Super Bowl Beer: Which Beverage Should You Buy on Super Bowl Sunday?
Super Bowl Sunday just might be the annual height of the American cultural experience. Football, rampant capitalism, and beer.
So much beer - roughly 325 million gallons of it. For perspective, 44 million gallons of water flow down Niagara Falls every minute.
But what beer is best to roll out on this most sacred of quasi-holidays? The choice is critical whether you’re going to the bar, watching alone, or planning your Super Bowl party games. There’s a time and place for your dunkels and chocolate stouts, and this ain’t it.
We’re here to lend a helping hand, and several of our SBR staff-writers-turned-connoisseurs have chimed in with their favorite Super Bowl beer.
The best Super Bowl beers
Miller high life
Sure sure, anything that dubs itself the “champagne of beers” seems too pretentious for your Sunday Bowl Sunday by that moniker alone. But this is your easy-drinking companion - a beer that’s light but not too much so (4.6%) and that’s been paired generously with yelling at a TV for ages.
There’s also been a life-long marriage between Miller High Life and all the standard Big Game pub grub, from pretzels and wings to that hilariously overstuffed eight-foot submarine sandwich. It’s the classic American-style lager and therefore made for the staple American occasions.
Miller High Life is one of the originals, too, with the golden crisp brew serving many well since 1903. Let it do the same for you again this Super Bowl Sunday.
Corona
It's the Super Bowl, and it's time to treat yourself a little bit. A 24-pack of the 4.6% Mexican lager runs about $27.99. Consider it a little extra motivation to hit your touchdown scorer bets after long hours of scouring the Super Bowl anytime touchdown scorer odds. It's still early February, but the Super Bowl marks one of the first times we're allowed to start dreaming about those summer nights.
The imported lager is crushable, and adding a lime wedge helps us make sure we're hitting all five food groups with our Super Bowl feast, right? No one eats the carrots and celery that come with a 2-pound order of wings.
Bud Light
As a lover of craft beer, particularly stouts and any beer that’s an absurdly high percentage, I’ve found myself in a predicament or two during the hours upon hours of beverage consumption leading up to and through the Super Bowl. As I’ve grown older, I’ve realized there’s no better game-day beer than the one that’s responsible for some of the best Super Bowl commercials.
Whether it’s tailgating in the parking lot before the game or hosting a Super Bowl party, Bud Light is like that friend from high school that you don’t always see, but when you do, you know it’s going to be a good time. Between it being just 4% and 6.6 carbs per can, it’s perfect to keep you from getting so wild that you can’t follow what’s happening in the game, all while ensuring you won’t spoil the mouth-watering snacks by getting too bloated.
What makes Bud Light the ideal Super Bowl beer is that you can drink a six-pack-plus on game day and still feel able to run a 5.5 40-yard dash (probably more like a 7.5, if we're being honest). But it’s also refreshing enough that if you want just one standalone pint during the game, Bud Light comes through for you there, too.
- Rob Paul
Guinness
Look, we all know it's a long day. The parties, prop sheets while making your Super Bowl predictions, buffets, squares - it can all rage on for hours. And we're not even at kickoff yet. So, one way to protect yourself against tapping out (passing out?) early and missing the halftime show is to drink a beer that allows you to hang in there for a few extra hours.
We're not turning to one of those flavorless light lagers - you know, the ones with the can that changes color, so you're sure it's so cold you can't actually taste the beer. We're turning to our friends across the pond, where Guinness has been brewed for over 250 years.
The tasty, distinctive flavor of the Irish stout makes it hard to believe it only clocks in at 4.2% ABV. It also features shockingly fewer calories than a standard lager.
I know we're not concerned with counting calories. But we are concerned with eating as many chicken wings as humanly possible, and fewer beer calories mean extra wings calories before you get full.
Also, it's fun to tip the can fully upside down to fill your glass if you're pouring it at home. And if you're at the bar, maybe they'll give you a clover on the top. Anything for extra luck on such a bet-heavy day.
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