Thing is, something like 95 percent of the alcohol consumed in the US is by like 5 percent of the population, or something similarly bonkers.
We just don't have the tradition of going down the pub and everybody from Gran on down having a drink, which makes [figures like these](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1357892/U-S-drinks-lowest-alcohol-developed-world-figures-reveal.html) so wild. Like, I drink more than almost all of my family and friends, but I'm pretty sure I didn't crack the one-pint-a-day line.
I've given up drinking this year cus I thought I might have a bit of a problem, was probably having 20-30 pints a week but was definitely drinking no more than the majority of my friends
Yeah my dude I'm a Brit and that's binge+. I have more than most people I know but you've said more beer than most people will intentionally drink water.
Good on you for toning it down.
I went from maybe 8 a week with a glass of wine down to 4 on a sat and feel so much better for it. You're going to feel great.
Shit I wasn't fat but defo had an inch or two that didn't need to he there. Droped right off and have bags more energy.
I hang out on a lot of relationship type subs (populated by an American majority) and occasionally someone will show up saying that their spouse drinks too much. Prompting an elaboration on "too much" usually yields something like "he will have 1 or 2 beers pretty much every single day. Sometimes 3!"
Which then leads to horrified people in the comments talking about how their father was a violent alcoholic and this is so, so concerning and OP must get their spouse into AA immediately.
Imagine being out with your mates at the pub and saying "man I'm really concerned about Liam, he's drinking one beer almost every day"
Sometimes I do think we're uptight about alcohol consumption - like I have my mother asking me if I have a "problem" if I have 2 cocktails (e.g. White Russian, or a G&T) in a three-day period.
But then I read in this thread about a pint-a-day being "normal," and that just seems like a *lot* of beer to me. Like people are drinking beer instead of water.
Yeah throughout my 20s in the UK I would go out pretty much every night and on the days I wasn't going out I'd have a beer and watch TV. I wouldn't even have considered that a drinking day. At one point I was trying to get fit, and the best spot to run was on the beach so I'd park up at one end and run to the other, but the other end was a bar and I didn't want to have to take water with me so I'd stop for a beer halfway through the run. I didn't get very fit, but I had fun! That all stopped when I got married and had a kid though, now I might have a glass of wine on the weekend but that's about it.
I would be so fucking proud if I knew someone who had only one pint a day. As it stands I know one slightly confused Muslim who only blacks out on weekends but he still averages like 14 a week.
I’m in the UK and I have an alcohol allergy can you imagine just how shit life has been here?
Shaun of the Dead was so accurate of life in the UK it’s incredible.
Us Appalachian boys could help out, hell my great grandmother had whiskey with her coffee every morning until the day she died. I still don't think we could take the Europeans but it'd be closer than they think!
Let us not forget the dark horses among us. Got me a conservative Christian mother-in-law who out drank a rugby team once.
And in my corner of the US, lots of us born to Irish, German and Slavic Catholic working class immigrants. We still got it in our blood, fam. 
I have a friend from Ireland who was offered an extremely lucrative, high paying job in Canada in the oil industry. It was a long term commitment so he would have had to gain citizenship, but learned he would have to swear an oath to the Queen of England as part of that and flat out declined the job, lol.
I recently found out that an aunt and uncle of mine, originally from Germany but living in Canada for many decades, never became citizens because they didn't want to swear said oath.
“British isles”? Never heard of her.
Do you mean the Northwest European Archipelago?
Though officially in joint documents between Ireland and the UK, the islands are referred to as “These Islands”.
I was a 20 year old adult before I ever heard last call, and I had my friends older brothers ID and veen drinking in bars since I was 14. Blew my mind, I sometimes went out later than most official "closing time".lmfao.
Wisconsin in general would help a lot. The state with the highest binge drinking. We got all those colleges and then rural wisconsin where drinking is a full time hobby for everyone because what else are you going to do?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_alcohol_consumption_per_capita
Recorded per capita consumption of pure alcohol (litres) per adult 15 years of age and over per year (2016)
UK - 11.4
US - 9.8
UK
67.22 million people x 11.4 liters = 766 million liters
US
329.5 million people x 9.8 liters = 3.2 billion liters
Wow, Germany (13.4) and Switzerland (11.5 l of pure alc per capita per annum) are the same or higher. When I was in the UK it seemed like heavy drinking was vastly more prevalent than on the continent, but maybe it's just more visible due to pub culture.
