As someone who lives three hours from Green Bay and has attended many Packer games in past, I can give personal testimony to the accuracy of that saying. There are few games in the late 90s that I can not recall the fourth quarter very well. I owe my liver an apology for the abuse when I was younger.
As a Wisconsinite, I was genuinely confused with that question when I watched his show until he replied "well, that's when we do it with funny hats!" I was like "see? This guy gets it." Basically that and doing it with the extended family that you don't see too often@@erickort1987
Also Louis: "How do you know it's New Year's in Wisconsin? Everyone's drunk ... but wearing little hats." 🍻🥳🍾 ua-cam.com/video/7WlwumGkSec/v-deo.htmlsi=wR-kbAwPwrukel80
Born and raised in Green Bay. Prohibition never stopped the drinking in Brown County. The bar owners just paid their fine at the courthouse each week, and kept the bars open.
I’m from Wisconsin and I can say that acceptance of alcohol can be helpful we are taught at an early age what drinking is like and how it can end up. It can also be helpful in the fact that people talk more openly about how much they consume and therefore are not as apprehensive to come forward if they have a serious problem. Hiding from issues can make them worse
I do NOT drink. No one believes me. they think that means at least a bear or two a week and every holiday and whenever you are in any celebratory event. I think they think brandy doesn't think is drinking booze.
I'm from Wisconsin and at least half of the men over 45 are alcoholics who won't admit they have a problem or don't care because all the other guys they know drink like that too. Or they can easily point to someone else who's worse. Try being sober in this state. I'm the weirdo here.
@@minilea25 I'm with you. when my daughter was in school, she used to point out the kids with "cat face' to me.....that is a child who's mother was drinking while pregnant. There were a LOT of them.
@@SUBinfinit I rarely drink anymore and then it’s just a single glass of wine or a margarita with dinner and I’m done. Maybe one every few years. When I was in my 20’s and early 30’s I had my fun. I could drink back then. It’s always fascinating to ask people when they had their 1st drink though. There’s always a story. Mine was I was annoying the crap out of my mom. Keep in mind I was adopted by my grandparents so she was 51. The age I am now. I was 2 and didn’t understand that it wasn’t soda in the can I was asking to take a sip out of. After a while she gave in. Figured I wouldn’t like it and that’d be the end of it. Boy, did that backfire…..🤣
I’ve met a group of Australians that come to Wisconsin for our summers (their winters) because they said we’re the only place in the world that can keep up with their drinking
@@jimhowes2983 Milwaukee has a music festival in the summer called, oddly enough, Summerfest. People come from all over the nation to come and listen to music and drink. You think you can drink? You willing to challenge the final boss fight? Milwaukee laughs in your direction.
@@jimhowes2983I have lived in Madison, WI my entire life. I went to Japan in high school and my Japanese host family was worried with the amount of Sake I downed I would be drunk and pass out. I was a typical high school kid and was just fine 😅 we just assume everyone drank like Australians and Wisconsinites. Apparently the rest of the world doesn’t..
Wisconsinite too milwaukee now madtown... now i know why we like old fashions so much...at a wedding everyone keep asking for old fashions n i went up to the bartender and asked are you only making olds, she said no everyone keeps ordering then... i said "ill take a old fashion"
When I was a kid we were on vacation in northern Wisconsin. While going through a small town near Hayward. There was a four-way stop,and there were bars on all four corners. My dad said, “Four-way stop with four taverns! Yep, we’re in Wisconsin alright!”
As a Wisconsinite, I can say that our drinking culture is huge. Drinking is a very normal thing here. Most events in the state sell beer from county fairs to local festivals. Our baseball team is the Brewers, because of our large brewing industry and heritage. One of our largest gas station chains offers discounts on gas for select beer purchases. Going and eating at bars is very normal here, as most bars have the best food. Wine walks and beer tastings are common events. DUIs are very common in the state, I'd day most people know at least one person who has one or more. The reason stated as not having anything else to do isn't necessarily wrong but also that anything you can do can also involve drinking. I like many in my family am an alcoholic, I luckily have been sober for a little over a year now. Alcoholics Anonymous also has a large presence in Wisconsin because of the normalized drinking.
As a Wisconsinite, if I became aware of someone with that issue, i became that persons ally. You can be included in the fun without partaking in drinking, no pressure. My wife and i take off 3 or 4 months of the year.
I agree that you definitely don't need to drink to enjoy yourself, but the social pressure is there. Since being sober, I've only had one person offer me a drink at a get-together. I'd say we definitely understand alcoholism very well in the state, and it's something that's taken seriously here. I live in Rock County, and we have well over 50 AA meetings a week in my city alone.
As a teenager, I grew up in Illinois which had an age 19 drinking law... Wisconsin was 18...This made the town of Beloit very popular and full of young adult bars...The good old days!
@@stevensproull9388 haha, I'm from Rockford, but drinking age has been 21. Unless you go with your mom to the bar in Beloit I guess, knew some people who did that.
@YarPirates-vy7iv If you go back over 40 years ago, before age 21 was a national drinking age law, States independently chose what age it was legal to drink... Illinois age was 19... Wisconsin 18.
@@stevensproull9388 And piles of dead Minnesotan kids line our border; eventually forcing us to adopt the national age, because the Minnesotans couldn't drink Wisconsibly.
It's funny to me how this video seems to want to portray this as something bad and a problem. Believe me, the reason that the laws in Wisconsin are favorable to its drinking culture is exactly because the people in Wisconsin want it that way. Thus lawmakers are reluctant to alienate the voters.
Whenever I have a majority of Wisconsinite guests on tour with me in Alaska, it's amazing. Change things up in my narration and direct them to the best, nearest watering hole, lol. Talk about Alaskan beer and Reindeer sausage pierogis and pelmenis before we stop for lunch. They don't disappoint with how chill and funny they can be.
Lol, I was on a tour last year in New Orleans and the guide was talking about how much they drink there, she was asking the group where everyone was from when she got to us she corrected herself, "well we don't drink as much as you guys do". It was pretty funny
As a wisconsinite, I just got real excited about the prospect of reindeer perogis. That sounds amazing. Also, good to hear my fellow statesmen are representing us well abroad.
Born and raised in Milwaukee 60s/70s/80s... My uncles and father were blue color factory workers: Red,White,Blue / Pabst Blue Ribbon / Old Milwaukee / Schlitz etc... There were stacks and stacks of empty returns in/around their porches. The pungent smell of hops could be detected throughout the city. Seemed like bars on every corner. Didn't make sense to me until I enlisted in the Army 1984. First duty station was Germany - where every local community had beer gardens and guest houses. Suddenly made sense. LOVE IT...
Regarding children drinking in bars- the PARENT can legally serve their child alcohol in a bar, not the bar itself. It’s semantics, but laws love semantics. Now, that doesn’t mean that bars are forced to allow this- bars absolutely can refuse entry to minors. The law just allows bars to permit this.
yes. they can refuse service, my cousin who got back from army basic training when he was 20 went to a beer and burger joint and asked for beers with both of his parents and the bar refused service. even when they explained they were his parents and that he just got back from basic they still refused. we haven't been back there since
@@allenbushar3169 Actually, that wouldn't have been allowed in that situation. Parents can allow their kids to drink but they have to be under 18. Once you are 18 but under 21 you are not allowed to drink because you are now your own legal guardian. It is something we laugh at in schools when this is discussed.
My favorite sign ever was a hand lettered piece of weathered plywood nailed to a tree on the middle of nowhere Wisconsin: "liquor & cheese." And by golly, there was.
My bar-infested hometown, Superior, WI, has the nickname 'Soup Town'. There's two reasons, one is the pea soup thick fog. Then there's the other reason.
Wisconsinite here. My first memory is my father giving me a sip of beer. My first drunk was at 3 yo when I helped myself to unattended beer. I'm not alone here.
As a life long Wisconsinite here is my take. The culture came together in a mixing pot persay. German, Irish, Polish. All cultures that know many things including drinking. Compile that with blue collar jobs that came here which then followed with drinking to kill the pains of the day/week. Add celebrations and weekends and suddenly it's all the time. Does Wisconsin drink a lot? Yes. Can we out drink your state..... Also yes.
@@AlexofZippo Colorado is nothing compared to Wisconsin. Not even close. Binge Drinking is *normal* here and *not* being a binge drinker makes you The Weirdo in any group.
