Posted on 03/15/2005 12:35:36 AM PST by nickcarraway
LOS ANGELES, March 14 (UPI) -- Malt liquor beer drinkers are more likely to be homeless, unemployed, receive public assistance and tend to drink more alcohol, according to a U.S. study.
"Measuring MLB (malt liquor beer) consumption is difficult because
MLBs differ from other beer beverages in two important aspects: container size and alcohol content by volume," said Ricky Bluthenthal of Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles.
"We found that the combination of these differences resulted in the average malt liquor drinker in our study consuming 80 percent more alcohol per drink than the average regular beer drinker."
In addition, MLBs can be sold in containers as large as 40-ounce bottles, known as "40s," commonly sold chilled and wrapped in brown paper bags for immediate consumption, according to Rhonda Jones-Webb of the University of Minnesota.
Based on previous research, we know that MLBs because of price per
volume and availability are likely to be more attractive to lower-income drinkers, according to Bluthenthal.
The findings are published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research.
BLAME THE MALT LIQUOR BTTT! lol
Wait a minute!....I like malt liquor and I'm still employed...does that mean????
Wow. I'm usually one to defend research that seems silly on first blush but turns out to be serious. I remember the press lampooning studies of how spiders walk, only to find out that the learnings were used to design new space probes.
This is ridiculous though. Newsflash: malt liquor will f*** you up! Alert Dave Chappelle.
As a lifelong resident of the urban, industrial Midwest, I can tell you that I'm SHOCKED! SHOCKED, I tell you!!! Why, this is a disgrace! Brown paper bags, INDEED! 40 ounce bottles in paper bags - do they have no SHAME?!?
(psssst!.....pass the OE 800.......)
They don't serve it a the Lockheed commisary?
.99 cent 40s of OE or the Bull, brings back memories...
I'm just wondering if my tax dollars paid for the groundbreaking piece of brilliant research.
What was bothersome to me, when I managed a liquor store in Lincoln, Nebraska, was that the marketing of this heavy-duty beer was concentrated solely upon one class of people (a class of people who should never have been drinking in the first place; life is rough enough the way it is, without the added complications of alcoholism)--the same sorts of people also had the curious habit of purchasing Newport cigarettes.
"Niche marketing" is fine, as long as it enhances, not debilitates, life.
In Palmdale?.....
-- Malt liquor beer drinkers are more likely to be homeless, unemployed, receive public assistance and tend to drink more alcohol, according to a U.S. study....well shit on a shingle!!!!....sign me up for A.A.A......
Consider this one a victory- malt liquor is cheap. Imagine the caviar study.
Yep, your days are numbered...
I work in a bar, within a casino, in a highly industrial neighborhood and am intimately familiar with the demographic of which you speak, but I still don't think Poland is under water.
(cryptic cross-thread humor/off)
L.O.L.....no malt liquor here....
"Find the 40 in this picture."
But read the article closer - "... sold in 40 oz. bottles ready to go.."
Well, so what? Handy and convenient, I'll bet. So what is implied here, that beer should only be available in 12oz increments, or that people ought not to have the ability to get snockered should the need arise?? What I get is that consumers prefer 40oz containers which is just over a liter anyway. Folks, it's not the container.
yeah gag and hurl first gulp
What's being implied is that cheap alcohol in quantity has a market at the lower end of the socio-economic scale and that manufacturers have reacted to meet that "need."
You can extrapolate that out to say that beer has replaced hard liquor as the adult beverage of choice among the "target market" because of its availability and price.
AAA? Need a tow?
But the fact remains that essentially consumers prefer 7 point beer in 40 oz containers. I don't see this as a revelation, somehow. </sarcasm>
It sounds like a gun control argument, vaguely.
As I'm sure you know, there is another class of drinker that buys those "nips" that are always confined to the check-out counters of the liquor store. When you see a well-dressed patron order a couple of "nips" and a soda...well, you can figure they will be consumed in the car before they get home to the spouse.
Malt liquor...blecchhh! Gimme Mad Dog 20-20 any day!
The makings of a fine teenagers evening:
2 40's of OE 800
Two 7/11 Beef and Bean Burritos
The Drive In showing American Grafitti and The Sting
Making out with Lola Rogers in the back seat
Lola throwing up all over the back seat
Making Lola clean the back seat
Ahh yes, prom night.
volume and availability are likely to be more attractive to lower-income drinkers, according to Bluthenthal.
i should call my beloved senators chuckie and hillary and urge them to immediately pass a supplemental to the budget so that lower-income drinkers could upgrade to 1982 Mouton
Malt liquor beer drinkers are more likely to be homeless, unemployed, receive public assistance and tend to drink more alcohol, according to a U.S. study.Typically rear-view mirror study that reverses cause and effect in order to preserve someone's precious victimhood. It's like studying sneezing and concluding that it causes colds.
Drinking and driving is frowned upon.
Scootin' down to the sto' gonna grab me a four-oh ping.
Grab me one while you're there...........on 2nd thought, never mind.
Those darn things are hard to carry unless you have your own shopping cart.
You mean you don't have one?
You're behind the curve, my FRiend!
I never have fun like that anymore! :)
Seriously, Victory HopDevil is one of the finest brews on the planet, not to be missed if one is a "hophead".
And I'm not the only one who thinks so:
MMMMMmmmmmmm!!!!
Drink the Bull.
Works every time (wink)......
Yes, you're black! LOL!
A vital effort is underway here in North Carolina to get the 6% cap removed.
http://www.popthecap.org
"The sole purpose of a "40" is to get drunk."
And there's something wrong with that?
Heck, what you guys call malt liquor we just call beer up here in the Great White North.
When I want to get a quick buzz I pick up some Crest Super Lager - 500 ml cans at 10% v/v alc. You down one of those and you're already half cut.
Maybe you're not old enough to remember when the same demographic drank blackberry brandy or Night Train. It shows a switch in drinking habits. Why? Probably because the 40s are marketed directly to the consumers via billboards etc. and because they are more readily available through a greater number of outlets. Brandy and Night train could only be sold in liquor stores, 40s can be sold by delis or wherever beer is sold.
Would drinking habits change if 40s were eliminated? Yes,by definition they wouldn't drink 40s anymore. Consumers would go back to blackberry brandy, night train, etc. or find something else.
What's the word?
Thunderbird
What's the price?
Fifty twice.
Oh so nice!
And I say it's all just talk. Unless it's the one they call.. Coldcock.
Don't forget the Thunderbird Shake-Em-Up!
I don't know. I was in one eatery where a guy asked the waiter for a 40. He poured himself some and then poured the rest on his right hand. The waiter ran over and asked him why he did that. The man replied: "It's for my 'date'"!
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