Three biggest sellers in the state, sad to say: Bud Light, Coors Light, Miller Light
IMO "light" beer isn't real beer. Popularity doesn't equal good taste or good judgment. "Lite" beer is for college students to swill down a dozen at a time at parties and not die from alcohol poisoning.
A. Nope, Miller Lite, Coors Light.
B. Having never lived anywhere but Texas in my whole 57 years I've had plenty of Lone Star. I happen to like it.
C. Where you from again?
A) Understood. See comment above.
B) My daughters spent a week in San Antone recently - both of them born in Texas but raised in Fort Collins Colorado, often called "the Napa Valley of beer." They went there with plans to pick up Lone Star and try it, as "the national beer of Texas." I told them to go ahead, but pick up and try the Shiner Bock. Everywhere that I traveled in TX, especially in BBQ joints, consumption of Shiner Bock was about 2X that of any other beer.
They reported that each opened and tried a Lone Star, poured the rest out, then went to the Shiner Bock. They pronounced it much better. They were very disappointed in the Lone Star. But they have been into craft beer (including sours and saisons) since they could drink legally, and their taste buds are definitely not set for macro-brews.
No insult intended to those who like Lone Star, but IMO it takes a back seat to pretty much anything out of the Shiner brewery. Tastes differ, and evidently their taste buds are set up closer to mine. I mainly drink stouts and porters. Their taste buds have been spoiled by truly good beer.
C) Born in Iowa, moved to Washington (Go, COUGS!) at 10, moved to Texas at 35 and spent 13 years at A&M, then moved to Colorado at age 48. I'm a much better fit in Colorado than Texas, because I like to rock the boat and change things, and being a state employee in Texas boils down to a perpetual state of "Thank you sir, may I have another?"
