Okay, 15 beers later and I’ve done all that I can for American Macro Week. I know I’ve missed a bunch more macros; off the top of my head I can think of the Bud Dry and Ice line, Milwaukee’s Best, Natural Light/Ice, Keystone Ice, Busch Light, and a bunch of the various "old" brands Pabst produces. So perhaps I’ll do an American Macro Week II at some point.

(Not even getting into Canadian/European "macros"… Maybe I’ll also do a "Foreign Macro Week.")

So, looking back over my notes for all 15 beers, here’s about how I’d rate them, from best to worst:

• (tie) Coors Original and Pabst Blue Ribbon
• Olympia
• (tie) Icehouse and Miller Genuine Draft
• Hamm’s
• Miller High Life
• Rainier
• Budweiser Select
• Budweiser
• Miller Lite
• (tie) Bud Light and Keystone Light
• (tie) Coors Light and Busch

Out of curiosity, I also compared this to how they fared on BeerAdvocate and RateBeer.

BeerAdvocate (best to worst; going by their letter grades, not overall numerical score):

• Pabst Blue Ribbon
• Miller High Life
• Hamm’s
• Olympia
• Coors
• Rainier
• Miller Genuine Draft
• Budweiser
• Icehouse
• Miller Lite
• Budweiser Select
• Busch
• Coors Light
• Keystone Light
• Bud Light

RateBeer (best to worst):

• Rainier
• Pabst Blue Ribbon
• Hamm’s
• Olympia
• Coors
• Miller High Life
• Miller Genuine Draft
• Icehouse
• Miller Lite
• Budweiser
• Budweiser Select
• Coors Light
• Keystone Light
• Busch
• Bud Light

Looking over both of these lists, the big winners among the brewers (except for all the "Light" beers; they’re all at the bottom of the list) are Pabst and Miller (with Coors Original being the exception). A-B ranks generally last.

See also: my Beer Hacker article from almost two years ago.