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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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      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.