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
A Fiefdom ? Well I’d call “The American Beer Industry” a Cornucopia of Delight that can reach us many thousands of ways. It’s not just beers that are made here.
My votes go to
1) Stella Artois
2)Draught Guinness
There’s 1,000 years of production and development combined in these 2 and they are for sure doing it right. No offense to those fine beers mentioned in the article.