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Beer sales are down. Sales of particular variety of beer, that is. According to KGW, the big name brands are those experiencing the biggest dip. It’s no surprise, then, that Anheuser-Busch/InBev jumped at the opportunity to purchase 10 Barrel. Here are the top seven brands with plummeting sales. (Read the full analysis here.)

1. Budweiser Select

Sales loss: 61.1 percent

2. Miller Genuine Draft

Sales loss: 58.3 percent

3. Milwaukee’s Best

Sales loss: 57 percent

4. Milwaukee’s Best Light

Sales loss: 40.6 percent

5. Budweiser

Sales loss: 27.6 percent

6. Miller Lite

Sales loss: 22.6 percent

7. Miller High Life

Sales loss: 21.2 percent

What brews most often filled your pint glass this year?

This article appears in Dec 17-24, 2014.

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Budweiser is Over: 7 Beers Americans Have Stopped Drinking

by Erin Rook, The Source - Bend, Oregon
December 22, 2014

<h1>Budweiser is Over: 7 Beers Americans Have Stopped Drinking</h1> <p class="byline">by Erin Rook, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />December 22, 2014</p> <p> Beer sales are down. Sales of particular variety of beer, that is. According to <a href="http://www.kgw.com/story/money/business/2014/12/21/beers-americans-no-longer-drink/20423613/" target="_blank">KGW,</a> the big name brands are those experiencing the biggest dip. It's no surprise, then, that <a href="http://www.bendsource.com/bend/beerpocalypse/Content?oid=2404908" target="_blank">Anheuser-Busch/InBev jumped at the opportunity to purchase 10 Barrel</a>. Here are the top seven brands with plummeting sales. (Read the full analysis <a href="http://www.bendsource.com/bend/beerpocalypse/Content?oid=2404908" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.kgw.com/story/money/business/2014/12/21/beers-americans-no-longer-drink/20423613/" target="_blank">here</a></a>.)</p> <p><b>1. Budweiser Select</b></p> <p>Sales loss: 61.1 percent<br /> <b><br /> 2. Miller Genuine Draft</b></p> <p>Sales loss: 58.3 percent</p> <p><b>3. Milwaukee's Best</b></p> <p>Sales loss: 57 percent<br /> <b><br /> 4. Milwaukee's Best Light</b></p> <p>Sales loss: 40.6 percent<br /> <b><br /> 5. Budweiser</b></p> <p>Sales loss: 27.6 percent</p> <p><b>6. Miller Lite<br /></b><br /> Sales loss: 22.6 percent</p> <p><b>7. Miller High Life</b></p> <p>Sales loss: 21.2 percent</p> <p>What brews most often filled your pint glass this year?</p> <div class="wp-block-group newspack-embed-container aligncenter"> </div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/budweiser-is-over-7-beers-americans-have-stopped-drinking-2411589/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=25554&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/budweiser-is-over-7-beers-americans-have-stopped-drinking-2411589/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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