What's Your Favorite Cheap Beer?

[BlackDog]

What's your favorite cheap beer? Mine is Grain Belt, which is a regional lager here in the upper midwest. It actually ranks pretty well on the Beer Advocate website. It typically costs about $8 or so for a 12 pack. It's pretty light in flavor, definitely a hot weather beer. Great for picnics, boating, after yard work, etc.

[Tombstone]

Miller Light and Coors

[AD720]

LIONSHEAD!

[Mister Moo]

Rolling
Rock
all
the
way.

[barbourjay]

yuengling

[Tombstone]

Anybody like the Beast??

[spincycle]

A Hamilton (the armpit of Ontario) special - Lakeport Honey. The lowest legal price!

[cricky101]

What's your favorite cheap beer? Mine is Grain Belt, which is a regional lager here in the upper midwest. It actually ranks pretty well on the Beer Advocate website. It typically costs about $8 or so for a 12 pack. It's pretty light in flavor, definitely a hot weather beer. Great for picnics, boating, after yard work, etc.

Love the Primo! Got 24 bottles in my refridgerator right now. :chr


Anybody like the Beast??
No. Bad, bad beast. :D

[Gophernut]

Grain belt is decent beer, and found a place recently with Hamm's on tap. :dr For home use, it's Coor's Light.

[Scottw]

Miller high life light!

[BlackDog]

I've heard of Lionshead, never tried it. I love Yuengling, largely because I'm originally from back East and it just reminds me of home.

Rolling Rock is interesting. I don't care for it, largely because that's what we drank in college when we were able to scratch together a couple bucks for a 6 pack. It was a cheap drunk. I guess by bad association I dislike it now. They try to pass that off as a premium beer out here, like $7.99 for a 6 pack. Go figure.

[Mark C]

Cheap beer all tastes the same. I can tell a difference if I drink a Miller and a Coors side-by-side, but otherwise they're all the same to me.

[groogs]

Miller Light all the way.

[GoodFella]

BUD all the way

[awsmith4]

LIONSHEAD!


After sampling what you sent i agree

I also drink Coors Light when I need a cheap beer

[doctorcue]

I try only to drink the premium brews like Bud, High Life, Mickeys, & High Gravity. I'm not really into the cheap stuff.

[Darrell]

Stella. :dr

[longknocker]

Miller Lite For Me!:)

[SmokeyNL]

stella, heineken, jupiler... well most beers are cheap actually except for the Oversees beers.

[JE3146]

I'm embarrassed to say this, but Blue Moon.

It's absolutely nothing in comparison to some of the other belgian whites I drink, lacks body, flavor.. everything, but for 2$ per 20 ounces.... it's something to drink when the $'s aren't rolling in.

Can't eat top ramen every week in college :hn

[designwise1]

Tonight it's Keystone Light.

This is too funny. I took a couple of bags of garbage down to my workplace today to drop them off at the dumpster. The owner's son had been there before me and filled the sucker up with so much stuff that I just had to check it all out. I dumpster dived like Sanford and came away with an old table, a lamp, some new silicone caulk, new toilet parts, electrical stuff, TOOLS, carpet (beside the dumpster, rolled up), and 5 Keystone Lights (one was a tall can- -the brand is how I know who filled the dumpster). Who would throw beer away? It's not Coors Light (my usual cheap favorite) but I'm enjoying the last one now. I may check it out again in the morning before I clock in to see if I missed any other goodies. :D
You should see the lamp. Rich people are weird.

[SonsofClubDeck]

I live the High Life when I'm feeling common.

[Magma]

Corona, I got sick of Heine.

Stienlager, Heine, Budlight, Corona, all party beers here. I'll take corona over the ones I listed any day.

[DonnieW]

Carling Strong, but I don't drink.

[:eevis]

Can't lie, I've been known to tip a 40oz. o' the beast when the cash flow is tight
I mean c'mon, you can even get coozies for them now. Going from trashy to classy! :dance:
http://www.beerkoozies.com/images/images.PNG/40oz_Bottle_Koozies.png

[AAlmeter]

Stroh's. The beer of champions

[Clampdown]

Bud Light, or if Im spending the whole day tailgating and drinking heavy Naty Light. It sucks but gets the job done.

