Congrats Guys, We’re The Drunkest City In America
(DailyBeast) - To figure out which cities imbibe the most throughout the year, The Daily Beast first reached out to market researcher Experian Marketing Services for recent data on the average number of alcoholic drinks per month per adult, in each metro area. As well, we pulled data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the percentage of residents who are binge drinkers and heavy drinkers. For the final ranking, the average drinks per month rank was weighted 50 percent; the binge-drinking and the heavy-drinking population for each metro area each got a 25 percent weighting.
24. Cleveland, OH
23. St. Louis, MO
22. Buffalo, NY
21. Las Vegas, NV
20. Fargo, ND
19. Philadelphia, PA
18. San Francisco, CA
17. Reno, NV
16. Baton Rouge, LA
15. Denver, CO
14. Springfield, MA
13. Baltimore, MD
12. Omaha, NE
11. Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
10. Providence, RI
9. Washington, D.C.
8. Chicago, IL
7. New Orleans, LA
6. Hartford-New Haven, CT
5. Austin, TX
4. Charleston, SC
3. Milwaukee, WI
2. Norfolk, VA
1. Boston, MA
Here’s my problem with this study. Boston is also one of the smartest cities in America with the most colleges so we can’t be drunks. If you want to say Boston is packed to the gills with high functioning alcoholics then that’s fine. I’ll wear that hat. But you can’t call us drunks. Boston is your buddy in college who drank 20 beers a night and could somehow be bright eyed and bushy tailed for his 6 AM run before his 8 AM biology lab. Drunks are on Indian reservations and in the midwest. Drunks don’t do anything all day but drink Bud Heavies and sit in lawn chairs. That’s not Boston. The foolproof equation DailyBeast came up with may say we drink the most alcohol but we’re certainly not drunks.
And if you don’t want to give me that argument then fine: Boston is the funnest city in America. Every other city is the friend that goes to the bar and casually has a few beers and is a wallflower while the cool city dances his ass off, talks to chicks, and has a good time.
PS – since I have two links in there does that technically make this a researched article and therefore make me a reporter? Like to see a drunk pull off something like that.
The beautiful Springfield checking in at 14.
Someone tell them it’s not the # of beers you drink to win ‘drunkest’….its how drunk you get and the official beer of Massholes is just Bud Lite so really Boston can’t win the title by definition. It’s like counting how many mineral waters you drink on a Saturday night.
New York can suck our whiskey dicks
You’re sitting there pulling on something else you raging DRUNK!!
Bud Heavies? Grow up, they’re called Buds
In related news – I’m drunk
Charleston at #4? Couldn’t be more proud.
5mm really? bud light? ever hear of Sam Adams, you pud
cue the duckboats
I like to think that Spare Change Guy put us over the top.
how the fuck is hartford and new haven one city?
5minute is the one dude that his local bar needs to stock the chest with Michelob Ultras for.
Boston Might be smart Drunk, but it’s certainly not your buddy that gets up and runs in the morning!!! Come on now!! It’s more like your buddy that up early goes straight to dunks for a XL Turbo ice and three bacon egg and cheese on Crossants.
its pretty clear the writers of this have never left the NE part of the country.
Wait? Did you just say Boston is the Funnest city in America???!!!! hahahahahahaha you’re joking right? Thats why Boston bars/clubs are fucking Ghost towns 5 nights a week
It’s funny when Boston compares themselves to NYC. Not comparable. NYC is strides better, bigger, and badder.
Fuck, Philly might be a better town.
So frank carlton, you’re saying the offical beer of the Masshole is Sam Adams? Really? Are you serious?
fuck Sam Adams. If you ain’t crushing barley pop super colds I don’t wanna know you
I guess the South just spread themselves a little to thin after leading in obesity, bastard kids and book learnin
Manny 24, and they all close at 2 am…
So that’s why you guys think it’s cool to fight each other all the fucking time? And just because you have the most colleges doesn’t mean anyone from Boston actually goes there you fuck.
Only hardos drink Sam Adams.
No cities from Florida? I thought between the colleges, illegal aliens, spring breakers, and drunk ass retiree’s playing golf one city would show up there.
bostons a solid college town but NYC is 1000000000000000000000000000x better…..grow up you idiots
ill drink to that
nyc is ten times better than boston. last call at 1am? get the fuck out of here.
New Orleans is #7. They have drive through bars for xmas sake
Nice to see that all of southern new england is drunks, most likely because during the winter people drink because the weather sucks, and then when the weather’s nice they drink outside.
I am from Mass, and think it’s a joke to call Boston the funnest city in America….but NY sucks. So overrated. Give me 12 months of good weather and girls in shorts any day.
Boston is easily better than NYC. You basically get the same shit except Boston’s subway system is so much easier to navigate and it’s almost impossible to get lost. On the whole Boston also has better sports and colleges like they already said. No argument can be made. All you New Yorkers who came here to talk shit can shove the big apple right up your arrogant asses.
Don’t the bars close at like 1am in Boston?
Sounds like Boston is just a bunch of lightweights.
Imagine a place where there is no last call
My city is number 3. How is Madison, WI not on this List? Even though mostly known as a college town, it still goes big.
amherst?
Work hard, play hard. The Irish population in Boston put us over the top.
Boston one of the smartest cities? With those ridiculous fucking accents? please.
I’m with sto at 4:29pm. New Orleans is in a league of their own when it comes to booze consumption. Bars open 23hrs a day. Diners serve hard liquor with your crab benedict. About 7am they bring in fire hoses and just hose the streets down to start the day over. Doesn’t matter whether it’s a week day or weekend, it never stops.
And the drive thru daquiri’s are so convenient. Makes ya pissed off when you get home and have to get out of the car at Cumby’s for a beer.
Haha all you NYC’ers can go fuck yourselves. You didn’t even make the list so we understand why you’re mad when not only is Boston #1, but there are 5… Count again, 5 New England cities on this list. Back to your chick ultras and shut the fuck up. Pussies
Poor New York. Fucking rat-infested city can’t win anything nowadays.
Everybody talkin about when the bars close here, but that don’t mean we stop drinking!
The fuck is Hartford-New Haven?
Soo did they completely forget about every city in alaska?
People from Springfield drink to forget how shitty their city is.
ill have a double makers on the rocks, pls
1) How in the fuck is Philly that far down the list? 2) DC is #9, my ass. 3) I try to avoid CT at all costs, but is Hartford even that close to New Haven?
I’m pretty sure that winning the Drunkest City award is nooooot a good thing. Knocking NYC for not being listed is simply idiotic. Congrats on beating out shitty, depressed, “drink myself to sleep cities” like Buffalo and Cleveland, Boston. Stay Classy!