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What your beer says about your politics
Beer is on tap. What does beer say about your politics?
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This final note today.
It seems that what beer you drink might say something about your politics and how likely you are to vote. The folks over at the National Journal have done some analysis.
Heineken is the most Democratic beer, while Samuel Adams is the most Republican.
But here's my gripe -- most of the beers they surveyed? Nothing but fizzy yellow watery stuff. Where are the craft beers? The good beers? The real beers?
Here's the chart NJ devised to track its partisan brews:
Really enjoy your show, and the beer graphic is a lot of fun. Obviously some serious thought was given to it. I , however, must take issue with your placement of my beloved Shiner Bock as about as far right as one can be and still drink beer. Perhaps it was placed there because Shiner Bock is only available in Texas, Texas' oldest independent brewery we are told. But more Shiner Bock is sold, and consumed, in Austin than anywhere else, and in case you didn't know, we are a very blue dot, in a very red state.
Shiner Bock only sold in Texas? Say what now? According to the Shiner website (http://www.shiner.com/main.php?page=history), Shiner is distributed to 40 states (mainly the NE, 2 NW states, and Hawaii that are missing out). Considering Shiner Bock is their flagship, its probably distributed to every state they distribute to. I've been drinking Shiner Bock for at least 10 years in NC.
