# Oklahoma Christmas lyric - what's a six pack of 3.2? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [December 17, 2021, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-christmas-lyric-whats-a-six-pack-of-3-2/956221 "2021-12-17T15:48:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2021, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-christmas-lyric-whats-a-six-pack-of-3-2/956221/1 "2021-12-17T15:48:43Z")
I’ve tried Google. Oklahoma Christmas lists Southern foods chicken fried steak, pecan pie. What’s 3.2? I assume it’s booze? What’s the significance to Oklahoma? [Reba:] So put on some Bob Wills to set the mood [Blake:] I think I’ve even have a six pack of 3.2. We’ll have an oh oh oh-oh-ohklahoma Christmas Let’s have an old-fashioned two stepping time around that little ol’ tree > **[Blake Shelton - Oklahoma Christmas Lyrics | AZLyrics.com](https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/blakeshelton/oklahomachristmas.html)** > > Blake Shelton "Oklahoma Christmas": Let's have an oh oh oh-oh-ohklahoma Christmas We'll have an old-fashioned two-steppin' time around o... ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2021, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-christmas-lyric-whats-a-six-pack-of-3-2/956221/2 "2021-12-17T15:50:12Z")
> **[What is 3.2 Beer? Everything You Need to Know!](https://renegadebrewing.com/3-2-beer/)** > > The consumption of alcohol in America has historically been a source of contention and the 3.2 beer is a good example of this. If you have heard the term and you are wondering just what > As mentioned earlier, even after the [Prohibition was repealed](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1470475/), states continued to ban the sale, distribution, and consumption of alcohol. But, as the years went by, more and more states began to relax their laws to permit the controlled sale of low alcohol content beer. > > In particular, states began by allowing the sale and distribution of liquors with just 3.2 percent of alcohol. Until recently, in some states, this was the only type of alcohol that could be sold in supermarkets and convenience stores. If you wanted liquor with a higher alcohol percentage, you would need to get it from a state-licensed liquor store. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2021, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-christmas-lyric-whats-a-six-pack-of-3-2/956221/3 "2021-12-17T15:50:19Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > What’s 3.2? I assume it’s booze? it’s low alcohol beer. > **[Weak but powerful: The legacy of 3.2 percent beer endures](https://thecounter.org/3-2-beer-alcohol-prohibition-liquor-laws-abv/)** > > This Depression-era relic will be gone by the end of year. How has it lasted this long, and will anyone miss it when it’s gone? ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2021, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-christmas-lyric-whats-a-six-pack-of-3-2/956221/4 "2021-12-17T15:52:07Z")
As to it’s significance to OK, I’m guessing they likely had some blue laws that limited stores from selling full-strength beer. KS had similar laws and folks would go over to MO to get “real beer” as opposed to “near beer”. ETA: Wikipedia seems to say that OK repealed their law limiting full-strength beer sales in 2016. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2021, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-christmas-lyric-whats-a-six-pack-of-3-2/956221/5 "2021-12-17T15:52:38Z")
Oh it’s like Near beer I was confused because Near Beer has almost no alcohol. it’s usually 0.5%. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2021, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-christmas-lyric-whats-a-six-pack-of-3-2/956221/6 "2021-12-17T17:30:51Z")
3.2% is low alcohol for beer, but plenty enough for intoxication in quantity. Probably extremely difficult to get intoxicated on 0.5% beer. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2021, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-christmas-lyric-whats-a-six-pack-of-3-2/956221/7 "2021-12-17T18:46:01Z")
3.2% beer has roughly 2/3 the alcohol content of typical mass-market beer, which is around 5.0% (with some variation). ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2021, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-christmas-lyric-whats-a-six-pack-of-3-2/956221/8 "2021-12-17T19:26:35Z")
My alcoholic stepfather with an IQ of 90 had no trouble downing a six-pack of 3.2 in record time. It’s a great way to get drunk and ruin your liver (which is what eventually killed him). I would expect folks partial to C&W to consume mass quantities of 3.2 because it is, after all, “toe-tappin’, beer-drinkin’” music. In Canada, BTW, two-fours (cases with 24 bottles of beer) are popular. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2021, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-christmas-lyric-whats-a-six-pack-of-3-2/956221/9 "2021-12-18T02:38:13Z")
It’s 4% ABV or alcohol by volume. Whilst you can get drunk on it, one has to really pound the suds. An awful lot of beers in the UK, perhaps even the majority, are around this strength. These are referred to as session beers, as in you can drink an awful lot in a session and still get up in the morning without a hangover and go to work.