About American Beer
Native American tribes brewed beer in the United States long before any European stepped foot on to this great land. The first commercial brewery was actually built in 1632 and early American beer was influenced by the English and Dutch. British style ales dominated American brewing until the German immigrants introduced lager, which had a much longer shelf-life than the British Ales. American’s loved beer, and the US beer market was thriving until 1919 when congress passed the Volstead Act, which began the start of prohibition. During this time many breweries were forced to close their doors, switch industries or hemorrhage money. Prohibition finally ended in 1933 and while some breweries began operating, it resulted in a consolidation in the industry. Thankfully the industry has fully recovered and we have many more options than the major breweries when buying our beer!
American Beer Reviews
Top Picks:
Abita Hop On Juicy Pale Ale
Abita Purple Haze
Anchor Fog Breaker IPA
Anderson Valley Bourbon Barrel Stout
Ballast Point Fathom IPA
Ballast Point Passing Haze Hazy IPA
Bell’s Official Hazy IPA
Breckenridge Nitro Irish Stout
Brooklyn Lager
Budweiser
Budweiser Copper Lager
Calidad Mexican Lager
Clown Shoes Bubble Farm IPA
Clown Shoes Double Dry Hopped Yeeehaaw New England IPA
Coors Banquet
Deschutes Black Butte Porter
Deschutes Fresh Haze IPA
Deschutes Obsidian Stout
Fat Tire Amber Ale
Fat Tire Belgian Wheat
Firestone Walker 805
Golden Road Brewing Mango Cart
Golden Road Brewing Melon Cart
Golden Road Dodgers Blonde Ale
Golden Road Pineapple Cart
Green Flash Blonde Ale
Kona Castaway IPA
Kona Light Blonde Ale
Leinenkugel’s Oktoberfest
Lone Star Beer
Maui Brewing Coconut HIWA Porter
Miller Lite
Mississippi Mud Black and Tan
Modern Times Coffee Roasty Stout
Modern Times Dank Nelson IPA
Modern Times Hazy Mosaic IPA
Modern Times Hoppy Tropical Pale Ale
Modern Times Technomancer Hazy Galaxy DIPA
Mother Earth Cali Creamin’
New Belgium Snow Day Winter Ale
NOLA 7th Street Wheat
Rogue Dreamland American Lager
Russian River Robert Saison
Samuel Adams Alpine Lager
Samuel Adams Cold Snap White Ale
Samuel Adams Golden G.O.A.T.
Samuel Adams Holiday Porter
Samuel Adams Porch Rocker
Samuel Adams Sam 76
Saranac Black Forest Bavarian Black Beer
Saranac Festival Pils
Saranac Hopskeller
Shiner Bock
Sierra Nevada Coffee Stout
Sierra Nevada Helles in the Tropics
Sierra Nevada Hop Solo
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rye IPA
Sierra Nevada Tropical Torpedo IPA
Stone Black is Beautiful Imperial Stout
Texas Beer Company Local Blonde
Urban South Lime Cucumber Gose
Velvet Glow
Victory Cloud Walker Hazy Juicy IPA
Alaskan Beers
Alaskan Amber
Alaskan Brewing White
Alaskan Husky IPA
Alaskan Kölsch
California Beers
Alpine Duet IPA
Alpine HFS IPA
Alpine Hoppy Birthday Pale Ale
Anchor Brewers’ Pale Ale Citra Hop Blend
Anchor Christmas Ale
Anchor Fog Breaker IPA
Anchor Liberty Ale
Anderson Valley Bourbon Barrel Stout
Angel City Pilsner
Ballast Point Citrus Cove Gose
Ballast Point Fathom IPA
Ballast Point Lager
Ballast Point Passing Haze Hazy IPA
Beachwood LBC IPA
