RateBeer Ranks The Best “Mass-Market” Beers In The World

In spite of the fallout that followed its 100% acquisition by AB InBev in 2019… RateBeer remains a powerful and relevant online portal when it comes to crowd-sourced ratings and beer rankings…

And they’ve a ranking they call Best Of The Beasts where users rate the best beers produced by Anheuser-Busch, Molson Coors, Heineken and other multinational brewing organizations who “spill more beer in a month than most craft brewers produce annually.”

Unfortunately many of those mass-market beers were limited releases, and are no longer available, but their reputation for being half-way decent lives on…

Best Of The Beasts

	Best ‘Big Beer’ Beers	Count	Style
1	AC Golden Hidden Barrel Apricot	3.82	47	Sour / Wild Beer – Flavored
2	AC Golden Troy’s Blend (Colorambic)	3.78	13	Sour / Wild Beer
3	Wiibroe Porter Imperial Stout	3.76	345	Porter – Baltic
4	Guinness Special Export (Belgian version)	3.67	841	Stout – Extra / Foreign / Tropical
5	AC Golden Barrel Aged Russian Imperial Stout	3.66	39	Stout – Imperial
6	Ballantine Burton Ale	3.66	57	Barley Wine / Wheat Wine / Rye Wine
7	Guinness Foreign Extra Stout	3.65	1381	Stout – Extra / Foreign / Tropical
8	Guinness 200th Anniversary Export Stout	3.63	171	Stout – Extra / Foreign / Tropical
9	AC Golden Hidden Barrel Peche	3.63	46	Sour / Wild Beer – Flavored
10	Guinness The 1798	3.61	38	Stout – Imperial
11	AC Golden Framboise Noir	3.60	45	Sour / Wild Beer – Dark
12	AC Golden Kriek	3.56	29	Lambic – Fruited
13	Carlsberg Julebock	3.54	5	Bock – Dunkler Bock
14	Ballantine India Pale Ale	3.53	154	IPA
15	AC Golden Checkpoint Charlie Berliner Weisse	3.52	21	Berliner Weisse
16	Carlsberg Imperial Stout/Gl. Carlsberg Porter	3.50	367	Porter – Baltic
17	AC Golden Gooseberry Colorambic	3.47	6	Lambic – Fruited
18	Carlsberg Semper Ardens Christmas Ale	3.47	194	Belgian Ale – Strong Pale
19	Guinness West Indies Porter	3.47	617	Porter
20	Small Town Not Your Father’s Root Beer (19.5%)	3.46	16	Flavored – Other
21	Guinness Antwerpen Stout – Bulleit Bourbon	3.46	31	Stout – Imperial
22	Small Town Not Your Father’s Root Beer (10.7%)	3.44	96	Flavored – Other
23	Guinness Milk Stout	3.41	122	Stout – Milk / Sweet
24	Guinness Foreign Extra Stout (Jamaica)	3.41	92	Stout – Extra / Foreign / Tropical
25	Guinness Extra Stout	3.40	44	Stout
26	Carlsberg Avartia Stout	3.39	31	Stout
27	AC Golden 4 Lovers	3.39	5	Sour / Wild Beer
28	Guinness Draught	3.39	5072	Stout – Dry / Irish
29	Carlsberg Semper Ardens Criollo Stout	3.39	127	Stout – Milk / Sweet
30	AC Golden Colorado Native Plum	3.38	5	Sour / Wild Beer – Flavored
31	AC Golden Kriek Noir / Dark Kriek	3.37	16	Sour / Wild Beer
32	Rainier / Reuben’s r & R Pils	3.35	9	Pilsener / Pils / Pilsner
33	Budweiser 1933 Repeal Reserve	3.33	59	Dark Lager – International / Premium
34	AC Golden American Wild Ale	3.32	7	Sour / Wild Beer
35	AC Golden Crafty Crimson	3.31	5	Sour / Wild Beer
36	AC Golden Hidden Barrel Blackberry	3.31	7	Sour / Wild Beer
37	Guinness The 1759	3.30	43	Strong Ale – English
38	Carlsberg Semper Ardens Winter Rye	3.29	99	Specialty Grain – Other
39	AC Golden Forgotten Fortunes	3.28	5	Sour / Wild Beer
40	AC Golden Framboise	3.26	6	Flavored – Fruit
41	AC Golden Plum Sour	3.26	5	Sour / Wild Beer
42	Tuborg Porter Double Stout	3.26	19	Porter – Baltic
43	Carlsberg Semper Ardens Albertina Porter	3.26	39	Porter – Baltic
44	AC Golden Hidden Barrel IPL	3.25	16	Pale Lager – Hoppy / India (IPL)
45	AC Golden Colorado Native IPL	3.25	18	Pale Lager – Hoppy / India (IPL)
46	Molson Fireside Lager	3.23	10	Schwarzbier / Black Lager
47	AC Golden Colorado Native Golden Lager	3.22	11	Pale Lager – International / Premium
48	Carlsberg Semper Ardens Bock	3.22	72	Bock – Dunkler Bock
49	Heilemans Old Style Oktoberfest	3.22	33	Märzen / Oktoberfest Bier
50	Carlsberg Påskebryg 1847

 

And while we’re at it RateBeer also ranks the worst beers in the world.