date:Jan 18, 2013
stitute, a lobbying group. While beer consumption in New Hampshire fell 1.8 percent between 2003 and 2011, it declined 7.5 percent nationally.
Nearly 66 percent of New Hampshire residents had a drink in a 30-day period in 2011, second only to Wisconsin, according to the report.
Massachusetts, meanwhile, has taken steps in recent years to lower the cost of beer.
In 2010, voters passed a law that gave them cheaper beer by eliminating the state's 6.25 percent sales tax on alcohol Massachusetts l