Blind Pig IPA
Breaking Bud IPA
Cali Squeeze Blood Orange Hefeweizen
Calidad Mexican Lager
Coronado Brewing Salty Crew Blonde Ale
El Segundo Citra Pale Ale
Enegren Valkyrie
Figueroa Mountain Lizard’s Mouth IPA
Firestone Walker 805
Firestone Walker C-Hops Pale Ale
Firestone Walker Easy Jack IPA
Firestone Walker Luponic Distortion IPA No. 12
Firestone Walker Mind Haze IPA
Firestone Walker Propagator Citra Single Hop Hazy IPA
Firestone Walker Union Jack IPA
Golden Road Brewing Mango Cart
Golden Road Brewing Melon Cart
Golden Road Dodgers Blonde Ale
Golden Road Hazy LA IPA
Golden Road Oktoberfest
Golden Road Pineapple Cart
Golden Road So Cal Coconut Wheat
Golden Road The Skinny IPA
Green Flash Blonde Ale
Green Flash West Coast IPA
Happy Hops IPA
Hef Lepperd Hefeweizen
House Lager
Humboldt Brewing Nectar Pale Ale
Kershaw’s Wicked Curve Grapefruit Wheat Ale
King Harbor Tiki Hut IPA
Lagunitas Hazy Wonder IPA
Lagunitas Little Sumpn’ Ale
Libertine Pacific Ocean Blue Gose
Los Angeles Ale Works Dead Cowboy Red Lager
Los Angeles Ale Works Scrapplicious Juicy IPA
Mind Circus Hazy IPA
Modern Times Coffee Roasty Stout
Modern Times Dank Nelson IPA
Modern Times Gigazapper DIPA
Modern Times Hazy Mosaic IPA
Modern Times Hazy Nelson IPA
Modern Times Hoppy Tropical Pale Ale
Modern Times Sour Tropical Fruit Gose
Modern Times Technomancer Hazy Galaxy DIPA
Mother Earth Boo Koo IPA
Mother Earth Cali Creamin’
Mother Earth Kismet IPA
Mother Earth Sin Tax
Newcastle Brown Ale
North Coast Scrimshaw Pilsner
Pabst Blue Ribbon
Pizza Port California Honey
Pizza Port Kook DIPA
Pizza Port Ponto SIPA
Pizza Port Swami’s IPA
Pliny the Elder
Port Brewing Wipeout IPA
Project Barley Em Day’s Pale Ale
Refuge Brewery Blood Orange Wit
Russian River Robert Saison
Saint Archer Gold
Saint Archer Mosaic IPA
Santa Monica Brew Works 310 California Blonde Ale
Sierra Nevada 3 Weight Session IPA
Sierra Nevada Coffee Stout
Sierra Nevada Flipside Red IPA
Sierra Nevada Helles in the Tropics
Sierra Nevada Hop Bullet Double IPA
Sierra Nevada Hop Solo
Sierra Nevada Oktoberfest
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rye IPA
Sierra Nevada Sidecar Orange IPA
Sierra Nevada Torpedo Extra IPA
Sierra Nevada Tropical Torpedo IPA
Smog City From LA Wit Love White Ale
Stone Black is Beautiful Imperial Stout
Stone Buenaveza Salt and Lime Lager
Stone Imperial Star Fawker Hazy IPA
Stone Scorpion Bowl IPA
Stone Smoked Porter with Chipotle Peppers
Stone Unfiltered IPA
Stone Vengeful Spirit IPA
Strand Brewing 24th Street Pale Ale
The Bruery Bakery Boysenberry Pie
The Dudes’ CalifornIPA
The Dudes’ Double Trunk Double IPA
The Dudes’ Most Excellent IPA
Three Weavers Expatriate IPA
Trademark Brewing Hula Moon Tropical IPA
Two Pitchers Radler
Velvet Glow
Colorado Beers
Blue Moon Mango Wheat
Breckenridge Nitro Irish Stout
Breckenridge Vanilla Porter
Coors Banquet
Coors Light
Fat Tire Amber Ale
Fat Tire Belgian Wheat
New Belgium 1554 Black Ale
New Belgium Accumulation White IPA
New Belgium Heavy Melon
New Belgium Mountain Time Premium Lager
New Belgium Snow Day Winter Ale
New Belgium Summer Bliss
New Belgium Voodoo Ranger Juicy Haze IPA
