Indiana 0.96
39 Georgia 0.95
40 Virginia 0.94
41 Kentucky 0.93
42 Massachusetts 0.91
42 Washington 0.91
44 Arkansas 0.xc
44 Idaho 0.90
44 Rhode Island 0.xc
47 New York 0.88
48 Connecticut 0.80
48 New Jersey 0.lxxx
50 Maryland 0.78
51 Utah 0.58

Looking at things from the perspective of full gallons of beer consumed, the data largely mirrors population ranks.

Rank Land Gallons Overall
1 California 727.3M
2 Texas 618.1M
3 Florida 420.1M
4 New York 321.1M
5 Pennsylvania 307.9M
half dozen Illinois 253.4M
vii Ohio 237M
8 North Carolina 198.2M
9 Michigan 186.2M
10 Georgia 181.6M
11 Virginia 148.2M
12 Arizona 141.4M
13 Wisconsin 138.8M
xiv New Bailiwick of jersey 132M
xv Washington 125.6M
16 Missouri 124.4M
17 Tennessee 122.4M
18 Colorado 119.3M
19 Massachusetts 118.7M
twenty Indiana 117M
21 Minnesota 116.3M
22 Southward Carolina 103.9M
23 Louisiana 103.7M
24 Oregon 94.4M
25 Alabama 93.4M
26 Maryland 86.7M
27 Kentucky 76.2M
28 Nevada 75.2M
29 Iowa 71.6M
thirty Oklahoma  71.2M
31 Mississippi  65.6M
32 Connecticut 53.5M
33 Kansas 51.8M
34 Arkansas 49.3M
35 New Hampshire 46.3M
36 Nebraska 42.1M
37 New Mexico 40.8M
38 W Virginia 39.1M
39 Maine 34.1M
40 Hawaii 33.6M
41 Montana 31.5M
42 Utah 31.3M
43 Idaho 28.1M
44 Due south Dakota 21.7M
45 Northward Dakota xx.6M
46 Delaware 20M
47 Vermont 18.3M
48 Rhode Island xviii.1M
49 Dist. of Columb. 14.3M
fifty Alaska 14M
51 Wyoming 12.8M

*This data uses an estimate of average ethanol content of sold or shipped beer into gallons of ethanol (pure alcohol) before calculating per capita consumption estimates. For this data, the alcohol by volume value for beer is 0.045.

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Published: June 9, 2020