ShannoninAMA From United States, joined May 2007, 1498 posts, RR: 33 Posted (7 months 3 weeks 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 1447 times:
In light of the thread about Germanys Great beers, i thought america's pissy beers deserved a thread too.
Quoting Top Ten Selling Craft Beers:
1 Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
2 Samuel Adams Boston Lager
3 Blue Moon White
4 Samuel Adams Seasonal
5 New Belgium Fat Tire
6 Samuel Adams Light
7 Shiner Bock
8 Widmer Hefeweizen
9 Samuel Adams Brewmasters Collection
10 Redhook ESB
11 Pyramid Hefeweizen
12 Deschutes Mirror Pond Pale
13 Redhook IPA
14 Alaskan Amber
15 Deschutes Black Butte Porter
1 Pale Ale
2 Seasonals
3 Amber
4 Amber Lager
5 Wheat
6 IPA
Not bad either..
However, heres where it goes to piss.
Quoting Overall, Top Ten Selling US Beers:
1 Bud Light
2 Miller Lite
3 Budweiser
4 Coors Light
5 Corona Extra
6 Heineken
7 Natural Light
8 Michelob Ultra Light
9 Busch Light
10 Miller High Life
ArmitageShanks From United Kingdom (England), joined Dec 2003, 2806 posts, RR: 12 Reply 2, posted (7 months 3 weeks 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 1438 times:
CasInterest From United States, joined Feb 2005, 857 posts, RR: 1 Reply 3, posted (7 months 3 weeks 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 1423 times:
Quoting Acidradio (Reply 1): Notice how none of those craft beers you mention are in the top selling beers? Does that say something awful about American beer tastes?
Umm, let's see, I like craft beers, however when I am drinking a lot, I usually reach for a Miller Lite.
Every dipidy dip snob forgets how much tailgating events and parties/ clubs evolve around cheap beer.
LHMARK From United States, joined Jan 2000, 7223 posts, RR: 53 Reply 4, posted (7 months 3 weeks 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 1418 times:
First off, Blue Moon is not a craft beer. It's Coors.
Next, the craft beer segment is growing at around 11% annually while the other beer segments shrink, but macro lagers like Bud have a considerable head start, seeing as how craft beers only entered the picture at the beginning of the '80s.
I'm curious to see what the future holds.
"Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed on the Yankees. Apparently it angers them." - Bob Feller
CasInterest From United States, joined Feb 2005, 857 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (7 months 3 weeks 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 1410 times:
Quoting LHMARK (Reply 4): Next, the craft beer segment is growing at around 11% annually while the other beer segments shrink, but macro lagers like Bud have a considerable head start, seeing as how craft beers only entered the picture at the beginning of the '80s.
I think craft beers will go a long way. The days were people "graduated" to liquor are kind of ending.
I would much rather drink a beer than pour a drink.
The older people get the more sophisticated the beers get. Some days I'll reach for the local, some days I reach for the miller lite(usually after 2 of the locals).
I believe that would be the poor college kids who will get drunk off of anything with alcohol in it. I mean, after your BAC has passed 0.10, who cares what you are drinking. (Not that I have personal experience with that level.)
TSS From United States, joined Dec 2006, 975 posts, RR: 3 Reply 9, posted (7 months 3 weeks 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 1377 times:
Quoting Acidradio (Reply 1): Notice how none of those craft beers you mention are in the top selling beers? Does that say something awful about American beer tastes?
What it says is that most Americans drink beer to get drunk, not because they like the taste. The major American beer manufacturers (you'll notice I didn't call them "brewers"...that was not a mistake) know this and that's why they keep churning out the same watered-down ditch liquor year after year. When you see an American drinking what you know to be swill-in-a-can and you ask him "Why?", most of the time his answer will be "Because it's cheap and it gets you drunk". For most folks in the US, beer having a non-gag-inducing flavor is a tertiary consideration at best.
Quoting CasInterest (Reply 3): Every dipidy dip snob forgets how much tailgating events and parties/ clubs evolve around cheap beer.
...And my point is made.
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LHMARK From United States, joined Jan 2000, 7223 posts, RR: 53 Reply 11, posted (7 months 3 weeks 2 days 7 hours ago) and read 1354 times:
Quoting TSS (Reply 9): What it says is that most Americans drink beer to get drunk, not because they like the taste. The major American beer manufacturers (you'll notice I didn't call them "brewers"...that was not a mistake) know this and that's why they keep churning out the same watered-down ditch liquor year after year. When you see an American drinking what you know to be swill-in-a-can and you ask him "Why?", most of the time his answer will be "Because it's cheap and it gets you drunk". For most folks in the US, beer having a non-gag-inducing flavor is a tertiary consideration at best.
What it also says is by the time regional craft breweries like Sierra Nevada and Sam Adams set up shop, the big nationals were already brewing millions of barrels per year. It takes a great deal of time to retrain the tastes of a nation. Plus, the smaller brewers don't expect to be in the top then by sales volume, so they don't structure their growth plans with that goal in mind.
"Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed on the Yankees. Apparently it angers them." - Bob Feller
WildcatYXU From Canada, joined May 2006, 1275 posts, RR: 1 Reply 14, posted (7 months 3 weeks 2 days 6 hours ago) and read 1340 times:
Quoting BHXFAOTIPYYC (Reply 12): Isn't most US beer 4% whereas most Canadian stuff is 5%?
That's a big misunderstanding. Mainstream beers in the USA usually have around 3.5 % of alcohol. However, it's measured by weight, not by volume as here in Canada. 3.6 % m/m is roughly 5 % V/V
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