Not a member? Need further assistance? Please call Member Services at Subscribers only Sign in or Subscribe now! Forgot password? Check this box if you wish to have a copy mailed to you. Many drinkers will also tell you that Natural Light is also light on taste. Modelo Especial is the second fastest growing major beer brand over the past decade. In , Constellation Brands shipped 1. Ten years later, the company shipped 7.
First brewed in , the brand is available in both bottles and cans. It's the most popular canned beer in Mexico today. More: Here are the top 40 places where young people are moving. Michelob Ultra has experienced greater growth from to than any other major beer in the U. The light lager's shipments increased from 6.
Over the past 10 years, Michelob Ultra sales have more than doubled. The lager is marketed as fitting a healthier lifestyle because of its lower calorie and carb count compared to other similar beers. Its commercials depict toned and trim people running, hiking, and biking before popping open bottles of Michelob Ultra. Of the five most popular beers in America, Corona Extra was the only one to ship more beer in than it did the previous year.
First brewed in Mexico City in , this clear golden pilsner is the best selling beer in Mexico and the country's leading exported beer. After debuting in , Miller Lite hit its sales peak in , shipping 19 million barrels. These days, Molson Coors is shipping about Miller Lite, like many other large American brews, is losing a chunk of its market share to increasingly popular imports and craft beer.
More: These are the 50 highest grossing restaurants in the US. First produced in , the self-styled "King of Beers" is distributed in more than 70 countries and is one of the world's best-selling brews. The brand brags about being "beechwood aged.
The process involves adding pieces of beechwood to the lagering tanks. Some of the yeast involved in the fermenting process collects on the wood and increases the yeast's contact with the beer. This helps reduce fermentation by-products that may lend an undesirable flavor to the beer. For many years, Coors beer was only available in parts of the western United States, giving it a mystique that other major beer brewers couldn't match. That mystique has since faded, as Coors Light and other products from the brewery became available in larger swaths of the country in the s before becoming nationally available in Now, Coors Light is the second most popular beer in the country, though it comes nowhere close to number one.
Bud Light, first sold nationwide in , is by far America's favorite beer. Joseph Owades. For a time, the beer was sold under the Meister Brau brand, but it was eventually purchased by the Miller Brewing Company in , which altered the recipe and renamed it Miller Lite.
More than years later, in , the company launched Coors Light to keep up with the onslaught of low-calorie beers that began to flood the market. When it comes to the brand that truly lives up to its name, all three clock in with the same alcohol content — 4. I ranked the beers based on two qualities: 1 taste and 2 chuggability, a highly scientific metric I devised to measure how easily a given brew goes down the hatch, like a refreshing mountain stream tickling your esophagus.
Read the official breakfast cereal power rankings: Part I ». How are you going to argue against the Champagne of Beers? How could you not proclaim a beer with an elegantly sloped neck designed to resemble that of a champagne bottle, and occasionally bedecked with gold foil to reinforce the point, the finest American beer in all the land?
This, beyond all, is the beer that says luxury, affluence and esservescence. Miller High Life has a bouquet that tastes pleasingly of apple juice and Corn Nuts, light and sweet with just a hint of toffee. The fact that it comes in squat little 7-ounce ponies for lightweights like me is all the better.
This was a contender for No. Bud Light is clean, crisp and ideal for hot-weather consumption. It tastes like a slightly alcoholic cream soda. It also positively crushes, sales-wise, every other beer in America. By, like, a lot. Bud Light shipped around 33 million barrels in , double that of the second most popular beer, Coors Light.
And, yes, because I am a human being with a soul, I also enjoy Spuds MacKenzie , the sunglasses-wearing, skateboarding bull terrier from s Bud Light commercials. This is a malty-tasting beer with a clean and quite smooth finish, but the flavor that sings through if there really is one is one of a general toasted-ness.
Make sure this is very cold when you drink it. The beer is very difficult to find on the West Coast and has a strong local feel to it, despite pumping out a couple million barrels a year. The flavor is fairly stolid, much like the Midwestern temperament — a bit sweet with a slight lingering bitterness in the back of the throat. You know what? And when soaking up unhealthful UV rays, the lime flavor tastes remarkably not like a cleaning product. Things change under the dark, sobering shadows of an actual bar, of course.
Would you order Bud Light Lime in a bar? You certainly would not. Founded in , Coors has fully embraced the Rocky Mountain aesthetic of rugged dudes doing rugged dude things: Hiking.
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