On Independence Day, Americans drink approximately 68 million cases of beer.
But just how much beer is that? A standard case of beer, or case equivalent, is 24 12-ounce servings of beer, meaning 24 bottles or cans with 12 ounces of beer in each. This gives us a total of 288 ounces of beer per case.
That means that, on Independence Day alone, Americans consume 19,584,000,000 (nineteen billion five hundred eighty four million) ounces of beer. Numbers that size kind of become meaningless, so let’s picture it in a couple of ways that are a bit easier to imagine.
Here are 14 examples to help illustrate Fourth of July beer consumption.
On Independence Day, American beer drinkers consume the beer equivalent of:
7 Fountains of Bellagio (Seven)
or
22 Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pools (Twenty Two)
or
24 Georgia Aquarium Ocean Voyager Exhibit Tanks (Twenty Four)
or
161 Splash Mountain Disney World Rides (One Hundred Sixty One)
or
231 Olympic Swimming Pools (Two Hundred Thirty One)
or
1,593 Days of Fuel for The Harmony of the Seas Cruise Ship (One Thousand Five Hundred Ninety Three)
or
13,909 Large Tanker Truck Tanks (Thirteen Thousand Nine Hundred Nine)
or
22,254 Tanks of Fuel for a Boeing 737-800 Airplane (Twenty Two Thousand Two Hundred Fifty Four)
or
4,935,484 Barrels of Beer (Four Million Nine Hundred Thirty Five Thousand Four Hundred Eighty Four)
or
9,683,545 Tanks of Gas for a 2022 Toyota Camry (Nine Million Six Hundred Eighty Three Thousand Five Hundred Forty Five)
or
9,870,968 Kegs of Beer (Nine Million Eight Hundred Seventy Thousand Nine Hundred Sixty Eight)
or
153,000,000 Gallons of Beer (One Hundred Fifty Three Million Gallons)
or
652,800,000 Large McDonalds Drinks (Six Hundred Fifty Two Million Eight Hundred Thousand)
or
1,224,000,000 Pints of Beer (One Billion Two Hundred Twenty-Four Million)
That’s a lot of beer.