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Bud Light

Bud Light is the highest-selling light beer not only in Boston but in the United States as well. Introduced in 1982 as Budweiser Light, Budweiser’s flagship beer comes in at 110 calories per 12 fluid ounces and carries a 4.2% ABV. In the decades since its original release, Bud Light has seen many adaptations including Bud Light Platinum, Bud Light Lime, and the 2012 favorite, Bud Light Lime-A-Ritas.

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Coors Light

Brewed in Golden, Colorado, Coors Light was first produced by the Coors Brewing Company in 1978. The beer is known for its “cold certified” label which turns the pictured mountains blue when the beer’s temperature reaches 39˚F. Coors light is a 4.2% ABV light beer with 110 calories per 12-ounce can. One of the beer’s more recent claims to fame is a Gold Award from The Packaging Association (PAC), given in 2013 for the aluminum pint featuring Ball Corporation Alumi-Tek bottle.

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Blue Moon Belgian White

A Belgian-style witbier brewed by MillerCoors, Blue Moon Belgian White was launched in 1995 and was originally brewed in Golden, Colorado. This beer is brewed with malted barley, white wheat, orange peel, coriander, and oats and is typically served with an orange slice. Blue Moon boasts a 5.4% ABV in its original iteration, though there are now several variations including Blue Moon Summer Ale (renamed Honey Moon in 2006), Blue Moon Pumpkin Ale (renamed Harvest Moon in 2007), and Blue Moon Winter Abbey Ale (renamed Full Moon in 2007).

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Guinness Draft

Guinness is more than just a St. Patrick’s Day staple in the country’s home to the largest urban concentration of Irish Americans. This beer is a dark Irish dry stout that originated in Arthur Guinness’ brewery at St. James’s Gate in Dublin, Ireland in 1759. Since then, it has become one of the most successful beer brands worldwide, available in over 120 countries. Its unique flavor comes from a combination of malted barley and roasted unmalted barley.

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Miller Lite

Labeled “a fine pilsner beer,” Miller Lite is an American light pale lager produced by MillerCoors of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This beer comes in at 4.2% ABV and 96 calories per 12-ounce can, Miller Light was originally developed as “Gablinger’s Diet Beer” and became the first successful mainstream light beer in the American market. The brand’s longest-running advertising campaign was the slogan “Tastes Great! Less Filling!” which ranked the 8th best advertising campaign in history by Advertising Age.

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Angry Orchard Crisp Apple Cider

Angry Orchard is produced in Walden, New York using apples from both the United States and Europe. Though originally only sold in New England, Colorado, Maryland, and New York, the cider went nationwide in 2012. The three flagship flavors were Crisp Apple, Traditional Dry, and Apple Ginger, which came to account for 40% of the U.S. hard cider market and 20% of the Boston Brewing Company’s output.

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Samuel Adams Summer Ale

The flagship brand of the Boston Beer Company, Samuel Adams is often shortened to Sam Adams and is named for Founding Father Samuel Adams who inherited his father’s brewery on King Street in Boston. The original recipe is known as the Samuel Adams Boston Lager and is now available in several seasonal variations including the winter seasonal Cold Snap (witbier), the spring seasonal Escape Route (Kölsch), the summer seasonal Summer Ale (wheat ale) and several Autumn offerings.

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Budweiser

Produced by Anheuser-Busch, Budweiser is an American-style pale lager. Originally introduced in 1876, Budweiser has become one of the largest selling beers in the United States and is available in over 80 countries under various names. In the United States, Budweiser has 5% ABV and 145 calories per 12-ounce can. It has been sold in many containers over the years, though it maintains its original recipe featuring barley malt, rice, hops, and yeast, lagered with beechwood chips in the aging vessel.

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Michelob Ultra

Developed by Adolphus Busch in 1896 as a draught beer for connoisseurs, Michelob Ultra is a pale lager with 4.7% ABV and 95 calories per 12-ounce bottle. This beer was originally sold in a unique teardrop-shaped bottle which was awarded a medal from the Institute of Design in 1962. Five years later, the bottle was redesigned for efficiency and used until 2002 when it was replaced with the traditional bottle. Michelob Ultra is available in several variations including Michelob Honey Lager, Michelob Pale Ale, Michelob Marzen, and Michelob Pumpkin Spice Ale.

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Samuel Adams Boston Lager

Produced using a recipe developed by Jim Koch, a founding father of the Boston Brewing Company, Samuel Adams Boston Lager uses traditional brewing processes. This includes a decoction mash and a krausening, or secondary fermentation process. Sam Adams Boston Lager is also dry hopped using both Hallertau Mittelfrueh and Tettnang Tettnanger hops. In addition to several seasonal offerings, Sam Adams also comes in variants like the Rebel IPA, Sam Adams Light, and the Barrel Room Collection.