[funnymantrip]

Natural Light of course

In 1975 the Miller brewing company came out with the first light beer, Miller Lite, took the world by storm. Then in 1979 the worlds biggest brewing company A. Busch inc came out with Natural Light, "the beer with the taste for food". They ran neck and neck, neck and neck until 1985, when the ----- in the advertising company thought up Bud Light and Spuds Mckenzie. Now why do I ask you does the worlds largest brewing company need to premium light beers??? It doesn't, but since Natural Light had such a following, they decided to keep it and just lower the price. Natural Light, the Premium Light Beer, with the cheap beer price.

* bottles are also the same price as cans.

Now I can't tell you most of the classes I took in college, but I remember that verbatim. Amazing what the threat of Hazing would do.

[chippewastud79]

Being a recent member of the college ranks, I thoroughly enjoy(ed):
30 packs of 'Stones
Jacob's Best
Busch Light
Old Style
Miller High Life Light
Rolling Rock

I also have been known to keep a few 'Stones around, and drink Busch Light for football games recently. :chr:

[Seanohue]

Bud Light, then Miller Light, then Natty.

[gonzo]

Blatz!!!

oops, Sorry, I only drink Heineken, to me it's cheap, but best...

Stomp'N'Rock,

Joseph

[replicant_argent]

Pigs Eye, when it was brewed here in town, Amber being the fave.
Now? Summit, occasionally mixing in a case of Green Death (Special Export), decent body on the Ex, compared to 99% of macros, in my opinion. Others as wild hairs grab me.


Almost never, unless it is pretty much the only cold hopped product in front of me? Bud. Drank more than my share as a kid. Miller Lite. Never had the taste for it, taste buds told me to F off. Bud Light. Same thing. Damn near any light beer, actually, I would rather spend a couple bucks extra for something I can taste. The occasional light i might enjoy is a hot day lawnmower light. I also try to imagine myself as a man lost in the desert drinking fetid water at that point. ;)
Hard to find a beer with actual body on the cheap, is my point, actually...Wait, did I have a point?

Crap, wheres my beer, the back is spasming again.

[Mark C]

Can't lie, I've been known to tip a 40oz. o' the beast when the cash flow is tight
I mean c'mon, you can even get coozies for them now. Going from trashy to classy! :dance:
http://www.beerkoozies.com/images/images.PNG/40oz_Bottle_Koozies.png

But do you still drink it out of a brown paper bag sitting on your front porch?

[smokeyandthebandit05]

I gotta go with miller light or yuengling(bit more expensive thou)

[DrDubzz]

Old E baby

[Ace$nyper]

Yuengling
PBR
Colt 45, sometimes you need to get drunk and change for a 5.

[CoroHo]

SL Gregory's, either type. For two or three bucks a six-pack it's a great beer.

[Gophernut]

Pigs Eye, when it was brewed here in town, Amber being the fave.
Now? Summit, occasionally mixing in a case of Green Death (Special Export), decent body on the Ex, compared to 99% of macros, in my opinion. Others as wild hairs grab me.


Nothing wrong with an OCCASIONAL Green Death. Otherwise my digestive tract goes awry.
Now, Summit Extra Pale Ale, can be consumed whenever, wherever and often!

[gpugliese]

JW Dundee's Honey Brown is a great value at ~ $9 per 12 pack bottles. German Warsteiner is another great value.

[MajorCaptSilly]

Coors Light or Keystone Light when I'm feeling real cheap.

MCS

[kaisersozei]

My "yardbeer" is Icehouse.

We drank a ton of Hamm's in college waaaaaaaaaaaay back when. At $4/case, you couldn't beat it. Unfortunately, it's not produced any longer. :(

[cricky101]

Yuengling
PBR
Colt 45, sometimes you need to get drunk and change for a 5.

That is freakin' hilarious!

Nothing wrong with an OCCASIONAL Green Death. Otherwise my digestive tract goes awry.
Now, Summit Extra Pale Ale, can be consumed whenever, wherever and often!

I completely agree. Had a couple pints last night, in fact.

[lenguamor]

http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/5926/24654507756gz3.jpg

A guilty pleasure.

:lv

[cricky101]

My "yardbeer" is Icehouse.

We drank a ton of Hamm's in college waaaaaaaaaaaay back when. At $4/case, you couldn't beat it. Unfortunately, it's not produced any longer. :(

:confused: Saw Hamm's and Hamm's light at a nearby liquor store tonight.

