List of U.S. state beverages

This is a list of state beverages as designated by the various states of the United States. The first known usage of declaring a specific beverage a "state beverage" within the US began in 1965 with Ohio designating tomato juice as their official beverage. The most popular choice for state beverage designation is milk (or a flavored milk) with 22 out of the 30 entities (28 states and 2 territories with official beverages) making milk their official beverage, while Rhode Island chose coffee-flavored milk. Alabama is the only U.S. state to have an alcoholic beverage as its state beverage.

Table

State	Drink	Year
Alabama	Conecuh Ridge Whiskey (State Spirit)	2004[1]
Arizona	Lemonade	2019[2]
Arkansas	Milk	1985[3]
Delaware	Milk	1983[4]
Florida	Orange juice	1967[5]
Kentucky	Milk (State Drink)	2005[6]
	Ale-8-One (An original Kentucky soft drink)	2013[7]
Louisiana[notes 1]	Milk	1983[8]
Maine	Moxie	2005[9]
Maryland	Milk	1998[10]
Massachusetts	Cranberry juice	1970[11]
Minnesota	Milk	2004[12]
Mississippi	Milk	1984[13]
Nebraska	Milk (State Beverage)	1998[14]
	Kool-Aid (State Soft Drink)
New Hampshire	Apple cider	2010[15]
New York	Milk	1981[16][17][18][19]
North Carolina	Milk	1987[20][21]
North Dakota	Milk	1983[22]
Ohio	Tomato juice	1965[23]
Oklahoma	Milk	2002[24]
Oregon	Milk	1997[25]
Pennsylvania	Milk	1982[26]
Rhode Island	Coffee milk	1993[27]
South Carolina	Milk (State Beverage)	1984[28]
	South Carolina-grown tea (State Hospitality Beverage)	1995[28]
South Dakota	Milk	1986[29]
Tennessee	Milk	2009[30]
Vermont	Milk	1983[31]
Virginia	Milk (State Beverage)	1982[32]
	George Washington's Rye Whiskey (State Spirit)	2017[33][34]
Wisconsin	Milk	1987[35]

Federal district or territory	Drink	Year
District of Columbia	Rickey	2011[36]
Puerto Rico	Piña Colada	1978[37]

Notes

1. In 2008, Louisiana made Sazerac the official New Orleans cocktail. Unlike state symbols which are found in Title 49 (State Administration) of the Revised Statutes, this is found in Title 33 (Municipalities and Parishes): RS 33:1420.2

References

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