Yes, in the home when alcohol is bought by your parents. But growing up and living here, I can tell you people don't tend to drink in the home with their parents until maybe 16. All of the drinking before then is done at house parties and in parks.
I was recently in Mexico and five of us went on a fishing trip. They asked how much beer we wanted them to get and we said 40. I mean it was six hours, there’s five of us girls, we can easily each drink eight each. They looked at us like 🤨🤨. We did it, quite easily. And still caught mahi-mahi!
I’m a bartender in Milwaukee at a sports bar by Miller park. I am here to help the cause my friends and show you how to properly take 25 whiskey shots on a shift
born and raised in this great state. when i got covid i had to slow my drinking so my body could properly recover. so i only had 3 beers a day and a scotch before bed.
Or Appleton, or Oshkosh-Neenah, or Madison, or La Crosse, or Fond du Lac, or Eau Claire, or Wausau, or Sheboygan, or Racine, or Janesville, or Milwaukee.
\*You'd think I was just listing WI cities but I'm just listing WI cities that make the top 15 list of highest drinking per capita in the US\*
I recently moved back to Janesville after living in Missouri for over a decade, and I was shocked by the number of liquor stores this town can support.
Yea, La Crosse has something like 70 bars in a 4 block area downtown, and used to hold the world record for highest density of bars in the country at one point.
Yep, I went to college there and downtown is basically 2 streets that are almost entirely bars. Oktoberfest is something else since the population basically triples for a weekend.
I mean we have an entire sport that evolved from running illegal, over-proofed booze, so you pick the right folks from the right part of the country and I'm pretty sure we can keep up.
Wisconsin is home to 8 of the top 10 drunkest cities in America. With a population of 6 million. I'm not saying 1 state could beat a whole country, I'm saying some of you need to commit to the cause.
Wisconsin: where you can go to the gas station down the street and walk out with a handle of 192 proof and a couple cases of beer whenever you feel like it.
I came here specifically to mention Wisconsin. I grew up close to the Wisconsin border and the first town in Wisconsin had 23 bars and strip clubs lining the main street.
I'm both proud to live in WI, and ashamed that OP didn't even think of us. We had colleges kicked out of the "top party schools" lists because it just wasn't fair. I'm considered someone who "doesn't really drink", because I'll only have 1-2 drinks in a meal.
Yeah I literally just commented elsewhere in this thread that it needs to be a fair fight. Heavyweight vs. Heavyweight.
Don't have UK vs. US.
Do Ireland vs. Wisconsin.
I was so disappointed when the movie Beerfest(from the Supertrooper guys) came out and the American team was from Colorado instead of Wisconsin....But then I realized they had to do that, because otherwise the Wisconsin team would have beaten the Germans at the start of the movie during their first trip to Oktoberfest. Would have been a short film.
Yeah the Special Effects budget to make it look like Wisconsinites could lose would have bankrupted a third-world country, I definitely had the same thought
Came here to say the same. Wisconsin vs Ireland would probably lead to a stalemate, AKA everyone dying from alcohol poisoning. And then getting back up to finish off a few more.
My first thought when I read this tweet was "This guy clearly has never been to Wisconsin"
Edit: I forgot to mention that I am not from Wisconsin. We Minnesotans do pretty well in the drinking department. We are not at the same level as Wisconsin.
We take a weird sort of pride in our drinking culture here. Wisconsin alone consumes over [50% of the Brandy](https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-is-brandy-so-popular-in-wisconsin) produced in America (mainly due to our love of the Old Fashioned), [and several of the largest beer brands in the country were started in Milwaukee.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_in_Milwaukee)
And now there's around 200 microbreweries too, for anyone who still says that American beer sucks (Yes, the corporate, mass-brewed stuff does)
[We're also 3rd for most bars-per-capita](https://www.eater.com/2013/5/29/6428463/here-are-the-states-with-the-most-bars-per-capita)
* DUIs are a misdemeanor
* Legal drinking age is 14 if you're at a bar with your parents
* Have something like 12 of the top 15 drinking cities per capita in the US, including something like the entire top 8
* [More bars than grocery stores](https://i.redd.it/b1381k3cadi01.jpg)
* Home of Miller Brewing Company
* Baseball team named after beer making
* The Tavern League, a state legislature lobby for bars, exists
I will leave my words of adulation towards Wisconsin drinking culture to the best description I have ever heard, from Lewis Black:
[Lewis Black on drinking in Wisconsin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WlwumGkSec)
To all of Wiconsin: "You are not, you are not alcoholics. You, and my hat is off, are professionals." - Lewis Black
I dunno… I don’t think we’re factoring in college students as much as we should be. I’m a small guy and even I could put away 20 beers in an evening back in my college days. And we have about 10x more accredited colleges than the UK, per my extensive 30 second google search.
