Why is budweizer, miller, coors and the like so popular?!
Answers: When there are SO, SO many good quality beers out there these days why do so many people drink this nasty stuff?
Gypsy is on the right track.
These beers (and similar brands) were among the first widely available commercial beers in America.
Also, many of our brand loyalties are formed when we are young. So, when we see our older relatives drinking this stuff (and maybe our first tastes of it too), we fall into the same habit.
We tend to eat similar foods to what we grew up with for the same reasons.
Combine that with LOTS of advertising and the tendency of most people to be creatures of habit and viola!
Lots of Bud/Coors/Miller drinkers.
Getting out an experiencing new things breaks this pattern.
And for the better, IMO.
Because they have the money to advertise so therefore they're out in the public eye constantly. They have been in beer distribution for so long. Some people are just afraid to try something new.
they are the usual. ole time favorite. mainstays. It is just what people are used to.
Maybe their cheap.
they have the supply quantity that can be found coast to coast. like McDonalds, it the same where ever you go.
When smaller Micro-Breweries can not supply the amount.
They became popular because they were good beers and different to the old fashioned British beers that were available. Now they are no longer new and there is good competition they have to compete on price and special offers
Like some of my old girlfriends, a cheap drunk, but leaves a nasty taste in your mouth the next day. Looked Good at the time, but fooled by the window dressing.
Marketing is a big reason. Mass production also makes it cheaper to produce so they can flood the market. They can stick about 5 cases of Budweiser in the store for every single six pack of your favorite micro-brew.
And I'm sure there are the people out there that just think it tastes better. But really, why would you concern yourself with them?
Advertising and price. They're definitelt NOT my favorites though.
Mainly because they are cheap, plentiful, and found anywhere. Branding plays a large portion of that too. Its what was in the fridge while growing up. Early distribution meant that, and in a large portion, they were the only beers to be had. Customer loyalty, made in the USA, what people or used to, the list goes on and on.
It's cheap and widely available, people are used to it, but you're right, it tastes terrible.
Advertising. After prohibition ended and before the 1970's microbrew explosion there were very few brewers in the US. With there being only a few select large breweries controlling thing they had 1.) The advantage of time and 2.) The money to advertise on TV.
It's like the same reason why McDonald's (restaurants) is so popular. It's all about being a big company, and marketing and stuff.
Because they are relatively cheap, easy to find at any liquor/convenience store, and more pleasing to the "unrefined" or "simple" palate. When I was MUCH younger, I was stationed in Germany, and there I was exposed and introduced to a wider variety of more "complex" and/or darker beers and ales which I soon developed a "taste" for. This is a good example of the old saying "It's an acquired taste." When I returned home to the states, I was like you, and I couldn't understand why my friends insisted on drinking what i thought were sour-tasting, watered-down beers.
They're reasonably priced and available in every store, plus they have HUGE marketing campaigns.
I remember my college days when we would drink the cheapest crap available...because it was just that...cheap. When the goal is to get good and messed up you aren't going to shell out the dough for a good quality beer. Those beers are more for the middle aged crowd who are looking for taste rather than a cheap drunk.
Ignorance is blisssssss....