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Do Americans drink much?

from what ive seen americans drink too much but i also have lived in the 2 highest alcohol consuming states in the country (new hampshire and now wisconsin) so i might have a slightly jaded view of things...personally the only good thing about booze is that its so readily available.
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Australians drink a lot according to my friends living over in Melbourne. Where I live in Buffalo, New York (yeah Enigma) we suffer from high rates of depression so heavy drinking is usually a fairly common remidy for fighting depression. I have personally blown .31 BAC with my buddies handy fun breathalizer. As far as drinking more individually....you'd have to look for genetics, tolerance, body fat content, how much water you hold, weight overall. As far as a whole the only way to prove it would to have a drinking competition. I'll get five of my friends and you get five of your friends and we'll meet in Belgium where the beer will knock you on your ass. We'll dress up like monks and we'll drink. I can guarentee that before a winner is pronounced both of groups will have lost control of our bowels and both of our groups would be making horrible one word drunken stereotypes of eachother. I think that I would probobly be on an endless topic of boomerangs and vegimite. We'd have to consider the vomit factor too. Can wse go on after we puke? We should also consider the dying factor. If your up for it I'm game. I'll be over there in about a year.
 
Australians drink a lot according to my friends living over in Melbourne. Where I live in Buffalo, New York (yeah Enigma) we suffer from high rates of depression so heavy drinking is usually a fairly common remidy for fighting depression. I have personally blown .31 BAC with my buddies handy fun breathalizer. As far as drinking more individually....you'd have to look for genetics, tolerance, body fat content, how much water you hold, weight overall. As far as a whole the only way to prove it would to have a drinking competition. I'll get five of my friends and you get five of your friends and we'll meet in Belgium where the beer will knock you on your ass. We'll dress up like monks and we'll drink. I can guarentee that before a winner is pronounced both of groups will have lost control of our bowels and both of our groups would be making horrible one word drunken stereotypes of eachother. I think that I would probobly be on an endless topic of boomerangs and vegimite. We'd have to consider the vomit factor too. Can wse go on after we puke? We should also consider the dying factor. If your up for it I'm game. I'll be over there in about a year.
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what are you talking about American beer sucks. "Most of the beer has 4% alc." First of all Ice beer sucks. The process of making it is used for speed so they don't have to go through the propper fermentation processes . It makes the beer taste like shit. It takes a mediocre beer like Labatts and turn it into a god awful beer. Yeah it gets you drunk quicker, which I guess is the case for you, but it sucks (no offense). Its like me saying Canadien beers suck, bud ice is the best. Yeah bud is a world class beer, but when you up the alc on a pretty good recipe by freezing it, it severly damages the taste. If your in Canada try Fin Du Monde, its made in Montreal, you may be able to get it where you are. 12% alc. Excellent beer. If your in USA try to find Sam Adams Triple Bach in a little blue bottle. 18% alc and still considered a beer.
 
Beer sucks... I have "given it a shot" and drank just about every god damn beer avaiable - except for Zima, I do NOT understand how people can tell the difference between two types.. it ALL TASTES THE SAME! If you want to get drunk, then just slam a few shots of Everclear, then sip a white russian for flavor.. that makes a hell of a lot more sense then downing can after can of that disgusting piss water..
A friend even admitted it - she said that the first one is hard to get down, then you get used to the nasty taste and can drink the rest.. for real, why not just do a few shots?
I will never understand alcoholics..
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Americans think there beer is good stuff, bud light, what a joke. Thats water. Drink some real beer like labatts or molson. I been to high school parties around here where people drink a flat each at least, and these are 15-18 year olds...
 
Americans can drink , but not compared to the rest of the world. All the poverty countries drink way more because thats all they can do to pass the times of thier miserable lives. I think alcohol is the most dangerous drug , but why is it legal??? I CANNOT understand for the life of me why it is so accepted !
 