Part of an advantage of having so many bars is we have bars closer, so easier to walk or take a cab/Uber. While Wisconsin drinks the most we are in the middle for drunk driving, so we drunk drive far less considering how much we drink. The states with few bars have way higher rates of drunk driving because they have to drive to go to the bar and drive further when they do.
When I first moved to Wisconsin in 1994, I was introduced to the concept of the "pub crawl". Emphasis on "crawl". I saw it in a university town and yeah, they were out in the streets on their hands and knees working their way to the next watering hole. I'm from California and by no means is that place shy about alcohol but they're amateurs compared to Wisconsinites.
Nah dude, the cops just don’t care. They watch the bars, they know everybody gets in their car and drives home, they just don’t do anything about it. The tavern league of Wisconsin has an insane amount of lobbying power. It could be that cops aren’t supposed to pull over drunk drivers unless they’re driving dangerously, but that’s just my theory.
Wisconsinite here. The Brandy comment was interesting on how post WWII food shortages was tied in with our Brandy Old Fashions. The other interesting fact was how the Packers, a small town professional football team survived in the 20s and 30s. It was due in part to prohibition. The big teams loved to play Green Bay as the bars in Green Bay never closed. Teams and fans would come to Green Bay to drink then watch/play a football game. It’s probably why the packers of the 1920s dominated. All home games were against a hung over team.
We are Wisconsin, We are many, We are one, We are legion, We are drunk. From socialist mayors to bootlegger players, a six pack we'll carry from the lakes to the rivers. Fishing? Have a beer. Camping? Have a beer. Snow mobiling? Have a beer. Hiking? Have a beer. Is it hot? Have a cold one. Is it cold? Have a chilled one. Is it Friday? Have a glass. Is it Sunday? Go to mass, then have a glass. Is it game day? Grab a pack. Are you tailgating? Get a case. A night at the arcade? Bring a guest. A day at the park? Bring the best. When Monday comes we'll head back to work, our heads pounding from being jerks. Break out the toaster and pop some bread, a slather of peanut butter and seared bacon will ease your head. No, there isn't a wrong time to have a drink, except when you're leaning over your sink. Drink more, drink less, it's all the same, just have one drink, in Wisconsin's name.
When the video said something along the lines of, "We only drink because there's nothing else to do," I was thinking, "Oh, sure there is; there's ice fishing, seasonal hunting, cross country skiing, fire pit activities, snowmobiling, indoor activities like dice and cribbage, and all of these go well with drinking." Few people appreciate how well drinking can be added to just about anything else you would do in the state. It's not an alternative option; it's fully integratable into any of the activities, like a mod to a video game.
I saw some beer sloshing around a glass as it was poured in the first minute of the video, made me thirsty! So I went to my dining room beer fridge and grabbed a New Glarus Black Top.
I grew up in Wisconsin and graduated from the biggest party school in the country. I think the most shocking thing to me is the definition of binge drinking they use for studies on alcohol consumption. Often times the definition is something like 3 drinks in a night. In Wisconsin, a lot of adults just casually drink alcohol every night of the week. And 1-2 drinks in a night is normal. Three is still well within the normal range for an evening. Now everyone's tolerance is different, but it does increase with regular drinking. Even though the surveys count it as binge drinking, average Wisconsinites who regularly have 3 drinks a night are pretty normal and not getting drunk or trying to get drunk.
In Wisconsin beer doesn’t count as alcoholism because your tolerance is so high it’s hard to get drunk on it unless you have several beers. Beer is like water here. You are only a drunk if you’re hitting the straight liquor pretty hard.
As a guy in Wisconsin nursing a hangover, a big part of it is that there’s not much else to do other than harder drugs like fent (which tons of people here do as well) and that the weather is bad almost half the year lmao. Plus wages are bad, but it is funny when you hear about other states not letting us participate in drinking contests and all you can drink nights lol It’s also crazy weird to hear someone talk about Wisconsin without an American accent , never heard that before since no one talks about us outside the country. But I do think some Scandinavian people would be quite surprised to drive through Stoughton and see all the Nordic flags on the street lights etc
Im from Green Bay and got challenged to a beer drink contest in san deigo back in the day. Long story short , it was 3.2% beer...which is water in wisconsin. i drank over a case beer when everyone else gave up. I wasnt even drunk...i was like, what's wrong with the beer...its not working.
When I lived in Milwaukee twelve years ago drunk drivers getting on the off-ramp and driving the wrong way on the interstate was common enough that they had to put giant flashing lights and signs warning that this is not an on-ramp. Haha.
Our biggest problem in this state is people Driving the wrong way. Then some idiot came up with a Diverging Diamond Interchange in Milwaukee. People are going to die.
I grew up just down the road from a little unincorporated town in Wisconsin. The total population was probably less than 100 people. It didn't have a store, gas station, post office, or even a church. But it sure did have a bar. Even the dinky "cities" with 3-4000 people will have 5 or 6 bars in them.
That helps reduce the need to drive to drink, if they didn't they couldn't get a cab and would have to drive 20 or 30 mins and back to a bar. By having those bars in town they can just walk down the road. It's for public safety
My hometown had a population of 800 or so people in the 1980’s. There were 9-10 bars. We went to a country church. Right across the street was a bar. My parents hung out there while us kids went to CCD. Personally I am not much of a drinker, but I know the culture.
My hometown in Wisconsin was dry until the 1980's, so the bars were right outside of town. The law was still no bars in town. They finally allowed one in the 90s. As the town expanded, they allowed the bars to remain as bars even though it was technically still against the law to have more than one in city limits. Restaurants and a bowling alley used a loophole to open in town since then.
As someone who lives in one of the towns on that list it’s cause we either drink cause we’re celebrating the weather is nice or drinking cause there’s nothing to do cause the weather sucks. We’re drinking to celebrate a win or drinking to get over a tragedy. It’s how we communicate and I wish we did it a better way cause I hate how everything we do involve getting fucked up but ig it’s the one of the only things we’re proud of. Fuck we even have a beer fridge at my work
My friends from other states when they visit me in Wisconsin are always shocked by where you can buy beer and and just how readily and easily available it is.
A few years ago I was on a cruise with my siblings and their spouses. My sister-in-law was bragging when getting off the ship saying "someone yesterday guessed I was from Wisconsin because I was drinking a martini" another person close by (who was from Michigan) chimed in "and because it was 9 in the morning"
As a Wisconsin resident, the only place I’ve been to that could keep up with us was Germany. Even a few months ago I got married in New Orleans and noticed that people there weren’t on our level 😂
While I love our culture here, this is so very true. My mother was an incredible alcoholic until the day she died (from alcohol). And not a Wisconsin alcoholic, which we call 'functioning alcoholic' It makes me very conscious of how much I, my husband, and my daughter drink.
I looked at Forbes rules for heavy drinking in their survey, and if you bowled once a week and had a beer frame each game and one after you qualified as a drunk... That is almost everyone who bowls in Wisconsin.
I think part of the issue is a lack of third spaces, especially in rural communities. If you want to get together with your friends, your options are limited to the local family diner that closes at 8:00 or the local bar. Even in larger communities, there is a lack of third spaces. I can either go to a restaurant or a brewery. 90% of the time, we pick the local bar/brewery.
I worked for a caterer who was hired for an anniversary of a hospital helicopter ambulance service. I've seen plenty of wedding receptions, etc. that consumed massive quantities of alcohol. Nothing, NOTHING compares to the HEAVY inebriation of scores of emergency medical people at that event. Yes, they all drove home afterwards.
Somebody's gotta be number 1, its the German heritage and long winters. But we party in summer time too, more so really. Its all about our friendly, welcoming nature. Come on in from the cold, have a beer, or an old-fashioned, play some dice, solve the worlds problems, meet some new friends.
I remember going to the tavern with my dad as long as I been alive. Going to the tavern on a Saturday afternoon was what we did. I would play video games and pin ball all day, and it was a blast in the 70's and early 80's. Kids normally do not go to the bar at night time just in the afternoon..
We went to the VFW every Sunday morning. Occasionally they’d get a game to play but I wasn’t allowed to touch the pool cues until I was 9. I could play the jukebox though. Poor them. I was into The Lone Ranger when I was little and it had The William Tell Overture on it.🤣 I was extremely happy when I was 11 and they decided I could stay home alone in 1984.
