A New Map of the Most Popular Beer in Every State

Graphic Courtesy of Food & Wine

Food News! 

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

A website has put out a map with the most popular beers in every state, and there’s a LOT of love for the lighter beers.

Miller is #1 in a whopping 29 states, plus Washington, D.C.  It’s popular in the Northwest and Central U.S.

Coors is #1 in eight states, mostly in the Southwest and Appalachian states.

Budweiser is #1 in two states, New Hampshire and Missouri. Bud Light is preferred in two states, Ohio and North Carolina. Busch is the top choice in Illinois and Indiana. Heineken has two states:  New York and Florida.

Blue Moon is the top pick in Colorado. Corona is the preferred option in Connecticut and three states went with Guinness:  Georgia, South Carolina, and New Jersey. Those states are clearly celebrating St. Patrick’s Day.

To come up with the list, they used Google Trends data, along with online “popularity ratings.”  They did NOT use sales data or consumption metrics,  so it’s possible that people drink differently than their online behavior suggests.

SOURCE: Food & Wine