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Poll: Americans Drink Less Beer, Turn Towards Wine And Liquor
Poll: Americans Drink Less Beer, Turn Towards Wine And Liquor
Americans are slowly turning away from beer as their alcoholic beverage of choice, a Gallup poll from July 2013 finds.
As the Atlantic reports, the last twenty years have seen a decline in the popularity of beer and an increase in the popularity of both liquor and wine among both black and white Americans.
![Beer is not as popular among Americans as it was twenty years ago. A collection of rare beer cans. Beer Cans-1 By Visitor7 (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABeer_Cans-1.jpg](http://american-studies-graduate.de/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Beer_Cans-1.jpg)
Here are some of the Atlantic’s explanations for the trend:
- A general higher awareness of healthy living.
- The (white) working class is suffering from the economic crises in the early 2000s and since 2008.
- Since the late 1990s, liquor ads have been shown on television.
- Americans are discovering affordable and tasty wine while the exports of American wines are increasing.
Read more:
“U.S. Drinkers Divide Between Beer and Wine as Favorite.” (Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup, 2013/08/01)
“Why Are American Drinkers Turning Against Beer?” (Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 2013/08/05)