Alcohol

Bars In New York State

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Bars In New York State

Most of the watering holes in New York State are located in populated areas. I guess that is not real surprising, as that's where the people is and that's where you would build a business. Some of the rural towns in upstate are dry. This might be a more interesting map if I had done bars per capita -- maybe that's a project for a future date. Map shows density of licensed establishments selling liqour for on-site consumption.

Data Source: https://data.ny.gov/Economic-Development/Liquor-Authority-Quarterly-List-of-Active-Licenses/hrvs-fxs2

Neither Trump Nor Biden Drink Alcohol – The New York Times

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Neither Trump Nor Biden Drink Alcohol – The New York Times

“These are two intensely competitive men who made a judgment early in their careers that their path to success is going to be willing themselves into the positions they wanted,” said Evan Osnos, the author of a just-completed biography of Mr. Biden. “That did not leave much room for getting drunk.”

It has been nearly a century since temperance had much bearing on American politics. The Prohibition Era began 101 years ago with ratification of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution and ended in 1933 with its repeal.

“There was a time in American public life when character was associated with a level of sobriety,” said Tim Naftali, a presidential historian. “I think that disappeared with the end of Prohibition.”

An almost teetotaler at age 40 🍻

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These days I drink less and less alcohol. I never drink at home, and when I drink when I’m out with friends it’s usually just one beer and no more then two per day when camping — maybe a beer at lunch or dinner and one along the fire. But most of the time I just drink water or lemonade as it’s cheaper and healthier. Alcohol is poison, it makes you fat, and intoxication can be just plain dangerous. Hang overs in your forties is much less fun. So I drink much less alcohol.

Old Unopened Beer Car

Why New York Has Such Strange Rules About Alcohol – The New York Times

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Why New York Has Such Strange Rules About Alcohol – The New York Times

The supermarket chain Wegmans is lobbying New York State for permission to sell wine. It is just one moment in New York City’s long, tumultuous, love/hate relationship with alcohol.

Despite the city’s reputation for booze-soaked debauchery, its liquor laws can seem puritanical: Until last year, liquor stores were barred from opening on Christmas Day. The so-called boozy-brunch bill didn’t pass until 2016; before that, restaurants were not supposed to serve alcohol before noon on Sunday.

Why is Gen Z drinking less? – The Hill

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Why is Gen Z drinking less? – The Hill

Gen Zers are drinking less than young people in past generations: about 20 percent less alcohol per capita than millennials did at their age, according to a report from Berenberg Research.

And many are forgoing booze entirely. The share of college-age adults abstaining from alcohol has grown from 20 to 28 percent over the last two decades, a University of Michigan study found.

The shift away from alcohol stems in part from a heightened awareness of the risks that come with drinking, from poor decisionmaking to addiction to negative health impacts.

Young people “are actually learning that alcohol is toxic to humans,” said Charles Smith, an addiction specialist at the American Addiction Centers Recovery First Treatment Center in Hollywood, Fla.