Posted on 12/09/2012 7:40:10 PM PST by shove_it
After three years of declining sales, shipments of domestically sold beer are up by more than 1% in the United States this year. Sales of light beer and specialty beer, such as Budweiser Light Platinum, Shock Top, and Blue Moon, have been the driving force in the resurgence of U.S. breweries.
While sales of specialty, craft, and small-market beers have improved dramatically, many of the traditional, full-calorie beers that were once the staples of most breweries have fallen behind. In the five years ending in 2011, sales of Budweiser, which was once the top-selling beer in the country for years, have fallen by 7 million barrels. Sales of Michelob are down more than 70%. Based on data provided by Beer Marketers INSIGHTS, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the nine large or once-large beer brands with a five-year decline in sales of 30% or more...
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Michelob Ultra Lime Cactus is not bad.
Ahh while sipping my Victory Prima Pils. Lived and saw die two breweries in my neighborhood. I can still smell the yeast oozing from the Schmidt’s brewery on saturday mornings. Ortlieb’s closed and tried the craft beer craze but never took off. great jazz club in the old tappy at the site. now the yuffies have moved in. from wiki: Schmidt’s, Philadelphia’s largest and most famous brewery, established in 1860. Schmidt’s was the last survivor of Philadelphia’s brewing industry, closing down in 1987, me: the site is now a goofy looking piazza. They tore the building apart to get those stainless steel tanks out from both breweries.
I think it was spelled with an "s" before the "t".
Kunstmann.
But I like your spelling of it better. :)
They left out Falls City Beer. That was some nasty stuff.
Growing up in the hill country, that was what most people would drink. The cheapskates drank Pearl.
I had a friend who said, "I don't like beer, but I can drink Oly".
When they sail in a super tanker of suds...Be sure to negotiate. It's like doctors...Big cash discounts.
I used to drink Michelob, but somewhere along the way it turned into headache beer for me. Can’t finish one without a raging headache, just like Budweiser.
Drink Miller Lite or Corona just fine when I want a beer.
lolz
I remember a time in the 70s when women would sleep with you just because you were drinking Michelob. If you were drinking Heineken, you would get two women.
It looks like you could stand a fork up in that beer.
We used to call that Milwaukee’s Beast.
> Sales loss (2006-2011): 52.8%
> Brewer: Pabst Brewing Company
> Barrels sold (2011): 460,000
Old Milwaukee is brewed by the Pabst Brewing Company, which sold itself to C. Dean Metropoulos described by The New York Times as a veteran food executive known for corporate turnarounds in 2010. Last year, the Chicago Tribune reported that employees felt Metropoulos marketing plans were moving the company away from the philosophies and practices that made it successful. From 2010 to 2011 alone, sales decreased by 12.4% worse than 80% of top brands.
In college, this was the beer that my friends and I always bought, because we were always short on funds and it was always on sale. Sorry to hear it made the list!
Rahr brewery from Ft. Worth. Too many good ones to list them all, but the Ugly Pug dark and the Full Sail pale ale are my faves.
"There are no strong beers, only weak men"
39.15 million barrels of Bud Light? No wonder this country is in the crapper
The US has dozens and dozens of very fine craft beers. A genuine pleasure to drink. I sample them in every city I go to. Have a bottle of Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Ale. It's real beer.
And all the time I thought it was the grade A Columbian that warmed them up.
Frankly, I've always like Mexican beers.
In college, I asked my German instructor -- a native German with an insatiable thirst for beer -- what it was that made the Mexican beers so good.
His answer: "German brewmasters". <
Agree, Shiner Bock is a marvelous beer, especially on tap. It's a beer you can "chew". Wife won't use anything else to make bread, either.
Murphy’s Irish Stout — like Guinness, but better!
I think that is the one!
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