Nine Beers Americans No Longer Drink

[RobJohnson]

The #1 Beer on the list was sort of a shock to me. I don't drink but always remember #1 being so popular, so high end.

BEER

Others don't really shock me, like this one:

6. Miller Genuine Draft
> Sales loss (2006-2011): 52.3%
> Brewer: MillerCoors
> Barrels sold (2011): 1.6 million
 
Miller Genuine Draft, marketed as having “the fresh taste of draft beer in a bottle,” has lost consumers’ attention in recent years. It was one of just six beers that had sales volume fall by half between 2006 and 2011. During this time, the total number of Miller Genuine Draft barrels sold fell by 1.7 million, more than any other beer on this list. Only one other brand bottled by MillerCoors — Miller Lite — had a larger decline in barrels sold over this time span.

[Maxiest]

There are so many good Micro-Brews no a days... I hardly fool with those on the list.  I can always count on a good Budweiser if there isn't anything else though.

[franksolich]

I dunno; I haven't drank since 1987, but it's interesting.

Even before 1987, Milwaukee's Best was constantly derided as a lousy beer--I think it even sold for $2.50 a case in Lincoln, Nebraska, circa the early 1980s, it was that bad.

It's sad to see the decline of Michelob, a fine beer I always thought, at least back then.

I was always a fan of the lighter beers, especially Olympia and some beer with a Danish name (although I think it was domestic) that I no longer remember.  And Coors, of course.

[franksolich]

I'm thinking here.

Try to think of beers that were heavily advertised during the early 1980s, but didn't quite make it.

I think the other beer I liked, the "Danish" one, was Tuborg.

But I could be wrong--it was light.

[JohnnyReb]

Once had a PBR beer and cold apple pie from the fridge for breakfast.....it's no wonder I never drank much.

[franksolich]

Once had a PBR beer and cold apple pie from the fridge for breakfast.....it's no wonder I never drank much.

Fat Che's Little Brothert Blue Ribbon was apparently once very popular, but by the time I was around, it went into decline, and had all but disappeared.  Then later (the 1980s?), it was resurrected by someone else, but it's not the same as it had been.

Also, Hamm's and Falstaff (Nebraska's beer) were popular yet when I was small, but disappeared.

When a brand goes out of business, sometimes someone else buys the name and caters to the nostalgia market; I think this is the case with Beeches' (sp-?) chewing gum.

[CG6468]

Falstaff was brewed in St. Louis.

LINK

[thundley4]

Schlitz, Little Kings, Red/White and Blue.

[franksolich]

Falstaff was brewed in St. Louis.

LINK

Also Omaha.

I believe the Falstaff brewery was the last one to close.

[NHSparky]

Oh, it's amazing what one will drink when one is in college and broke.

Or worse still, when one tries to "go native".  Primo Beer is something I wouldn't wish on nadin.  Thankfully it no longer exists.

[Airwolf]

There is a beer in Korea that we drank when we got broke towards the end of the month or wanted a lot of beer to drink while on pass or whatever. It was made from rice instead of wheat and other things like our beers and it tasted kind like beer flavored water.

[Freeper]

There is a beer in Korea that we drank when we got broke towards the end of the month or wanted a lot of beer to drink while on pass or whatever. It was made from rice instead of wheat and other things like our beers and it tasted kind like beer flavored water.

Was that OB beer?

[Zeus]

There is a beer in Korea that we drank when we got broke towards the end of the month or wanted a lot of beer to drink while on pass or whatever. It was made from rice instead of wheat and other things like our beers and it tasted kind like beer flavored water.

When I was in Honduras I was intoduced to a Japanese beer. Two beers did the trick, the first one was chugged then you could sip the second. Was actually a nasty tasting beer but after chugging the first and coating the inside of the mouth and throat the second wasn't too terrible to drink and 2 beers gave you a comfortable buzz.

