Your Top 5 U.S Lager Breweries

Penn Brewery is worth a mention. Well made lagers, food, and atmosphere. At one time I had season tickets to two sporting teams in my city. Back then the beer choices in those venues were macro and the Penn Brewery. Penn would have one little booth where they would sell draft Penn Pilsner-Vienna Lager, Penn Gold-Helles, and Penn Dark-Munich Dunkel. No Uber then you had to take a taxi or the bus. Cheers!

 

Some ones I've enjoyed traveling
Bierstadt
ABGB
Live Oak
pFriem
ExNovo in Corales NM


There are some mentioned in the thread that I've had less than impressive samples from, but reserve final judgement until I visit the brewery.

 

I’m in Charlotte now at olde mecklenburg and I’ll be stopping at red oak on my way back to Maryland. They both make awesome lagers.

 

Here are my 5 breweries making nice lagers as of August 2022 in no particular order

1. Forest and Main Brewing Co.
2. Human Robot Brewing
3. Notch Brewing
4. Suarez Family Brewery
5. The Seed: A Living Beer Project

 

Thanks! That was a very interesting read. You definitely peaked my interest and I will see if it’s sold in my area. If not, it would be a worthwhile trip down the pa turnpike in the near future, just like the old days, to pick up a case or two. I would have no problem sending you some as well. That’s what we do here as beeradvocates. Cheers!

 

This proved far more difficult than I expected.

1. Live Oak
2. Moonlight
3. Chuckanut
4. Enegren
5. Urban Roots

Honorable mention: Wondrous, Wayfinder, pFriem

 

1 Goldfinger
2 Dovetail
3 Jack Abby
4 Boston Beer
5 Metropolitan
6 Live Oak

 

1. Tree House
2. Hill Farmstead
3. Suarez
4. Von Trappe
5. Tie Jacks Abbey/ Old Meck.

Honorable mention: Shilling. I spent a week vacation in Littleton NH and could walk to Shilling from where we stayed and had beer here every evening. Tried their whole portfolio and found everything solid but nothing that stood apart as really great tasting IMO.. Something about their hard water and alot of bittering hops used across all their lagers. I like my lagers softer and more aromatic I suppose. For what it’s worth Schilling as a brewery, is outstanding, the staff were amazing and highly recommend anyone to try to visit them.

 

Oh, that's right. Foster's owned half of Molson at the time (down to 40% after the deal with Miller).

That was a result of Foster's, then called Elders IXL, having bought Canada's #3 brewer, Carling-O'Keefe, in the late 80s and then merging it into Molson.

 

No, I haven't I'll try it if I see it.

 

Black Chocolate Stout is seasonal. It should hit the stores early in Nov.

 

Jacks abby
Schilling
Notch
Fox Farm
Suarez

I would only call the first 3 lager breweries, but the last two make excellent lagers

 

Moonlight has a relatively small, rotating line-up which is pretty much half n half lagers and ales. One of the regular online offerings is lager+ale mixed pack so this ticks the box.

I now have a reliable local source for Czech Reality and Death & Taxes which is fortunate, indeed.

 

My top five in descending order:

Jacks Abby
Notch
Schilling
Tree House
Suarez

 

I've never had the pleasure to have a Tree House beer of any kind. For their lagers, what is the bottle/can format and what is the price? Is the price the same as their lower ABV ales?

 

I’ll just mention one that hasn’t been mentioned yet - Bell’s.

 

Enegren
Moonlight
Schilling
Trumer
pFriem