10 Best Selling Beers in America

I've been drinking Miller Lite lately, I need to give a better pilsner a try.

c'mon, no one buys natural light

Although, for acidic water, it's not as bad as it could be.

anyway:
http://www.shandygaff.com/images/millerhighlife.gif

that was re: Miller Lite

oh, contraire, I know a house full of dudes who drink nothing but Natty Light.

More surprised that Busch Light made the list - I haven't seen anyone drink a Busch-branded product the first Bush era.

in this sad company, budweiser truly is the king of beers

boh forever

Corona (and half the others on this list) outsells Miler Genuine Draft? I guess I'll have to go with the little German.

these beers suck, i'd only drink corona extra IRL, and then only a rare occasion, but i voted Miller High Life in honor of my dad who drank several thousand cases of the shit in his day

More surprised that Busch Light made the list - I haven't seen anyone drink a Busch-branded product the first Bush era.

The meathead dudes at the rather large university in my town seem to only drink Busch Light. It's not uncommon to go to the grocery store nearest campus on a Thursday or Friday and see a dozen grocery carts packed full of glorious Busch Light. My wife and I have actually adopted "Busch Light" as shorthand for everything related to getting undergrad-drunk in frathouses.

Out of all these beers, the only one I drink is Miller High Life, from cans, freezing cold, in the summer. It truly is the champagne of beers.

Heineken i guess but man is this a bleak poll

high life, dipshits!!

the label pwns but the next day's headache does not

joygoat otm. fratboys and after work tallboy drinkers support busch lite. will never die.

Miller Lite, in the can, though I also like both Coors Light and Bud Light. But I like Miller best because you can drink more of it.

where's laurel

High Life, because at least then a cute tomboyish girl might grab it playfully.

But yeah, jergins otm re: bleakness.

YES
xpost

(even if she was drinking TEQUILA last time i saw her!)

Heineken by far

Heineken > Corona and Miller High Life > Everything Else

high life, i guess, if there's no pbr available

Of those, I'd take a Budweiser (or "Bad Wizard"), but I'd probably do a lot of grumbling.

Corona > Heineken > piss-water

I guess a Heineken beats a limeless Corona, but too late I already voted.

Heinie, I guess. This is kind of a 'reduced to a beer run at the closest gas station 2 minutes before midnight and they lock the cabinets' poll, right?

I'm not sure I've seen michelob around for many years. Is it still available in Texas?

I would take Bud over Heineken (or any of the other beers on this list) any day.

a Corona with lime >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> anything else there. I like Michelob full flavor in the smokey bottle.

Miller Lite: when it's really really cold on a hot Texas day it beats just about any beer.

"any beer" really?? i say to you sir that you should try more beers

although having said that i've never been to Texas so maybe it's a geographical anomaly

Corona (and half the others on this list) outsells Miler Genuine Draft? I guess I'll have to go with the little German.

So is Miller 'Genuine Draft" the same thing as "High Life"? We only have the former here in Canada so I'm not sure if it's a marketing thing. I don't think I've had a "High Life" Miller, but if that's the same thing as MGD, then that would be my pick from the American beers on that list..

Corona and Heineken (Dutch, not German), are far better of course.

champaign of beers all the way.

I love Bud. A bar near me has it on tap at about 35 degrees out of frozen mugs, damn I love it.

How do they decide whether to name it "Light" or "Lite"?

coronas is good

bud light

straight-up budweiser in a bottle, no contest.

all the light beers on this list completely suck, heineken isn't very good but i'll take it over most of the others on the list, and if it's offered, a corona with a lime on a hot summer day is decent enough.

c'mon, no one buys natural light

you gotta be joking.... everybody drank this in high school. then they graduated to bud light and miller lite in college.

*in my high school, at least.

OH HAI. I CAN HAS BUDWEISER? In bottles so cold there are baby icebergs in the neck, that's a little sip of heaven. But I'm going off beer for the winter, is the thing.

high life high life high life high life

(not the same as mgd!)

