We need a UK vs Turkey tea-drinking contest.
This would never happen in the Midwest.
They considered running out of beer, running out of everything but bud light and Coors. So yeah, I am sure it would.
I was curious. The UK drank 12% more per capita than the US in 2022. 10.8 L/person year for the UK and 9.8 L/person year for the US.
10.8L is roughly 3gal which roughly 33 12oz bottles
Thats like 1.25 cases of beer, either I’m drinking a lot more than the average person or these stats arent correct
As much as I hate the USA, this is the first time I’m ready to compete for my country. I’ll have a double-shot and a Pilsner, please!
We all serve in our own way.
We’re the best alcoholics. Kay
Will have to agree.
Forget America, I wanna see the UK go head to head with Romania
Why not cut out the extra steps and just say you’d like to see the UK cease to exist?
The Czechs are supposed to be amongst the best. Not as good as I, but still.
We’d lose
Is that the sequel to Beer Fest?
In Ireland I was a student.
In France I was considered an alcoholic.
Y’all have never encountered Wisconsinites, and it shows.
https://x.com/Outkick/status/1579137795741741057
Scotland doesn’t hold a card to sconnies.
Scotland versus all 50 states: Wisconsin carries the team.
Scotland versus 49 states except Wisconsin: I’m not sure how this would turn out but I suspect Scotland would win.
Scotland plus Wisconsin versus the other 49 states: sort of like a professional sports team playing a high school sports team.
have never encountered Wisconsinites, and it sh
Yeah America has some pockets that just… are not human when it comes to drink. Like i can safely say your avg brit, irsh or scott would, can and does drink 95% of America under the table. But of that last 5%… iv seen things… things even the czechs would claim is unhuman.
Drink Wisconsinably.
If you want a better idea of how Wisconsin drinks.
It’s not a 1:1 comparison is the thing. A DUI implies you can still get into the car and start it, so it’s like you’re bragging about only doing half the job. You haven’t passed out at the bar and your friends stack empties on your head 15 high. (I’ve seen the Welsh do this at 10am ahead of a WC qualifier that started 10 hours later)
I’ve seen both of y’all get sloppy, UK and WI/MN. The Brits, but especially the Scots, do drink more that you statistically, and are just better at it.
Kentucky hill folk out drink most of the world by quiet a bit. The USA as a whole is kinda shit at drinking. But we have some pockets that i question if they have blood or booze running though em.
And they’re descended from some pockets of Scotland and Ireland that never slowed down.
But for real, there parts of the world that get slooooooooooppy. Drunks stumbling down the street at 9am in major cities type stuff drinking corn hooch in southern African countries. A lot made at home in Eastern Europe, who already ranks high. But they hold theor booze better, too.
Finland has a term specifically for feeling antisocial and not wanting to go out so you can get drunk at home alone - underwear drunk.
At some point, pissing contests lose the nuance or ick or charm of what makes alcohol-fueled cultures like that.
Is a Wisconsin Driver’s license even valid without at least one DUI on your record?
Slow news day in WI:
“Steven’s Point man arrested for 16th DUI.”
Not much of an exaggeration, sadly.
As a sconie, I came here to say this.
Oh my sweet summer child. Come to Britain. We’ll show you what liver-threatening levels of belligerent drinking looks like. The only nations on earth that might - MIGHT - out-drink us are Russia, and maybe rural Finland.
Czechs do pretty well too and they do it on beer. None of the cheating on vodka.
They’ll never know the joy and sorrow of spending 16 hours in a Wetherspoons and not being on shift.
Wisconsin’s beer consumption per capita is almost double that of Britain’s.
Montana is highest in the US.
It should be noted that the rubes in both states drink shitty corporate beer for the most part.
The most popular beer in Wisconsin is Spotted Cow from New Glarus Brewing Company.
Spotted cow is also one of the top ten craft brewers by volume in the US. They do not distribute outside of Wisconsin to my knowledge.
Not only do they not distribute outside Wisconsin, they will go after anyone they find selling their beer outside of the state.
Not even close. New Hampshire, apparently, is the top consumption per person.
I’m assuming this is based on sales of alcohol. NH has state run liquor stores (they sell all kinds of alcohol, not just liquor, but are the only stores that can sell things stronger than wine/beer). They have no sales tax, and are generally cheaper than liquor stores in all of the surrounding states.
Vermont, Maine, and Massachusetts residents regularly cross the state line to buy in NH, and NH makes it convenient with stores close to the borders and near highways.
Yeah, and looking at the global stats, the 2019 ones seem equally dubious in some ways, being mostly lower and rounded the same way. But to WI’s consumption, they also have lower taxes relative to IL and MN.
Plenty of places like Eastern Europe, people make their own wine at home. That’s going to skew them, already high, higher in reality.
Just personally, the UK is just fucking professional at drinking. Despite the fact they aren’t even in the top 10 globally. I know that upper-Midwest drinking a touch, but it’s just not the same.
You do know alcohol comes in other forms, right?
Per capita, UK alcohol consumption is actually just slightly ahead of WI. But the UK is also only 22nd globally by rank.
Romania drinks 150% of what WI drinks per capita, and a lot of that is wine and brandy.
And we drink that beer while we are waiting for our brandy and whisky drinks to show up.
What percentage is Wisconsin beer?