I went to a convention in texas just over 2yrs ago and hung out at the bar, as 1 does, and 1 night i had 8beers, 3 dbl vodka soda (their "double" was barely 1 wisconsin pour), and 3 tequila sunrises, and felt fine while seeing everyone around me get plastered as hell. Woke up the next morning feelinf fine, while seeing others struggle made me realize wisconsinites are built different. I was dumb founded when i found out the texas when they didnt sell any liquor on sundays, just wine and beer.
Yeah! Fellow Rock County Resident, right down the road! Edgerton also has a very quint little library, not to mention the whole Sterling North Museum thing. I had no Idea that the Japanese have a huge Rascal cult following.
@klosnj11 I actually grew up a few houses from Sterling North's house ( 206 Albion Street) and my mom, .(Born in 1912) actually knew Srerling and "Rascal" .... Speng a lot of time in that library, just next block down on Albion Street
@@jmweed1861 that is pretty freakin cool! My parents moved to the Milton area when I was 1 year old, so we didnt have that generational connection yet, but its where I have lived ever since. I just hope the property taxes dont eventually drive us out of the area.
Also, spent a LOT of time in Both the Red Baron and Oats Bin...the Drining aged was lowered from 21 to 18 my Senior Year of High School, which was Great.But, also had to worry about the Vietnam War draft....my Draft number was 37....
Born and raised in Wisconsin. I can't tell you how any times I went out thinking "I'll just hang out for 1 or 2" and end up 5 shots deep, between bar dice and people buying cheap shots
I've lived in wisconsin for 28 years. Drinking is part of the culture here, always has been. All my best memories involved alcohol in some way. Tubing down the river with a full cooler. Tailgating before a brewers game. Sitting in the ice shanty, catching fish and drinking beer. 20ft bonfires in the middle of absolutely no where. Yet 70 people showed up 😂 I have thousands of memories like those.
When my husband worked for a company that had its headquarters in Wisconsin, he was shocked when he visited there to find out they handed out free beer on Friday afternoons. People all left for home while still under the influence.
Wisconsin people love others moving here. I don't recommend Milwaukee, though, go north an hour or so. Washington County has much lower taxes than Milwaukee County
As a lifelong Wisconsinite, we have the most bars per capita, as well as the most local race tracks per capita!!! Plus if we go to another state, and get involved in a drinking game, if the "locals" find out about it, WE are NOT accepted to participate in said drinking games!!! That's a Win right there!!!
Being a poor college student in Menomonie Id spend my lunch at the local bar. $1 buck total for a pickled turkey gizzard,.25, 1 pickled egg, .25 and 5, 6oz Leinies taps, .10 each. This was way before Leinies became a designer beer.
Stout represent! First ever time seeing someone online that knows/has been to Menomonie, which is my hometown. I'm here right now! And everyone knows about Fryklund... the "hood" of Menomonie lmao people think they're cool for living here like it's a status symbol. So annoying.
Let me tell you about a little city that is part of Milwaukee County called Cudahy. Cudahy is a blue color suburb and was a haven of manufacturing in the day. One of the largest plants, Ladish, stretched much of the length of the main strip in Cudahy, S. Packard Avenue. Well, if Ladish was on one side of the street, than logically the only other thing you can have on the other side of the street would be bar/taverns and a lot of them. It is called the Cudahy Crawl, if you could go from one entire of Ladish and stopping at every single bar for a single shot or beer you were considered a man amongst men. Not many could handle such an endeavor, not even the locals, it was the final boss fight for any aspiring alcoholic. Now many have closed down, but not all. That's Wisconsin. If you have more than three people in a room together, you will be drinking. It's cultural. We drink here and it's not healthy.
In addition to the bars adjacent to Ladish, back in the 50's many residential intersections in Cudahy had four bars, one on each corner. You can still see this as the residences were converted from bars without an effort to disguise their origin.
Where else would find a bar named "Hammer Down" then across from Ladish? Cudahy when the dishes in my grandmothers house shook the drop forges where working or the airplanes were landing.
I moved to Milwaukee for a job opportunity for 8 months. I don’t really like beer, I don’t hate it , but it’s not great. I went to bars, and eventually I figured out that the night would be cheaper if I drank the beer instead of soft drinks.
I thought you were going with, "cheaper if I drank beer instead of mixers." It's just those last three hours of peeing that really put a dent into the night.
German culture...Period. To those who say there is nothing else to do, they must not live here. There is plenty to do. Wisconsin is known for out outdoor activitiues. We just dringk while doing them.
Us Wisconsinites have a high tolerance to alcohol. I have to drink a lot to get a buzz, but someone from say, Utah, would be hammered if they drank that much. Drinking is also not viewed as taboo here. If you want to drink, great. If not, that’s fine too. Other states just need to grow up when it comes to drinking.
i didn’t realize how insane our drinking culture was until i went to mifflin block party. so many plastered college students walking around at 2pm, and the cops basically just have to hand out water and observe. people being picked up and rushed to the hospital and everyone just keeps throwing them back
This video was extremely well done! As a lifelong Wisconsinite who works in the alcohol industry, it is a very accurate representation of what we have going on up here.
Having lived here in Wisconsin for a while, my opinion is that Wisconsin has the strongest social drinking culture of anywhere I’ve been. What I mean is that a large percentage of Wisconsinites have their bar where they know almost everyone who comes in. Whether it is Milwaukee or the smaller towns, people’s social life is very often found in the local tavern.
I was shocked after I moved here. Everything they do is a “reason” to celebrate with a cocktail or beer.🤷♀️ Lots of drinking and driving going on here, too. Officer: How much have you had to drink? Driver: All of it.
Drinking is accepted in wisconsin. When you ask people here, you are more likely to be honest about what you drink because nobody will look down on them.
The reason I've always heard is that the northern states are big into outdoor sports like hunting and fishing. The two things (drinking culture and outdoor sporting) make for good bed fellows, and you can see that in many of the bars.
1:45 Some additional notes here. Germany is actually a majority Protestant country, with the notable exception of Bavaria, home of Munich and Oktoberfest, which is majority Catholic. This makes the German Catholic and beer connection more obvious. The free thinkers mentioned here included German socialists (the normal kind, not the National kind) who were elected to mayor and local government in Milwaukee (obviously rare and unusual in the United States). Their obsession with public infrastructure included giving Milwaukee a state-of-the-art sewer system, giving them their nickname the “sewer socialists”.
Milwaukee had a socialist mayor just a few years before I was born there. He used to dragoon the jobless into shoveling snow. I am a German Catholic, and my great uncle was a priest. I have a lot of memories of him at a card table playing sheepshead with a longneck bottle of Walter's.
I lived in Gays Mills, Wisconsin for a short while. I miss having a beer and ice fishing. That’s a lie. I was too scared to go out on the ice. I did drink and watched everyone else from afar. I’m from Texas and that’s just not normal to drive a truck over a frozen river. They laughed at me for being unable to withstand negative temperatures in the winter. Meanwhile, I rolled my eyes when they complained about 80 degree heat (F) with 40% humidity. Also, they made fun of my Texas accent, yet at the same time I heard grown men saying, “Oh yaaaaaaah!” and did everything to not laugh. Anyway, beer, cheese, Amish folks at Walmart, and wild turkeys attacking my car. Good times!
I'm from Texas and just moved to Wisconsin, largely because I prefer the cold to the heat. I just found out this week though that having to go out in the morning and go to work when it's -5 F and windy outside is no picnic. I had to drive for about 30 minutes before my car's interior finally warmed up and by then, I was nearly at my destination. The clutch and brake pedals were hard to push and moving the shifter was like moving a ladle around in a bowl of mashed potatoes. You could see the numbers on the LCD displays changing. I still prefer a few days like that to Texas summers though. I look forward to hearing people complain about how hot it is when it's 80 F because it's a reminder that I don't have to suffer through two or three months straight of 95 to 110 temperatures every day. I've only had one person mention my accent. I think my East Texas accent subsided somewhat after living over a decade in Dallas. People here don't have as much of an accent as I was expecting either, but I have heard a few Wisconsinisms like going to get a drink from the bubbler.
