CCM Beer Rankings

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:

1. Budweiser – The King of Beers
2. Miller High Life – The Champagne of Beers
3. National Bohemian – from “The Land of Pleasant Living”
4. Pabst Blue Ribbon – Grabst a Pabst!
5. Shaefer – When You’re Having More than One
6. Schmidt – Official Beer of the American Sportsman
7. Lone Star – National Beer of Texas
8. Coors – The Banquet Beer
9. Ballantine – Three Rings, Official Beer of the NY Yankees.
10. Dixie – NOLA’s oldest brewery.
11. Strohs – Bohemian Beer For Beer Lovers
12. Rheingold – Lager Beer – Not Sweet
13. Genessee Cream Ale – Smooth like a lager. Crisp like an ale.
14. Yuengling – America’s Oldest Brewery
15. Black Label – “Hey Mabel, Black Label!” Official Beer of Beer Frisbee