Although beer preferences in the US have been evolving rapidly in recent years, “American beer” remains somewhat of a punchline. Why was the American beer market so heavily dominated by light beer for so many decades? | AskHistorians Archive Observer

Although beer preferences in the US have been evolving rapidly in recent years, “American beer” remains somewhat of a punchline. Why was the American beer market so heavily dominated by light beer for so many decades?

by Tough_Guys_Wear_Pink

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I'll add a little more context tomorrow, but I've answered a similar question in the past that approached it from the opposite angle of "what happened to all the very old breweries in the US?"