8 beers Americans no longer drink

[kwassa]

I am personally heartbroken by the inclusion of Old Milwaukee on this sad list.

All of them :> Brewer: Anheuser-Busch InBev > Brewer: MillerCoors Brewing

Big American Breweries!


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44460121/ns/business-us_business/t/beers-americans-no-longer-drink/#.UEAhf6Nungk

in measures from 2006-2010

8. Budweiser
> Sales loss (2006-2010): -30 percent
> Brewer: Anheuser-Busch InBev

7. Milwaukee’s Best Light
> Sales loss (2006-2010): -34 percent
> Brewer: MillerCoors Brewing

6. Miller Genuine Draft
> Sales loss (2006-2010): -51 percent
> Brewer: MillerCoors Brewing

5. Old Milwaukee
> Sales loss (2006-2010): -52 percent
> Brewer: MillerCoors Brewing

4. Milwaukee’s Best
> Sales loss (2006-2010): -53 percent
> Brewer: MillerCoors Brewing

3. Bud Select
> Sales loss (2006-2010): -60 percent
> Brewer: Anheuser-Busch InBev

2. Michelob Light
> Sales loss (2006-2010): -64 percent
> Brewer: Anheuser-Busch InBev

1. Michelob
> Sales loss (2006-2010): -72 percent
> Brewer: Anheuser-Busch InBev

[hlthe2b]

1. Michelob Ultra is selling well, though I think (and likely has replaced Michelob LIght)

[a kennedy]

15. I love Michelob Ultra.....

when I'm drinking beer..... Mount Royal Light is my brand of "hard" stuff....

[hlthe2b]

18. I"m usually low carbing, so Michelob Ultra is what I normally drink--if anything, but...

if I throw cares to the wind, I'd rather go with a Fat Tire or other New Belgium Brewery offering-- or an occasional Corona with lime.

[MADem]

2. Everyone I know drinks Red Stripe, Sam Adams or Rolling Rock.

If I get those, I have enough variety for the beer drinkers.

I'm not much of a beer drinker, though.

[vanlassie]

12. Red Stripe. I drank it warm in Jamacia instead of water

But no thanks now!!

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. My hubby says he prefers Canadian beer.

[blueamy66]

30. Molson and Labatt's

but I'm from Buffalo, so I am partial

[GreenPartyVoter]

31. Yes, Molson's is his fave. :^)

[Aristus]

4. I miss Olympia beer.

I never drank it; it disappeared before I hit 21. But my Dad took me and my brother on a tour of the brewery when I was 14 or so. I got to drink pure artesian water from Oly brewery's shiny copper water fountain.

And I miss the TV commercials about the mysterious "artesians".

[kwassa]

7. They are now making artisinal cheese and bread and carports and whatever.

[d_r]

9. its the water!

[jmowreader]

13. Oly is still being made

It's not being made in Tumwater, but it is still being made.

In case you're wondering, the pure Artesian water from the Olympia Brewery's shiny copper water fountain has just as much beery goodness to it as the yellow stuff in the cans does.

[HappyMe]

19. The Artesians got their

butts kicked by the Galatians. It was awful.

[HarveyDarkey]

5. Haven't had any of those in years

There are too many good & great craft breweries around to even consider them.
Finishing a North Coast Old No. 38 Stout as I type this.

[OriginalGeek]

16. North Coast does good work

The world is a better place because they are in it.

I'd love to get ahold of some of their barrel aged brews. In the meantime I can get Old Rasputin here in Florida and that will hold me over until I find some OR barrel aged...

[Lex]

6. The 20 & 30 - somethings drink PBR around here.

I guess it is the hipster beer of choice, Pabst Blue Ribbon.

[kwassa]

10. I guess it is cool to drink crap.

PBR's current fame is a cultural mystery. Like tattoos, body-shaving, and piercings.

Did porn stars drink PBR?

[geardaddy]

21. Yes, but they drink it ironically.

Cause that's what hipsters do.

[onehandle]

8. Guilty. I mostly only drink craft and regional beers.

You couldn't pay me to drink a Bud.

[Lex]

11. Cheap beer (Milwaukee's Best Light) got me through the college

and law school years when I had next to no money. Now beer just makes me fat so I drink it very rarely.

[HopeHoops]

14. Yeah, Old Millwater makes the best NA beer on the market (well, American's NA is pretty damn good).

The expensive NA beers are all too fruity or musky.

MGD is one of the few canned beers that actually tastes good (well, of the mass-produced mega-breweries). I mostly just stick with Yuengling for real beer. I've found a lot of good microbeers, but Yuengling is the best basic draft everyone carries around here. You can walk into ANY bar and say "I'll have a Lager" and that's what they'll pour.

[OriginalGeek]

17. I shed no tears for AB.

they did everything they could to sabotage beer flavor for beer sales.


I heard they also sacrificed puppies to satan.

[geardaddy]

20. Good.

Maybe they'll go extinct.

Unfortunately Budweiser's gaining popularity abroad. Can you believe it?

[OriginalGeek]

34. Wasn't there a large soccer event

held in Germany a few years ago? I heard that Bud sponsored the event and was sold in the stadium. In Germany. Budweiser. I was embarrassed as an American.

[geardaddy]

35. Yeah, I think I remember that.

Disgusting.

[mysuzuki2]

22. I don't always drink beer, but when I do ...

I drink whatever I can get my hands on.

[hifiguy]

23. I drink local (Grain Belt) or microbrews.

A friend just brought me a nice sampling of New Glarus beers. Mighty fine drinking there and Moon Man is an exceptional lager. I even like the wheat beer (Dancing Man) and I usually don't care for those. I think I will pop the bottle of barley wine tonight.

[RebelOne]

24. I hardly ever drink beer,

but when I do, I like Guinness Stout or any other dark beer.

[Initech]

25. That's because American beer has evolved far beyond Bud/Miller/Coors.

[alarimer]

26. Good. Those are shit.

I cop to being a beer snob though.

Those American beers are like having sex in a canoe: it's fucking close to water.

[Scuba]

27. Miller's a major donor to Scott Walker and got the pukes here to pass a law hurting micro-breweries.

A-B products taste like panther piss and include a headache in every can.

[NightWatcher]

28. thank goodness for craft beers. picked up Stone IPA, Dales Pale, Duvel, and Dogfish Punkin today

oh yes, Punkin is out

[taterguy]

29. I quit drinking and Bud sales decline 30%?

I guess I did have a problem.

[kwassa]

33. but you were drinking Mad Dog 20-20.

Cheap wine shouldn't affect beer sales.

[ThoughtCriminal]

32. Pabst Blue Ribbon

1977-2001 down 90%

I can remember when it seemed half the beer commercials on TV were for PBR.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pabst_Blue_Ribbon