As families continue to entertain at home between the holidays, national statistics show that liquor has become as popular as wine to drink.  A recent Gallup survey shows that beer remains the number one preferred alcoholic beverage, but liquor’s popularity rose from 19 percent to 29 percent in the last year.  Alex Stodola from Stodola’s IGA in Luxemburg says the store’s liquor department is trending the same way.

Stodola added that the store’s consumers have shown a greater preference for rum products over tequila lately.   The Gallup study also showed that roughly two-thirds of all Americans drink alcoholic beverages.  That number has held steady for the past 20 years.