Nothing here is bad, exactly. The argument is whether the reputation, the price or the advertising got ahead of what is in the glass.
1Stella ArtoisMarketed in Belgium as a premium lager and nicknamed wife beater in British pubs.1000pts
2Corona ExtraSold on a beach and a lime wedge, and famously skunked by its clear glass bottle.926pts
3Dos EquisThe Most Interesting Man in the World sold a lot of a fairly ordinary Mexican lager.600pts
4BudweiserThe self-declared King of Beers, brewed with rice and aged on beechwood chips.600pts
5HeinekenThe green bottle travels everywhere and arrives lightstruck almost as often as Corona.529pts
6Guinness DraughtThe two-part pour and the 119.5-second wait do a lot of work for a 4.2% stout.529pts
7Peroni Nastro AzzurroPriced as an Italian luxury import and brewed under licence in several countries.448pts
8Blue MoonSold as a craft witbier with an orange slice; brewed by Molson Coors.448pts
9HoegaardenThe revived witbier is now a global brand, and purists say the recipe travelled badly.448pts
10Bud LightAmerica's best-seller for two decades, on a recipe designed to taste of as little as possible.448pts
11Pabst Blue RibbonA 19th-century mass lager that became an irony purchase and then a genuine one.353pts
12Michelob Ultra95 calories, 2.6 grams of carbohydrate, and a gym membership sold as a beer.353pts
13Coors LightThe mountains on the can turn blue to tell you the beer is cold enough to hide its flavour.353pts
14Samuel Adams Boston LagerThe beer that made craft mainstream, and that craft drinkers stopped ordering once it did.353pts
15Newcastle Brown AleA Tyneside icon that has not been brewed in Newcastle since 2005.0pts
Comments 1
Corona arrives in a clear bottle, the fastest known way to give beer a skunked aroma. The one ranking here where a strong showing is an accusation: https://youpick.best/articles/beer-ranked-many-ways
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