I spent some time in Milwaukee quite a few years back, and the popular blue-collar drink there was "brandy and beer."
Those who drank the beer and chased it with the brandy were about as numerous as those who drank the brandy and chased it with the beer.
An almost equal number simply poured the brandy in the beer to "fortify" it.
Whatever.
Brandy is not particularly popular anywhere in the US - except around Milwaukee. While I was there, the local news media reported in several consecutive years that Wisconsin had retained their "title" by consuming two-thirds of the brandy in the US.
And for the purists, yes it was usually with lager.