Good Ol' Mass Produced, $9 twelve pack

As a former western New Yorker I am glad to see the love for Genny.

 

I'm in college and I voted RR haha!

 

Sorry, dude. Pabst got bought last year by a Russian company.

 

The main two el cheapos around these parts are Keystone light and PBR. You know, Keith was pretty funny sometimes but the beer is shit. PBR any day, but Miller HL if I have a few more bucks.

 

I agree, shouldn't these threads be on BMC Advocate.com ?
I tried some Busch and PBR on a recent off road run and decided water had more flavor...and kick !

 

Where I live, that brand might as well be on the moon.

 

None of those, they are all gahbage haha. Ill stick with the Mexican beers for the mass product. Nonetheless, cheers to all the people who dont discriminate against mass product.

 

Narragansett lager. I would drink the other beers mentioned but would never buy them when Narragansett is slightly better.

 

Personally, I find AB's marketing pretty interesting. I don't buy their products, but it amazes me how much beer they sell off these ads. Course, I liked the old Ed McMahon commercials the best.

 

Throw a lime in a High Life.

 

OK, but the small regionals and the mom-and-pops never had the kind of influence, market, jobs creation, or level of industrialization at a pivotal period of American history that AB, Miller, Pabst and Schlitz did during the late 19th and most of the 20th centuries. Whether or not you like their products, they played major roles in the development of American commerce.

 

Where's Iron City?

 

Miller MGD or High Life

 

Point made that there is no accounting for good taste - but it's really really arrogant to call people suckers for drinking Budweiser.

Some might that you're a sucker for praising Summerfest like its a god sent pilsner

 

Old Milwaukee is also a Pabst-owned brand - via purchasing the Stroh brands in 1999 when they went out of business - as was the apparently no longer marketed "Jacob Best". (Best was the founder of what became Pabst back in the 19th century. Pabst was his grandson-in-law. That's why there's that "B" inside the hop leaf on the Pabst logo.)

And, of course, MolsonCoors considers itself "Canadian/American" owned (funny to read complaints about "Coors got bought out by the Canadians!" at the time of the merger, and then read in some Canadian sources about how "Molson got bought out by the Americans!") but given the company's US joint venture with UK-based SABMiller, the "American" ownership aspect is stretched kinda thin...

Not according to the new owners, Russian-born, US citizen and ex-Stroh exec Eugene Kashpar and San Francisco based TSG private equity firm based on the New York Times.com business article -

Hey Guys, the Russians Aren’t Buying Pabst After All​

 

I'm not saying people that drink Budweiser are suckers. I'm saying that people that think Budweiser is somehow this representation of America or, as this thread suggests, something that helped "forge America" are suckers. Pick your fight somewhere else.

 

Maybe it's my eyes but no one mentioned Red Dog...... I used to pa $9.99 a 30pk when I was in high school. Best part was friends would give me $20 to get em a 30. 6pk of magi hat and a 30 and none of my money spent

 

Like I said, history.

The small regionals were everywhere before the Big Boys gained prominence and that wasn't really until post-prohibition, not in the 19th century like you suggest, that the large brewers took over. Virtually every town of any size had its own brewery. They provided local jobs and bought grain from local farmers, and also fueled the appetite for beer that the big companies were able to leverage. I would suggest that employment by a few big brewers in Wisconsin, St. Louis and a smattering of other locations would pale in comparison to the many employed by small brewers around the country, pre-prohibition.

Calling Dr. Kidden...

 

Tap or Bottled water for me please.

 

And oh by the way, if we're talking about "beer that helped forge America" that list doesn't even reflect the biggest breweries historically. Post-prohibition, the biggest output in the US was from the following breweries in 1940:
Anheuser-Busch
Pabst
Schlitz
Schaffer
Ballentine
Ruppert
Falstaff
Duquesne
Hamm
Liebman

As someone said, most people's sense of history begins with their own lifetime.