[SeanGAR]

In 1975 the Miller brewing company came out with the first light beer, Miller Lite, took the world by storm.

Unfortunately this is wrong.

The first light beer was made by Joe Owades at the Rheingold brewery in Brooklyn New York in 1967. Rheingold, in a stroke of advertising genius, called the light beer Gablingers Diet beer. As you might surmise, this was not a great market success.

A colleague at Peter Hand brewery (Meisterbrau) in Chicago asked Owades for the forumation for the low calorie beer and he provided it ... back then regional breweries did not compete with one another.

Meisterbrau entered the market with a light beer called Meisterbrau lite around 1969.

Around this time, Miller was purchased by Philip Morris. Phillip Morris wanted to introduce new products into their new brewing company and looked around. They decided to buy the light beer formulation from Meisterbrau in 1971. They reinvented the reinvented beer as Lite beer from Miller around 1975, approximately 8 years after Rheingold had brought the first low calorie beer into the world.

Interestingly, Dr Owades also formulated recipes for Sam Adams Boston Lager, Pete's Wicked, Foggy Bottom and many other craft brew beers. He introduced dry hopping and krausening into American brewing operations. He was truly a visionary and a nice man (met him once in the early 90s), so I am obligated to set the record straight about light beer.

[Boobar]

Miller Lite and Keystone Light

[Gophernut]

:confused: Saw Hamm's and Hamm's light at a nearby liquor store tonight.

It's not distributed nationally anymore.:(

[St. Lou Stu]

Miller Lite

[Rockestone]

333
:D

[scoot]

211.

[SmokeyJoe]

Yuengling
PBR
Colt 45, sometimes you need to get drunk and change for a 5.

FINALLY... some love for a guilty pleasure:
Pabst Blue Ribbon (I am so ashamed... :hn ) :r

[Tio Gato]

Narragansett, PBR, and Busch. In college, lots of Genesse Cream Ale.
I can't even look at the stuff now.

[icantbejon]

yuengling
:tpd::tpd::tpd:


But more importantly, what do you consider cheap beer?

[mosesbotbol]

Sagres from Portugal

[BlackDog]

But more importantly, what do you consider cheap beer?

Good point. Let's say under a buck a beer.

My "yardbeer" is Icehouse.

Yup, I like this for hot summer days.

[Celt]

My usual beer when i am just consuming to be consuming its Rolling Rock!

But my favorite beer when I want to sit and really enjoy a beer it is without question Guinness, mmmmmm nothing like a good Irish beer malt!

Also something that I really enjoy that a friend of mine from Texas introduced me to, Shiner Boch! Very well made micro brew from Texas.

Mmm now i want a beer!

[Magma]

now it's the new primo. i had a few about 2 weeks ago, tastes almost like red stripe just sweeter, or blue moon without the citrus. dunno about the alky content but it tastes better than corona.

[TripleF]

The Champagne of Beers - Miller :ss

[pnutbutrsangwich]

I may appear a beer snob on the outside, but my drinking is true feast or famine. I'll either go to the bar and drink a $20 bomber of some crazy Belgian or rare American craft brew, or spend $20 on 15 PBRs and drink em like the drunkest, hippest, hippster there is!

Old English and Steel Reserve are good for nights "on the porch" with my friends. :r

[Silound]

If I'm absolutely broke, I'll do Miller Lite or Bud Select. I'd have to be broke, in debt, and crazy though.


Typically, the cheapest stuff I'll drink runs between 8-15 a sixer; occasionally I'll delve into the 12 a bottle stuff though.

[adampc22]

morisons do a beer that is 99p for 4 cans its piss water it kinda taste good

[VirtualSmitty]

Newcastle

[beamish]

yuengling

:tpd::tpd:

[marbisho]

i like High Life. not only is it cheap, but the bottle's dynamics allow for quick drinking if necessary.

