Sometimes number one is great. Take Colorado, with all its great beer and its top rank as the Numero Uno beer-producing state.
Other times, though, rank bestows no privilege. “Most” is worst, as often as it is best.
From Forbes Magazine comes a recent story that ranked America’s Hard-Drinkingest cities. Austinites whooped it up at top the list, with Milwaukeeans, San Franciscans, Providentials, and Chicagoans staggering along close behind. 28 other besotted cities were ranked as well.
Curiously, Denver was not among the top 15 drunkest cities in the article by David M. Ewalt and Anna Vander Broek. The authors refer to statistical anomalies that prevented them from ranking several cities, and the study was weighted towards consumption of mass quantities. It is possible, too, that Denver was eliminated from the sample set because its numbers, just like the highest and lowest scores in athletic contests, would have been thrown out because they made all other cities look so bad - or is that good?
However, a 2007 Men’s Health magazine story ranked Denver as America’s “drunkest city”, with Colorado Springs in third place, right behind Anchorage, Alaska. The Men’s Health article used different data to determine the degree of sobriety, including traffic data from USDOT, FBI, and MADD that were not included in the Forbes story results.
Go figure, and get me a beer while you’re at it.
Another perspective on alcohol consumption in Denver, with general travel information to boot, can be found from Wrist Deep Productions, here.
And while everybody else is going around ranking cities, we thought we’d do a little ranking of our own. So, pulled straight from our very own Beer Drinker’s Guide to Colorado map, we present:
Colorado Cities with the Most Brewpubs Per-Capita
1. Winter Park: our kind of town, with one brewing operation for every 359 residents
2. Palisade
3. Durango
4. Cortez
5. Golden
6. Boulder
7. Fort Collins
8. Longmont
9. Grand Junction
10. Denver
(Among cities with at least two brewpubs; 2006 population data)
Other times, though, rank bestows no privilege. “Most” is worst, as often as it is best.
From Forbes Magazine comes a recent story that ranked America’s Hard-Drinkingest cities. Austinites whooped it up at top the list, with Milwaukeeans, San Franciscans, Providentials, and Chicagoans staggering along close behind. 28 other besotted cities were ranked as well.
Curiously, Denver was not among the top 15 drunkest cities in the article by David M. Ewalt and Anna Vander Broek. The authors refer to statistical anomalies that prevented them from ranking several cities, and the study was weighted towards consumption of mass quantities. It is possible, too, that Denver was eliminated from the sample set because its numbers, just like the highest and lowest scores in athletic contests, would have been thrown out because they made all other cities look so bad - or is that good?
However, a 2007 Men’s Health magazine story ranked Denver as America’s “drunkest city”, with Colorado Springs in third place, right behind Anchorage, Alaska. The Men’s Health article used different data to determine the degree of sobriety, including traffic data from USDOT, FBI, and MADD that were not included in the Forbes story results.
Go figure, and get me a beer while you’re at it.
Another perspective on alcohol consumption in Denver, with general travel information to boot, can be found from Wrist Deep Productions, here.
And while everybody else is going around ranking cities, we thought we’d do a little ranking of our own. So, pulled straight from our very own Beer Drinker’s Guide to Colorado map, we present:
1. Winter Park: our kind of town, with one brewing operation for every 359 residents
2. Palisade
3. Durango
4. Cortez
5. Golden
6. Boulder
7. Fort Collins
8. Longmont
9. Grand Junction
10. Denver
(Among cities with at least two brewpubs; 2006 population data)
