Posted on 06/30/2013 12:41:05 PM PDT by Sen Jack S. Fogbound
90% of domestic beer sold in the US is made by two companies: Anheuser-Busch InBev and MillerCoors.
Two companies, Anheuser-Busch InBev and MillerCoors, are responsible for selling more than 90% of the beer in the US. Americans consume about 6.3 billion gallons (23.85 billion liters) of beer per year and spend an estimated $200 billion US Dollars per year on beer. Anheuser-Busch InBev produced three of the top-five selling beers in the US in 2011, and MillerCoors produced the other two. In 2011, small, independent craft breweries accounted for about 6% of all beer sales in the US, up from roughly 1% 15 years earlier, and that percentage was projected to keep rising.
Kind of a silly comparison. Most beers have just four ingredients: Barley, hops, yeast and water. Can't get much more pure than that. Soda pop has enough chemicals to eat through rust and is just plain toxic to the body. I've never had soda pop in the house and told my kids I'd rather have them crack a can of beer then a can of soda pop.
Yuengling! Yes - The Porter and Black and Tan, especially. One of the nice things about living in the blue Northeast....
While I no longer drink alcohol I always thought the best beer I ever drank was the original Czech Budweiser, Budvar. It’s sold in the US as Czechvar.
Two companies, Anheuser-Busch InBev and MillerCoors, are responsible for selling more than 90% of the beer in the US.
Those two statements can't both be true.
Malting the grain , (usually barley but can be corn, wheat, oats, rice etc.) turns the starch into sugar, fyi.
Yuengling Premium’s my favorite.
Hefeweizen homebrewed is the *best*!
True, but it’s better than that high fructose corn syrup that goes into soda pop.
BTW, Bud smells like creamed corn to me. That's cuz they use corn as an extender.
Beer snobs are tedious bores, assuming that any beer which doesn’t meet their definition of “adequately pretentious” is drunk out of ignorance
I'm good with that! People that can't be bothered to educate themselves on what makes a good beer vs. Macrobrews deserve nothing less.
And, yes, I'm serious.
'Pod.
sauropod takes bait
Started drinking PBR and Schlitz in the summer months. Very nice refresher.
I save the expensive stuff for Fall and Winter now.
In no particular order... Sam Adams (love it when I can get noble pils), Shiner Hefe, Blue Moon, Negra Modelo, Dos Equis, Molson (Golden, XXX, Canadian), Labatts Blue, and when I’m back home up North Scotch Ale from Rohrbach’s. There’s others.... I spend a lot of time trying to pick out a six pack...
Samual Smith's Oatmeal Stout for me.
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Whyyyyyyyyyyy?
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