The Midwest and Great lakes region isn’t the south. Our beer is worth drinking on several different metrics.
4.5%-7% for common popular beers, and excluding the fancy craft ones that you’re probably having only one or two of that are 10%-15%.
The south has fine liquor, but some states/areas have weird laws around beer that makes it basically tap water with a dream. Their tea will have more effect.
I’m very for 3% alc beers.
They are cheaper, you can drink more of them without getting plastered, they actually taste well, and it’s much easier on your liver.
It’s more in line how we used to drink beer hundreds of years ago, you drank it throughout the day but didn’t get completely fucked up so you could still be productive.
To each their own, I’m not in the habit of telling people what to enjoy or not. :)
Personally, I haven’t encountered a beer at that strength that tasted palatable. I’d be academically curious if the liver load was more or less with an equivalent amount of alcohol spread over 12 hours or 4 hours. I know above a certain level it can’t process it fast enough and you get your hangover effects, but also that the time spent processing has it’s own load.I will, however, tease states that have a reputation for beer that’s only about twice the alcohol as you naturally find in fruit juice.
Ha! Ha ha! HAHAHAHAHA!
Average abv of beer overall in the US vs beer in the UK is roughly similar. 4-5% in the US, and 4.5-4.8% in the UK.
Wisconsinites drink ~34-36 gallons (~128-132 liters) of beer per capita. Per capita consumption in the UK is ~18-20 gallons (~68-75 liters).
Additionally, while the UK has a great pub culture, that means the drinks tend to be spread out over the week, whereas Wisconsin (and really America as a whole) has more of a weekend binge drinking culture. This means that not only do Wisconsinites drink almost double what people from the UK do, but they tend to do so when only drinking 2-3 days per week.
And, if you want to include liquor, Wisconsin still has the UK beat. Pure alcohol consumption per capita is 10.6-10.7 liters per capita in the UK, vs 11.7-13.2 liters per capita in Wisconsin.
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I’ve been to Britian many times, you folks get out drunk by the Germans a couple times a year and by the American Midwest consistently
A former colleague of mine who enjoys a glass of wine of an evening was reported to HR as an alcoholic by a Midwest American at her new job in London. It was a US-based company so HR took it seriously and she had to explain herself.
All of us at her previous job were astonished. We’d worked with an alcoholic - he had a bottle of water in his desk drawer that turned out to be vodka, and he got so drunk he passed out and fell off his chair. Miss Prim America had been on a work trip with our friend and was scandalised by her drinking wine with dinner every day. Maybe it was a religious thing?
The UK isn’t even in the top 15 European countries based on liters consumed per capita. You are higher when it comes to alcoholism per capita, but still not in the top ten.
Pretty sure Australia and Poland are up there too based on my experiences.
You have a long history of drinking beer because the water wasn’t potable for much of your history. The rest of the world drinks actual spirits because we like getting drunk.
You would handle a night of drinking with Americans as well as you handle an inch of snow on the roads.
UK cant even out drink other Europeans.
You would be dead before you made it past Pennsylvania.
tionally, while the UK has a great pub culture, that means the drinks tend to be spread out over the week,
Three men from Kentucky, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania walk into a bar. The owner buys a new car the next day.
After returning from a vacation to America, an English Youtuber was talking about the cultural differences, and said that what they call “going to a pub in the evening,” Americans would call “a serious drinking problem.”
I couldn’t deal with the hangover. I can’t even imagine.
People here really do suck it’s true. Not all but many, and those many include the establishment. Even as they drink, they will condemn it.
Vacation vs Work Week… I’d be curious how it would go vacation vs vacation
What is “vacation”?
When you drop everything to fly halfway around the world to warch grown men in shorts run around and chase a ball for 90 minutes, then drink all the beer in a given area.
Sounds divine tbh
In the article I read they compared the drinking in the days around the scottish game to the drinking in the 4th july weekend and the scots massively won.
What article? I must’ve missed that one… but it’s still not apples to apples… because a lot of people still work day of 4th of July, don’t take that time off to celebrate like people on holiday for the world cup do.
I’m not doubting the answers, mind you, just the validity of the test itself.
It was a dutch article where they interviewed some pub owners in Boston. Probably more people have the day off on 4th of july then there are scots in Boston for the world cup…
To make this simulation a little easier to the compare the Western US is ~80M people and I think the UK takes em down comfortably.
The Great Lakes region would take down the UK, but in a much closer and drunker matchup.
The western US has the secret elevation advantage. If were battling at sea level, mountain homies will be 10 drinks deep before they even feel a thing
So now that we know the British don’t drink as much as they think are they ready to admit their beer isn’t all that good compared to the continent
India Pale Ale is good ale. I know others make a lot of good beer I don’t even know about, like the Czechs especially, belgium went all corporate.
What do you consider good beer? Because heavy hops is non negotiable for many of us, that may prefer the 7.6% ales over the weak ass corporate bullshit they sell to the sheep hereabouts.
https://www.hauf-bier.de/produkte.html
Is probably my favorite beer company, I generally prefer the pils unless it cold then I prefer the Dunkel.
IPAs are my least favorite they go from too much hops to an unbelievably too much hops.
I’ve lived on the west coast of North America for three decades now, I am so tired of places with 8 taps where 6 are IPA.
Alcohol is a helluva drug
So is sobriety.
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