Odell Sippin’ Pretty
Oskar Blues Can-O-Bliss Tropical IPA
Oskar Blues Dale’s Pale Ale
Delaware Beers
Dogfish Head SuperEight Super Gose
Florida Beers
Cigar City Brewing Jai Alai IPA
Hawaii Beers
Kona Big Wave Golden Ale
Kona Brewing Longboard Island Lager
Kona Castaway IPA
Kona Dragon Fruit IPA
Kona Hanalei Island IPA
Kona Kanaha Blonde Ale
Kona Kua Bay IPA
Kona Light Blonde Ale
Kona Wailua Wheat
Maui Brewing Big Swell IPA
Maui Brewing Bikini Blonde Lager
Maui Brewing Coconut HIWA Porter
Maui Brewing Pau Hana Pilsner
Maui Brewing Pineapple Mana Wheat
Illinois Beers
Goose Island IPA
Louisiana Beers
Abita 30° 90°
Abita Amber
Abita Blueberry Wheat
Abita Christmas Ale
Abita Hop On Juicy Pale Ale
Abita Maison Blanc
Abita Purple Haze
Abita Strawberry Lager
Abita Strawgator
Abita Turbodog
LA 31 Cocodrie DDH IPA
NOLA 7th Street Wheat
Port Orleans Dorada
Point Orleans Ella Double Dry-Hopped Pilsner
Urban South Holy Roller Hazy Juicy IPA
Urban South Lime Cucumber Gose
Urban South Paradise Park
Massachusetts Beers
Clown Shoes Advent Party Crasher Imperial Stout
Clown Shoes Bubble Farm IPA
Clown Shoes Chocolate Sombrero Stout
Clown Shoes Double Dry Hopped Yeeehaaw New England IPA
Clown Shoes Eagle Claw Fist IPA
Clown Shoes Galactica Double IPA
Clown Shoes Hoppy Feet Black IPA
Clown Shoes One Man Holiday Quadruple
Clown Shoes Pecan Pie Porter
Clown Shoes Reindeer Games Bavarian IPA
Clown Shoes Royal Standard Wee Heavy Ale
Clown Shoes Space Cake Double IPA
Samuel Adams Alpine Lager
Samuel Adams American IPA
Samuel Adams Boston Lager
Samuel Adams Citrus Wheat Summer Ale
Samuel Adams Cold Snap White Ale
Samuel Adams Golden G.O.A.T.
Samuel Adams Holiday Porter
Samuel Adams Holiday White Ale
Samuel Adams Jack-O Pumpkin Ale
Samuel Adams Kosmic Sour
Samuel Adams Octoberfest
Samuel Adams Porch Rocker
Samuel Adams Sam 76
Samuel Adams Winter Lager
Michigan Beers
Bell’s Official Hazy IPA
Founders All Day IPA
Missouri Beers
Boulevard Brewing American Kolsch
Bud Light Lime
Budweiser
Budweiser Copper Lager
New York Beers
Brooklyn Lager
Mississippi Mud Black and Tan
Saranac 1888 Octoberfest
Saranac Big Moose Winter Ale
Saranac Black Forest Bavarian Black Beer
Saranac Festival Pils
Saranac Hop Harvest Haze IPA
Saranac Hopskeller
Saranac Hoptoberfest IPA
Saranac Joy to Ale
Saranac Permafrost IPA
Saranac Winter Warmer
Oregon Beers
Deschutes Black Butte Porter
Deschutes Fresh Haze IPA
Deschutes Fresh Squeezed IPA
Deschutes Handup IPA
Deschutes Obsidian Stout
Hop Valley Citrus Mistress IPA
Omission Lager
Rogue Batsquatch Hazy IPA
Rogue Dead Guy Ale
Rogue Dreamland American Lager
Rogue Newport Daze Hazy Pale Ale
Pennsylvania Beers
Rolling Rock
Victory Cloud Walker Hazy Juicy IPA
Victory Easy Ringer Lo-Cal IPA
Victory Golden Monkey Belgian-Style Tripel
Victory Sour Monkey Sour Brett Tripel
Texas Beers
Deep Ellum IPA
Firemans 4 Blonde Ale
Lone Star Beer
Shiner Bock
Shiner Holiday Cheer
Shiner Oktoberfest
Texas Beer Company Local Blonde
Washington Beers
Fremont Sky Kraken Hazy Pale Ale
Wisconsin Beers
Hamm’s
Leinenkugel’s Oktoberfest
Leinenkugel’s Summer Shandy
Miller Genuine Draft
Miller Lite
Mucho Aloha Pacific Pils