I think part of the problem is that beer from other states, most often times does not count as beer in Wisconsin. I mean if you can't even be bothered to put the ABV on the can or bottle, yeah it's basically just flavored water, and not a very good flavor, to a Wisconsinite.
I remember in my freshman year at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater I downed a whole 1.75 liter capt morgans in 20 minutes. I was drunk for 3 full days.
Couldn't drink that again so when I transferred to University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee I did the same thing but with admiral nelsons. I mean it looks like beer... I couldent tell the difference
6:11 Im very surprised its not a Bloody Mary. I've heard they're not really popular anywhere else (probably because they're nasty) so to me that would make more sense. Although on my mom's side of the family, not a single gathering went without a little Old Fashioned station (i would just eat all the oranges and everyone was okay with it and it got to a point where they got extra oranges because they knew I'd end up eating most of the slices lol)
In my experience growing up and living in Wisconsin, I'd say we have simply normalized drinking all the time. There is a beer cooler at every gathering. I don't think severe alcoholism, like in New Mexico or Alaska, is really a problem here. It's just normal to drink all the time, and as a result of that, we have high tolerances and can thus drink a lot when we want to. Of course, that's not necessarily healthy, but it's not like we're literally killing ourselves with booze like other states that may have a lower drinking rate but higher fatalities.
Beer is good, that’s why. If you don’t understand this you are probably not from Wisconsin. Also most bars are family friendly here. It is a way of life. You bring your kids to the bar because almost all restaurants are also bars. So if you want to take your family out for diner guess what? You’re going to a bar. The rest of America needs to get over it. We can all drink Wisconsibly. It is possible.
A lot of it comes down to third spaces. You've got your home, your work, and the third space to socialize and unwind. The early Germans brough their beer halls to the state and the current residents still use them. Wisconsinites come together at their local taverns, of course they've learned to drink and have more opportunities to drink.
I know of a small Wisconsin town that has a sign that reads, ‘we don’t have a town drunk, everyone takes their turn.’
What is the town's name?
Wonderful!
@@stevensproull9388 That slogan is found in many, many taverns across the state.
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If you ever go to a gas station in Wisconsin, you are basically in a liquor store
that stays open till midnight
And often with a walk-in cooler, solely for beer.
They aren't normally liquor stores??
I know. It's weird going to other states and they have no Liquor at the Gas Station. Everyone needs their Driving Beer in Wisconsin.
@@Sadalitecomputerclub not where I’m from. Maximum of 3.2% Alch allowed to be sold in gas stations
Old saying for Green Bay. A drinking town with a football problem.
Same goes for Buffalo
My Highschool team smoked weed like crazy and we’d stolen that saying to call ourselves “a smoking team with a football problem”
As someone who lives three hours from Green Bay and has attended many Packer games in past, I can give personal testimony to the accuracy of that saying. There are few games in the late 90s that I can not recall the fourth quarter very well. I owe my liver an apology for the abuse when I was younger.
That's funny
To paraphrase Lewis Black; "Wisconsinites are not alcoholics. You are professionals."
We sure as heck do have our fair share of alcoholics though.
@@SarahBabenah, they're professional
"how do you know its new years? every weekend night is new years"
As a Wisconsinite, I was genuinely confused with that question when I watched his show until he replied "well, that's when we do it with funny hats!"
I was like "see? This guy gets it." Basically that and doing it with the extended family that you don't see too often@@erickort1987
Also Louis: "How do you know it's New Year's in Wisconsin? Everyone's drunk ... but wearing little hats." 🍻🥳🍾 ua-cam.com/video/7WlwumGkSec/v-deo.htmlsi=wR-kbAwPwrukel80
Born and raised in Green Bay.
Prohibition never stopped the drinking in Brown County.
The bar owners just paid their fine at the courthouse each week, and kept the bars open.
Sounds like Hurley, WI.
Gotta love the Tavern League lol
I’m from Wisconsin and I can say that acceptance of alcohol can be helpful we are taught at an early age what drinking is like and how it can end up. It can also be helpful in the fact that people talk more openly about how much they consume and therefore are not as apprehensive to come forward if they have a serious problem. Hiding from issues can make them worse
I do NOT drink. No one believes me. they think that means at least a bear or two a week and every holiday and whenever you are in any celebratory event. I think they think brandy doesn't think is drinking booze.
I'm from WI and people will openly brag about drinking and driving. Only state I've lived in that does that.
I'm from Wisconsin and at least half of the men over 45 are alcoholics who won't admit they have a problem or don't care because all the other guys they know drink like that too. Or they can easily point to someone else who's worse. Try being sober in this state. I'm the weirdo here.
@@minilea25 I'm with you. when my daughter was in school, she used to point out the kids with "cat face' to me.....that is a child who's mother was drinking while pregnant. There were a LOT of them.
@@SUBinfinit I rarely drink anymore and then it’s just a single glass of wine or a margarita with dinner and I’m done. Maybe one every few years. When I was in my 20’s and early 30’s I had my fun. I could drink back then. It’s always fascinating to ask people when they had their 1st drink though. There’s always a story. Mine was I was annoying the crap out of my mom. Keep in mind I was adopted by my grandparents so she was 51. The age I am now. I was 2 and didn’t understand that it wasn’t soda in the can I was asking to take a sip out of. After a while she gave in. Figured I wouldn’t like it and that’d be the end of it.
Boy, did that backfire…..🤣
I like driving through the dark Wisconsin north woods and seeing the neon glow of a beer sign in the window of a resort on a lake.
Lmao same such a vibe
Like the Little Brown Jug in Minocqua
It was how people found their way home before GPS.
I know that energy.
It’s the tavern league, they are the ones who want to keep weed illegal
binge drinking is an issue in Wisconsin but the fact we don't die from alcohol poisoning like Alaska just means they are rookie drinkers.
No its cuz they're slugging down 200 proof moonshine
They have a high Alaskan Native population who lack the enzyme to break down the alcohol efficiently.
Us Wisconsinites are built different.
@@PhillyCh3zSt3akvery true
A bottle of booze is just starting out
Issue? I see no issue.
I’ve met a group of Australians that come to Wisconsin for our summers (their winters) because they said we’re the only place in the world that can keep up with their drinking
as an aussie I'm thinking I just found my next holiday destination
And I go down to Australia 🦘 when it's winter here in Wisconsin and summer there to drink!
@@jimhowes2983 Milwaukee has a music festival in the summer called, oddly enough, Summerfest. People come from all over the nation to come and listen to music and drink. You think you can drink? You willing to challenge the final boss fight?
Milwaukee laughs in your direction.
They are keeping up with Wisconsin lol
@@jimhowes2983I have lived in Madison, WI my entire life. I went to Japan in high school and my Japanese host family was worried with the amount of Sake I downed I would be drunk and pass out.
I was a typical high school kid and was just fine 😅 we just assume everyone drank like Australians and Wisconsinites. Apparently the rest of the world doesn’t..
As a lifetime Wisconsinite, those prohibition scenes just make me cry. How could anyone be so cruel?!? The alcohol abuse is just unreal!
🤣😂🤣😂🤣
IIRC, my grandpa's uncle had his farm's well dug by Al Capone. Just don't ask about the second barn with no cows.
Dumping it right into the river. Brilliant.
Wisconsinite too milwaukee now madtown... now i know why we like old fashions so much...at a wedding everyone keep asking for old fashions n i went up to the bartender and asked are you only making olds, she said no everyone keeps ordering then... i said "ill take a old fashion"
@@patrickjanecke5894 my buddy use to say the island on nagawaukee over by delifeild was a old al capone hideout... we use to be on that lake a lot
When I was a kid we were on vacation in northern Wisconsin. While going through a small town near Hayward. There was a four-way stop,and there were bars on all four corners. My dad said, “Four-way stop with four taverns! Yep, we’re in Wisconsin alright!”
That’s basically Northern Wisconsin in a nutshell; towns to small towns support a McDonalds, yet each one has at least 3 bars.
It's a law that every stop sign must have a bar near by.
@@Zzus321why else would you stop?
Hayward is so small, the town hall is in the next town.
@ It was near Hayward. Not actually in Hayward. This was in 1986, so I don’t remember exactly where we were at. Just near Hayward.
Don’t forget the last time the badgers played in the rose bowl many California bars complained that badger fans drank all the beer they had.