As far as beer goes, it can be an aquired taste. Once you get the aquisition of the taste you can definetly get to enjoy the different qualities a beer possesses(sp) Hoppiness, Fruitiness, bitterness. Does it bite, is it smooth, is the taste muttled. 1000's of different recipes none of which are same. Different beers also cause different types of highs, so it keeps it interesting.
On another note, Still to this day with every drug that I have tried, I still think that alcohol is the hardest drug out there on an overall basis. It is definetly the only drug that has made me forget my name, fuck the fattest girl in the bar, loose all sense of right or wrong, hallucinate giant godzilla monsters, destroy massive amounts of manicured shrubbery, chase small wild animals into the forest pass out and find myself a mile from my house.
yeah drugs are cool, but you sure as hell don't feel like a crack whore for the 3 days and have to worry about neurotoxicity and amphetamine psychosis. Plus you can do this completly legally (aside from the random acts of debauchery.) HAve fun
 
just one more thing. what the hell are you talking about Vodka. Budweiser is a WORLD CLASS BEER. that is why it is exported to just about every country in the world. You can defiently not say that about Labatts. I really don't give a shit about Budweiser and I don't choose to drink it because I don't think its that great of a beer. But for you to compare it to Labatts or Molson is like comparing the same animal. They are all shitty, easy to pound, weak beers. That is the reason why these types of beers sell so well at bars. You can hardly even taste them.
 
just one more thing. what the hell are you talking about Vodka. Budweiser is a WORLD CLASS BEER. that is why it is exported to just about every country in the world. You can defiently not say that about Labatts. I really don't give a shit about Budweiser and I don't choose to drink it because I don't think its that great of a beer. But for you to compare it to Labatts or Molson is like comparing the same animal. They are all shitty, easy to pound, weak beers. That is the reason why these types of beers sell so well at bars. You can hardly even taste them.
 
Budweiser is a WORLD CLASS BEER[/quote}
One word for this comment, Bollocks! The reason it is exported all over the world is because of the horrors of American Cultral Imperialism.
Now for real beer avoid the chemiclal stuff or stuff brewed with wierd things (eg rice, what kind of fuckwit makes beer with rice?)
Proper british bitter is the way to go, for a beer that tastes of something.
Also if you want real Budweiser buy Budweiser Budvar, brewed in Europe and is a good lager.
However due respect to the US for ack Daniels and Makers Mark
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Yeah, americans drink way too much. I get in alot of arguments with my girlfriend and people in bars telling them that alcohol is bad for you, it's probably the worst drug out there besides tobacco. There usually rebuttal: it's legal so it doesn't carry the stigma of other dtugs. True, but whatever, I wouldn't trust the government to change my diapers as baby. As far as the comparison of Luxemborg to Americans, I'm sure Luxembourg, and all of Europe for that matter consume more on a per person basis. And also, the only people I know who drink Coors and Bud say they drink it because it has no flavor. I say Guinness all the way. now that's some good beer - get all your necessary nutrients from that- and a buzz to boot. PErsonally I think alcholo sucks. If I have 1 or 2 beers I get a small buzz then get really sleepy, any more than that and I start to get trashed and then feel like shit in the morning....why would I want that? But mostly, everyone I know drinks the micro brews, Sierra Nevada, Sam Adams, Nut Brown. And liquor? When I drink that it's gonna be Jack, Jamesons (mmmmmmmm!), Markers MArk, Wild Turkey - where the flavor is!!! Good stuff, o nthe rocks or neat only. But if I had to choose between alcohol and a few pills of oxy's well it's no contest - oxy all the way baby!!!
 
I live in American and I promise you that Budweiser is not a world class beer! It is piss in comparison to real beers (the ones you cant buy at KwikiMart).
 
Budweiser is a class beer and would not be this popular if it didn’t have what it takes. Guinness is some crazy shit; I mean the stuff is black! I have tried a lot of different beers so I can distinguish the good stuff from the bad. Junk beer tastes of piss. E.g. Stella silvers. Real good beer is expensive though so that rules out anything that comes in bottles. Okay now lets determine what is a good beer that don’t cost much. Well one could make their personal keg but then they’d have to go to the trouble of finding rats to brew in it. But this is only beer we’re talking about and on second thoughts they do all taste the same. But I still dislike wine & spirits because when I have them I drink too much of them. However a shot of JD is pretty damn good. I am planning on brewing my own beer though once my mushrooms are done so does anyone have any advice on this?
 