[Jdbwolverines]

Really cheap (malt liquor): Hurricane or Steel Reserve Triple Export (the Triple Export is a gem of the malt liquor variety, more alcohol than the standard 211, WAY better taste)
Cheap: Keystone Light (hard to beat a 30 rack of cold Stones when looking to get drunk)
Big 3: Bud Light
Others: the new Schiltz, Blatz from a bottle(its bad out of a can for some reason), PBR, Grain Belt, Labatt and Molson, Stroh's, Red Dog


We drank a ton of Hamm's in college waaaaaaaaaaaay back when. At $4/case, you couldn't beat it. Unfortunately, it's not produced any longer. :(

You can still get "Hamm's". It is made by Miller, but its not the same as the old recipe and not nearly as good. Nor is it $4 a case

[huero71]

BUD all the way

I couldn't agree more. :ss

[Heliofire]

yuengling

:tpd: I could not agree more, it's my favorite cheap beer.

[PinkPistol86]

Michelob ultra or bud light

[TripleF]

Sam Adams Boston Lager :D

[smokeyandthebandit05]

Cheapest I'll go is Miller light or Yuengling. The only problem is, the beer that I do like is expensive :(

[calhounhusker]

Cheap? Ehh.. Cheapest I get is some Sam Adams Boston lager or any of thier non wheat/summer brews or Empyrean.

[smokeyandthebandit05]

Cheap? Ehh.. Cheapest I get is some Sam Adams Boston lager or any of thier non wheat/summer brews or Empyrean.

Yeah I'll go with a good SA too

[mosesbotbol]

Oranjeboom in cans is a great cheap beer! I get them at Trader Joe's.

[rizzle]

Bud Light and Yuengling.

[jledou]

The Red Dog is still one of my favorites all of the time. Icehouse and PBR usually will make an appearance a couple of times every year also.

[Drazzil]

40 oz of King Cobra chilled to near freezing with lime juice

[michael88n]

Q: How is Bud Light like sex in a canoe?

A: They are both f*ck!ng close to water.

Seriously though... in a pinch, I'll grab a 12 pack of Bud Light.

Cheers,
Michael

[Starscream]

Miller High Life

[ade06]

National Bohemian Beer A.K.A "Natty Boh"

[ade06]

Anybody like the Beast??

Not at all, man I hated that stuff even in college. :pu

[borndead1]

Anybody like the Beast??


Beast light in bottles is a damn good light beer. :D

I also like PBR.

[beamish]

another vote for yeungling...:al

[taltos]

Milwaukee's Best Ice in 40 oz GIQ's.:D:al

[CHRONO14]

Heineken bottles, gotta love that skunk.:D

[WildBlueSooner]

For me its got to be Stella or Killians...mmm so tasty!

[Skywalker]

Anything Sierra Nevada!!!! Here in Chico it flows like water!!! A six pack runs six dollars sometimes seven! I can get a case at Costco for $21.00!!!

A pint at the brewery is $2.50!!!:tu

[mmblz]

St Pauli Girl is probably the cheapest beer I consider any sort of favorite...

[Drat]

I'm too old to drink sh*tty beer.

[piperman]

1879

[beamish]

my father inlaw used to drink a beer called new amsterdam brewed in n.y. anyone remember or ever try this stuff?it was real good

[Slow Triathlete]

PBR..............afterall, it won a blue ribbon sometime back in the 1800s!!

[WildBlueSooner]

I'm too old to drink sh*tty beer.

I thought you were supposed to drink shitty beer when you are old. When you really just dont give a damn anymore...you just want to be drunk! ;)

[wshan]

I vote for Yuengling. It's priced really well at Sam's Club.

[shortstory5]

another vote for yeungling...:al

omg yes....

[poriggity]

Laugh it up but all the different beers in the Kirkland signature beer sampler case are damn tasty for 17 bucks a case of 24.
Scott

[hank_612]

PBR for sure

[huero71]

1879

:tu And XX Amber

[smokeyandthebandit05]

Miller Lite, Rolling Rock, Yuengling, PBR

But what stinks is Ive been gettin into expensive beers and the cheap ones I used to like just dont cut it

[JJG]

for me it's Lone Star without a doubt. I drink this sh*t like water on the weekends. Unfortunately it's probably a Texas thing, sorry to the other 49 states. Their slogan is "The national beer of Texas"

whatever the hell that means.

[floydp]

Yuengling Porter.

[tooomanycolors]

PBR drafts

[Chingo]

Did anyone mention Caguema? AKA Turtle Beer? It's usually the cheapest at my supermarket, but I still prefer it over any of the other ones on the shelf!