Women Continue to Prefer Wine and Spirits to Beer

Dear Client:Like last year’s Gallup Poll, beer beat out wine and spirits as Americans’ preferred beverage. Four in 10 drinkers say they prefer beer, compared with 34% naming wine and 21% spirits. Recall that beer has been the top-ranking alcoholic beverage every year since 1992 (the poll’s inception) except in 2005, when wine edged slightly ahead of it. Spirits have consistently ranked third, named by between 18% and 24% of drinkers.The majority of men say they most often drink beer,