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Where People Buy Their Beer

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Today’s infographic is a pie chart showing where people buy their beer. The chart was originally used with an AdAge story, Stat of the Day: Where People Buy Their Beer, using statistics from February of last year. By dollars, most people buy their beer at restaurants, but imagine how much more would be sold if more restaurants actually paid better attention to their beer list. Second was bars, followed by convenience stores in third place. By volume, the most beer is sold at convenience stores, followed by supermarkets/grocery stores and “other” in third place. In both measure, concessions comes in last place; I wonder if the often-gouging price has something to do with that?

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Click here to see the chart full size.

Alcohol Use Maps

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Today’s infographic is actually a series of U.S. maps from SAMHSA (the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration), a government agency created in 1992. The series of maps breaks down various aspects of Alcohol Use, by state. And the source of all of the data is “SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.”

Alcohol Use in Past Month among Persons Aged 12 or Older
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Alcohol Use in Past Month among Youths Aged 12 to 17
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Alcohol Use in Past Month among Persons Aged 18 to 25
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Alcohol Use in Past Month among Persons Aged 26 or Older
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Binge Alcohol Use in Past Month among Persons Aged 12 or Older
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Binge Alcohol Use in Past Month among Youths Aged 12 to 17
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Binge Alcohol Use in Past Month among Persons Aged 18 to 25
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Binge Alcohol Use in Past Month among Persons Aged 26 or Older
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Perceptions of Great Risk of Having Five or More Drinks of an Alcoholic Beverage Once or Twice a Week among Persons Aged 12 or Older
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Perceptions of Great Risk of Having Five or More Drinks of an Alcoholic Beverage Once or Twice a Week among Youths Aged 12 to 17
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Perceptions of Great Risk of Having Five or More Drinks of an Alcoholic Beverage Once or Twice a Week among Persons Aged 18 to 25
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Perceptions of Great Risk of Having Five or More Drinks of an Alcoholic Beverage Once or Twice a Week among Persons Aged 26 or Older
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To see all of the maps full size, go here, where you can also see a write-up of them.

Annual Beer Consumption Per State Per Capita

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Today’s infographic shows Annual Beer Consumption Per State Per Capita, based on data from 2009. It was created to answer the question of whether or not there “is there a link between climate and beer consumption?” If you’ll pardon the pun, the results seem allover the map, so I’d have to conclude that the answer is “no.”

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Click here to see the map full size.

Beer Serves America Interactive Map

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Today’s infographic is an interactive map of the country created by the Beer Institute for their Beer Serves America, which used to be a separate website, but has since been folded back into the BI website. In the interactive map, holding the cursor over the pint glass in each state bring up additional data about that state, and provides a link to a pdf with much information about the economic impact of beer for each state.

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Click here to see the interactive map full size … and interacting.

The Effect Our Significant Other Has On Our Drinking Habits

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Today’s infographic explores The Effect Our Significant Other Has On Our Drinking Habits. Since today is my 17th wedding anniversary — which is furniture or a watch, how romantic — so I’m posting For Better Or Worse, which shows how your marital status, by gender, affects your drinking patterns. Almost humorously, the infographic was created by Total Divorce.

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Click here to see the poster full size.

Taking Over America’s Taste Buds

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Today’s infographic, an overview of Craft Beer, Taking Over America’s Taste Buds, is not strictly about Ohio, but its creator, Molly Denning is from Columbus and created it as an Ohio State school project to be used in the Craft Beer Village at the Bunbury Music Festival, which begins today in Cincinnati.

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The Beer Belly Of America, Part 3

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Today’s infographic is part three of three, created by Floating Sheep in 2010, using data collected in 2008. It’s from a post entitled the Beer Belly of America. The third map shows a more normalized version of yesterday’s map, showing the “relative mentions of bars in the Google Maps directory,” which was accomplished using the average number of bar mentions.

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Click here to see the map full size.