What is the best of the cheap-ass beer?

[tjwash]

Poll question: What is the best of the cheap-ass beer?

I'm talking beer you can get for less than three bucks a 12 pack. Beer that exists for one purpose only, to get you hammered. What do you like?

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. Beast is unconscionable.

[tjwash]

6. Olde English 800 was the first I ever tried when I was 15.

It was also the first time I ever blacked out from drinking. I stuck with Beast after I got older, at a buck and a quarter a six pack, you couldn't go wrong...

[egoprofit]

37. lonestar... cheapest beer in texas...

eeeeeewwwww its GROSSSSS

[fishwax]

45. I prefer Pearl for cheap Texas beer

up here in Oklahoma, it doesn't cost anymore than Lone Star, but I think Pearl tastes pretty good for a cheap beer.

[derby378]

52. No way - I treat Lone Star Beer with newfound respect

One or two longnecks with barbecued ribs at Clark's Outpost in Tioga. Hard to beat that.

[trogdor]

66. My dittohead brother drinks Beast.

I bring some really good beer (Saranac lager, from Utica, NY) when I'm down there, and he still drinks Beast. Go figure.

The good cheap beer in New York State: Genessee and Utica Club.

[Richardo]

2. Stroh's, man

That stuff is GOOD! :beer:

[XNASA]

22. Stroh's is "shorts" spelled backwards.

I think that's what they strain it through.

[Richardo]

41. I don't care - I like it

:P

[kclown]

58. Where is Stroh's available?

Top-rated couple years ago by Consumer Reports.  Never been
able to find it in New England.

[MrScorpio]

60. Detroit, My man

I used to live down the street from the brewery on Gratiot!

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

3. I avoid the 6 pack all together and go for

a good ole 40oz of


usually 2 bucks mm mm good

[tjwash]

9. Colt 45 Double Malt, Damn.....

...that's some good stuff there. I used to like the Schlitz Malt Liquor with the bull on the label.

[chuckrocks]

10. just like billy d. baby!

if the four don't get ya, the five sho will!

[Zuni]

4. Nasty Light

Natural Light is my fave

[mark414]

delete

dupe

[mark414]

5. the beast is, literally, from the bottom of the barrel

my vote is for delicious PBR

yum

[livinginphotographs]

25. Blech, PBR.

PBR gives me really bad hangovers.

I'd take Beast anyday over that swill.

[RoeBear]

7. I take personal offense at

Stroh's being listed as a cheap beer. :grr:

I just re-read your original message. You can buy Stroh's for $3 bucks a 12 pack? You can buy any beer for 3 bucks? What state are you in?

[Celeborn Skywalker]

32. I don't know

The cheapest beer around here at our local Walmart is Natural Ice and that's about $3 per six pack

[dean_dem]

8. What, no love for Shlitz Malt Liquor?

*sigh*

[tjwash]

11. The Bull is almost treading into not so cheap beer though...

[chuckrocks]

12. much love to the beast

love from my pooper to the porcelain god that is...
<>

[Magrittes Pipe]

13. PBR me, ASAP.

[tjwash]

15. coming right up...

[kick-ass-bob]

36. I knew you would be on this thread.

:eyes:

I'm just surprised it took you 13 minutes to respond.

[Abelman]

14. PBR

I don't recall it being that cheap, though. Maybe because I only drink longnecks.

It's the only major domestic beer I will drink. The rest of the time I stick with microbrews.

[slestak]

16. Stroh's!

America's Fire-Brewed Beer!!!!!

[tjwash]

17. PBR is running away with it...

[Strawman]

18. PBR is the only one I still drink

In college we mostly drank Busch Light. That was always pretty cheap. Black Label isn't bad either.

[tjwash]

19. Busch Light in college. Those were the days.

You could get a pony keg of that for about 30 bucks.

[last_texas_dem]

20. Lone Star!

Alright, I'm joking...

I honestly don't have enough experience with cheap beers (beers in general, for that matter) to make a fair judgment.

[Richardo]

42. Or, if you're trying to elevate it, 'Lowenstar'

:D

[tjwash]

21. Dang I forgot to give some love to "Billy Beer"

Has anyone actually ever drank that?

[Ravenseye]

23. Iron City

Also known as Arn or Iron Shitty.

[JVS]

47. Arn is expensive, gotta go with their Old German brand

[livinginphotographs]

24. Where the hell can you get PBR for three bucks a 12 pack?

Even a 12-pack of Beast costs five or six.

[catmandu57]

26. We used to be able to get Heidlebrau

I think it was 1.29 a six and it was pretty good beer, for cheap beer. I have'nt seen any for ages though.

[tjwash]

27. Remember "Burgher Meister"

Or "Burgies"?

[catmandu57]

39. That stuff sucked

I could'nt drink it even when I was already snockered.

[Richardo]

43. Anyone from LA will remember 'Brew 102'

:puke:

Made on the banks of the Los Angeles River. My dad drank it in the early 60s, about .99/sixpack IIRC.

