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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: RadioFreeSeaLab on January 29, 2009, 06:47:33 PM
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What is your favorite cheap, budget, crappy, beer?
Mine is Pabst.
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Michelob is the only mass produced swill I can stomach
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Keystone Classics
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Pabst or Old Milwaukee for Cheap beer
Next is Miller Lite.
Got Moose Drool (Big Sky Brewery, MT), Fat Squirrel (New Glarus Brewing, WI) and Leinenkugel's 1888 Bock on the fridge. That seasonal Leinies is freaking awesome.
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Old Milwaukee's Best!
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Natty Lite
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Yuengling is the cheapest I can drink.
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Labatt Blue / light is the only cheap macro-brew I can drink without holding my breath.
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Got Moose Drool (Big Sky Brewery, MT),
That's my winter beer, I live all of 200 yards from the brewery and know the brew master socially. Good stuff, semi-nasty in the bottle. Awesome in a keg or growler very cold. It is not all that cheap though....
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Yuengling is the cheapest I can drink
Nothing cheap about Yuengling. It's awesome out of a tap and into a frosty beer mug!
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Sam Adams Boston Lager....I don't go any cheaper than that....I like my taste buds too much.... =D
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Another vote for PBR.
I originally bought it as a joke for a non-PC party where PBR, Spam and Twinkies were not only the decor but the fare. Turns out I still don't like Spam but the PBR was drinkable. Not a bad deal for beer under a buck a can.
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Anything Widmer. I don't drink cheap beer. :police:
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I have yet to find any beer that I actually like. To be fair, I haven't really tried a whole lot of different brands, but still...
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Boulevard Lunar Ale $6.99 a six is pretty cheap to me.
My other everyday drinker is New Castle Brown Ale usually about $13.99 a 12
I just won't drink if I'm offered bud or other similar equivalents.
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Nothing cheap about Yuengling. It's awesome out of a tap and into a frosty beer mug!
Oh I know. I just can't drink anything cheaper than Yuengling so its my cheap beer..
Haven't had it in awhile though. Doesn't make sense to get a keg of Yuengling at around $100 when I can get microbrew down the street for $114.
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Uh... The rest of the world thinks that Yuengling is a microbrew...
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Ballantine Ale- $4.99 a six pack. It's a pretty good pale ale, and the cheapest thing I buy. Usually, unless I brew my own, I've been sticking to Sam Adams Boston Ale lately. Good stuff, but not what I'd call cheap. To me, most mass produced American beer tastes like colored water.
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Coors Lite.
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That's my winter beer, I live all of 200 yards from the brewery and know the brew master socially. Good stuff, semi-nasty in the bottle. Awesome in a keg or growler very cold. It is not all that cheap though....
You know I'm going to be in Missoula in late June.
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PBR..
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Life's too short to drink bad beer. I'll take tap water over Bud/Coors/MGD/PBR/etc.
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Yuengling is my beer of choice,2nd is Labbat blue.
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Steel Reserve. Drink a couple real fast and you don't know what it tastes like anyway. =D
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Not sure if you can find it outside of PA, but Lionshead is pretty damn good for only 12.98 for 24 bottles.
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Santa Claus sent me a case of Yuengling for Christmas.
Otherwise, it's New Glarus Spotted Cow in my fridge as the standard.
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gonna have to go with PBR. although i will drink bud when thats what there (i'm just not as picky as you gentleman)
back in college, me and my friend lilly could get reasonably drunk on a couple pitchers of PBR and not break our very limited budgit. the best night at the bar was when the PBR rep was at the bar. we drank for free that night. =D
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Miller High Life.
I don't actually like it, but the... flavor, I guess you might call it... brings back memories of good times. :| =)
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Yeungling. About 8 bucks a Twelver of bottles.
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Yuengling or Sam Adams. Nothing less. 8 bucks for a 12 pack, Jamis? Hrm. Must be shipping costs. I tend to pick it up within a stone's throw of the brewery in Pottsville.
My favorite is the Stone Brewing Co selection. I like Ruination over Arrogant Bastard, but either will do. Definitely not cheap, but quality is worth it.
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My favorite is the Stone Brewing Co selection
Mine too, Stone and Lost Abbey.
But this is a cheap beer thread!
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Well since I already mentioned my favorite (most tolerable?) cheap beer and the thread has drifted somewhat to good beer, here are my favorites:
1. Bell's Third Coast Old Ale, by a longshot. If you can get this brew in your area, you MUST try it.
2. Bell's Hell Hath No Fury Ale.
3. Sam Adams Boston Ale.
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Another vote for PBR.
When I want good beer I brew my own. When I want cheap and easy I'll have a Pabst.
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I'm very partial to J.W. Dundee's Honey Brown, but it's not as cheap as the day is long.
I also really like Tecate but I have no idea how much it costs, since I've never bought any.
I'd say for the cheapest I like, Miller High Life (the Champagne of Beers) retains the title.
Ben
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I've a vague recollection of posting in a thread almost exactly like this one.... huh.
Anyways, Miller High Life. It's not bitter, not skunky, not obviously watery like some of the other "commercial" beers. Drinks like a soda.
Yuengling is a close second but I've noticed that it gets a little skunked with age, and I never seem to get through a six pack before the last two bottles aren't nearly as good as the first ones. Otherwise it's very good cheap beer.
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I've been known to turn down free beer when its Miller/bud/pbr/etc......
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When I lived in Chicago, the only "cheap" beer I drank regularly was Hamm's . . . during the mid '70s, you could get a 24-can case for $3.99, which was cheap even then. (Hamm's used to run commercials with cartoons of the Hamm's Bear during White Sox games.)