I think there may only be 2 cities outside of Wisconsin in the USA that we Wisconsinites cannot drink dry. New Orleans and LV. cheers 🥂
I went to a Packer game in Nashville, and Nissan Stadium ran out of beer by halftime.
hell yeah brother
Me and 3 buddies cleaned out 3 bars in a week down in North Carolina on the beach.
This also happened in London!
As a Wisconsinite, I can say that our drinking culture is huge. Drinking is a very normal thing here. Most events in the state sell beer from county fairs to local festivals. Our baseball team is the Brewers, because of our large brewing industry and heritage. One of our largest gas station chains offers discounts on gas for select beer purchases. Going and eating at bars is very normal here, as most bars have the best food. Wine walks and beer tastings are common events. DUIs are very common in the state, I'd day most people know at least one person who has one or more. The reason stated as not having anything else to do isn't necessarily wrong but also that anything you can do can also involve drinking. I like many in my family am an alcoholic, I luckily have been sober for a little over a year now. Alcoholics Anonymous also has a large presence in Wisconsin because of the normalized drinking.
As a Wisconsinite, if I became aware of someone with that issue, i became that persons ally. You can be included in the fun without partaking in drinking, no pressure. My wife and i take off 3 or 4 months of the year.
I agree that you definitely don't need to drink to enjoy yourself, but the social pressure is there. Since being sober, I've only had one person offer me a drink at a get-together. I'd say we definitely understand alcoholism very well in the state, and it's something that's taken seriously here. I live in Rock County, and we have well over 50 AA meetings a week in my city alone.
Lol. The local kids T-ball team is sponsored by Miller and beer is sold. My local church also often advertises Pancake Breakfast & Gun Raffle.😊
I’m originally Michigan and I have family members in Minnesota. The drinking culture is the same in those states. 🤷🏻♀️
As a teenager, I grew up in Illinois which had an age 19 drinking law... Wisconsin was 18...This made the town of Beloit very popular and full of young adult bars...The good old days!
@@stevensproull9388 haha, I'm from Rockford, but drinking age has been 21. Unless you go with your mom to the bar in Beloit I guess, knew some people who did that.
@YarPirates-vy7iv If you go back over 40 years ago, before age 21 was a national drinking age law, States independently chose what age it was legal to drink... Illinois age was 19... Wisconsin 18.
@@stevensproull9388 yeah I'm just under 40, but I think that changed because of interstate transportation funding?
@@stevensproull9388 And piles of dead Minnesotan kids line our border; eventually forcing us to adopt the national age, because the Minnesotans couldn't drink Wisconsibly.
nowadays I go down to rockford from south beloit to get weed
The fact that you said SCHILTZ instead of SCHLITZ disqualifies you now for ever creating another video.
😂😂😂
god help us all
@@marshalliize whenever I drank Blatz I got the Schlitz.
That's what I was thinking.
We called it sh*tts😮
It's funny to me how this video seems to want to portray this as something bad and a problem. Believe me, the reason that the laws in Wisconsin are favorable to its drinking culture is exactly because the people in Wisconsin want it that way. Thus lawmakers are reluctant to alienate the voters.
There's a common adage in that region of the world: "The liver is evil and it must be punished."
Liver Evil, sides reversed is, Liver Evil
Fun with Palindromes. 😁
I'm from the UP and have never heard that in my life.
Oh this is great
I'm laughing my ass off right now but it's true
Whenever I have a majority of Wisconsinite guests on tour with me in Alaska, it's amazing. Change things up in my narration and direct them to the best, nearest watering hole, lol. Talk about Alaskan beer and Reindeer sausage pierogis and pelmenis before we stop for lunch. They don't disappoint with how chill and funny they can be.
Ooooh reindeer pierogi. Hot damn, I may have to meander my way FAR up north sometime
Lol, I was on a tour last year in New Orleans and the guide was talking about how much they drink there, she was asking the group where everyone was from when she got to us she corrected herself, "well we don't drink as much as you guys do". It was pretty funny
@@warweasel2832same! I love pierogi!
As a wisconsinite, I just got real excited about the prospect of reindeer perogis. That sounds amazing.
Also, good to hear my fellow statesmen are representing us well abroad.
I'm sorry... Reindeer sausage PIEROGIES!? I'm there.
I am born and raised in Wisconsin. We drink too much but we love each other. There is a Cheers tavern in every town here.
Only 🍻12 of the top 20? We will have to try harder next year.
Those are rookie numbers, gotta get em up.
Yes we do
I'm proud that we are the heaviest drinking state
I think there were a few that were too busy drinking to self report!
Born and raised in Milwaukee 60s/70s/80s... My uncles and father were blue color factory workers: Red,White,Blue / Pabst Blue Ribbon / Old Milwaukee / Schlitz etc... There were stacks and stacks of empty returns in/around their porches. The pungent smell of hops could be detected throughout the city. Seemed like bars on every corner. Didn't make sense to me until I enlisted in the Army 1984. First duty station was Germany - where every local community had beer gardens and guest houses. Suddenly made sense. LOVE IT...
Interesting I am from Milwaukee area and enlisted in army in 84
Up in Northern WI, every snowmobile trail seems to begin, and end, at a bar.
there is a portable bar thats called the sled shed. they park it just north of gleason for the summer.
And that's why we have trauma centers.
It's by design. 😁
Yeah that’s why there are so many unalivings by crash every year
If you're in the Ashland area, don't forget to visit the Moqua Bar (Plywood Palace).
Drink Wisconsibly is my fav!
As someone who lives here, there are better ones personally.
Regarding children drinking in bars- the PARENT can legally serve their child alcohol in a bar, not the bar itself. It’s semantics, but laws love semantics. Now, that doesn’t mean that bars are forced to allow this- bars absolutely can refuse entry to minors. The law just allows bars to permit this.
When we were in Germany our kids 6 and 8 were allowed to drink beer.
Very common in Europe.
@@davidhjortnaes2000 My grandpa had me drinking beer on his lap by the age of 2.
yes. they can refuse service, my cousin who got back from army basic training when he was 20 went to a beer and burger joint and asked for beers with both of his parents and the bar refused service. even when they explained they were his parents and that he just got back from basic they still refused. we haven't been back there since
@@allenbushar3169 Actually, that wouldn't have been allowed in that situation. Parents can allow their kids to drink but they have to be under 18. Once you are 18 but under 21 you are not allowed to drink because you are now your own legal guardian. It is something we laugh at in schools when this is discussed.
I had a friend say they checked IDs at drinking contests at Spring break areas, they would not let you compete if you was from Wisconsin.
Happened to my cousin on a cruise ship lol
It wouldn't be fair. You can't let amateurs and professions compete together lol.
My husband went on a work trip, and the bar he went to one night was having a contest. They saw his ID said WI and said he was disqualified
I was on vacation and went to a place that had "all you can drink" and I showed my ID and they said I wasn't able to participate in the special 😂😂
Can confirm.
My favorite sign ever was a hand lettered piece of weathered plywood nailed to a tree on the middle of nowhere Wisconsin: "liquor & cheese." And by golly, there was.
Bait and Beer.
Anyone that regularly travels on highway 10 knows about the enormous CHEESE and FUDGE & FREE WINE signs for Evanswood Village Shops near Waupaca
The definition of binge drinking is crooked. We consider that level of drinking a casual evening or pregame.
That's very true
It washes down all the cheese curds.
Balkan Rage 🔍
Beer battered goodness
"Lost productivity" is an arbitrary figure conjured out of thin air by executives to justify inflated consulting fees and management theater.
My bar-infested hometown, Superior, WI, has the nickname 'Soup Town'. There's two reasons, one is the pea soup thick fog. Then there's the other reason.
Wisconsinite here. My first memory is my father giving me a sip of beer. My first drunk was at 3 yo when I helped myself to unattended beer. I'm not alone here.
Mine was at 4 when I was thirsty on a bike ride
I was 3 myself..They hid the brandy after that.
Standing on the seat of my dad's 51 Chevy pickup, 4 or 5 years old, stealing sips of pabst while on a beer run with dad and my uncle..
As a life long Wisconsinite here is my take. The culture came together in a mixing pot persay. German, Irish, Polish. All cultures that know many things including drinking. Compile that with blue collar jobs that came here which then followed with drinking to kill the pains of the day/week. Add celebrations and weekends and suddenly it's all the time. Does Wisconsin drink a lot? Yes. Can we out drink your state..... Also yes.
