Connecticut Residents Consume 4th Most Amount of Alcohol: Report

Editor’s note: We published this story earlier in the week, but here it is again in case you missed it.

A new study shows that Connecticut residents really like to drink alcoholic beverages during the summer months of June, July, and August — especially during the Fourth of July holiday.

Connecticut residents drink the fourth most in the country during the summer months, according to the BacTrack Consumption Report.

The only states that consume more alcohol than Connecticut in the summer months are West Virginia, 0.103 (Blood Alcohol Content), Nevada, 0.096 (BAC), Pennsylvania, 0.089 (BAC), and then Connecticut, 0.088 (BAC).

The states with the lowest BAC are Kentucky, Delaware, and Washington, D.C, according to the report.

BacTrack says it examined Blood Alcohol Control levels during the summer months of June, July, and August 2014 which included 71,000 unique tests collected from anonymous users.

Some of the report’s key findings include:

• Summer drinking peaks the week leading up to the Fourth of July.
• The month of June has the highest BAC reading across the country
• The two highest days for BAC are the Fourth of July at 0.082 and Summer Solstice on June 21. July 3 is right behind at 0.83 BAC.
• Eight of the 13 biggest drinkings days in the summer are on Saturdays and five days were above the legal limit nationally including June 7, June 14, June 21, July 3, and July 4.
• The lowest BAC readings are on Mondays and Tuesdays and drinking subsides the last week in July before picking back up in August.

To read the full report and see the interactive map please click here.

Farmington residents, does anything in this study surprise you? Let us know in the comments section below.