What are America's most popular beers to fill your 2025 Super Bowl party lineup?

The key to a good Super Bowl party is a proper spread. That includes delicious food and, importantly, a crowd-pleasing lineup of beers.

That second half can be a daunting task. There are more options than ever before when it comes to booze, from your standard lager to a rapidly expanding class of hard seltzers and canned cocktails. You don't want an unwanted 12-pack of grimy beer to take up valuable fridge space until you can foist it off on a neighbor at a cookout. You want a buffet of suds people will be happy -- or, at the very least, not inspired to complain -- to drink.

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While the most popular beers in the U.S. aren’t necessarily the ones I’d pick, they’re a good barometer for a lowest common denominator brew that will keep the widest swath of guests happy. In order to figure out which beers fit that bill, I used YouGov’s consumer awareness index, which plots what percentage of poll respondents have heard of a certain beer and what percentage actively like said beer.

Let's see who boasts the highest approval ratings when it comes to your Super Bowl beer lineup. Here are the results.

1. European lager: Heineken

The beer with the highest approval rating in the United States isn't American or even from the same continent. Heineken, a product of the Netherlands, has climbed back to its throne as the nation's favorite beer with a 54 percent favorability share.

2. Stout: Guinness

Continuing the trend of well-worn European imports is Guinness, whose trademark stout remains the reason most beer drinkers know the difference between nitrogen and carbon dioxide in their brews.

3. Beer you've convinced yourself is good but needs a lime wedge to be drinkable: Corona

Yeah, fine, maybe I’m editorializing on this one. And 52 percent of respondents have a positive opinion of Corona (down from 53 percent last year), so it’s possible I’m wrong. At 96 percent, it was the beer the most people are second-most familiar with, showcasing the power of Eli Manning and Christmas commercials from three decades ago.

4. American beer: Miller

Well this is a bit of a surprise. Miller beer -- not Miller Lite, Miller High Life or even Miller Genuine Draft -- clocks in at fourth place. I write about beer for a living, and I genuinely could not tell you the last time I had a straight-up Miller or even seen it on tap.

High Life, however, remains one of the best cheap beers you can buy.

5. Six-pack your dad thought was a craft beer/American lager: Sam Adams

With an 11 percent "disliked by" rate, the Boston-based micro-turned-macro brewer is one of the most broadly appealing brands on the list. It's not the groundbreaker it once was, but Sam Adams remains an above average beer you can find just about anywhere.

6. Mexican beer that is significantly better than Corona: Modelo

Modelo is less favored than Corona (52 percent to 49 percent) but also less disliked (14 percent to 16 percent). While this doesn't cover the best Modelo (Negra, only six percent disliked!) it remains a step up.

7. Wheat beer: Blue Moon

Blue Moon's recent advertising blitz -- podcast listeners know what I'm talking about -- has had a positive effect. It's one of the four most popular beer brands among American millennials. As a beer itself, it's totally fine!

8. Light beer that isn't made by Corona: Coors Light

A 44 percent popularity rating and a 24 percent disliked rating. That's about par for the course for light beers, which are divisive in these polls (some for good reason, others much less so).

Here are the top five non-Corona most popular light beers in America, per YouGov’s survey:

1. Coors Light (44 percent liked, 24 percent disliked)

2. Michelob Ultra (43, 20)

3. Heineken Light (42, 20)

4. Miller Lite (42, 24)

5. Bud Light (42, 31)

9. Hard Seltzer: White Claw

You can do so much better than White Claw. From our Beverage of the Week reviews alone:

• Vizzy’s mimosa hard seltzers

• Melograno canned cocktails

• Saul “Canelo” Alvarez’s VMC tequila-based canned cocktails

• Berczy’s British hard seltzers

• Sonic’s admittedly kinda-mid hard seltzers

• Blake Lively’s very good Betty Booze canned cocktails

• High Noon (pretty much any)

• Surfside teas

• Long Drink

• and many more.

10. American craft beer: Great Lakes

Hell yeah, Great Lakes makes very good beer -- including the best porter you'll find nationwide, Edmund Fitzgerald. But this is also where YouGov's methodology gets fuzzy. Great Lakes isn't a beer, it's a brewery/brand. In second place is Fat Tire... which isn't a brewery/brand, it's a beer. That makes it difficult to compare and contract -- especially when you consider New Belgium, the brewery behind Fat Tire, also makes the country's top selling craft IPA thanks to its Voodoo Ranger line. After Fat Tire? More breweries and not specific beers.

So, take all this with a grain of salt. Here are America's favorite craft beers:

1. Great Lakes (33 percent liked, three percent disliked)

2. Fat Tire (34, five)

3. Dogfish Head (33, five)

4. Founders (30, five)

5. Lagunitas (30, five)

6. Bells (29, three)

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