What types of beer are popular in your region?

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1. West coast IPA.

   Trend-wise, smoothie beers have been popping up recently too.

2. I’m a sugar junkie so I mostly do ciders and stuff like Framboise. Where I’m from, mainstream beers like Corona and Heineken do well, White claw is always popular with the health conscious types I guess. But by and large, micro brews seem to be present everywhere I go.

3. Coors(light), Bud(light), and Modelo are the top sellers in the CenCal area.

   805 from Firestone is probably the most popular “regional” beer. To me it’s about 1/4 step above Bud or Coors.

4. Literally everything. Every grocery and liquor store in my neighborhood has a minimum of 100 kinds of beer, ranging from macro brew lagers to Pilsner to IPA to stouts to sours to the truly arcane. There are at least 50 breweries within 100 miles of DC and there is effective nationwide distribution. We have restaurants with dozens and dozens of beers on tap and specialized bars with even more.

   There is truly nothing comparable to American beer culture and availability. It’s unimaginable if you haven’t been here.

5. PA has a huge independent brewery scene. Seems IPA is the beer of choice, even though I’m really not a fan.

   I personally really like Belgian style beers of all varieties. And stouts.

6. All of the above. You got folks that live on Natty Daddy and folks that only drink hoity toity triple distilled IPAs.

   Probably lagers but there’s a huge variety of beers you can get almost everywhere.

7. I don’t think I’d have an issue getting any kind of beer. Anything from bud light to orange-mint IPA.

8. Judging by what’s on the shelf at the grocery store, IPAs. That’s probably over half on what they carry.

   Don’t know if it’s half of what they sell, though, that’s harder to find. Like the big national brands take up a quarter of the shelving, but there are often gaps where someone bought some. There aren’t as many gaps in the local beers that take most of the shelf space.

9. Busch Light, Miller Lite, Yuengling, Coors Light, in that order. I work in a beer distributor and those were the only cases to crack 150 sales over the last month according to the register.

10. Everything. IPAs have been the trendy style for a few years now, but more traditional styles like Pilsners, lagers, etc. have been making a resurgence lately, and the most recent crop of breweries to open here focus on those styles far more than IPAs.

    Walk into any good beer store here, and you can get pretty much any style imaginable.

11. Pretty much whatever you want around me.

    There are plenty of local breweries. Shops that sell all types of any kinds of beer. Or just plain light beers.

12. The IPA market certainly doesn’t need any new additions in my area. I think I started getting tired of those around a decade ago. Personally, I prefer wheat or stouts. I’m also not snob and believe your buds, millers, coors etc. have a time and a place.

13. Every time I read through one of these threads I have to remind myself that IPA doesn’t mean isopropyl alcohol

14. We have a ton of local microbreweries where I live. IPAs are always popular.

15. I don’t know how popular they are comparatively but Juicy IPAs seem to be the hot ticket right now

16. The closer to Boomer age, or the further into the rural areas you go, the more likely someone is to drink either Bud Light or Coors Light.

    For people who are more into craft beer, it usually skews more towards Gen X and younger and urban, I think it’s pretty much a bit of everything. Different breweries in my city all seem to specialize in different things to find their own niche, and they’re all popular. IPA, Stouts, Reds, Ciders, Sours, are all popular and you can find at least one brewery in the area that considers it their “thing.”

17. IPAs are extremely dominant over here on the west coast. Lately it’s been hazy IPAs in particular.

    I do love IPAs, but I honestly feel it’s too much. The style is overrepresented and I wish there was more variety on the shelves.

18. I don’t know what are the main regions out here but I don’t really drink much anyway. Yuengling though got introduced last year and that’s generally what I personally prefer. Texas’s biggest beer region is the Hill Country due to its very strong German heritage.

19. Hazy IPAs

20. Yes.

21. My local grocery stores carry hundreds of beers in dozens of varieties. You can get Coors light all the way up to a 9% ABV Belgian style ale with wild fermented yeast or a hazy IPA or a crisp German Pilsner.

    Pretty much any beer you can think of is available.

    Maine seems to like IPA and Porters for craft beer but they got nothing on the cheap macro brews. Those are always the most popular overall.

22. We love our craft beer, and San Diego is often called the craft beer capitol of the country. We have like 150 breweries in the county and it’s where a lot of famous craft beer started

23. Here in Cincinnati I’d say ipa right now. A lot of people have German heritage so any beer is acceptable, Bavarian style beers are normal. Show up with sausage and beer to any event and people will be satiated.

24. We have those same styles and more, and they’re popular virtually equally across the country. See for example, Taco Mac’s beer selection in Georgia and the surrounding area. This is more of a person-to-person preference or seasonal than some area type thing. For example, if you look at Sweetwater, Terrapin, Wild Leap, or whichever local brewery, they make IPAs, PAs, pilsners, porters, imperial stouts. . . on and on and on.

    I mean, you can’t get much more generic than blue moon, and I’m sure there are people who think they have a very niche taste in beer.

25. I don’t really know how popular certain beer styles are elsewhere so I can’t say how popular they are here compared with other places. We have our own style, New England IPAs, and maybe stouts are popular because of the popularity of Guinness around here.

26. We have a pretty rich microbrew scene but dollars to doughnuts, people are mostly drinking standard American lagers like Bud Light or PBR or whatever. Even one of the bigger local beers is still a lager (although it’s relatively cheap and I like it).

    Edit: also not my current area but the DC area is the only market besides Milwaukee where Miller Light is more popular than Bud Light. It’s actually kind of noticeable and a little weird if you’ve been hanging out in a Bud Light market.

27. Most popular: Busch Light

    Other popular ones: Budweiser, Miller Lite, Bud Light, Coors light.