According to a survey of 200,000 Americans, Miller High Life is the most bi-partisan of beers. Republicans favor Samuel Adams and, apparently, there are a lot of Democrats drinking Heineken. (Although one might argue that these results are heavily skewed, as the survey did not include either microbrews or microparties. God only knows what the Libertarians are drinking.) There's a chart. Yay, charts! (Via Kevin Zelnio)

  • jtropp1

    Where does PBR fall?

    • Brainspore

      Right off the barstool onto its drunken hipster ass.

  • Doug Black

    Who knew there were so many people on both sides of the political divide with terrible taste in beer?

    • http://maggiekb.com/ Maggie Koerth-Baker

      Finally, something we can all agree on! 

  • Bucket

     Frank Booth would like a word with you.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snhiofL2Rh4

  • Joshua Ochs

    Libertarians are drinking a lot.

    • petertrepan

      I guess we can rule out Sam Adams. He was a politician, and they want to get government out of their beer.

      • http://www.fagerland.org tofagerl

        Unlike socialists, who just want to get beer our of the government

        • petertrepan

          In America, vodka is taxed by the machinery of the state.

          In Soviet Russia, the machinery of the state is taxed by vodka.

    • ldobe

      A lot of “high gravity lagers” at 12%ABV made by “craft brewers” that have no address, distributor company name, phone number, or URI on the can.

    • BillStewart2012

      Libertarians are drinking Free Beer, of course!

      Or anything from 21st Amendment brewpub, or really just about anything they want.

  • Navin_Johnson

    God only knows what the Libertarians are drinking

    Kool-Aid

  • http://twitter.com/elfsternberg Elf Sternberg

    Pike Place Kilt Lifter in the winter, 21st Amendment Hell Or High Watermelon in the summer.  Life’s too short to drink bad beer.

  • seyo

    “God only knows what the Libertarians are drinking.”

    A golden chalice of delusional self righteousness and crocodile tears.

    • jimh

      The invisible brand of the marketplace!

  • http://twitter.com/dearnate nate

    Libertarians drink unpasteurized milk, bhang, and Four Loko.

    • Navin_Johnson

       Rollin’ down K Street, quotin’ Rothbard, sippin’ on Mises Juice…uuuupp tiiiiight…

  • RustyTrawler

    Huh – I always figured the world’s most interesting man voted regularly.

    • petertrepan

      He doesn’t always, but when he does, he votes Democratic.

  • Navin_Johnson

    I have to say I really thought “Miller-Lite” would be the universal one. I’ve done some time working in bars and no matter how many other great beers are on offer, from better tasting cheap beers to nicer crafts,  “Lite” would always outsell all of them, even Bud and Bud-Light. Proof that with enough advertising dollars you can make dudes think that drinking watery, wimpy, awful tasting beer is the epitome of manliness….

    • ryuthrowsstuff

      I think that depends on where your located. When I was working in bars it was always Bud-Light and even finding Miller-Lite any place was a rarity.  And when I lived in Philly it was Yuengling or you get hit.

    • http://daruiburns.tumblr.com/ Dlo Burns

      I don’t always preach, but when I do it’s that people shouldn’t drink lite beer.

  • Grey Eyed Man of Destiny

    axes, maggie… according to this, natty light is the most bipartisan beer.

  • IronEdithKidd

    Huh?  That’s odd.  According to this chart everyone I’ve ever played hockey with, and myself, should be a high turn-out Republican.  Who dafuq did they even ask? 

    Anyway, when it comes to good beer, we like to keep it local.  Bell’s Oberon in the summer, Wolverine State Premium or Amber the rest of the year.  Though, I do like Leinenkugel Sunset Wheat and Octoberfest to infill seasons, it’s just not quite as local.

  • Sam Ley

    Interesting that this poll lacks representation from either of the largest American-owned beer companies (depending on how you define it).

    Pabst is the largest American-owned brewery, though some of their beer is brewed out of the US. Yuengling is the largest American-owned brewery that also brews all of its beer in the US.

    And Libertarians should be home-brewing!

    • wysinwyg

      And Libertarians should be home-brewing!

