The American beer industry is basically a fiefdom, surviving those intervening decades between Prohibition’s blessed repeal and the industrial improvements in bottling, shipping, and mass-batch brewing that arrived post-WWII. Provincial breweries dominated their respective regions, but rarely expanded beyond the invisible boundaries of cost-effective distribution. These are some of our favorites, ranked in no particular order:
- Budweiser – The King of Beers
- Miller High Life – The Champagne of Beers
- National Bohemian – from “The Land of Pleasant Living”
- Pabst Blue Ribbon – Grabst a Pabst!
- Shaefer – When You’re Having More than One
- Schmidt – Official Beer of the American Sportsman
- Lone Star – National Beer of Texas
- Coors – The Banquet Beer
- Ballantine – Three Rings, Official Beer of the NY Yankees.
- Dixie – NOLA’s oldest brewery.
- Strohs – Bohemian Beer For Beer Lovers
- Rheingold – Lager Beer – Not Sweet
- Genessee Cream Ale – Smooth like a lager. Crisp like an ale.
- Yuengling – America’s Oldest Brewery
- Black Label – “Hey Mabel, Black Label!” Official Beer of Beer Frisbee