I live in Wisconsin and the consumption of alcohol here is insane. Here's a statistic for you:
The average amount of beer consumption per person(regardless of age, EVERY LIVE PERSON COUNTS) is about 80 GALLONS per year.
The people who drink probably drink at least twice that amount to make up for the people who don't drink(babies, younger kids, whatever). Jesus Christ, that's sad. Me, I don't drink.
It's embarrassing to live in the #1 state of beer sales and alcohol consumption(maybe #2 in one of those catagories). Where I live there is about 5 bars per couple of blocks in the business area of the city. It's ALWAYS 'Miller Time' here.
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I also now live in Wisconsin, and have to agree that this state has the most insane drinking habits of any place I've ever even visited in the past. Just driving on our highways in the morning, you see thousands and thousands of beer cans and bottles littering the sides of the roads. Most of the beer sold here is at least 4.5- 5.5 % also and if you don't drink they will outcast you from most social circles.
 
i cant understand how everyone can diss alcohol so much and still take other drugs, its just another drug and alot of people can handle themselfs on it. If they made alcohol illegal (like some of you seem to want) they sure as hell woudnt make any other drugs legal. Why not just use alcohol like any other drug?
 
People are taking the World Class Thing the wrong way. By telling me that budweiser is piss woun't make a bit of difference on its World class status. First of all Budweiser is definetly not piss. It has an average color and aroma with a superb taste and not much aftertaste. Its popularity roots from this. Its easy to drink and goes with just about anything. If you were to ask anybody that ever did a moderate amount of brewing or judging and knew what they were talking about they would definetly not dipute the fact that Bubweiser is a World Class Beer. I could probobly tell you that a large number of those brewers you asked would say that they don't drink bud because they are looking for a more complex full flavored beer. But anyways, than the fact that it is sold at every store in america does not make it piss. I bet you that if I were to poor Bud into a fancy bottle and change its name to "Bluelight Super Fine Pilsner" 75% of you guys would say, "Thats not too bad." I bet harldy anybody here could actually tell me that what they were drinking was budweiser if I didn't tell them.
100 million barrels were sent around the world last year. I would say that is a pretty bid contributing factor to it being world class.
And what the hell is up with the comment that or the reason it is sold in so many other countries is because of the "horrors of american imperialism." First off, Are you talking about N. America, S. America, C. America. I'm guessing you're talking about U.S.A> imperialism. 2nd off, we're talking about a beer that people enjoy. Its been round for like 150 years. By now people in other countries outside US have formed a pretty strong platform for why it is sold. Because it sells. Probobly because they like to drink it as well. Is the reason Guiness is over in America because of "blimey Irish imperialism." or is Becks or Heinekin or St. Paulies girl forms of other European Imperialism. By the way, those are all World Class Beers.
I would agree that there are 100's of better beers but just becuase its sold in a Kwikimart next to bottle of Shlitz Ice 40's that taste and smell like napalm doesn't mean a damn thing when it comes to the quality of the beer it sits next to.
I have to leave now
 
Yes Americans drink too much! We do everything too much. We are a country of excess and instant gratification. So sue us!! Oh yea, we doo way too much of that too.
But back to the point. It is very sad how many alcoholics we have in this country. Those very same alcoholics are the ones in charge of our "war on drugs", and the rest of our government for that matter. But that is a different thread.
Beer (in America) is for college students, beer bellied no shirt and wife beater shirt wearing morons. Oh, and fisherman... sorry. It's cheap, it makes you fat and sloppy unless you are in college and still have a teenage metabolism. If you are going to waste your time on this drug drink some real liquor. I prefer absolute on the rocks myself, but I don't really drink that often. I would rather not feel like crap for two days unless it is really worth it. A mini Meth binge works for me.
Yes, my statement was a sweeping generalization about beer drinkers, but it's a free country I am entitled. If it hit too close to home, sorry, and lighten up if you can't take a joke.
Sorry if I seem jaded, I was trying to keep this post light hearted. I personally come from a long line of Alcoholics. It is not pretty and it gets to you after awhile.
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LOL As far as drinking goes, Bacardi 151 has always done the job right. Start out with two shots of Bacardi within an hour. . . then finish the night off drinking beer. . . chances are you'll wake up still drunk.
 
LOL As far as drinking goes, Bacardi 151 has always done the job right. Start out with two shots of Bacardi within an hour. . . then finish the night off drinking beer. . . chances are you'll wake up still drunk.
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