Colorado might be able to challenge you; if you don’t die from boredom waiting for the beer snob to make his pick!
Native too. This is such a great place.
@@AlexofZippo Colorado is nothing compared to Wisconsin. Not even close. Binge Drinking is *normal* here and *not* being a binge drinker makes you The Weirdo in any group.
Part of an advantage of having so many bars is we have bars closer, so easier to walk or take a cab/Uber. While Wisconsin drinks the most we are in the middle for drunk driving, so we drunk drive far less considering how much we drink. The states with few bars have way higher rates of drunk driving because they have to drive to go to the bar and drive further when they do.
Yup, stumbling home from the corner bar is peak midwest and a thing we do here in Michigan too
When I first moved to Wisconsin in 1994, I was introduced to the concept of the "pub crawl". Emphasis on "crawl". I saw it in a university town and yeah, they were out in the streets on their hands and knees working their way to the next watering hole.
I'm from California and by no means is that place shy about alcohol but they're amateurs compared to Wisconsinites.
Yup! Small town, got 3 within a 10 minute walk. Ill take the exercise over a DUI
Within a 5min walk there's 3 bars, it's pretty neat
Nah dude, the cops just don’t care. They watch the bars, they know everybody gets in their car and drives home, they just don’t do anything about it.
The tavern league of Wisconsin has an insane amount of lobbying power. It could be that cops aren’t supposed to pull over drunk drivers unless they’re driving dangerously, but that’s just my theory.
Wisconsinite here. The Brandy comment was interesting on how post WWII food shortages was tied in with our Brandy Old Fashions. The other interesting fact was how the Packers, a small town professional football team survived in the 20s and 30s. It was due in part to prohibition. The big teams loved to play Green Bay as the bars in Green Bay never closed. Teams and fans would come to Green Bay to drink then watch/play a football game. It’s probably why the packers of the 1920s dominated. All home games were against a hung over team.
We are Wisconsin,
We are many,
We are one,
We are legion,
We are drunk.
From socialist mayors to bootlegger players, a six pack we'll carry from the lakes to the rivers.
Fishing? Have a beer.
Camping? Have a beer.
Snow mobiling? Have a beer.
Hiking? Have a beer.
Is it hot? Have a cold one.
Is it cold? Have a chilled one.
Is it Friday? Have a glass.
Is it Sunday? Go to mass, then have a glass.
Is it game day? Grab a pack.
Are you tailgating? Get a case.
A night at the arcade? Bring a guest.
A day at the park? Bring the best.
When Monday comes we'll head back to work, our heads pounding from being jerks.
Break out the toaster and pop some bread, a slather of peanut butter and seared bacon will ease your head.
No, there isn't a wrong time to have a drink, except when you're leaning over your sink.
Drink more, drink less, it's all the same, just have one drink, in Wisconsin's name.
When the video said something along the lines of, "We only drink because there's nothing else to do," I was thinking, "Oh, sure there is; there's ice fishing, seasonal hunting, cross country skiing, fire pit activities, snowmobiling, indoor activities like dice and cribbage, and all of these go well with drinking." Few people appreciate how well drinking can be added to just about anything else you would do in the state. It's not an alternative option; it's fully integratable into any of the activities, like a mod to a video game.
@akashashen It's Wismodsin
Me but w weed. Fuck alcohol and don't care for drunk people....
@JustinSmith-nn2jw I don't care for your attitude, have a spliff and stfu
@@JustinSmith-nn2jw I find both things go well together.
FINALLY A VIDEO ABOUT MY HOME STATE! (We drink a lot because driving is boring. We like to spice it up a bit) 😂
keep er between the ditches there guy
Hey the only way to get good at drinking and driving is to practice.
All them drunk crashers are the real problem.
@shinichi6235 we don't say howdy
multitasking
We may drink a lot, but your data shows we know how to pace ourselves.
Watching this as a Wisconsinite with a beer in hand.
😂 Vodka cranberry here. Twist of lime.
Twisted tea for me. It's noon. I'm starting late
I saw some beer sloshing around a glass as it was poured in the first minute of the video, made me thirsty! So I went to my dining room beer fridge and grabbed a New Glarus Black Top.
I grew up in Wisconsin and graduated from the biggest party school in the country. I think the most shocking thing to me is the definition of binge drinking they use for studies on alcohol consumption. Often times the definition is something like 3 drinks in a night. In Wisconsin, a lot of adults just casually drink alcohol every night of the week. And 1-2 drinks in a night is normal. Three is still well within the normal range for an evening. Now everyone's tolerance is different, but it does increase with regular drinking. Even though the surveys count it as binge drinking, average Wisconsinites who regularly have 3 drinks a night are pretty normal and not getting drunk or trying to get drunk.
In Wisconsin beer doesn’t count as alcoholism because your tolerance is so high it’s hard to get drunk on it unless you have several beers. Beer is like water here. You are only a drunk if you’re hitting the straight liquor pretty hard.
"Hey Bartender. I got to go drive home tonight so I can only have 2 old fashions and 4 beers before I have to go."
Can confirm. When I go out for food it's 2-3 drinks. One before the food, one during the food, one for dessert.
@@HyBrithe When I was in college, whoever was the DD that night could only have three beers.
As a guy in Wisconsin nursing a hangover, a big part of it is that there’s not much else to do other than harder drugs like fent (which tons of people here do as well) and that the weather is bad almost half the year lmao.
Plus wages are bad, but it is funny when you hear about other states not letting us participate in drinking contests and all you can drink nights lol
It’s also crazy weird to hear someone talk about Wisconsin without an American accent , never heard that before since no one talks about us outside the country. But I do think some Scandinavian people would be quite surprised to drive through Stoughton and see all the Nordic flags on the street lights etc
Lets discuss this over a beer.
Make it three
And a brandy old fashion @@Deeptunester
Im from Green Bay and got challenged to a beer drink contest in san deigo back in the day. Long story short , it was 3.2% beer...which is water in wisconsin. i drank over a case beer when everyone else gave up. I wasnt even drunk...i was like, what's wrong with the beer...its not working.
I'm proud of our state and only 3.2 percent
It is funny when you drink out of state
When you say Wisconsin, you've said it all. Thank you Budweiser for that great song. No wonder UW-Madison is the #1 party school in the country.
Im here eight beers in. If no one from the future comes to stop me than time travel isn't real or im right.
When I lived in Milwaukee twelve years ago drunk drivers getting on the off-ramp and driving the wrong way on the interstate was common enough that they had to put giant flashing lights and signs warning that this is not an on-ramp. Haha.
They're still there! Lol
@noahz2275 hopefully they worked
Just recently a drunk driver in Milwaukee got on to the freeway in the wrong direction and headed (unknowingly) directly towards Kamala's motorcade.
@@nec3flol, those drunk scamps. Guess the signs were a waste of money.
Our biggest problem in this state is people Driving the wrong way. Then some idiot came up with a Diverging Diamond Interchange in Milwaukee. People are going to die.
@2:05, he called Schlitz beer "Schilltz" or "Shilltz". This guy is not from the US or maybe worse, is an AI robot.
Milwaukeean here, I nearly dropped my phone when he said that 😝
@@evangonzalez2245you mean Beer!
14:25 "Does spending so much time around politicians drive people to drink" lmao, that checks out
Had to crack a beer for this one... Oh, Greetings from Milwaukee!
I grew up just down the road from a little unincorporated town in Wisconsin. The total population was probably less than 100 people. It didn't have a store, gas station, post office, or even a church. But it sure did have a bar. Even the dinky "cities" with 3-4000 people will have 5 or 6 bars in them.
That helps reduce the need to drive to drink, if they didn't they couldn't get a cab and would have to drive 20 or 30 mins and back to a bar. By having those bars in town they can just walk down the road. It's for public safety
@@DerchlandsWishful thinking that it's for safety reason. It's purely about being opportunistic and filling a void.
My hometown had a population of 800 or so people in the 1980’s. There were 9-10 bars. We went to a country church. Right across the street was a bar. My parents hung out there while us kids went to CCD. Personally I am not much of a drinker, but I know the culture.
