Good Ol' Mass Produced, $9 twelve pack

I voted Zima

 

Interesting question - without delving too deep into the library, here's a quick look at it:

1911

AB sold 1.57 million bbl. of beer, about 2.4% of the US total of 63.3 million bbl, and employed 6,000 workers in St. Louis and another 1,500 at it's "branches" (wholly-owned "distributors"). source: 1912 AB ad.

The United Brewery Workmen in 1912 had 625,000 members* - mostly working in breweries, before the union expanded to cover soft drink bottlers, malt and grain mill employees and similar workers. And a small percentage of brewery employees were represented by craft unions (Stationary Engineers, Firemen, Coopers, etc), and the drivers (some working at brewery branches) were sometimes members of the relatively new Teamsters (a jurisdictional conflict that would not be settled until the 1970s when the IBT absorbed most of the locals of what was left of the old Brewery Workers).​

So, roughly, AB brewed 2.4% of the beer and employed about 1.2% of the unionized workers in the industry. Brewing, unlike most of the mass industries of that era, was considered 100% organized in the pre-Pro Era.
Fully 95% of all eligible brewery workmen (in 1908) belonged to the UBW" . * Labor Unions, Fink, 1977.

As one would suspect, the economies of scale and efficiency of the million barrel brewers (AB, Schlitz, Pabst) meant that while they brewed a lot of beer and employed a lot of workers, the smaller brewers still employed more on a "barrels per employee" basis, even in the pre-Pro era. An aspect of the industry that would become even more extreme in the post-Repeal Era and, of course, the Craft Era, when modern, super-efficient, multi-million barrel capacity automated breweries were built and operated by the national breweries.

 

Oh, yeah and since I've got some reference books out already....

This could be a bit of a stretch - especially by the end of the 19th century. Not a lot of info on the sources of corn used by breweries, and rice production in the US has a limited growing region (AB's rice traditionally came from nearby Arkansas and Louisiana, while Coors [when they still used rice] came from California), but barley production in the US by 1901 was concentrated in 7 Upper Midwest and Pacific coast states - growing 87% of the US barley crop, with California alone accounting for 25%. The only eastern state growing over 1 million bushels (of the 110m bu. US crop) was New York.

While some brewers still did there own malting, it was a small minority* and the majority of brewers bought malt from local maltsters (that industry was much more geographically diverse than today, with malsters in 19 states - but still concentrated around the Great Lakes region) or, in some cases, from a local brewery's malt houses that had excess production.

* Keep meaning to do a rough count of them...ah, next time it rains and I'm stuck indoors.​

 

For lawn mower beer, I like Schlitz, Genesee Cream Ale (when I can get them). If not Naragansett or PBR will do.

 

Voted Coors Banquet. has the least off flavors and is most tolerable to me than anything on the list. with that said, Yuengling in cans or draft trumps them all

 

in order of preference:

Naragansett
Genesee
Old Style
Schlitz
Hamm's

Have never tried Grain Belt but would like to and I haven't had Stroh's in 30+ years and have no memory of how it tastes, so would like to try it.

 

NATTY BOMBS ALL DAY!!!!
helped me catch a buzz quickly. cheap and 5.9%

 

Yea Natrual Ice was introduced in 1995

 

Budweiser is as American as apple pie. It was born in America and has always been made in America. Not picking a fight.

 

I am still not clear on why the alternative to talking about cheap AALS is talking whalez. The vast majority of craft beer consumed are beers like SABL, Fat Tire, etc on the one hand, and local microbrewery on the other. Those are the beers directly competing with the macros, not barrel aged stouts.

 

Maybe he meant, "helped to forage America".

 

I wouldn't say I would never drink a tasteless beer. Sometimes seltzer is simply not available.

 

Budwieser...I almost bought a 12 pack last weekend, but I splurged and got the New Belgium summer mixed pack instead. Bud is my goto beer if I'm in a place with poor selection, pretty much everybody has it.

 

Hysterical.

 

I wonder how much of Bud's flag waving is actually aimed to draw children of Hispanic immigrants away from Mexican beers.

 

Children of Hispanic immigrants are easily swayed by waving flags?

 

Ditto