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Milwaukee is nation's 'drunkest' city

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Milwaukee is nation's 'drunkest' city


Just in time for New Year’s Eve, Milwaukee finds itself in first place — on The Daily Beast's list of the "40 Drunkest Cities."

To compile its inaugural list of the drunkest cities in America, The Daily Beast said it assessed average alcohol consumption over a month, the highest levels of binge drinking, and the places where large portions of the population suffer the dire health consequences from over-imbibing.

Residents of Milwaukee, the home of the former Miller Brewing Co. and other brewers, drink an average of 12.76 drinks per month. A total of 7.1 percent of adults are considered heavy drinkers, another 21.8 percent of adults are considered binge drinkers and there are 3.9 deaths per 100,000 residents from alcoholic liver disease, according to The Daily Beast's list, which was released Tuesday.

Read more: Milwaukee is nation's 'drunkest' city | The Business Journal


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You all suck at drinking.
 
That is because the only thing to do in WI is either look at cheese, make cheese, be cold, watch the Packers, or get drunk. And honestly out of that list getting drunk sounds like the most satisfying option.
 
I think it's more likely the strong German ethnic prevalence up there. Beer drinking is a tradition among those of German descent.
 
Mine is that I am Canadian, of Irish, Scotish, and German ethnicity

Not being drunk would be an afront to my heritage
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...Then there's thaat Poirate thingy....Aaaaarrrh!

"It's late and she is waiting, and I know I must go home,
But every time I start to leave, they play another song,
Then someone buys another round and whatever drinks are free,
What made Milwaukee famous has made a loser out of me. ..."

(no association or inference whatever between LT and a drunken Milwaukee pub singer loser is intended, or should be made. )
 
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Coming from the city that makes some of the worst beer.
 
Milwaukee is home to one of the best breweries - Lakefront Brewery. If you're ever in town be sure to take the tour, it's WAY better than the stupid Miller tour.

Wisconsin is also home to another legendary brewery - New Glarus Brewing Co. They make Spotted Cow, one of the best beers ever brewed.

I'm no fan of Miller but if you think Milwaukee/Wisconsin makes "crappy beer" then you my friend have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

And there is plenty to do in Milwaukee we just enjoy doing it all while drinking, or after pregaming. You're thinking of LaCrosse where people just drink and drown in the river.
 
On my flight from DFW to California the guy sitting next to me was a pitcher for the Brewers. He definitely liked Jack Daniels.
 
On a scale of 1 to 10 of how surprised I am by this, this rates at about -3.
 
Yeah, that's my excuse too...:mrgreen:

Somethings wrong with me I guess. My mother is German and my father's side is of English descent and they were some of the earliest New England coloniists. But I don't care for beer or anything alcoholic. Nothing against it just don't like the taste.
 
That is because the only thing to do in WI is either look at cheese, make cheese, be cold, watch the Packers, or get drunk. And honestly out of that list getting drunk sounds like the most satisfying option.

When I was still living in Michigan, I got to play a gig in Milwaukee. They definitely know how to party there. And I don't know about you, but I wasn't looking at cheese. I was looking at women. They've got some real foxes there. LOL.
 
When I was still living in Michigan, I got to play a gig in Milwaukee. They definitely know how to party there. And I don't know about you, but I wasn't looking at cheese. I was looking at women. They've got some real foxes there. LOL.

The women must be bad if you were checking out canines.
 
12 drinks a month sounds awfully low to me for Wisconsin. Those damn infants and toddlers probably brought the average down.
 
When I was still living in Michigan, I got to play a gig in Milwaukee. They definitely know how to party there. And I don't know about you, but I wasn't looking at cheese. I was looking at women. They've got some real foxes there. LOL.

Milwaukee and Madison yes. The rest of the state, not so much.
 
Milwaukee and Madison yes. The rest of the state, not so much.

Is the Miflin Street Block party still going on?

I know I have been to some, but I am hazy as to the details.
 
Is the Miflin Street Block party still going on?

I know I have been to some, but I am hazy as to the details.

Every year. That and the Halloween night party on State Street. Law enforcement does its best, but when a town that parties all the time anyway decides to actually throw one, its a largely futile effort for the law.
 
Every year. That and the Halloween night party on State Street. Law enforcement does its best, but when a town that parties all the time anyway decides to actually throw one, its a largely futile effort for the law.

I used to hang out at the 602 club on State Street way back in the day. Is that place still around?
 
12 drinks a month sounds awfully low to me for Wisconsin. Those damn infants and toddlers probably brought the average down.

Damned kids never pull their own weight. Communists, the lot of them.
 
Damned kids never pull their own weight. Communists, the lot of them.
It's those damned child labor laws - only communists would have thought such things up...

:mrgreen:
 
Well.. I have Russian and German in me, and I can't get drunk... The last time I was drunk was probably 6 years ago and that is when I lived in Germany, and I drank a whole bottle of Polish vodka with a big Polish guy.

But I had a college professor from Wisconsin and he would always talk about the breweries there... He would tell us stories about the different breweries and how some gave you a free glass of beer at the end of the tour. He has been to breweries for beers I have never heard of..
 
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