Now THAT'S a drinking problem.

[Eyeball Kid]

56. BANKS OF THE LOS ANGELES RIVER??????

You mean the storm channel?

:wow: :puke:

[Richardo]

64. Yes!

Unbelievable, innit? :puke:

[StopTheMorans]

28. Busch Light; I don't give a fuck who makes it

:evilgrin:

[sybylla]

29. Other - Huber

But I grew up on it. My tastes may be perverted by fond childhood memories of sipping grandpa's beer.

[maveric]

30. Genesee Cream Ale. 99 cents a six-pack in 1974.

Do they still sell that swill?

[trogdor]

67. You betcha!

When did you leave Upstate New York?

[Downtown Hound]

31. Pabst baby!

It got me through college!

[Kellanved]

33. Sternburg

The cheap quality brew . €0.40 per half-liter.




And if you want really cheap (but not yet cheapest) : the price for a 20 x 0.5 liter box can be as low as €3.

:scared:

[underpants]

34. Stroh's or Ole Mil

Old Milwaukee wins almost every year for best domestic beer too

[Book Lover]

35. I would rather drink pee

Life is too short for making-love-in-a-canoe beer. I'd rather not get fucked up than drink this crap.

[Richard Steele]

38. I voted for King Kobra...

Back in Baltimore, I used to get 32oz bottles for 99 cents at the armored liquor store by the bus stop at 5th & N. Charles.

Good times, Good times...

[Squatch]

40. Schmidt...plus you get a cool nature scene on the box.

That and (the heretofore brewed only in Olympia) Olympia Beer.

[Strawman]

44. No Mickeys fans?

I don't even remember the price of a 40 (circa 1990-93), but I know it was under $2. You're broke, so you take back returnables or sell back a shitty CD for $4, get a couple 40's of Mickeys and you're all set for a night of drinkin. Mickeys was defnintely the malt liquor of choice when I was in college.

[JVS]

49. Mickeys is for frat-boy gangsta wannabes. Ides is where it's at!

[JVS]

46. Old Style kicks PBR's ass, but you can't beat Schlitz or Old German

[fishwax]

48. Lost Lake

Preferably Lost Lake Ice. I think it's made in Minnesota, but down here in Oklahoma I can get it for about the same price as a 12-pack of the Beast, and it has the added advantage of being 6-point. Beer sold in grocery stores here is all 3.2, which makes cheap beer even worse.

[TroubleMan]

50. 211 Steel Reseve ...... it 9% alcohol and it's really cheap

I can buy a 12 pack at Winn-Dixie for like $5 or $6. That's like getting a case or case-and-a-half of regular beer.

[bettyellen]

51. golden anniversary... i lot of people think it gives you a mescaline type

buzz. so it was worth drinking out of a can for a change.
gosh, i wonder if they still make it.

[elperromagico]

53. To quote Eric Idle, "American beer is like making love in a canoe...

It's fucking close to water."

[Lilith Velkor]

54. Gotta go with OE

Although I have a fondness for the Beast.

I like Old Style too, but don't live in Chicago anymore.

[BrewerJohn]

55. I used to think Stroh's was good

But that was quite a while back and I think they've changed hands a couple of times since then. Don't think I've had one in 20 years.

Somewhat more recently, I was partial to Berghoff's. I don't see it around here anymore, but had a couple in Wisconsin about 18 months ago. They were OK.

Around 1980, for a while we used to be able to get a six of Blatz Cream Ale at a local bar for 87 cents. Being sold in green bottles, it was a bit skunked, but uneducated as I was, I thought that was the exotic "good beer" taste. (Rolling Rock had the same kind of appeal at the time, as I remember.)

Then I got hold of my first bottles of Sheaf Stout and Boulder Porter and the world changed....

[LDS Jock]

57. what about ROOT beer?

I like it best

[guitar man]

59. Falstaff

Haven't had any in years, I think it's still around?

[ott]

61. PBR

Tastes great, the price is right, it's union made and vegan friendly.

[DainBramaged]

62. Pabst, still love it

And I still remember my first swill of it. 1969, having lunch with some of my high school buddies during 'Indian Summer' right after graduation, talking about the death of a friend in Viet Nam who had graduated the year before and enlisted. Liverwurst and onions on a roll, pickle, Pabst, and a toast to his memories. :toast:

PS, he's on the wall, I visited him twice this decade. I miss his humor and smirk.

[kodi]

63. i guess i'm getting old, but i never heard of "ass beer"

and at my age i dont think i'll start drinking any.

but the worst beer?

iron city beer, drinkable only at the 32F since at that temperature most of your taste buds are numbed and one can not taste the incredibly nasty flavor of the iron filings.

[LynneSin]

65. Schaeffer is the one beer to have when you're having more than one

:eyes:

[seemunkee]

68. Gotta go with PBR, my grandfather worked for them

I love the smell of wort in the morning, it smells like home.

[twenty2strings]

69. Keystone Light...Tallboy six for 4 bucks!