Context most American beer companies were founded by Germans and other first generation European immigrants despite a common insult towards the companies products being that Americas make terrible beer compared to Europe. Americas largest Beer company Anheuser-Busch was founded by two German Americans named Adolphus Busch and Eberhard Anheuser
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Germans: you can only have 3 ingredients to make beer
Literally everyone else in the world: hold my beer
I’ll drink to that!
I like good IPAs that aren’t just trying to use the flavor to cover up bad brewing (those definitely exist). Come at me.
And corona and a couple other mexican beers.
American light lagers (that’s the style name that covers all “standard” domestic beers) are a product of war rationing; breweries that were originally producing German lager styles adjusted their recipes to use fewer and cheaper ingredients with more adjuncts like rice in order to keep making product while barley supply was limited. The breweries used mass advertising campaigns to tie this new style of beer to American patriotism, and once rationing ended they just kept on making the new, cheaper-to-brew beer since that’s what everyone was used to drinking anyway.
Mainstream brands of German beer is piss too.
You cannot claim that American beer in 2026 tastes the same as it did in 1852.
That being said, a common reproach made by Europeans to American industrial beers, especially the Budweiser which is the best known in Europe, is that they have less taste that German *helles*, which is already considered light in taste. So it is more a question of being tasteless than terrible.
That being said, the USA also produce good quality craft beer, there are notably some good Californian IPAs.
Europeans don’t understand that temperature affects types of beer consumption habits.
Places that are hot as fuck for most of the year prefer lighter beers like lagers because it is cool and refreshing.
Colder wetter places prefer ales and heavy beers because they are filling and have strong flavors.
The Vietnamese and Japanese got hard on lagers the same as Yanks.
Back before prohibition the northern most states had tons of heavy stouts and ales in every bar, but after prohibition there were strict rules on brewing that made small breweries impossible so all demand went to more universally friendly lagers
Yuengling is pretty good (founded by another German).
Adolphus Busch approves
I’m no beer expert but I would say the US has been experiencing a renaissance of beer, or beeraissance if you will. In every part of the country even in small towns you are very likely to find at least one local brewery and there are some excellent local beer options available in just about every metro area of the country. Beer options are probably more local and numerous now ever since right before prohibition
Honestly the modern American beer scene really isn’t something to look down upon. The sheer variety of quality brews that exist now is massive. From ales to lagers to sours we got it all now
American beer is microbrew and actually real beer
Or maybe because in the domestic German market, his beer sucks. so he’s making it abroad because of lower competition in quality standard
Well tbh, and I’m going to offend a lot of germans here, their beer is mediocre at best, most beers are usually quite bland in taste and weak. German beer is just good enough as most are somehow even worse at it but if you have the option chose Czech, Belgian beer or a craft beer from the US.
Here in Texas we have quite a few German beer brewery’s that are quite good. I told some of my German gaming buddies about this and they got all upset I was calling Texas brewed beer German, then they went on about how the best beer was Radler…
germans making the best american beer checks out
Also, the Germans only ever drink the exported stuff. The American craft beer scene is incredible, it’s not all Coors lite.
germans really out here gatekeeping beer purity like its a religion
Immigration is America’s superpower
Genuinely, as a brewery worker and bartender. All of that shit tastes the same. I mean that. Years of tasting and figuring out “notes” for so many beers.
Nah bro miller tastes like Heineken which tastes like coors which tastes like labatts which tastes like peroni which tastes like Stella which tastes like bud.
It’s just so subtle in difference that it might as well not be there. Turns out when you build a big business based on maximizing profits you all kind of end up with the same cheap recipe….who woulda thought…
I’m sure all of these beers were different at some point, it’s history memes, but in 2026 it’s just a label.
Adolph Coors is an American hero
The beer in the USA still sucks. Flavorless coloured water.
American beer is so good they had to give us our own category for competitions
Agreed on most parts but as an IPA guy nowhere I’ve been touches the American IPA scene.