HIGH LIFE MIMOSA

You mean, High Life and orange juice. If so, let me be the first to say, GLAH!

lol american beer

You mean, High Life and orange juice. If so, let me be the first to say, GLAH!

it's surprisingly classy!

yeah lol American beer but I was with some guys from Munich here in the states a few weeks ago and one guy just wanted some American beer. I said "you want a Samuel Adams?" (we were at a fancy restaurant with a long wine list but not much beer) and he said no, he just wanted a light American beer (not a light beer). He ended up getting a Pabst Genuine Draft, which is pretty weak stuff, but he loved it! So lol american beer but hey if it's good enough for a guy from Munich (in October, no less)...

yeah dudes, High Life all the way. But you do pay dearly the next day (well I do, anyway). Busch regular isn't bad, but not on the list.

well if a german does it it must be ok xpost

lol american beer

-- DG, Monday, November 19, 2007 7:42 AM (Monday, November 19, 2007 7:42 AM) Bookmark Link

yah re munich when i lived in boston a common sight was irish dudes drinking bud lite w/ice

wtf?????

Ahahah I've been told that very firmly, that real Irishmen drink Budweiser. Because it's cheap and good enough.

it's cheap, it's light, and you can drink a ton of it. higher alcohol content than guiness but you try drinking 12 guiness in a sitting, you won't be able to move.

you know we have other beers too, that don't get to england, right?

lol american beer

agreed for these top 10 beers. but i find american microbrewed beers to a lot more interesting than most of the european beers I've had. american IPAs, pale ales, imperial stouts 10000x greater than their european counterparts.

^^^

and these microbrewed beers are also widely available.

here, at least, not in england...

anheuser busch corp:american beer :: mcdonalds corp:american food.

I'm assuming the versions we get over here are slightly different but all of these are fuck-awful other than Heineken and Corona. Heineken has only been drinkable since they changed the recipe and upped the alcohol content, but there's no way I'd choose any of these unless there was nothing else on sale.

Which "European counterparts" are you comparing them to?

The American IPAs, stouts, pale ales etc that I've had are completely different beasts to the British versions and are closer to the bottom fermenting Baltic Porters.

Heineken in Amsterdam or at least the Netherlands generally >>>> Heineken anywhere else

Top 10 UK beer brands:

1 Stella Artois
2 Carling
3 Foster's
4 Carlsberg
5 Carlsberg Export
6 Budweiser
7 Grolsch
8 Kronenbourg 1664
9 Carlsberg Special Brew
10 John Smith's Extra Smooth

Britishes, we suck almost as much here.

and we have bad teeth :(

yeah I don't know what the deal is with folks from outside the USA coming here and taking to American beer. My Russian uncle is at this point chemically identical to Old Style. Miller Lite (or Bud, etc.) is great because it's not distracting to drink; whereas an imperial stout say demands my full attention. Depending on what I'm doing, eating, etc., I might not want my beer to be distracting.

* Beast Ice
* Coors Xtra Cold
* Corona Dry

completely different beasts to the British versions

maybe you're more accurate in saying they just need to be compared to the right european beers.

most of the british IPAs/stouts/pale ales i've are pretty mild, and not in a good way -- kind of watery, not terribly complex, whereas the american varieties of these beers tend to be a lot more aggressive, intense, etc. more interesting to me.

this might be a bit unfair -- being here in the states i've obviously been able to sample american beers more than european ones. i've also only been to the uk once. i did my share of beer drinking there but i wasn't there long enough to sample everything. but generally i've found american microbrews responsible for the most interesting beers i've had.

microbrews? you're a long way from home, yuppie boy. i'll start a tabb

3 Foster's

lolz, big oil-canned sized lolz.

You can get Sierra Nevada in Tesco at the moment.

But I'm going off beer for the winter, is the thing.

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There are certainly quite a lot of session bitters that are superficially quite watery, but these tend to have quite a complex hops undertaste. It also depends to an extent what time of year you go - you're more likely to find these sorts of beers in the summer, when people are looking for something light and refreshing. Winter beers are very dense, I remember drinking one at a beer festival which was like christmas cake.

I've drunk my fair share of smaller American brews and I do quite like them, although the cider I had was bluddy awful.

