Yeah...I've got issues with this. Michelob Ultra??? REALLY?? Although Negra Modela and Smithwicks are 2 of my absolute favorites http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/big-data-download/top-10-beers-worldwide-181808114.html Craft beers may be giving big brewers a run for their money, but the top-rated beers worldwide in terms of taste come from all over the map, according to one product research site. Pacifico and Negra Modelo from Mexico, Smithwick's Ale from Ireland, Windhoek Lager from Namibia and Affligem Blonde from Belgium are among the top 10 beers worldwide, according to rankings from FindTheBest, which gathers and filters consumer and expert reviews from across the Web. "The most important quality of a beer is how it tastes. However, the experience of drinking a beer also involves several secondary elements, including appearance, smell and texture," said FindTheBest CEO Kevin O'Connor. And while beer drinkers outside of the United States might consider Budweiser a premium imported beer, it's not on FindTheBest's list of the 10 best beers across the globe. Instead, Michelob Ultra and Michelob Ultra Lime Cactus make the list and Bud sits at 316th place. And while all of the top 10 beers worldwide have five-star ratings, Budweiser, a highly-marketed staple beer, has just 3.5 stars, according to FindTheBest. "'Best' can be different things for different groups of people," O'Connor said. Since FindTheBest's rankings depend on reviews, consumers and experts need to have access to a beer before reviewing it, and that's not always possible for some of the truly delicious but hard-to-find beers out there. "The reality is most of these [beers with big marketing budgets] aren't very good at all,” O'Connor told “Big Data Download.” “Our data shows that when people actually taste lesser-known beers and compare them to the most popular ones, they often prefer the small-brewery option," O'Connor said. FindTheBest, which lists some of the top brands under several categories, including smart phones, bicycles and web-hosting services, is just one of many resources that beer lovers can use to find new beer suggestions. Mobile apps like BeerCloud, BeerStat, Beer Universe and iBrewMaster are some of the more dedicated beer research resources.
I always see Michelob in stores and wonder who buys it, as I've never witnessed this mind blowing purchase myself.
Michelob Ultra is for girls. So if Pacifico actually. Lime Cactus beer is on there too? **** this, wreaks of Bleacher Report quality material.
When I was 16 I drank a couple after running out of Smirnoff Ices and Goldschlager. That was a near death experience. Drank Ultra version out of my dad's fridge once when I was 17. I guess if you like the watered down American-style lager, its okay. I'd never buy it (at that price always get Yuengling instead).
I'll also add, while Smithwicks is no where near a top-10 beer in the world, it is good, and perhaps top-10 for worldwide distributed beers.
I thought this was a list for beer. Then I saw Michelob Ultra and Pacifico. Disconnect. Besides, how do you round it down to 10 with just a 5star rating system.
I used to drink Smithwicks all the time. Now I just drink Modelo Especial out of a can. I'm to tired to be a beer snob.
My neighbor was drinking it with a few of his guy friends the other day. They then proceeded to take their shirts off in the rain and assist each other while trying to walk across one of those home tight rope systems that they set up between two trees. Just sayin.
Using "find the best.com" for beer ratings is like using youtube comments to determine who should get the Nobel Prize for physics. Actually reading it over this seems more like an unscrubbed press release that got repurposed by some Yahoo! content farm/generator software. But hey otherwise, great article
Some of the judges must have thought they were ranking water alternatives. Michelob does have some decent beers outside of ultra. There was a lager my father had in the fridge one day I didn't mind. Anyways cable car is the best beer in the world.
