Top ten American brewers, 1950

1. Schlitz (5 million barrels)
2. Anheuser-Busch (4.8 m)
3. Ballantine (4.3 m)
4. Pabst (3.4 m)
5. Liebmann [Rheingold] (2.6 m)
6. Schaefer (2.6)
7. Falstaff (2.2 m)
8. Miller (2.1 m) [first time in top 10; ranked 19th in 1948, 11th in 1949]
9. Blatz (1.7 m)
10. Pfeiffer (1.6 m)

Plus another five:
11. Griesedieck Western (1.4 m)
12. Goebel (1.2 m)
13. Ruppert (1.2 m)
14. Lucky (1.09 m)
15. Duquesne (1.08 m)

Source: "Beer Drinkers Like Them Light and Dry," Business Week, April 19, 1952, p. 147.