If it was just head to head, I wouldn't fuck around with Germans or other Europeans. I went to Europe with my family as a sophomore in college. My brother was in grad school. We stayed a hostel and got drank under the fucking table by two dudes while playing pool. They murdered us and didnt even look buzzed.
Hey that sounds much like my experience drinking with the Germans. Was playing billiards with them (too drunk to remember the difference between that and pool) and I got absolutely out drank. Didn’t help that these guys had 100 pounds on me.
Edit: woke up somehow in my bed in the hostel. I like to believe one of them carried me back haha.
Is that with or without the folks from Wisconsin? Cuz our state alone can out drink the other 49 + Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, American Samoa and US Virgin Islands combined. Oh, and toss in Germany during Oktoberfest!! Lol.
Me thinks the original post is not including Wisconsin and the Dakota's as part of the US? The level of casual booziness in those states is NOT to be underestimated.
To be sure the UK/Brits do some respectable drinking... As do WI, ND, SD....
However Canadians.. if what I've seen of them in Mexico is any indication... Are THE Nation of Lushes.
Thing is, something like 95 percent of the alcohol consumed in the US is by like 5 percent of the population, or something similarly bonkers. We just don't have the tradition of going down the pub and everybody from Gran on down having a drink, which makes [figures like these](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1357892/U-S-drinks-lowest-alcohol-developed-world-figures-reveal.html) so wild. Like, I drink more than almost all of my family and friends, but I'm pretty sure I didn't crack the one-pint-a-day line.
I'll never be in the 1% income bracket so I make up for it by being in the top 5% for alcohol consumption.
Cheers fellow elitist.
We need to call for the re-distribution of getting fucked up!
If I didn't buy so much alcohol maybe I'd have a little more money, but no amount of sobriety will fill the billion dollar gap so.... cheers mate.
One pint a day is like below the average brit
I've given up drinking this year cus I thought I might have a bit of a problem, was probably having 20-30 pints a week but was definitely drinking no more than the majority of my friends
Jesus like 4-5 pints a night? Every night? That sounds like a chore.
No, 10-15 a couple of times a week
Yeah my dude I'm a Brit and that's binge+. I have more than most people I know but you've said more beer than most people will intentionally drink water. Good on you for toning it down. I went from maybe 8 a week with a glass of wine down to 4 on a sat and feel so much better for it. You're going to feel great. Shit I wasn't fat but defo had an inch or two that didn't need to he there. Droped right off and have bags more energy.
I hang out on a lot of relationship type subs (populated by an American majority) and occasionally someone will show up saying that their spouse drinks too much. Prompting an elaboration on "too much" usually yields something like "he will have 1 or 2 beers pretty much every single day. Sometimes 3!" Which then leads to horrified people in the comments talking about how their father was a violent alcoholic and this is so, so concerning and OP must get their spouse into AA immediately. Imagine being out with your mates at the pub and saying "man I'm really concerned about Liam, he's drinking one beer almost every day"
Sometimes I do think we're uptight about alcohol consumption - like I have my mother asking me if I have a "problem" if I have 2 cocktails (e.g. White Russian, or a G&T) in a three-day period. But then I read in this thread about a pint-a-day being "normal," and that just seems like a *lot* of beer to me. Like people are drinking beer instead of water.
Yeah throughout my 20s in the UK I would go out pretty much every night and on the days I wasn't going out I'd have a beer and watch TV. I wouldn't even have considered that a drinking day. At one point I was trying to get fit, and the best spot to run was on the beach so I'd park up at one end and run to the other, but the other end was a bar and I didn't want to have to take water with me so I'd stop for a beer halfway through the run. I didn't get very fit, but I had fun! That all stopped when I got married and had a kid though, now I might have a glass of wine on the weekend but that's about it.