[RobJohnson]

Fat Che's Little Brothert Blue Ribbon was apparently once very popular, but by the time I was around, it went into decline, and had all but disappeared.  Then later (the 1980s?), it was resurrected by someone else, but it's not the same as it had been.

Also, Hamm's and Falstaff (Nebraska's beer) were popular yet when I was small, but disappeared.

When a brand goes out of business, sometimes someone else buys the name and caters to the nostalgia market; I think this is the
case with Beeches' (sp-?) chewing gum.

Growing up as a kid I remember all the Hamm's beer commercials on TV, they all had some type of live grizzly bear in them...

All the old family pictures of my dad and his brothers show cans of Falstaff on the kitchen table when I was young.

[Eupher]

When I lived in Masshole, I remember a particularly egregious concoction called Narragansett beer, whose brewery is still apparently churning out that nasty piss they call beer.

If you want to really offend your co-workers, go into a bar on a work night that has that shit on tap, quaff a couple of quarts, munch down about a half-dozen quahogs and pickled eggs, and just let that shit ferment over night in your guts.

You'll come out smelling like a rose.  

[formerlurker]

When I lived in Masshole, I remember a particularly egregious concoction called Narragansett beer, whose brewery is still apparently churning out that nasty piss they call beer.

If you want to really offend your co-workers, go into a bar on a work night that has that shit on tap, quaff a couple of quarts, munch down about a half-dozen quahogs and pickled eggs, and just let that shit ferment over night in your guts.

You'll come out smelling like a rose.  

RI swill.  Boston = Sam Adams.

[Eupher]

RI swill.  Boston = Sam Adams.

Used to be a time when Sam Adams was considered a microbrew. I'd think by now they've graduated to something beyond a microbrew, but yeah, it's a good beer.

[DumbAss Tanker]

When I was in Honduras I was intoduced to a Japanese beer. Two beers did the trick, the first one was chugged then you could sip the second. Was actually a nasty tasting beer but after chugging the first and coating the inside of the mouth and throat the second wasn't too terrible to drink and 2 beers gave you a comfortable buzz.

I remember the beer in Panama was too horrible to make that work.  Between nitrites in it to stabilize it in the hear, and a national limit on alcohol content that was something like 3.5 percent, I got a pounding headache from it before I could consume enough to get any kind of a buzz at all.  Probably about 15 years ago and I don't remember the brand names of the local beers, but the experience has made me pretty leery of anything brewed south of the border.

[RobJohnson]

I remember in the 70's when everyone started to have beer can collections. People would have walls and walls of cans

Did anyone here have one?




 


How the price was driven up on Billy cans

[njpines]

I remember Falstaff in college.  You could get a case of bottles for 3 bucks and the bottlecaps had rebus puzzles on the inside of them to solve.

[Wineslob]

Schmidt

Black Label

Ballantine

the shit list is endless.........

[NHSparky]

There is a beer in Korea that we drank when we got broke towards the end of the month or wanted a lot of beer to drink while on pass or whatever. It was made from rice instead of wheat and other things like our beers and it tasted kind like beer flavored water.

OB?

[NHSparky]

Used to be a time when Sam Adams was considered a microbrew. I'd think by now they've graduated to something beyond a microbrew, but yeah, it's a good beer.

Some of them are okay.  Some of them taste like rat's piss.  Shipyard has some good stuff.  Ditto with Red Hook and Alligash, and every time and I remember to take the growlers I stop at Moat Mountain Brewery.

[Karin]

Nastygansett was the worst!  In college, guys would keep it warm and under the bed, guaranteeing their roommates wouldn't steal it. 

Mabel Black Label = Headache in a can.  Bud Light is the same, for me. 

Gennie, and Gennie Cream Ale.  Anybody drink that?  You could get it dirt cheap.  My mom had the worst taste in beers.  She like that, and Old Milwaukee. 

[IassaFTots]

Meister Brau anyone?  

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