The cheap beer I drank when I was in Minnesota was Heileman's "Old Style", or more often, their "Special Export." When I found it, I also liked Ballantine Ale, mentioned earlier in this thread. Leinenkugel's was decent then, too.
In grad school, I had Genesee 12-Horse Ale along with Molson's and Labatt's, both of which were pretty cheap in NY.
Now in Texas, I pretty much stick to various Sam Adams varieties (except that awful Cherry Wheat and disgusting Cranberry Lambic!) along with Pete's Wicked Ale, none of which are particularly cheap. (Haven't seen Pete's for a while . . . )
(Remember Old Milwaukee? IMHO, that needed to be put back in the horse it came out of . . . )
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I can drink just about any beer if it's cold enough.l
I could never get Hamm's cold enough.
God that stuff was disgusting.
National Bohemian was my cheap beer of choice for years.
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Anyone remember Old Dutch beer? How about USA (u save a lot) beer? That wes back in the early 80's.
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If Carling Black Label is not available I'll go with Miller.
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Sam Adams is about the cheapest I can drink. In Florida, the cheap stuff was Red Stripe beer from Jamaica.
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Coors Original.
The other legend since 1873.
I actually prefer my whiskey better.
USA Beer was that the stuff in the short bottles for like $2.00 a case?
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I used to drink Blatz with my neighbour 15+ years ago. wasn't bad, eventhough it was the cheapest beer available at the time. mostly I drank st pauli girl dark. these days i drink iced tea.
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Shiner..............except the lite.........drinking lite beer is like eating a tufu burger, why bother.......chris3
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Shiner..............except the lite.........drinking lite beer is like eating a tufu burger, why bother.......chris3
We always said lite beer was like having sex in a boat.
Fing near water.
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My tastes are odd that I like beer at the two extremes, but not much in the middle. If I need a lot (for a camping trip, for example), I'll go with something like Miller High Life or MGD (Killians if I can find it on sale), but if I want a beer or two for an evening, I'll go to Total Beverage and peruse the import/boutique beer section and find a heavy Scottish or English Ale or maybe a heavy porter/stout. I'll end up spending as much or more on 2 beers as I would on a sixer of Miller.
I don't have much love for stuff like Sam Adams, Shiner, Pete's Wicked, etc. I do drink Old Dominion from time to time because it's a local microbrew, but even then I mainly drink their barleywine or bourbon stout, not their other stuff. Yuengling is ok, but doesn't have enough "bite" for me. My wife likes it, so I end up buying it more often than I would otherwise.
BTW, the reason Yuengling is "inexpensive" (different than "cheap") is because a bunch of investors pumped money into the company so it could take it's products nationwide and compete with the likes of Budweiser. Before that happened, they were not an inexpensive beer in Virginia.
I used to be a beer snob, but I couldn't afford to be when I was going on week-long deer or turkey hunting trips. Plus, I realized I actually like the taste of Miller High Life and MGD, especially on a boiling hot day when the beer has been sitting in ice water. :D
Chris
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I just wish they'd have followed through on their goal to make Yuengling a nation-wide product. =(
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I used to drink Blatz with my neighbour 15+ years ago.
Wasn't that the brand that if you saved up 3 UPC's, you could send away for a free .22 rifle? Just pay shipping and handling!
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I just wish they'd have followed through on their goal to make Yuengling a nation-wide product. =(
Here's an oddity.....Yeungling is widespread regionally. However its hard as hell to get in WV, they don't sell it there. Not sure why. Brought some with me on a fishing trip last summer and it was a major hit with the WV crew. Most of 'em have had it, when they are fishing in VA.....
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Trust me, I know all about wva not selling yuengling here. Since I work in Maryland, I pick it up there on the way home.
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i always liked Yuengling, but lately, if i buy beer i get Killians.
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7-11 used to have its own brand of beer.
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Budweiser makes only one decent beer, and that's the new "American Ale". Don't know that I'd call it cheap, though. There are better for less.
Don't know if any of you have tried anything from the Flying Dog Brewery, but they make some good stuff. Tire Bite is a good ale.
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Cheap, tasy beer? Try a Genny Cream Ale. http://www.creamale.com/ (http://www.creamale.com/)
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I'm trying a new one tonight: Lion Stout. It's from Sri Lanka and has received good reviews from Michael Jackson (beer reviewer, not the pop perv).
It's pretty good. It is creamy, dark as used motor oil, and has a nice head. Puts Guiness to shame for about the same price (six pack is $10 after tax).
Chris
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Normally I won't stoop any lower than Sam Adams. If I'm stuck with having to drink cheap I try and make it either Moosehead or Labatt's Blue. But if I'm having a particularly white-trash moment, I'll drink a Pabst.
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I'm trying a new one tonight: Lion Stout. It's from Sri Lanka and has received good reviews from Michael Jackson (beer reviewer, not the pop perv).
It's pretty good. It is creamy, dark as used motor oil, and has a nice head. Puts Guiness to shame for about the same price (six pack is $10 after tax).
Chris
Woah, that's a strong beer at 8%. I had one and am buzzed.
Chris
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Come on man, Genny Cream ale isn't that bad.
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Miller Genuine Draft. It is about the cheapest I go. I might drink a regular Miller ocasionally.
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So all you Yuengling drinkers, do you ever get burned out on it? Everyone I know, myself included, just gets tired of it eventually when drinking it regularly.
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Nope.
Not yet.
Although, since I can't get the stuff on a regular basis like I used to do in Spacecoast Florida, maybe it's a case of absence making the heart grow fonder?
I have all sorts of Spotted Cow up here, but I haven't burned out on it, nor am I approaching an alcoholic level of consumption...
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labatt's blue...... used to drink old vienna as a youth, haven't seen that for a while.
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Tuborg. Carlsberg.