Set em up, Joe! Best cities to have a drink
Beer is made in Milwaukee, and according to New York-based Forbes.com, residents consume plenty of it. The former home of Schlitz, Pabst, Miller and Blatz breweries is at the top of Forbes.com’s “America’s Drunkest Cities” list. About 70 percent of Milwaukeeans surveyed said they had at least one alcoholic drink within the past 30 days, the highest percentage on Forbes’ list. The 35 major cities on the list were judged on the strictness of state laws regulating liquor sales, the numbers of drinkers, heavy drinkers and binge drinkers in the surveyed cities and the number of Alcoholics Anonymous meetings held in the cities. Famous party cities such as New Orleans (24) and Miami (33) ranked low, but Nashville, Tenn., proved to be the driest of the bunch.
Top five drunkest cities
- Milwaukee
- Minneapolis-St. Paul
- Columbus, Ohio
- Boston
- Austin, Texas
Top five most sober cities
- Nashville, Tenn.
- Charlotte, N.C.
- Miami
- New York
- Orlando, Fla.
Source: Forbes.com, Aug. 22, 2006