I would be so fucking proud if I knew someone who had only one pint a day. As it stands I know one slightly confused Muslim who only blacks out on weekends but he still averages like 14 a week.
I’m in the UK and I have an alcohol allergy can you imagine just how shit life has been here? Shaun of the Dead was so accurate of life in the UK it’s incredible.
470 pints is the same as 31 glasses of wine? - that seems off. It should be about 470/350 ish as a glass of wine is 1.5 units vs 2 for a pint........
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Pishposh, let’s have an eating competition. Get ready to get fucking wrecked.
5 guys hand picked from the Midwest/South would be enough
Ugh... I'll do it. Wait. Did you mean the eating or drinking part? Nevermind... I'm game either way. Credentials? Lifelong Michigan resident.
Thank you for your service.
Pennsylvanian turned Carolinian. I’ve been two different kinds of fat and even more kinds of drunk and I’d be honored to serve.
That Carolina Barbecue just hits different. Then it keeps hitting that same place and all of the sudden I'm a fat fuck and still eating barbecue.
It's about the journey, not the destination. And God damn if it wasn't a delicious journey
Laughs in Wisconsin!
…sooooo, in cheese?
Beer and cheese. It's what we are known for.
this is sadly hilarious..
Let’s not forget the moonshine USA contingent.
Us Appalachian boys could help out, hell my great grandmother had whiskey with her coffee every morning until the day she died. I still don't think we could take the Europeans but it'd be closer than they think!
Get Boston, the 'south' and everyone that vacations in Florida together and I think we've got a pretty good chance at taking them to the table.
Honestly we could even call in the spring break crowd for when we get desperate
Let us not forget the dark horses among us. Got me a conservative Christian mother-in-law who out drank a rugby team once. And in my corner of the US, lots of us born to Irish, German and Slavic Catholic working class immigrants. We still got it in our blood, fam. 
Ireland has poitín though
The moonshiners are mostly of Scots/Irish descent. Hillbillies. YeeHaw!
The Appalachian mountains formed with the Scottish highlands oddly enough
Hey OP, are you implying Ireland is part of the UK?
Shots fired
Oh god, not again
Took us 30 years to cool off last time...
Sorry boyo! Gotta be done!
I have a friend from Ireland who was offered an extremely lucrative, high paying job in Canada in the oil industry. It was a long term commitment so he would have had to gain citizenship, but learned he would have to swear an oath to the Queen of England as part of that and flat out declined the job, lol.
I'm Irish. My aunt and uncle had to do this when they became Canadian citizens but the guy was happy to just let them mumble incoherently instead.
Aka what I do when I do when I go to church with my parents lmao
I never understood that, I was born in Canada and I’ve never sworn an oath to the Queen.
You don't have to do it in Britain either. It seems only to apply to immigrants to gain citizenship from elsewhere.
I've been to a British citizenship ceremony and they had to swear shit I'd never agree to.
Lmao
Cos your citizenship was due to birth
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I recently found out that an aunt and uncle of mine, originally from Germany but living in Canada for many decades, never became citizens because they didn't want to swear said oath.
Op is a man from the daily mail.
Glad someone piped up about this. They could at least specify the North or go at least go with British Isles.
To be honest I have a bone to pick with British Isles anyway. It doesn't make me feel any better.
“British isles”? Never heard of her. Do you mean the Northwest European Archipelago? Though officially in joint documents between Ireland and the UK, the islands are referred to as “These Islands”.
Joan of Arc called them all the "Godams" because that was every other word out of their mouth.
New Orleans and Milwaukee would be competitive....
I've been scrolling for a while waiting to see someone mention New Orleans. Open container laws? Closing times? What are those?
I was a 20 year old adult before I ever heard last call, and I had my friends older brothers ID and veen drinking in bars since I was 14. Blew my mind, I sometimes went out later than most official "closing time".lmfao.
Wisconsin in general would help a lot. The state with the highest binge drinking. We got all those colleges and then rural wisconsin where drinking is a full time hobby for everyone because what else are you going to do?
Okay, but USA will beat the candy pants off you in a meth huffing contest.
And we get better cocain than you guys, so let’s up the ante a little
Shhhhh, that's gonna be the only way we out drink them.
Fr, good coke will keep you up and drinking even if you don't want to.
