# Which macro beer(s) are you responsible for? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** beer\ **Created:** [November 9, 2010, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-macro-beer-s-are-you-responsible-for/560060 "2010-11-09T17:32:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-macro-beer-s-are-you-responsible-for/560060/1 "2010-11-09T17:32:41Z")
These are the 15 top selling beers in America by volume as 30 seconds of Google research has yielded. While I realize we are all beer snobs and wouldn’t be caught dead quaffing any of these insults to the word “beer,” SOMEONE is buying and drinking it. Which of these will you own up to perpetuating the existence of? ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-macro-beer-s-are-you-responsible-for/560060/2 "2010-11-09T17:39:24Z")
BTW yes, I am aware that the snobbery statement above does not apply to one or two of these. It was not entirely serious. ---
**Author:** ![acetylene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@acetylene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/acetylene)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-macro-beer-s-are-you-responsible-for/560060/3 "2010-11-09T17:41:49Z")
Yes, I know, all American beer is watered down swill. But at least it doesn’t taste like a skunk took a bath in it. So I drink Michelob Ultra because it has fewer calories and doesn’t taste all that bad. And it doesn’t give me a headache if I drink too much. It’s definitely not the manliest beer to drink, but I’m manly enough to pull it off. Admittedly, when I came back from living in Germany I had a hell of a time getting used to American beer again. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-macro-beer-s-are-you-responsible-for/560060/4 "2010-11-09T17:44:03Z")
For myself, I will happily admit I regularly buy Miller Lite, High Life (preferably MGD, but I consider the two interchangeable), Guinness, Sam Adams, and Yeungling. Sam Adams, Guinness and Yeungling I would consider a significant cut above the rest. Miller Lite I buy because it’s dirt cheap. MGD I actually like. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-macro-beer-s-are-you-responsible-for/560060/5 "2010-11-09T17:48:32Z")
I drink Yuengling and the non-Ultra Michelob. Both are fine beers. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-macro-beer-s-are-you-responsible-for/560060/6 "2010-11-09T17:49:39Z")
I live in Portland, Oregon-we have bars that don’t sell _any_ of these. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-macro-beer-s-are-you-responsible-for/560060/7 "2010-11-09T17:50:30Z")
**Guinness Forever!** ---
**Author:** ![Alpha\_Twit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpha_twit/32/265_2.png) [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-macro-beer-s-are-you-responsible-for/560060/8 "2010-11-09T17:51:52Z")
Miller Lite is hardly beer by any reasonable definition but I still drink it. It’s good hot weather/working outdoor brew. When the day is done and I want something … good, I’ll grab something else but a couple of ice cold MLs wash the dust out of my throat nicely. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-macro-beer-s-are-you-responsible-for/560060/9 "2010-11-09T17:53:41Z")
Corona is beer? I thought it was yellow water. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-macro-beer-s-are-you-responsible-for/560060/10 "2010-11-09T17:59:33Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > **Guinness Forever!** Come to Portland, and I will buy you beers that will make you forget Guinness forever. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-macro-beer-s-are-you-responsible-for/560060/11 "2010-11-09T18:06:15Z")
It’s a ten minute walk for me to Ballast Point Brewery, and a ten minute drive to Alesmith. It’s hard not to be a beer snob when it’s so delicious _and_ convenient. ---
**Author:** ![Walkabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-macro-beer-s-are-you-responsible-for/560060/12 "2010-11-09T18:08:29Z")
Our refrigerator is kept stocked with Yuengling and Beck’s. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-macro-beer-s-are-you-responsible-for/560060/13 "2010-11-09T18:12:18Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Come to Portland, and I will buy you beers that will make you forget Guinness forever. True dat. There is so much to choose from here, it truely lives up to the name “Beervana”. I picked “none of the above”, but will have a Sam Adams if in an airport bar that doesn’t have micros. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-macro-beer-s-are-you-responsible-for/560060/14 "2010-11-09T18:18:08Z")
I drink Sam Adams products every so often. I’ll guzzle a Bud or a Corona when I’m hanging with my dad, as that’s what he usually buys, but you’ll never see me buying that stuff. I’ve gone total snob on them. And believe me, I’ve filtered kegs full of Bud through my liver over the years. I just don’t like the taste of it now that I’ve been turned onto IPAs. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-macro-beer-s-are-you-responsible-for/560060/15 "2010-11-09T18:18:45Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > True dat. There is so much to choose from here, it truely lives up to the name “Beervana”. I picked “none of the above”, but will have a Sam Adams if in an airport bar that doesn’t have micros. To elaborate-Brits attempt to smuggle out cases of our stout. Germans cry in frustration as they leave for the airport. Trappist monks come here to refresh their skills(and steal our recipes). Really, do you think we stay here for the _weather_? ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-macro-beer-s-are-you-responsible-for/560060/16 "2010-11-09T18:33:22Z")
Sam Adams, Bud Light, and Guinness I’ve all bought at some point. My FiL buys Corona, so I’ll drink those from time to time. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-macro-beer-s-are-you-responsible-for/560060/17 "2010-11-09T19:03:21Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Come to Portland, and I will buy you beers that will make you forget Guinness forever. I sincerely doubt that. I love the beers of the Pacific Northwest, but there will always be a place for Guinness. (And Sam Adams, for that matter. I drink my fancy microbrews, but when I want to unwind with a clean American lager, Sam Adams is my drink of choice.) Unfortunately, the macrobrew choices I drink when I want to slum it aren’t available in this poll. The new formulation of Schlitz actually has flavor, and, being a Chicago boy, I kind of grew up on Old Style, so that’s my blue-collar beer if Schlitz is not available. ---
**Author:** ![wheresmymind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@wheresmymind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wheresmymind)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-macro-beer-s-are-you-responsible-for/560060/18 "2010-11-09T19:03:22Z")
If I’m going for cheap beer I’m a fan of Miller Lite (or High-life if I’m in the mood for bottles). If I’m going for REALLY cheap beer I usually go with Natty Boh or Schlitz. I have a fantasy wherein I show up to a hipster party. When offered a PBR I say “No, PBR is too high-brow for me” and bust out my 30-pack of Schlitz. “Who’s slumming it now, bitches?” ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-macro-beer-s-are-you-responsible-for/560060/19 "2010-11-09T19:08:04Z")
If I want a beer and I’m somewhere that doesn’t have an extensive beer selection, Guinness is my default choice. I generally prefer dark strong-tasting beers and Guinness is often the only available brew that fits into those categories. Also, Guinness is still better than the other macrobrews out there. Sam Adams has a wide variety of seasonal beers that are often extensively available and will try at least once. I especially liked their Double Bock. Corona is my occasional guilty pleasure. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-macro-beer-s-are-you-responsible-for/560060/20 "2010-11-09T19:11:17Z")
From that list, only Guinness. But I do drink some other, slightly less prominent ( in the U.S. ) macrobrews, like Newcastle and Negro Modelo. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-macro-beer-s-are-you-responsible-for/560060.md?page=2)