Hard to beat Blatz, back in the day, for the price.
As to this list... not subjective and arbitrary, are we?
Now they're gone. Replaced by the standard Bud, Miller's, and Michelob, with the occasional Guinness thrown in.
I now stick to the wine (good selection there!)...
Good to see my favorites on the list, Guiness #1 and Black Butte Porter #26. I’m not really into IPAs but I just might give Sierra Nevada #2 a try.
I bought that beer while stationed at Ft. Bragg.
My favorite beer is Yuengling, an old classic PA beer.
The one quibble is best Christmas ale. There is another brewery from NE Ohio with a better one--Thirsty Dog.
Gennie Cream Ale? That brings back some memories and headaches.
Thanks for posting. I’ve got No Rules, Zombie Dust., 2-Hearted and Heady Topper in the fridge. Pliny the Elder I’ve had as well as Guinness, KBS and several others on the list. A whole lot of good beers. My favorite is Heady Topper. 2nd favorite is Pliny the Elder. I have an occasional beer once or twice a week. I don’t drink as many as I used to.
I consider independent craft brewing a great example of CAPITALISM.
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”.
Around 40 years ago, I could buy a case of Yuengling for a ridiculous price, don’t remember exactly how much, except it was half the price of Millers. Probably due to the brewery’s location, it was only an hour away. Nowadays I enjoy wheat beers.
....”..or perhaps even Foster’s, that Australian beer sold in the oversized can.”...
If I am not mistaken, Foster’s, while nominally an Australian beer, is now brewed in America....hardly any “Australian beer”.....
In the Northwest, Beer was brewed by the General Brewing Company, makers of Lucky Lager, a fine cheap beer in its own right that also had rebus puzzles inside the caps.
The cheapest beer I remember was Bohemia, which I think was Blitz Weinhard’s budget brand, at $.39 a quart or $.89 a sixpack in the early ‘70s. The last $5.00 24-pack I got was Heidelberg, around 1983 or so.
Does any of that stuff on the list taste like real beer or is it all fruity tasting????
For me, it was usually Miller or Miller Lite....
At college (Mizzou) in ‘69-‘73 we’d drink Busch and Bud. They were the local Missouri brands. You could only buy 3.2% ABV beer on Sundays!
Everybody was always trying to get Coors which wasn’t sold east of Colorado at the time. Looking back, I have to wonder why. It was just another bland lager.
I graduated, moved to San Francisco, and immediately discovered Anchor Steam Beer. That was heaven! I switched and never looked back.
Now I only drink obscure, small brewery local brands. I like supporting the local entrepreneurs. I really liked what Dan Gordon and Dean Biersch started in Palo Alto, CA in 1988. Gordon, a graduate from the five-year brewing engineering program at Weihenstephan, Germany, and Biersch opened their first brewery restaurant in Palo Alto, California, in July 1988.
I’m a big fan of “West Coast Style IPAs.” Just malt, hops and water. But I try to avoid the overly fruity ones.
About twenty years ago, I remember
Guinness is one most highly overrated beers that I have ever had.
A Canadian beer, Molson Golden, is a very good beer also....
I’ve got a micro-brewery outlet 200 yards from where I live and I enjoy a pint from time to time. At $17 for a 4 pack or $7 a pint from the tap it’s a bit expensive.
It's difficult to define a favorite as various beers "pair" better or worse with the environment. I won't drink a stout or trappiest on the golf course in July and I wont drink a pilsner in front of an outdoor fire in December. It's like trying to run your snowmobile on diesel.
If I have to choose a good all-around, have more than one, refreshing beer I probably would give Alhambra, Vienna Style Lager (Spain).
P.S. Any added flavors is an automatic DQ. (See Reinheitsgebot, German Beer Purity law (still in effect) of 1516.
I like a crisp IPA on the front porch after mowing the front acre on a hot summer’s day.