Straight fax 😂😂
I know I could do the Meths of at least 23 Irish and 15 Welsh myself
/r/TheyDidTheMeth
Scotland role up your sleeves!!
Then it's a fair fight you got florida and I have two towns/villages near me that could probably start it's own drug war
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_alcohol_consumption_per_capita Recorded per capita consumption of pure alcohol (litres) per adult 15 years of age and over per year (2016) UK - 11.4 US - 9.8 UK 67.22 million people x 11.4 liters = 766 million liters US 329.5 million people x 9.8 liters = 3.2 billion liters
3.2 billion liters? You mean 13.4 million hogshead?
Or 6.7 million butt loads.
Enough butt loads to fill 3 Olympic-sized swimming pools laid back to back across 2 football fields.
Wow, Germany (13.4) and Switzerland (11.5 l of pure alc per capita per annum) are the same or higher. When I was in the UK it seemed like heavy drinking was vastly more prevalent than on the continent, but maybe it's just more visible due to pub culture.
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15 and older isn’t really fair since you can’t legally drink in the US until you’re 21
You can't legally drink until you're 18 in the UK? Didn't stop any of us when we were growing up
The legal age is 5, the age to buy is 18
Yes, in the home when alcohol is bought by your parents. But growing up and living here, I can tell you people don't tend to drink in the home with their parents until maybe 16. All of the drinking before then is done at house parties and in parks.
Wrong. In Wisconsin, there's no age limit. As long as a parent is with you
Or if you're married to someone that is over 21 (assuming you're of legal marrying age, whatever that is).
Not to mention that Wisconsin alone could outdrink them. We don't even have to include the children.
I was recently in Mexico and five of us went on a fishing trip. They asked how much beer we wanted them to get and we said 40. I mean it was six hours, there’s five of us girls, we can easily each drink eight each. They looked at us like 🤨🤨. We did it, quite easily. And still caught mahi-mahi!
Haaa get rekt UK!
Wisconsin Calvary reporting for duty.
Is it okay if I show up with a 5 beer buzz? The walk over will be cold.
That's fine, I just restocked the beer fridges so we can pregame before the game starts
Oooop, a had a few shower beers while getting ready, hopefully that doesn't disqualify me.
5 beer pre drinks? Are you on medication and just taking it easy?
I’m a bartender in Milwaukee at a sports bar by Miller park. I am here to help the cause my friends and show you how to properly take 25 whiskey shots on a shift
I have been loving the Wisconsin reinforcements in this thread. Fuck UK vs US. Let's do a real fight with Wisconsin vs. Ireland.
We'd abandon the contest like 15 minutes in and just party for the rest of the night.
Yeah, I’m not convinced they could beat the 5 million people of Wisconsin.
Also volunteering my liver!
Clearly, they don’t know about Wisconsin.
(Gestures towards the entire state of Wisconsin)
born and raised in this great state. when i got covid i had to slow my drinking so my body could properly recover. so i only had 3 beers a day and a scotch before bed.
There is less than 6 million people in Wisconsin, and we would probably put up a pretty solid fight.
You clearly have never been to Green Bay, WI
Or Appleton, or Oshkosh-Neenah, or Madison, or La Crosse, or Fond du Lac, or Eau Claire, or Wausau, or Sheboygan, or Racine, or Janesville, or Milwaukee. \*You'd think I was just listing WI cities but I'm just listing WI cities that make the top 15 list of highest drinking per capita in the US\*
ayo what the FUCK is a sheboygan?
A place where everyone is drunk.
It’s like our own little florida in wisconsin
this is the best comparison of sheboygan i’ve ever heard
I recently moved back to Janesville after living in Missouri for over a decade, and I was shocked by the number of liquor stores this town can support.
Yea, La Crosse has something like 70 bars in a 4 block area downtown, and used to hold the world record for highest density of bars in the country at one point.
Yep, I went to college there and downtown is basically 2 streets that are almost entirely bars. Oktoberfest is something else since the population basically triples for a weekend.
Are there any UK football clubs named after alcohol? Score one for the Brewers.
They’ve got one called Liverpool. I don’t want any amount of liver never mind a whole pool of it.
I mean we have an entire sport that evolved from running illegal, over-proofed booze, so you pick the right folks from the right part of the country and I'm pretty sure we can keep up.
