What beers does Miller Brewing Company own?

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* Miller Lite - Miller's brand of light beer.

* Miller Lite Ice - A limited distribution ice beer valued for low bitterness, as well as for the naturally higher ABV content (5.5%) of an ice beer. In this form it is now only found in select markets in Michigan and perhaps other states.

* Miller Genuine Draft - Introduced in 1986 as the original cold filtered packaged draft beer, which means that the beer is not heat-pasteurized. Miller uses an exclusive cold-filtered process that prevents some of the beer's flavor from being heated away. MGD received the gold medal in the American-style Premium Lager category at the 1999 World Beer Cup. It also received the silver medal at the 2003 American Beer Festival. The concept for Cold-filtered Miller Genuine Draft was developed by new product consultant Calle & Company. Martin Calle, a long-time neighbor of the W.R. Grace family [citation needed], owners of the company that purchased Miller in 1966, evolved the concept from Miller's New Ventures effort to launch a new dry beer at a time Miller Brewing was in danger of becoming a much-cloned Lite Beer manufacturer. Originally introduced as "Miller High Life Genuine Draft", the "High Life" part of the name was soon dropped. MGD is actually made from the same recipe as Miller High Life, with a different treatment. High Life is heat pasteurized after packaging and MGD is filtered before packaging. [citation needed] It was developed to give High Life drinkers the same taste in a can or bottle as they found in non-pasteurized kegs. It has 4.7% ABV.

* Miller Gold - A limited edition version of Miller Genuine Draft containing 5.7% ABV.

* Miller Genuine Draft Light - A version of the Miller Genuine Draft but with a 4.2% ABV, approximately 3/4 of the calories, and approximately half of the carbohydrates.

A Miller High Life pony bottle

* Miller High Life - This beer was put on the market in 1903 and is Miller Brewing's oldest brand. High Life is grouped under the pilsner category of beers, although it has slightly less alcohol than European pilsners, at 4.7% ABV. The prevailing slogan on the current packaging is "The Champagne of Beers", an adaptation of its long standing slogan "The Champagne of Bottled Beers". It was originally available in miniature champagne bottles and was one of the premier high end beers in the country for many years. Current marketing uses the tagline, "Savor The High Life". Except for a brief period in the 1990s, High Life bottles have always been very distinctive, as they have a bright gold label and are made of a clear glass that has a tapered neck like a champagne bottle. High Life has brought back its "Girl in the Moon" logo, which features by today's standards a modestly dressed young lady that, by legend, is company founder Frederick Miller's granddaughter. High Life beat out 17 other contestants to take home the gold medal in "American-style Lagers" at the 2002 World Beer Cup.

* Miller High Life Light - A version of the Miller High Life but approximately the same nutritional content as the Miller Genuine Draft Light.

* Miller 1855 Celebration Lager - The 1855 Celebration Lager was released in November 2005 to recognize the 150th anniversary of Miller Brewing. It was only available for a limited time.

* Miller - A short-lived recipe from 1996 to 1998, sold predominantly in a red can (hence it was also known as "Miller Red").

* Miller Chill - A chelada style light lager brewed with lime and salt. First introduced to test markets in the southern United States in March 2007, it is expected to be available nationally by Summer 2007.

* Sharp's - Miller's non-alcoholic beer.

* Frederick Miller Classic Chocolate Lager - a beer for the holiday season released October through December in Wisconsin, Chicago, Minneapolis, Cleveland, Indianapolis and Valparaiso/northwest Indiana. It is brewed with six different malts, including chocolate and dark chocolate malts.

* Milwaukee's Best - Miller's economy label. Popularly known as 'Milwaukee's Beast', or simply as 'the Beast'.

* Milwaukee's Best Light - light version of Milwaukee's Best, aka 'Beast light'.

* Milwaukee's Best Ice - sometimes referred to as 'Beast Ice' or 'Beast'. It is popular among students for its low price, ability to get young women drunk, and 5.9% ABV.


Miller has also bought up the rights to the Hamm's Brewery brands.

* Hamm's Beer
* Hamm's Golden Draft
* Hamm's Special Light

Plank Road Brewery Family

* Icehouse - Icehouse is an ice lager and was the winner of the 2003 Gold Medal for American-Style Specialty Lager at the Great American Beer Festival, and also won the American-Style Ice Lager Gold Cup of the 1996 and 1998 World Beer Cup competitions.

* Red Dog - Although popular during the mid- to late-1990s, Red Dog faded into near-obscurity after the turn of the century. However, since 2005 it has been making a comeback of sorts, returning to stores.

* SouthPaw Light - SouthPaw beer has a set of characteristics that are unique among the mass-produced beers in the USA. Southpaw is labelled as a light beer, but it has the alcohol content of a regular beer. It has a strong hops flavor compared with other light Pilsner style beers. It also has unique labeling and marketing.

Above retrieved from, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_Brewing#Current_brands