My hometown in Wisconsin was dry until the 1980's, so the bars were right outside of town. The law was still no bars in town. They finally allowed one in the 90s. As the town expanded, they allowed the bars to remain as bars even though it was technically still against the law to have more than one in city limits. Restaurants and a bowling alley used a loophole to open in town since then.
@profanepersonality Are you from Richland Center by chance?
As someone who lives in one of the towns on that list it’s cause we either drink cause we’re celebrating the weather is nice or drinking cause there’s nothing to do cause the weather sucks. We’re drinking to celebrate a win or drinking to get over a tragedy. It’s how we communicate and I wish we did it a better way cause I hate how everything we do involve getting fucked up but ig it’s the one of the only things we’re proud of. Fuck we even have a beer fridge at my work
Best job in the world. I wish mine had that
My friends from other states when they visit me in Wisconsin are always shocked by where you can buy beer and and just how readily and easily available it is.
A few years ago I was on a cruise with my siblings and their spouses. My sister-in-law was bragging when getting off the ship saying "someone yesterday guessed I was from Wisconsin because I was drinking a martini" another person close by (who was from Michigan) chimed in "and because it was 9 in the morning"
Isn't that the purpose of taking a cruise? The purpose of a system is its outcome.
You can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning.
As a Wisconsin resident, the only place I’ve been to that could keep up with us was Germany. Even a few months ago I got married in New Orleans and noticed that people there weren’t on our level 😂
As a resident, trust me, generational alcoholism is not glamorous up close.
While I love our culture here, this is so very true. My mother was an incredible alcoholic until the day she died (from alcohol). And not a Wisconsin alcoholic, which we call 'functioning alcoholic' It makes me very conscious of how much I, my husband, and my daughter drink.
I looked at Forbes rules for heavy drinking in their survey, and if you bowled once a week and had a beer frame each game and one after you qualified as a drunk... That is almost everyone who bowls in Wisconsin.
.... people bowl without drinking? 😂
I think part of the issue is a lack of third spaces, especially in rural communities. If you want to get together with your friends, your options are limited to the local family diner that closes at 8:00 or the local bar. Even in larger communities, there is a lack of third spaces. I can either go to a restaurant or a brewery. 90% of the time, we pick the local bar/brewery.
I worked for a caterer who was hired for an anniversary of a hospital helicopter ambulance service. I've seen plenty of wedding receptions, etc. that consumed massive quantities of alcohol. Nothing, NOTHING compares to the HEAVY inebriation of scores of emergency medical people at that event. Yes, they all drove home afterwards.
Somebody's gotta be number 1, its the German heritage and long winters. But we party in summer time too, more so really. Its all about our friendly, welcoming nature. Come on in from the cold, have a beer, or an old-fashioned, play some dice, solve the worlds problems, meet some new friends.
Summer is grilling season. Can't grill without a drink
I remember going to the tavern with my dad as long as I been alive. Going to the tavern on a Saturday afternoon was what we did. I would play video games and pin ball all day, and it was a blast in the 70's and early 80's. Kids normally do not go to the bar at night time just in the afternoon..
Sounds kinda' like a Dave n' Busters sort of deal.
We went to the VFW every Sunday morning. Occasionally they’d get a game to play but I wasn’t allowed to touch the pool cues until I was 9. I could play the jukebox though. Poor them. I was into The Lone Ranger when I was little and it had The William Tell Overture on it.🤣 I was extremely happy when I was 11 and they decided I could stay home alone in 1984.
I remember many times trying to get my father to leave the bar as a young child. This was in neighboring Minnesota.
I went to a convention in texas just over 2yrs ago and hung out at the bar, as 1 does, and 1 night i had 8beers, 3 dbl vodka soda (their "double" was barely 1 wisconsin pour), and 3 tequila sunrises, and felt fine while seeing everyone around me get plastered as hell. Woke up the next morning feelinf fine, while seeing others struggle made me realize wisconsinites are built different. I was dumb founded when i found out the texas when they didnt sell any liquor on sundays, just wine and beer.
I am happy to report my Hometown, Edgerton, Wisconsin has the MOST BARS per Capita in the World....
Yeah! Fellow Rock County Resident, right down the road! Edgerton also has a very quint little library, not to mention the whole Sterling North Museum thing. I had no Idea that the Japanese have a huge Rascal cult following.
Chilimania is awesome use to work at lakeland hello edgerton!
@klosnj11 I actually grew up a few houses from Sterling North's house ( 206 Albion Street) and my mom, .(Born in 1912) actually knew Srerling and "Rascal" .... Speng a lot of time in that library, just next block down on Albion Street
@@jmweed1861 that is pretty freakin cool! My parents moved to the Milton area when I was 1 year old, so we didnt have that generational connection yet, but its where I have lived ever since. I just hope the property taxes dont eventually drive us out of the area.
Also, spent a LOT of time in Both the Red Baron and Oats Bin...the Drining aged was lowered from 21 to 18 my Senior Year of High School, which was Great.But, also had to worry about the Vietnam War draft....my Draft number was 37....
Born and raised in Wisconsin. I can't tell you how any times I went out thinking "I'll just hang out for 1 or 2" and end up 5 shots deep, between bar dice and people buying cheap shots
I've lived in wisconsin for 28 years. Drinking is part of the culture here, always has been. All my best memories involved alcohol in some way. Tubing down the river with a full cooler. Tailgating before a brewers game. Sitting in the ice shanty, catching fish and drinking beer. 20ft bonfires in the middle of absolutely no where. Yet 70 people showed up 😂 I have thousands of memories like those.
2:03 "Schultz" or Shlitz, it all ends up in the same snowbank. Watch your step!
Took care of Michigan's drunk drivers in trauma icu for 30 years. Always sad, never good. 😢
When my husband worked for a company that had its headquarters in Wisconsin, he was shocked when he visited there to find out they handed out free beer on Friday afternoons. People all left for home while still under the influence.
They were from WI, they weren't affected in the least bit. Something in the water here, makes for very stout and efficient livers.
Drinking at work means that you are still on the clock. You can't get sloppy.
God's Country is best viewed through beer goggles.
Remember, Christ's blood is 100% wine, according to Catholic doctrine, so that checks out.
We also have portable bars here as well. The Sled Shed is one they park near snowmobile trails in the woods.
Maybe i should move to Wisconsin.
Make sure you have enough blood in your alcohol stream!
We are friendly folks here in Wisconsin, and we'd love to have you here! From a lifelong Appleton, Wisconsin resident.
@@ginaheller333 IDK where is he from I don't want FIBs moving up here.
Me too!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🔥🔥🔥🔥👍👍👍👍😆😆😆😆🍻🍻🍺🍺
Wisconsin people love others moving here. I don't recommend Milwaukee, though, go north an hour or so. Washington County has much lower taxes than Milwaukee County
As a lifelong Wisconsinite, we have the most bars per capita, as well as the most local race tracks per capita!!! Plus if we go to another state, and get involved in a drinking game, if the "locals" find out about it, WE are NOT accepted to participate in said drinking games!!! That's a Win right there!!!
Being a poor college student in Menomonie Id spend my lunch at the local bar. $1 buck total for a pickled turkey gizzard,.25, 1 pickled egg, .25 and 5, 6oz Leinies taps, .10 each. This was way before Leinies became a designer beer.
was that across the street from the Flame?
Stout represent! First ever time seeing someone online that knows/has been to Menomonie, which is my hometown. I'm here right now! And everyone knows about Fryklund... the "hood" of Menomonie lmao people think they're cool for living here like it's a status symbol. So annoying.
@@timgaustad1644 can't remember, Pinks comes to mind but maybe not
Hey! Good to see another Blue Devil running around here!
Let me tell you about a little city that is part of Milwaukee County called Cudahy. Cudahy is a blue color suburb and was a haven of manufacturing in the day. One of the largest plants, Ladish, stretched much of the length of the main strip in Cudahy, S. Packard Avenue. Well, if Ladish was on one side of the street, than logically the only other thing you can have on the other side of the street would be bar/taverns and a lot of them. It is called the Cudahy Crawl, if you could go from one entire of Ladish and stopping at every single bar for a single shot or beer you were considered a man amongst men. Not many could handle such an endeavor, not even the locals, it was the final boss fight for any aspiring alcoholic. Now many have closed down, but not all.
That's Wisconsin. If you have more than three people in a room together, you will be drinking. It's cultural. We drink here and it's not healthy.
