Your Top 5 U.S Lager Breweries

In recent travels have enjoyed Schilling and Olde Meck. Will give an honorable mention to Burning Blush in Mills River as they primarily brew lagers and have enjoyed a dark lager.
Cheers!
Tom

 

Straub Brewery was a favorite with me and my friends during my underage years and early 20’s. A lot of good memories and great times. Preferably the 16 oz. POUNDER bottles.
Here is a little history about Straub Brewery. An independent family owned brewery since 1872. It may not be considered an elite brewery amongst beer geeks or untappd but it is one of my favorite lagers.
https://straubbeer.com/straub-history/
https://straubbeer.com/eternal-tap/

 

Here in VA, I'll say Bingo in RVA does lagers very well. I will also say Devil's Backbone can do lagers very well.

 

Okay this is a real challenge, especially since I have not had the opportunity visit most of these but if I were to go on reputation alone:

pFriem
Notch
KC Bier Co.
Olde Mecklenburg
Bierstadt

That's awesome. They make a Franconian Dunkel that is excellent. Brewer Joran Van Ginderacther brings a solid rep with him.

 

Can you buy Straub 1872 Lager in your area?



It has been several years since they made this beer available in my area (Philly area). A couple of years ago I sent an e-mail to Straub Brewing asking about this beer but they couldn't be bothered to respond to my query.

Cheers!

 

No particular order:

Suarez
HF
Notch
Schilling
Fox Farm

Honorable mention would be Moonlight.

Obviously there’s a geographical skew to this just based on what I’ve had a lot of. However, places like Live Oak, Heater Allen, Enegren and Urban Chestnut have been phenomenal from the more limited number of lagers I’ve had from them.

 

I recall some discussion about these beers in a past thread with a topic being how outrageously expensive they are.

Are you still buying these beers? If so, do you have them delivered and are the prices even higher in 2022?

Cheers!

 

Tbh I haven’t tried that particular beer or even knew it existed until you brought it to my attention. It looks interesting and I can see why you would in enquirer about it. I will keep an eye out and see if it sold in my area and let you know. Obvious poor customer service if they cannot take the time to answer a simple question. Cheers.

 

1. Schilling
2. Jacks Abby
3. Von trapp
4. Olde mecklenburg
5. Red oak

 

That's gotta be the weirdest 'dba' name ever - wonder how that came about when the contract for the US market went from Molson to Miller... can't remember exactly but there was that period there in the '90s when Miller owned part of Molson and, of course, SABMiller eventually bought Fosters aka CUB.

I think that's how it went. Damn where's my score card?

 

Personal top 5:

Moonlight
HF
Santé Adairius
Notch
Bierstadt

honorable mentions: Enegren & Wondrous

 

If you are interested in reading more about this beer:

https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/new-beer-sunday-week-678.559974/#post-5884158

Cheers!

P.S. Please let me know if you can buy this beer.