This is the Ontario best-sellers (not sure if it extends to the rest of Canada, or if it's even in order, though)

Coors Light
Molson Canadian
Budweiser
Labatt Blue
Carling Lager
Lakeport Pilsener
Alexander Keith's Pale Ale
Lucky Lager
Lakeport Honey Lager
Bud Light

I'm not sure I've ever really drank Corona (!) but Miller High Life all the way.

No motherfucking way are American stouts better than UK or Scandinavian ones, although there are a lot of good ones.

what are some really good UK stouts?

i voted high life but am partial to corona w/ lime also

Sierra Nevada's sold in Tesco now? I heard a rumour that Sam Adams was available from Sainsbury's which mildly piqued my interest but this...

WOOT

Do people in the UK drink Sam Adams?

I've never seen it in the UK, fwiw.

xpost: yeah, they even had the this in my Tesco over the summer: http://www.sierranevada.com/beers/summerfest.html. They seem to sell out quickly, so buy them whenever you see them.

Will, that list is depressing.

It's depressing in the way "Top 10 Music in your Network" on Facebook is depressing, that is, only if you let it bother you.

all of these beers are kinda bad, except for cold cold Budweiser, and MHL.

Cold Bud is hyper-awesome with raw oysters.
And boiled shrimps.

I enjoy the heineken, too, but it usually costs too much.

Keith's is the best option on that Ontario list - and the UK list is not that bad in comparison!

people love to drink cold-filtered piss

Given these choices, I'd go with a Heineken - though I'm not too crazy about any of them. Others are okay in a pinch.

you can drink Sam Adams in Bodeans (minor US BBQ restaurant chain) here

what are some really good UK stouts

Tadcaster Oatmeal Stout
Hopback's Entire Stout
Young's Double Chocolate Stout
Hook Norton Double Stout
Wickwar's Bob O'Hanlon's Port Stout
Titanic Stout
Wye Valley Dorothy Goodbody's Wholesome Stout
Harvey's Imperial Russian Stout (a modern copy of the Courage one, but a fair stab)
Isle Of Skye Black Cuillin
Orkney Dark Island

Loads more, but they're the first that came into my head.

Think about it this way, TCRotDTT:

As long as good beers aren't up there, they won't start getting brewed by he hundreds of thousands of litres and start losing their quality. This means the good beers stay good! Huzzah! Another round of Biere D'Achouf!

korea top 3:

1. OB
2. Cass
3. Hite

YES

Keith's is the best option on that Ontario list - and the UK list is not that bad in comparison!

It is pretty bad! And I like Fosters!

Special Brew in at #9... mmm 9% syrup for alkies.

Young's Double Chocolate Stout

oh man, i had a love affair with this about two years ago.

perhaps it's time to re-kindle that particular flame.

I like pilseners and "light" (not low-calorie) lagers - just not the ones listed above.

Miller Lite burns when you puke. A lot.

love affair with beer leaves one with yeast infection (/fortune cookie)

Can't wait to get back in the high life again.

Miller High Life in first place, Budweiser second, everything else after that in no particular order, with the exception of Heineken, which is horrifying undrinkable garbage best forced upon unwanted guests.

I don't think I've had any of those in the last 10 years except for Corona.

(Found Sierra Nevada at Total Wines in Kennesaw for $20.99/case, cheapest I've ever seen it.)

JJ otm, I have no idea why anyone likes Heineken & esp. why it has this 'classy' image. ???

But I picked Budweiser.

I'm with you. I can't stand Heineken, but love Budweiser.

Depends on what you like, I guess. Bud and many of the other domestics above are made with rice in addition to the barley malt. The rice is a cheaper ingredient than barley malt, and its proponents claim it gives the beer a lighter taste. Heineken is made with the traditional European beer ingredients. I think it gives it a slightly better flavor, but to each his/her own.

heineken tastes like ass and is no more flavorful than shitty domestic beer. i don't think anybody drinks the above listed for taste, those are consumed for effect only i'd wager.

Yeah, not a fan of Heineken, either. I voted for High Life.

THE CHAMPAGNE OF BEERS

It kind of tastes like water, tho; I don't like any Miller beers, esp. in the can. Peter Bagge's with me here.

yeah, high life in bottles >>>> cans (although i like the orange & black halloween cans)

I OD'd on Heineken over the course of two weeks at a jazz festival they sponsored, and pretty much cannot drink it now.

