Times are tough: What's the best cheapest beer?

[pallister]

Simply rule:

If you can't afford a hafway decent beer (and nothing mentioned on this thread is even halfway decent) you should not be spending your money on beer.
If you can not afford to drink proper beer, don't drink.

Dumb, da dumb, dumb, dumb.

I think you mean "Simple," right? :D

 

[Mystery_Meat]

So if you can only afford hamburgers and mac and cheese, you shouldn't eat? If you can only afford T-shirts, you should go topless? Seeing a flaw in the logic, sp.

But those things are essential. Beer just seems essential. It'd be like saying it'd be better to go without sex than to pay 20 bucks for a rim job from a toothless 500-pound retard, just because that's the best you can swing.

in b4 dozens of in-jokes

 

[spnited]

You are simple right, pall. ;D

 

[pallister]

But I can spell.

Really, though, on the list of things I care about, who drinks what beer is about 1,234,576,893rd on the list.

 

[dooley_womack1]

OK, so only the rich should drink beer? When did you turn into an old, crotchety Republican, sp? OK, the old and crotchety parts, eons ago, but the last part?

 

[spnited]

But I can spell.

Really, though, on the list of things I care about, who drinks what beer is about 1,234,576,893rd on the list.

At best... maybe even a little lower on the list.

And I spell very well, I just have typing lapses

 

[pallister]

Yes, dools, because this Republican is a rich guy who likes only the finest in alcoholic beverages. Yeesh.

 

[spnited]

Yes, dools, because this Republican is a rich guy who likes only the finest in alcoholic beverages. Yeesh.

And this middle class moderate Democrat won't drink cheap **** beer or bar stock booze.

 

[pallister]

Moderate my ass. :)

 

[dooley_womack1]

Why, are your cheeks in conflict?

 

[friend of a friend]

I don't think I want to see the answer.

 

[Bruce Leroy]

I found Mickeys has done the trick for me. A six-pack cost me $4.75 and six of those bad boys put me down for the count. Taste like hell, but get the job done.

Oh, the regrettable things I've done after pounding a few Mickey's 40-ouncers.

Classic rookie mistake.

Never, ever get the Mickey's in the actual 40-oz bottles.

Buy the grenades or the 22-oz Hornets.

The bottom third of a Mickey's 40 tastes like rotten yak taint. And I drink fast.

The only thing rookie about this situation is letting the bottom third get too tasteless for you. Sure, Mickey's carved out a niche with the hand grenades, but when it comes down to it, all malt liquor is meant to be served in a 40-oz. bottle. Deuces are acceptable, but Florida gets no respect with the 32-oz. limit. And if you can't finish a 40 before the last bit gets too nasty, then you shouldn't be drinking a 40 in the first place.

As for the original question, I'd go with 40s of 8-ball or Mickey's. St. Ides or Steel Reserve will work too but most likely will cause more of a headache the day after. And never count out Private Stock.

 

[Shoeless Joe]

We've got a running thing at my weekly card game to see who can bring in the cheapest beer. The guy in the lead got a 30-pack of Stroh's for $9.99 somewhere. We keep asking for the 30-pack of ho's to go with it, but no luck.

 

[Huggy]

There is bad beer here in Ontario but it ain't cheap.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

When I was in college, the answer was definitely Mickey's.

Keystone Light and PBR would have been second and third.

 

[Oggiedoggie]

Simply rule:

If you can't afford a hafway decent beer (and nothing mentioned on this thread is even halfway decent) you should not be spending your money on beer.
If you can not afford to drink proper beer, don't drink.

This is probably the best advice I've been given so far.

And there's no way in hell I'm going to follow it.

Mrs. Oggiedog is a budgeting fiend and I'm going to be dealing with a bit less discretionary spending money.

Lost Lake Ice was my fall-back, but I can't drink it. I've tried Steel Reserve Ice with even worse results.

My plan is to take $20 a week and buy a six of something good (Sierra Nevada Pale Ale and Boulevard Pale Ale are my standards) and get the rest of my buzz as cheaply as tolerable.

The rules in my suck-ass beer state? Most of the major over-the counter brands (Bud, Coors, Keystone, etc) are sold cold in grocery stores as cereal malt beverages (3.2 beer). Argue all you want about the whole weight vs. volume thing, 3.2 beer sucks.

The higher-point beers are sold warm in liquor stores. Selection is usually limited. Olympia is available and it's okay, nothing special. I drank Molsen's Ice, but it's no longer available here.

I was just wondering if there might be some sleeper cheap beer I just haven't thought of yet.

 

[cranberry]

I mostly go with the wine but after moving to Michigan, I picked up on Labattt's Blue Light. I see it's $12.49 for an 18-pack of bottles at Rite-Aide this week. Doesn't seem too bad. Still like the Amstel Lite too though.

Tried a case or two of the Blue Lights this summer. Excellent beach beer. Also enjoyed some Narragansett with my lobster rolls during a Block Island (RI) weekend.

 

[Trey Beamon]

I do enjoy the Keystone Light ads.

"Oh, it's for grandma."

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Simply rule:

If you can't afford a hafway decent beer (and nothing mentioned on this thread is even halfway decent) you should not be spending your money on beer.
If you can not afford to drink proper beer, don't drink.

I completely agree with that now. When I was young and poor, not so much... ;D

 

[nmmetsfan]

I found Mickeys has done the trick for me. A six-pack cost me $4.75 and six of those bad boys put me down for the count. Taste like hell, but get the job done.

Oh, the regrettable things I've done after pounding a few Mickey's 40-ouncers.

Classic rookie mistake.

Never, ever get the Mickey's in the actual 40-oz bottles.

Buy the grenades or the 22-oz Hornets.

The bottom third of a Mickey's 40 tastes like rotten yak taint. And I drink fast.

How could you possibly know that?