About 230 beers were consumed for every man, woman and child living in Alabama last year.

Since 2004 in Alabama, per-capita beer consumption has held steady -- we drink somewhere between 230 and 245 beers per person annually.

We can calculate how much we drink by looking at beer taxes. In Alabama, the state receives 5 cents for each 12 ounce serving of beer sold (or fraction thereof), and 10 cents for every pint. Dividing total beer taxes by .05 roughly gives the number of beers consumed.

The year 2011 was a peak for Alabama beer drinkers: the state collected more than $58 million in beer taxes that year. That's 1.17 billion beers consumed, or about 243 per person.

Beer drinking appears to have subsided a bit since then, although the state did generate another $55 million in direct revenue from the beer tax in 2013.

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What about other states?

Alabama is in the middle of the pack when it comes to per capita beer consumption, according to a survey conducted by Bloomberg.

According to Bloomberg, Alabama ranked 22nd in per capita beer consumption in 2012. The survey estimated that Alabamians aged 21 and over drank 30 gallons each in 2012, or about 320 12-ounce servings.

Adult drinkers in three states were estimated to have consumed more than 40 gallons of beer in a year, well over a beer a day (427 12-ounce servings). Those states were North Dakota, New Hampshire, and Montana.

Utah residents consume the fewest gallons of beer per adult resident, with about 213 12-ounce servings consumed in 2012.

This story was updated Tuesday to include additional language about how Alabama collects excise taxes on the sale of pints of beer.