The US has come a long way in the past 40 years. In the 1980’s I was in college (drinking age 18 circa 1984) and the choices were big factory beers, or Imports. And the Imports were nothing more than European big factory beers.
But I was in college. My brand was “Cheap”.
I drank a lot of Rainier Ale in college in the 1980s. 6% alcohol, and cheaper than Bud.