I actually maybe like MGD better, but that wasn't an option.

The reason to serve beer ice-cold is to numb your tastebuds so you can't taste it. Ten reasons to prevent tasting your beer can be found at the top of this poll.

It's really a top ten of mediocrity, though. There are much much worse beers than any of those on that list (aside from Heineken, which actually would hit my bottom 10).

Early contenders that would leap to mind would be Glueks and Natty ICE, which is gastrointestinal death in a can.

i don't think anybody drinks the above listed for taste, those are consumed for effect only i'd wager.
o come on, frat boys don't account for all the sales. there are plenty of sober, rational adults who actually enjoy drinking these beers. if this makes you ashamed to be an american, you can try to come up with some excuse or just get over it.

Out of curiosity, how many people who are hating on Heineken are Europe-side, and how many are American-side? I have no specific hatred for it, and I wonder if it's actually due to the brewing (The Heineken drank in USA is not brewed in Germany).

Or even the Netherlands!

yeah, high life in bottles >>>> cans (although i like the orange & black halloween cans)

-- Jordan, Monday, November 19, 2007 4:26 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

im from the big city wisconsin boy but even i know those are hunting cans!!

come on, frat boys don't account for all the sales.

i never said anything about frat boys and would assume that most frat boys would buy shittier cheaper beer. i'm talking about your functioning alocholics who drink at least a sixpack a night.

my point was if someone is going out to enjoy the taste of a a beer or two (or three or four) i don't know anyone who's going to choose one of the above. anyone drinking the above is more than likely looking for the effect that multiple beers bring.

Oilrags OTM, the first time I discovered Budweiser enjoyment was when it had been sitting in a cooler of ice for 4 hours.

lol. i had never seen them until last weekend's road trip to indiana, and i didn't even really look at them closely. makes sense!

xpost to deej

Dude I find about 14 empty Busch Lite tallboys hidden under the yard oleanders, at least that many a week.

U ALL CRAZY.

i would kill for a six pack of pabst cans right now. $4.01 at d&d liquors meaning i'm about a dollar and change short.

They don't have Pabst here in NM, or Olympia, or the other NW/midwest cheapies.

my friend amy walked into a local liquor store with no money and walked out with a six pack on thursday. she talked them into opening her a tab. that's the awesomest thing that's happened to anyone i know in a while.

http://www.errolmorris.com/commercials/miller.html

forgot all about Errol Morris's High Life ads

don't know anyone who's going to choose one of the above
this doesn't mean it's not true.

Actually, I've been in many situations where the choices were limited to a subset of the above. Airplanes, certain restaurants, certain music venues - it's not really that uncommon.

Water >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> bad beer.

High Life Light, yea or nay? (okay, obviously a nay, but has anyone deigned to drink it?)

Several ILXors were drinking it on Thursday, my friend.

high life is my beer of choice.

ya, but what about the Light? I'd never even noticed it before I saw the Errol Morris commercials above.

the light stinks

high life light i've never had, i misread.
i could really go for a beer and/or cigarette.

Sigh. I bought a nice tequila on the way home. Enough beer for a while.

Young's 2x chocolate summarizes all that is worth living for. Sam Smith's Imperial and Oatmeal stouts can't be neglected as well.

The fact that it's basically water with a v. slight kick is what MHL the best of this lot.

I had a High Life Light once and it wasn't terrible, better than Miller Lite at least?

this thread made me so angry i went out and had a Powers and a Budweiser yesterday. It was delicious.

this thread made me so angry i went out and had a Powers and a Budweiser yesterday. It was delicious.

powers and pbr is my order at my new afterwork bar.

although i was drinking powers and high life on saturday, that probably had something to do with us getting to the theatre too late for tickets.

What is Powers!

whisky

They mix it?

beer and a shot.

separate.

http://www.thedrinkshop.com/images/products/main/3063/3063.jpg

love to start night of drinkingz with beer and shot

i need to learn that starting the night out with a shot >>> shot at the end of the night

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boilermaker_(cocktail)

those are rough, so rough

I have also been doing the shot and a beer combo. Much lower incidence of hangover than, say, wine. Which I am currently regretting drinking so much of last night.

