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?????

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