Preference for beer and spirits was strongest in New Hampshire, report says.

Beer was the dominant drink in terms of volume consumption in the United States in 2022 – the most recent year for which the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) has published the data.

NIAAA, which measures U.S. alcohol consumption in ethanol volume, said in its latest statistical report that beer consumption among Americans aged 14 and over totaled more than 6.3 trillion U.S. gallons while wine and spirits summed up 910 billion and 715 billion gallons respectively.

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Beer

From the perspective of consumption per capita, consumption of ethanol from beer was highest in New Hampshire among the U.S. States – 1.66 gallons [1 U.S. gallon = 3.78 liters], followed by Montana with 1.58 and Vermont with 1.54. The lowest beer ethanol consumption was recorded in Maryland – 0.63 gallons, Connecticut – 0.72 gallons, with Idaho, New Jersey, and Rhode Island accounting for 0.74 each.

Wines

The District of Columbia, which hosts the U.S. Government, is the top wine lover in America: while beer consumption per capita there was 1.13 gallons, wine consumption constituted 1.05 gallons, or 41 bottles of wine. The second in the wine top is New Hampshire with 0.8 gallons and the third is Vermont with 0.72 gallons.

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Wyoming, Georgia, and Alabama are at the bottom with 0.29, 0.25, and 0.24 gallons of wine ethanol per capital.

For reference, an average bottle of wine (750 mL, 12.9% ABV) contains 0.0256 gallons of ethanol.

Spirits

Spirits are less popular among the three categories of alcoholic beverages in absolute ethanol consumption but average a higher number in consumption of ethanol per capita: 1.06 gallons compared with 1.02 gallons for beer and 0.42 gallons for wine.

The top three consumers of ethanol from spirits are Delaware with 2.34 gallons, New Hampshire with 2.02, and DC with 1.92. The bottom three are West Virginia and Utah with 0.57 each, Ohio with 0.71, and Oklahoma with 0.76 gallons of ethanol per resident.

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New Hampshire appears as a good destination to go in for a drinking spree, because it lacks the state sales tax on alcohol, which makes beverages there cheaper compared with other states and drives up purchases and consumption.

Overall beer consumption per capital had been on the decline in the U.S. for more than a decade prior to 2022 while the consumption of wine and spirits was growing, according to the same report.

News-Café.eu recommends caution over this document due to contradictory figures we found in its tables.

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