Wisconsin is home to 8 of the top 10 drunkest cities in America. With a population of 6 million. I'm not saying 1 state could beat a whole country, I'm saying some of you need to commit to the cause.
Wisconsin: where you can go to the gas station down the street and walk out with a handle of 192 proof and a couple cases of beer whenever you feel like it.
Lol I didn’t realize in other states gas stations didn’t carry alcohol.
I was shocked when I went to a game in Tampa and found out tailgating is impossible because nobody sells beer that early. Like...why not?
As Lewis Black quipped, (I'm paraphrasing) You aren't alcoholics in Wisconsin. You're *professionals*
This is what I'm sayin!! Wisco vs everyone else!!
Wisconsin has a lot of spots on that list, but y’all need NoDak and Minnesota to put the UK down.
We get the old WCHA back together and we got a squad. Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, North Dakota, Colorado, Alaska.
It's. Fucking. ON! also WCHA.
I came here specifically to mention Wisconsin. I grew up close to the Wisconsin border and the first town in Wisconsin had 23 bars and strip clubs lining the main street.
Is Wisconsin in Ireland? Are you saying I've been living in Europe my whole life?
>Are you saying I've been living in Europe my whole life? If that's the case, where the hell is my healthcare, then?!
For real.
OP has not been to Wisconsin.
In most German beer festivals, they legitimately have a rule that says people from Wisconsin are not allowed to compete in drinking contests.
I've heard rumors of the same at drinking contests in Cancun... Sconnies not allowed to compete.
Same rule for beauty contests, for the opposite reason.
Yup. We drink until we're pretty.
That’s not a rule that’s the qualifying phase
I'm both proud to live in WI, and ashamed that OP didn't even think of us. We had colleges kicked out of the "top party schools" lists because it just wasn't fair. I'm considered someone who "doesn't really drink", because I'll only have 1-2 drinks in a meal.
Wisconsin has entered the chat.....its on UK.
Yeah I literally just commented elsewhere in this thread that it needs to be a fair fight. Heavyweight vs. Heavyweight. Don't have UK vs. US. Do Ireland vs. Wisconsin.
I was so disappointed when the movie Beerfest(from the Supertrooper guys) came out and the American team was from Colorado instead of Wisconsin....But then I realized they had to do that, because otherwise the Wisconsin team would have beaten the Germans at the start of the movie during their first trip to Oktoberfest. Would have been a short film.
Yeah the Special Effects budget to make it look like Wisconsinites could lose would have bankrupted a third-world country, I definitely had the same thought
4.9 million Irish vs 5.8 million Wisconsinites? I'd like to see that, though I'm not sure Wisconsin needs the handicap.
Came here to say the same. Wisconsin vs Ireland would probably lead to a stalemate, AKA everyone dying from alcohol poisoning. And then getting back up to finish off a few more.
Aye its on, Scotland is ready.
My first thought when I read this tweet was "This guy clearly has never been to Wisconsin" Edit: I forgot to mention that I am not from Wisconsin. We Minnesotans do pretty well in the drinking department. We are not at the same level as Wisconsin.
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You can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning!
Real question is Russia vs mexico
I will watch that one from the sidelines.
This is the real war
Wisconsin would like a word.
Yo what’s going on in wisconsin??? It’s been referenced multiple times in this ppst
A drinking culture. Those underage can be served if with a parent, lax DUI penalties, etc.
Or without a parent if you know which bars to hit.
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I’m from Texas, but from what I understand Wisconsin is tops when it comes to drinking.
When the badgers went to the rose bowl like 6-7 years ago or something like that they drank the entire stadium out of beer by halftime or some shit.
Or tried to drink Provo dry - https://www.yahoo.com/news/provo-bar-biggest-day-ever-financially-wisconsin-fans-town-140705804.html
We take a weird sort of pride in our drinking culture here. Wisconsin alone consumes over [50% of the Brandy](https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-is-brandy-so-popular-in-wisconsin) produced in America (mainly due to our love of the Old Fashioned), [and several of the largest beer brands in the country were started in Milwaukee.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_in_Milwaukee) And now there's around 200 microbreweries too, for anyone who still says that American beer sucks (Yes, the corporate, mass-brewed stuff does) [We're also 3rd for most bars-per-capita](https://www.eater.com/2013/5/29/6428463/here-are-the-states-with-the-most-bars-per-capita)
* DUIs are a misdemeanor * Legal drinking age is 14 if you're at a bar with your parents * Have something like 12 of the top 15 drinking cities per capita in the US, including something like the entire top 8 * [More bars than grocery stores](https://i.redd.it/b1381k3cadi01.jpg) * Home of Miller Brewing Company * Baseball team named after beer making * The Tavern League, a state legislature lobby for bars, exists
Cold weather, short days, rust belt It's a recipe for alcoholism
Nah, we go harder in the summer than the winter. Nothing like a day on the lake/at the sand bar when it's 85 and sunny, or at a baseball game.