I could go for about two more hours of sleep, tbh.

I like to start out the night with a shot before I even go out!

the grape or the grain, never the twain

shot of what xp

shot of cocaine, then she knocks her woman down

Whatever's clever!

3. Hite

YES

-- El Tomboto

It's the Hite of the nite!

My nights always take a turn for the worse when someone hands me a can of coors, asks me to take a sip, then fills it with jack's.

and by worse I MEAN BETTER.

I have a bottle of Sauza Reposado at home, that's going to have to do.

i work for c00rs so i have to pretend to like it at corporate events but really im a cocktail type of girl

there's better beer out east

judging from my week in nyc over the summer, one thing that new york does not fuck with the midwest on is beer

we could use some leinenkugel

I just drank a Corona with lemon. I spit in the face of tradition. And I'm out of lime.

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haha I don't know why I thought that would work.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LCI7l6V9D4Q

i voted high life but am partial to corona w/ lime also

High Life is also great w/ a slice of lime!

A sweaty bottle of MHL in direct sunlight is honestly almost as aesthetically pleasing to look at for me as a glorious sunset.

I'm not sure I've seen michelob around for many years. Is it still available in Texas?

It's sold in Australia. I see it everywhere. It's cheap too, I've had it a few times.

I'm so dedicated I'm going to log out and log back in to vote with my lone sock puppet account.

A sweaty bottle of MHL in direct sunlight is honestly almost as aesthetically pleasing to look at for me as a glorious sunset.

-- nickalicious, Tuesday, November 20, 2007 8:16 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

TRUTH

My relationship to the High Life is like how some people relate to underperforming sports teams: it's basically my favorite beer, even though I know it's watery and not that great, I actually like fancy beers better, and will admit that Bud is actually the best in that list. But it's still the champagne of beers, and in the summer it's refreshing adult pop more than it is an "alcoholic beverage." Which is also why it's alarmingly easy to drink in quantity.

During the last years of college there were usually about 20-30 of these in the fridge at any given time, it seemed.

I will contentedly drink any of those beers if they are on special for ≤ $2USD except Heineken, which almost always tastes light-struck to me, even when it probably isn't. But I voted for the High Life because it reminds me of drinking in bars with grownups instead of shotgunning cans of beer in my living room.

I do hate those stupid High Life commercials where the smug beer delivery guy goes into a decent liquor store and removes the MHL. They are branding High Life as a "lifestyle," which is just as affected and artificial as Mr. Smug Delivery Guy claims drinkers of fancy beers are.

there is no fucking way anyone drinks natty lite on purpose.

i vote coors, politics notwithstanding, none of that pesky 'taste' to get in the way of your drunkening.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I bought a 12-pack of Tecate tonight. I probably buy that more than anything.

yeah but from this list of 10 it's gotta be Budweiser and if you don't choose Budweiser then you're basically a fag woot

Yeah, obv there's no great answer here, but it's gotta be High Life.

You and me and the Girl in the Moon makes three.

The Mexicans in my neighbs hell of mock me if I drink Tecate or other Mexican beers. They ONLY like Bud Light.

i don't like bud anything, but it is better than corona. tecate is decent.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

those are all horrid beers

Coors 'Banquet' Beer (probably just a mid-90's marketing angle on Coors Original) I remember fondly.

1989, the number, another summer of the coors party ball

this poll is actually now totally fucking lame because we have no way of seeing how ILX preferences differ from the populace

ONCE AGAIN
THIS TIME WITH FEELING

1. Bud Light
2. Budweiser
3. Miller Lite
4. Coors Light
5. Corona Extra
6. Natural Light
7. Heineken
8. Michelob Ultra Light
9. Busch Light
10. Miller High Life

It is almost THE OPPOSITE

For easy comparison:

Miller High Life 29
Corona Extra 20
Budweiser 14
Heineken 13
Miller Lite 2
Michelob Ultra Light 2
Coors Light 1
Busch Light 0
Natural Light 0
Bud Light

agree