What's the difference between different brand of beers?

Question

Famous brands must have something to have them fomous. Can u guys list some famous brands and tell me what make them famous?

Answer 1

The differences of the beers listed and indeed all beers are ingredients and processing. All beers use malted barley (except Sake which uses all rice), hops, water, and yeast. Some use adjuncts to produce other flavors in their beers. Some of these include malted and unmalted wheat, rice, corn, sugars, spices, fruit. With the four traditional ingredients they may use a variety of barley or hops to produce unique flavors and aromas. Barley and malted barley may be roasted to darker color. This roasting gives flavor and color to the beer. Some of these are brown or black color, choclate, coffee, toffee, sweet flavors. For hops some are more bitter and others more aromatic. The world famour Pilsener Urquell (the world's first pilsner) uses the wonderfully aromatic Zatec Red or Saaz hops. Yeast is also (and highly unreated) flavor contributor to beer. In some famous German wheat beers the yeast strain used imparts clove-like note to the beer.

By varying the ingredients and processing the brewer creates a unique beer.

I will list just a couple of beers that I enjoy:
Chimay
Duvel
Budvar (original Budweiser from the Czeck Republic)
Pilsener Urquell
Sam Adams
Anchor Liberty Ale Guinness Extra Stout

What makes them famous is/are quality, history, marketing, and uniquness. Pilsener Urquell the first ever Pilsner and great beer indeed. Guiness for flavor. On and on...


Never trust someone who says, "trust me."

From Kevin:
"The major brewers spend more money in advertising their product then they do making it. The oldest brewery in the United States is Yuengling, and to me is the closest tasting beer to what it was meant to be, but it is not mass marketed as Budweiser or miller... Trust me, it's not based on taste."


Taste as it is in all foods/beverage subjective.
It is true that they spent more on marketing than the production of their beers. However, they spend more on making their beers than does Yuengling. Although, Yuengling makes good beer(s) none of them ranks even in the top 100 of the great beers of the world. To knock on the big brewers just shows ones ignorance about beers and brewing. And in Kevin's case I add ignorance of the high quality of ingredients and processing of Bud & Miller beers.


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Answer 2

No two beers taste the same to me. If they all taste the same to you, I would just buy the cheapest one. Some are more expensive than others because some are domestic and some are imports. Domestic beers tend to be cheaper. However, there are many "specialty" beers by domestic bottlers that have an increased price as well. It's kind of like cigars... one cigar can be 29 cents and another is 14 bucks. They might taste the same to you but they come from different countries, are made of different tobacco, are wrapped differently with different materials, and have a different aroma and flavor. Gasoline should be the same price everywhere too. I'd imagine that it tastes the same.

Answer 3

IRI Top 30 Beer Brand Performers in 2006
Total U.S. Supermarkets

Rank
Beer Brand

1 Newcastle Brown Ale
2 Modelo Especial
3 Samuel Adams Seasonal
4 Blue Moon Belgium White Ale
5 Stella Artois
6 Corona Light
7 Smirnoff Twisted V Variety Pack
8 Guinness Draught
9 Corona Extra
10 Pacifico
11 Red Stripe
12 Keystone Light
13 Dos Equis XX Special Lager
14 Negra Modelo
15 Busch Light
16 Yuengling Traditional Lager
17 New Belgium Fat Tire Amber Ale
18 Natural Light
19 Bud Light
20 Samuel Adams Boston Lager
21 Heineken
22 Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
23 Shiner Bock
24 Widmer Hefeweizen
25 Steel Reserve High Gravity Lager
26 Beck’s
27 Saint Pauli Girl
28 Pabst Blue Ribbon
29 Coors Light
30 Guinness Extra Stout

Minimum of 500,000 cases sold in total U.S. supermarkets for 52 weeks ending Dec. 31, 2006

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Answer 4

Well...in america the domestic beer popularity sadly is based on the marketing plan. There are now hundred if not thousands of micro-breweries now in the US, becuase the standard norm of domestic beer is a watered down version of what beer really should be. Full of flavor and distinctive. The major brewers spend more money in advertising their product then they do making it. The oldest brewery in the United States is Yuengling, and to me is the closest tasting beer to what it was meant to be, but it is not mass marketed as Budweiser or miller. To answer your question.... famous brands are famous, because marketing tells you there are famous. Trust me, it's not based on taste.

Answer 5

i know anhueser busch, the brewers of budweiser have been around since the days of the old west. most breweries have a long history, it's probably why they got to the point they are at now

Answer 6

it's all about preference.
some people love them for taste, smoothness, color...
others drink them bcse of brand, they like the label or brand... won't try anything else.
i have tried several beers- i prefer bud select and sam adams
i won't ever turn a sam down. i also like y'ling
i drink them bcse i like the taste, i don't drink bud bcse of dale jr- don't like him lol

famous brands
bud
miller
coors
corona
sam adams
strongbow
y'ling
molson

Answer 7

They're famous by who and where and how they're brewed. You can't think of some famous ones yourself?

Answer 8

Coors lite

Answer 9

http://beer.about.com/od/beerstyles/tp/TopTenBeers.htm