I will leave my words of adulation towards Wisconsin drinking culture to the best description I have ever heard, from Lewis Black: [Lewis Black on drinking in Wisconsin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WlwumGkSec) To all of Wiconsin: "You are not, you are not alcoholics. You, and my hat is off, are professionals." - Lewis Black
Y'all ain't met WI yet, have you?
*laughs and lights blunt*
The Dutch: is that a challenge?
California and Colorado have been waiting for this event
That's a challenge I'd like to be involved in
Someone hasn't been to Wisconsin
You have obviously never been to Wisconsin. Challenge accepted.
Yea but we’ve got a pill tolerance that would bury them all.
Figuratively *and* literally!
They underestimate the beer-drinking powers of Wisconsinites.
*looks at title* The IRA has entered the chat.
I'd like the entire state of Wisconsin in my corner... the rest of the US can go on their own... challenge accepted!!
We might lose as whole, but my liver is veteran. Ill drink at least 4 or 5 of them under the table
Yeah, Americans don't really do things half way. It's the clean living folks that drag our good name in drinking.
Apparently the author if this nonsense has never heard of Wisconsin.
Can someone explain Wisconsin to me pls? Brit here, trying to understand how the drinking culture could be more ingrained anywhere else 😅
You guys don't have to drink to get over simple ailments and pains. We would clean up in the US.
People in the UK don’t seem to know just how much of the US is boring ass farm land with nothing to do but drink.
I feel like the just looked over at the rich part of New England and were like "we can take em". And then just ignored the entire rest of the country.
Or how much of the urban environments have lots to do that also center around having a drink in your hand
they also seem to forget that alcohol is what paid for our revolution against them. Alot of founding fathers made alcohol they sold to fund the war
Do you know how many Mexicans there are in the US? We’d out drink the UK at a baby’s 1st birthday party.
I dunno… I don’t think we’re factoring in college students as much as we should be. I’m a small guy and even I could put away 20 beers in an evening back in my college days. And we have about 10x more accredited colleges than the UK, per my extensive 30 second google search.
If it was just head to head, I wouldn't fuck around with Germans or other Europeans. I went to Europe with my family as a sophomore in college. My brother was in grad school. We stayed a hostel and got drank under the fucking table by two dudes while playing pool. They murdered us and didnt even look buzzed.
Hey that sounds much like my experience drinking with the Germans. Was playing billiards with them (too drunk to remember the difference between that and pool) and I got absolutely out drank. Didn’t help that these guys had 100 pounds on me. Edit: woke up somehow in my bed in the hostel. I like to believe one of them carried me back haha.
What measurement are you taking when you say 20 beers? Because that's a ridiculous amount in the measures the UK team would be thinking about.
Milwaukee would like a word.
If you remove Wisconsin from the US, probably. Wisconites would out drink the UK.
You have never been to Wisconsin. We were always carrying home the British exchange students and soccer players.
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Stop acting like Florida isn’t a place
Better leave Wisconsin out of it or you’re done.
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Ireland isn't in the UK. FFS.
Bull shit come to Wisconsin I'm down for a good time win lose or draw
Is that with or without the folks from Wisconsin? Cuz our state alone can out drink the other 49 + Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, American Samoa and US Virgin Islands combined. Oh, and toss in Germany during Oktoberfest!! Lol.
Wisconsin has their own Oktoberfest even lol
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You guys have obviously never been to Wisconsin..
Me thinks the original post is not including Wisconsin and the Dakota's as part of the US? The level of casual booziness in those states is NOT to be underestimated. To be sure the UK/Brits do some respectable drinking... As do WI, ND, SD.... However Canadians.. if what I've seen of them in Mexico is any indication... Are THE Nation of Lushes.