Favorite American Adjunct Lager

Coors (not sure if Yuengling counts).

 

This was part of a contest, and according to the article this entry was posted 9-9-2013.

 

If Miller High Life counts, then that would be my choice. If not, PBR. Have not had either one in years, but they bring back good memories.

 

Favorite is probably PBR/Hamm's. Got a soft spot for Rolling Rock, High Life, and Miller Lite as well. Oh and I can't forget Leinenkugel's Original

 

Narragansett is tolerable, and its 5 bucks for a six pk. of pint cans!

 

Yuengling lager tried and true

 

Well after doing a side by side comparison of MHL and Corona i like corona more.

 

Corona I had today it was hot, i was working outside. With the lime it tasted like a perfect summer beer. Was the 4th beer I've tried. Bought two 12 packs at Walmart for 14.64 apiece

 

Straub, LH, Yuengling are considered "AAL" because they use corn flakes, a little sugar, etc. But yes, in reality they are micro or regional breweries. Except this web site, everyone including the Yellow Pages has Straub and Yuengling listed under micro-brewery.

 

Yuengling

 

Yuengling is the only AAL I ever buy. And their Summer Wheat is pretty good too.

 

Tried Landshark today, not to shabby.

 

Is landshark a macro?

 

Never heard of Yuengling using sugar, and Straub's labels once famously read: An all grain beer. No sugar or syrups added.

But, whether a brewery produces a beer that is an adjunct lager has no bearing on what size brewery it is. A "micro" can brew an AAL, just as a multi-million barrel brewery like Boston Beer Co. can brew an all-malt "craft" beer

The term "microbrewery" within the industry has always meant a new brewery with a very small capacity since the beginning of the craft era. Originally, the defining limit was an annual barrelage of under 10,000 (i.e., under the capacity of the smallest existing oldline breweryat the time, Anchor). It was bumped up to 12k and finally 15,000 bbl. by the late 80s, and there it has stayed.

No one with any knowledge of the US brewing industry would consider The Lion, Straub or Yuengling "microbrewery". All 3 were founded before Prohibition, and produce much more beer a year than the definition above. Yuengling runs three breweries (one of which was once owned by macrobrewers Schlitz, Stroh and Pabst) and brews over 2.7 million barrels a year. Straub's annual barrelage is in the 50,000 bbl/yr range, and The Lion produces several hundred thousand barrels of beer and other beverages of their own brands and under contract for other companies.

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Why wouldn't Miller High Life be considered an "American Adjunct Lager"?

A product of Anhueser-Busch - can't get more "macro" than that.
http://anheuser-busch.com/index.php/our-beers/#!LandsharkLager

 

Thank you for the definition. The last case of Straub I bought had the % of ingredients listed, I thought that was neat. On it read made with 2.3% corn and or corn flakes. And, yes anyone who lives around hear knows Lion is a big contractor for Pabst , restaurants etc. They make Dempseys Ales @ Camden Yards. I'm just "old Fashioned" and every local brewery to me will always be called a micro brewery. Thank you for the clarification.

 

I think it's made by AB?

 

That's for Straub American Lager (formerly just "Straub Beer")? I have not seen the new labels, but "2.3%" corn sounds way too low for that beer. Typically, for an AAL, the percentage of corn or other adjunct is the 30-40% range.

What contracting does The Lion still do for Pabst? They were still doing a few of their minor brands (McSorley's, Champale, Haffenreffer when Pabst still controlled it, etc) but I'd thought most had ended after Pabst moved those beers to City/Latrobe circa 2009. ( Pabst has also pulled out of Latrobe at this point, as well, with some of those beers later moved to at F. X. Matt last I read).

Well, look - people are free to use or misuse any term, I guess (and the proof is often found on these forum pages) - it's just a bit easy for discussion sake when there's a basic, general agreement rather than everyone having their own "opinion" on what a defines such a term meant to describe the actual size/barrelage of particular company. So, I doubt mine will be first reply to question your usage and you should probably be prepared for others in the future...

Straub's and Yuengling's foundings predate the term "microbrewery" by over a century, so it's more "anachronistic" than "Old Fashioned" to call these breweries "microbreweries". Both also brew more beer than the standard and generally understood within the industry "under 10-15k bbl/yr" definition of the term since it's creation in the late 1970s.