I admit it….I do enjoy enjoy a good dark beer….I prefer either Modelo Dark or a Sam Adams Boston lager…..the rest is like making love in a canoe…..f*cking near water.
I also find some of the thousands of beers released every year a bit much…..I do not want a beer made from pecans or apples or that taste like a orange….I want my beer to taste like beer.
I appears that we Americans are falling out of love with our old stand bys from years past……..
Americans still love beer—it’s a $100 billion industry in the US—but there are some beers we’re just not that into anymore, particularly as specialty and craft beers become more popular. 24/7 Wall St. runs down 10 beers falling out of favor with Americans:
- Budweiser: Yes, the King of Beers itself saw a 26% decline in sales between 2009 and 2014, putting it in the 10th spot on the list. In addition to rising craft beer sales, Americans’ growing taste for light beer likely also contributed.
- Natural Light: Despite the aforementioned demand for light beer, Natty Light saw a 26.6% decline in sales from 2009 to 2014, putting it at No. 9 on the list. Perhaps not surprising, considering RateBeer.com users rank it the worst beer in the world.
- Miller Genuine Draft: Jumping toward the top of the list, MGD comes in at No. 3 with a whopping 54.5% decline in sales from 2009 to 2014. MillerCoors is actually closing the plant that first brewed MGD.
- Milwaukee’s Best: The No. 2 beer on the list saw a 55.7% plunge from 2009 to 2014. 24/7 Wall St. thinks part of the problem might lie in the fact that the beer is marketed specifically to men.
- Bud Select: Coming in at No. 1—not a good thing, in this case—is one of Budweiser’s low-calorie offerings. Bud Select saw a 60.4% decline in sales between 2009 and 2014, despite the popularity of light beers. Bud Light, on the other hand, remains popular.
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There are some constants if life that I demand…these are onion taste like onion….coffee to taste like coffee and beer to taste like beer…there is one more but it is not for mixed company…..
I’m not a fan of beer, but I had one that tasted like chocolate and orange. It didn’t suck. I guess more of the regular beer for you! Cheers 🙂
Yep a good dark beer with steak is lovely…..
Yank Bud is disgusting…grin
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Bengali Tiger is soooo much better!
Craft beer to you…
I am a fan…I avoid any adulteration….
How any of the ‘above’ can be described as beer I have no Idea….absolutely none!
Bar primitive taste buds….grin
From a UK Connoisseur….
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I hear Bud is just recycled horse urine…
I think fresh bud from a tap is drinkable. The canned stuff really is horse piss.
I recently had an Edmund Fitzgerald porter… liked that. If for whatever reason you want over-the-top creamy-chocolate-coffee type thing, the Great Divide YETI imperial stout is one I remember clearly. Though I haven’t seen it around here for a while now.
a good stout is a thing of joy….
The less of the cheap American beer we buy the better. The biggest problem now is that the large brewers who are losing market share are gobbling up some of the best craft brewers and damaging the product with their corporate cost-cutting, mass production ideas. The second biggest problem is that far too many craft brewers have become enamored with the idea that you can’t have too many hops. Somewhere there is a happy medium between the beer that tastes like something barely more favorable than water and Quadruple Hopped IPAs.
I like my Boston Lager….well rounded and goes well with my steak….chuq
Your remark ‘recycled horse urine’ made me laugh!
Good on Ya 😉
Glad I could help…..LOL