Brad Klopfenstein joins to talk about Michelob Ultra becoming the best-selling beer in the US
WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast
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🗓️ 26 September 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There's a big story that came out of the beer world, and it was that Mickelope Ultra is now the number one beer in the United States of America. |
| 0:08.7 | Did that news surprise you? |
| 0:09.9 | It did surprise me, and the first thing we did was try to find a guy. |
| 0:13.4 | Well, you know, we always got a guy. |
| 0:15.2 | No matter what the topic is, the Kendall and Casey Show has a guy, and we've got a guy. |
| 0:19.9 | Brad Koppenstein has worked in the beer industry for decades and knows it better than anybody else I know. |
| 0:25.2 | Yeah, so let's get him on the WIBC hotline and get his take on this. |
| 0:30.4 | Brad, Mick Ultra, now the number one selling beer in the United States. |
| 0:35.7 | Your thoughts? |
| 0:37.0 | It's interesting. It's inevitable. However, |
| 0:39.5 | it's almost kind of like a race to the bottom. Oh, interesting. Why do you say that? Well, |
| 0:45.3 | beer sales are down overall, about 5% I think this year. And so it's not so much that Mick Ultra |
| 0:51.6 | is increasing drastically. It's that Medelo has really started to fall off. |
| 0:56.9 | Okay. |
| 0:57.3 | Now, I saw in this report that it's not by sales. |
| 1:02.0 | It's by volume that Mick Ultra is number one. |
| 1:06.6 | That is correct. |
| 1:07.8 | So if you look out there, so domestic beer, Bud Light, Miller Light, Coors Light, |
| 1:13.9 | those are all going to run you $20 to $25 a case. McAultra is going to be $25 to $30. It's a little higher, |
| 1:20.5 | but Modelo is going to come in more like $35 a case. So just by pure dollar volume, |
| 1:26.6 | Modelo still is the leader just because they have a higher |
| 1:29.3 | per case price. But if you're just looking at pure barrels, it is now Mick Ultra. So, Brad, where |
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