      Why would people who are obsessed with free markets and commerce take a do-it-yourself approach?  Libertarians would want to buy beer from someone who was better at brewing beer than they were.  They also probably believe the brewers should be exempt from any sort of health or safety regulations.

      Anarchists should be home-brewing.  And they probably are.

      • Felton / Moderator

        Nobody ever metions that chapter of the Anarchist Cookbook.

        • wysinwyg

          Not my preferred source of recipes, for sure.  You should try my anarchist 3-bean chili, though.  Now with more thermite!

  • sota767

    Which political alignment do I have to join to not get shitty beer?

    • http://illustratorhints.com/ Jesseham

      Damn this 2 party system!  I’m voting independent and drinking Magic Hat on the east coast and Anderson Valley on the west.

      • http://goodsharer.com/ Aloisius

        Oh man I was at Anderson Valley last month and they had this oatmeal stout aged in bourbon barrels that was fantastic.

        • petertrepan

          Snake Handler by Good People brewery:

          http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/17282/50194

          Dirty South reprazent. I tried this beer just to support local people doing interesting things, and it turned out to be the best beer I’ve ever had by a wide margin. Seek it out if you’re ever in the very limited area that offers it so far.

        • sweetcraspy

           Anderson Valley Oatmeal Stout is the finest beer available for sale in the united states. 

      • Navin_Johnson

         Really dig their Boont Amber Ale.

  • http://goodsharer.com/ Aloisius

    Republicans sure drink a lot of light beers.

    • Brainspore

      No wonder McCain ran as “Busch Light.”

    • BillStewart2012

      Republicans are concentrated in the Red States, which tend to be hot and humid.  If you’re out working in your yard in St. Louis MO, home of Anheuser Busch, and it’s 95 degrees and 95% humidity outside, a Budweiser is about the heaviest beer you can drink, and even a Bud Light’s pretty good, if it’s cold enough.  The kinds of thick heavy beers we drink in San Francisco weather don’t work so well there, and vice versa.

      • Navin_Johnson

         If you’re talking about ice cold, crisp lawnmower beers, give me a Pabst, Schlitz, or Mexican beer like Modelo. I don’t know how people drink Bud.  It’s a shame that PBR has a stigma to it too, because imho among the low budget macros it’s the most drinkable.  Not that that’s much of an achievement.

      • wysinwyg

        But the study says they’re drinking Sam Adams, which is WAAAAY heavier than Bud.

  • http://profiles.google.com/keithdtyler Keith Tyler

    Considering that Sam is a Boston originated beer, and therefore most Sam drinkers are Bostonians, and given that Boston is one of the nation’s most liberal towns, I find this completely bullshit.

    • http://profiles.google.com/marc.k.mielke Marc Mielke

      I’m as liberal as they get and it’s pretty much Sam Adams or Guinness for me. There’s a sample size of one for ya’!

    • http://daruiburns.tumblr.com/ Dlo Burns

      Probably has to do with the clueless ancestor worship the tea-party has going on.

    • AnthonyC

      My first thought as well.

  • Zart

    I get really irritated by poorly labeled charts.  Which dimension does the size of the bubbles represent?

    • petertrepan

      It represents a metric derived from how great tasting the beer is divided by how filling it is.

  • Antinous / Moderator

    My governess’s husband brewed his own.  Where does that put me?

    • Donald Petersen

      Somewhere in the antebellum Northeast, I’d have thought.  You wear it well.

  • Comboman

    I thought Republicans drank homebrew because “they built that”.

  • noah django

    More like Miller Low Life, amirite?
    I used to drink MHL due to the fact that–in my area–it was the cheapest 12 pack by a buck.  The taste was plain/acceptable, but there was a slightly rank aftertaste and the hangovers were bad.  So now I pay the buck hipster tax for PBR.  Yeah, “it sucks” etc, but my beer-drinking is a utilitarian thing.  PBR tastes fine because it tastes like beer, and anything heavier does not compute in the Atlanta heat.

    I really wanted to support Yuengling.  Great taste at a great price, but–and this has been substantiated without prompting by two friends–we just can’t get fucked up on it.  The internet says the ABV is the same, but I swear it’s weaker than other beers.