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I'm struggling to find a source, but I was taught in school that some large majority of the total beer consumption is by a core group of beer drinkers that average > 3/4 gallon (around eight cans of beer) per day

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I was staggered, at my last health physical, to learn that --light to light/moderate-- alcohol consumption for someone my size is 14 beers a week.

I have 14 beers (or its equivalent hard alcohol) over the course of a month or two, and that still seemed like a lot.

2 beers a day to be specific. 4+ beers in a single day for a male is in the heavy alcohol use classification

The normal recommendation is 2 "servings (beer, shot, glass of wine) per day, without any roll over. That's the important part. You can't really measure it on a weekly basis as you can't have all of those beers in just a few days.

90% of the booze is consumed by 10% of the population. They're all alcoholics. These are the people who prop up the industry.

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