In addition to the bars adjacent to Ladish, back in the 50's many residential intersections in Cudahy had four bars, one on each corner. You can still see this as the residences were converted from bars without an effort to disguise their origin.
I was going to give you a thuppance...until I read the last two words.
Where else would find a bar named "Hammer Down" then across from Ladish?
Cudahy when the dishes in my grandmothers house shook the drop forges where working or the airplanes were landing.
As a fellow wisconsinite we are very proud of our records and challenge any to take them from us.
Glad you touched on the taven league because that’s their influence is the theory behind non legalization of marijuana in the state
My thoughts exactly
Average Wisconsinite can slam a 30 pack in a few hours
I moved to Milwaukee for a job opportunity for 8 months. I don’t really like beer, I don’t hate it , but it’s not great.
I went to bars, and eventually I figured out that the night would be cheaper if I drank the beer instead of soft drinks.
I thought you were going with, "cheaper if I drank beer instead of mixers." It's just those last three hours of peeing that really put a dent into the night.
There's always an Old Fashioned.
In WI, where there's a bar and a church, it's a town!! And people say "drunkest state" like it's a bad thing...I don't understand 😉
Saturday in Chippewa Falls Wisconsin 6 beers in pet sitting and cold spotted cow ale. Cheers great video.
Mmmmm... Cow.
German culture...Period. To those who say there is nothing else to do, they must not live here. There is plenty to do. Wisconsin is known for out outdoor activitiues. We just dringk while doing them.
German, Irish, and Polish culture combined is the truth of it. All big drinkers.
Us Wisconsinites have a high tolerance to alcohol. I have to drink a lot to get a buzz, but someone from say, Utah, would be hammered if they drank that much.
Drinking is also not viewed as taboo here. If you want to drink, great. If not, that’s fine too. Other states just need to grow up when it comes to drinking.
i didn’t realize how insane our drinking culture was until i went to mifflin block party. so many plastered college students walking around at 2pm, and the cops basically just have to hand out water and observe. people being picked up and rushed to the hospital and everyone just keeps throwing them back
I lived on Mifflin when I went to school there! The block party was... well it defies description. Probably because I got too hammered to describe it.
@ hahaa, i had to really really try hard to remember what even happened that day
This video was extremely well done! As a lifelong Wisconsinite who works in the alcohol industry, it is a very accurate representation of what we have going on up here.
Having lived here in Wisconsin for a while, my opinion is that Wisconsin has the strongest social drinking culture of anywhere I’ve been. What I mean is that a large percentage of Wisconsinites have their bar where they know almost everyone who comes in. Whether it is Milwaukee or the smaller towns, people’s social life is very often found in the local tavern.
I was shocked after I moved here. Everything they do is a “reason” to celebrate with a cocktail or beer.🤷♀️
Lots of drinking and driving going on here, too.
Officer: How much have you had to drink?
Driver: All of it.
Many cities in WI don't let you buy alcohol in a grocery store after 9p.m, you have to go to a bar to buy it. It's a recipe for drunk driving.
You can buy carry out at any bar and the prices are pretty reasonable.
@@KevinUrban-u1zThat’s illegal but the Tavern League created that intentionally.
Drinking is accepted in wisconsin. When you ask people here, you are more likely to be honest about what you drink because nobody will look down on them.
The reason I've always heard is that the northern states are big into outdoor sports like hunting and fishing. The two things (drinking culture and outdoor sporting) make for good bed fellows, and you can see that in many of the bars.
Wisconsin is also the home of Harley Davidson since it's founding, which is also in a way an outdoor sports company.
1:45 Some additional notes here. Germany is actually a majority Protestant country, with the notable exception of Bavaria, home of Munich and Oktoberfest, which is majority Catholic. This makes the German Catholic and beer connection more obvious.
The free thinkers mentioned here included German socialists (the normal kind, not the National kind) who were elected to mayor and local government in Milwaukee (obviously rare and unusual in the United States). Their obsession with public infrastructure included giving Milwaukee a state-of-the-art sewer system, giving them their nickname the “sewer socialists”.
Milwaukee had a socialist mayor just a few years before I was born there. He used to dragoon the jobless into shoveling snow.
I am a German Catholic, and my great uncle was a priest. I have a lot of memories of him at a card table playing sheepshead with a longneck bottle of Walter's.
I lived in Gays Mills, Wisconsin for a short while. I miss having a beer and ice fishing.
That’s a lie. I was too scared to go out on the ice. I did drink and watched everyone else from afar. I’m from Texas and that’s just not normal to drive a truck over a frozen river. They laughed at me for being unable to withstand negative temperatures in the winter. Meanwhile, I rolled my eyes when they complained about 80 degree heat (F) with 40% humidity.
Also, they made fun of my Texas accent, yet at the same time I heard grown men saying, “Oh yaaaaaaah!” and did everything to not laugh. Anyway, beer, cheese, Amish folks at Walmart, and wild turkeys attacking my car. Good times!
You go on the Wisconsin river?
I'm from Texas and just moved to Wisconsin, largely because I prefer the cold to the heat. I just found out this week though that having to go out in the morning and go to work when it's -5 F and windy outside is no picnic. I had to drive for about 30 minutes before my car's interior finally warmed up and by then, I was nearly at my destination. The clutch and brake pedals were hard to push and moving the shifter was like moving a ladle around in a bowl of mashed potatoes. You could see the numbers on the LCD displays changing. I still prefer a few days like that to Texas summers though. I look forward to hearing people complain about how hot it is when it's 80 F because it's a reminder that I don't have to suffer through two or three months straight of 95 to 110 temperatures every day.
I've only had one person mention my accent. I think my East Texas accent subsided somewhat after living over a decade in Dallas. People here don't have as much of an accent as I was expecting either, but I have heard a few Wisconsinisms like going to get a drink from the bubbler.
@@chitlitlahWelcome to Wisconsin!
@@ginaheller333 Thank you. I love it so far.
Beer and ice fishing! 🎣 🍻 my favorite winter past time!
I think part of the problem is that beer from other states, most often times does not count as beer in Wisconsin. I mean if you can't even be bothered to put the ABV on the can or bottle, yeah it's basically just flavored water, and not a very good flavor, to a Wisconsinite.
0:30 as a wisconsinite, it is that bad, trust me
As a fellow Wisconsinite, I approve this message.
We don't have alcoholics in Wisconsin, we have professionals!
I remember in my freshman year at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater I downed a whole 1.75 liter capt morgans in 20 minutes. I was drunk for 3 full days.
Couldn't drink that again so when I transferred to University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee I did the same thing but with admiral nelsons. I mean it looks like beer... I couldent tell the difference
6:11 Im very surprised its not a Bloody Mary. I've heard they're not really popular anywhere else (probably because they're nasty) so to me that would make more sense. Although on my mom's side of the family, not a single gathering went without a little Old Fashioned station (i would just eat all the oranges and everyone was okay with it and it got to a point where they got extra oranges because they knew I'd end up eating most of the slices lol)
In my experience growing up and living in Wisconsin, I'd say we have simply normalized drinking all the time. There is a beer cooler at every gathering. I don't think severe alcoholism, like in New Mexico or Alaska, is really a problem here. It's just normal to drink all the time, and as a result of that, we have high tolerances and can thus drink a lot when we want to. Of course, that's not necessarily healthy, but it's not like we're literally killing ourselves with booze like other states that may have a lower drinking rate but higher fatalities.
Being from Wisconsin and going out of state for college made me think I was an alcoholic.
Alcohol keeps you warm in the cold Wisconsin winter
It’s does not.
Antifreeze?
I go to anyones house the first thing that typically happens is someone offers me a beer. I love this state.
Beer or soda. And we never judge when you take the beer at 10am
Beer is good, that’s why. If you don’t understand this you are probably not from Wisconsin. Also most bars are family friendly here. It is a way of life. You bring your kids to the bar because almost all restaurants are also bars. So if you want to take your family out for diner guess what? You’re going to a bar. The rest of America needs to get over it. We can all drink Wisconsibly. It is possible.
A lot of it comes down to third spaces. You've got your home, your work, and the third space to socialize and unwind. The early Germans brough their beer halls to the state and the current residents still use them. Wisconsinites come together at their local taverns, of course they've learned to drink and have more opportunities to drink.