Best Cheap Beer: Thrifty Drinkers Unite

12-09-2008 @11:22AM Evan said... Berghoff Lager in cans. $4.29/sixer (best of the Midwest, where you can't get Yuengling, which is the no-contest winner. Under $5.50 and better than most craft lagers!)
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12-09-2008 @12:51PM foxdude0486 said... I review beers on beersuggest.com and am not one to discriminate and only review pricey beers. I've given my opinion on many types, and my cheap choices are PBR ($8.99 12pack), Ice House, Shiner Bock is quite good. Amberbock in 18 packs at less then $14 is probably what I'd say is best bang for the buck. I'm looking for suggestions at this point as I'm running out of beers available locally.
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12-09-2008 @10:25PM dag5913 said... i usually don't drink american outside of sam adams and shiner two of my favorites but for a cheap beer i would go with steel reserve.

it is god awful but if you are just looking to get
drunk at a cheap price its your beer at %8.1 alc.
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12-10-2008 @2:04PM Susanne Thomas said... Blackened Voodoo--a Louisiana beer that is almost impossible to find outside of the Deep South--is my all time favorite American beer, and not pricey at all. It's made by a New Orleans brewery that also makes Dixie, reputedly the worst beer made in America (but I was never brave enough to try it). I also agree with others that Red Dog is a fine cheap beer--great logo design on the cans--but I have not seen it in a store since I moved away from Alabama. I believe it is still sold in the South.
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12-10-2008 @6:21PM NathanVS said... Really? Really? Are you people serious? Chimay?...Guiness?...Shiner Bock?...Sam Adams? You call those cheap beers?

Mike, the only credible comments on this blog right now are the guys that mentioned Old Style, Hamms, Red Dog, and Old Milwaukee and all the other near financial collapse Wisconsin beers. Special prize to the guy that mentioned Strohs, that's a guy with heart. Please eliminate the homebrew from the discussion. If you have the patience for that you are not in the same social class that gets out of work on Friday with $5 in your front pocket and raging alcoholism in your back one.

At Thanksgiving last year we found an 9-11 year old can of Red Wolf (there's a difference from Red Dog) in my Dad's bar. My buddy drank it. Considering the negative interest associated with aged beer that may be the single cheapest beer of all time. Then there is my buddy Wally's grandpa that has a full white can with the word BEER on it in black left over from his general store in Collins, WI in the 60's. Here in Switzerland the grocery store Coop sells its own brand of beer that is pretty cheap but with the exchange rate doesn't really fit the purpose of this blog. High Life, you can't beat a 75 cent tapper, but I actually enjoy the taste of it, so I can't put that on my REALLY cheap list.

You want really cheap, head to one of the local city brews in Wisconsin (the run down factory cities, not Madison). Not sure if its still made but I think Kingsbury (formerly brewed in Manitowoc and Sheboygan, WI) has a shot at the title. Also anything made by Heileman's (Old Style which is referred to as "Old Stool" by some Wisconsinites and still drank at all my family holiday dinner tables, Schmidt's, Blatz, Ranier, Ranier Ice). Lastly, I'll throw out a blast from the past, Special Export, which I believe may still be made by Miller.

Knowing your style, I think that's more the type of list you were looking for.
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12-18-2008 @3:40PM chugalug said... Pork Slap Pale Ale. Brewed and canned (not bottled) in an old converted barn in Otsego County, New York (Near Cooperstown. Superb quality at a discount price.
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3-04-2009 @11:44AM KEITH J. CASTALDO said... Miller High life light or original,$17 for A THIRTY PACK.Best flavor for the buck.Local Northeast PA. Beer is Lions head beer $13 bucks for a 24 pack.
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