Favorite "cheap beer"??

[buldog5151bass]

In Binghamton in the 1980s, it was Genny or Stegmaier. You could get Stegmaier for under $5 per case. Drummer's Pub had $1 mug night on Monday. They would fill ANY mug you brought for that price.

 

[Pyrrho Epoche]

I still miss 50¢ Michelob draught's

RIP Michelob

 

[dbflats]

Leinie's (Leinenkugel) Original. At just over $0.66 a 12 oz. longneck, well, it speaks for itself-if you can stand drinking the stuff. I can, and find it a decent, malt-forward American adjunct style lager.

 

[friskinator]

Coors lite and Miller lite...but nothing is cheap anymore

Very true. I’ve mostly stopped buying beer - the prices have gotten ridiculous even for the “cheap” domestics. And they aren’t going to get any cheaper, that’s for sure.

 

[Berndizzle440]

I just went to the convenience store and bought a 4-pk of Hamm's tall boys for just $3.50. You'd think it would be the worst swill out there but actually it's a non-offensive adjunct-lager with good taste! I've had pretty much the most expensive craft beers $$$ can buy so I like to measure up the affordable classic offerings! Premium Grain Belt is one of my stables being from MN lol...

How 'bout you guys??

HAMMS ROCKS!!!! i love the stuff. For me Genesee cream ale is ALWAYS in my fridge.

 

[dbflats]

Is Hamms good again? Used to be a good cheap one but went through some rough years.

 

[Dan_reeves]

I went to Chicago & Wrigley back in 2019. I definitely wanted an Old Style, and was prepared for it to be absolute swill. I was very pleasantly surprised by it. I enjoyed it enough that I had several of them that day.

The cheapest beer I normally drink is Sierra Nevada. But if forced to go cheaper, it is definitely Miller Lite for me.

I love Sierra Nevada, both the pale ale and the hazy little thing. I am an IPA guy through and through so more grainy types are usually not my thing.

 

[SturmUndDrang]

I like the red label genesee lager and even the blue label light lager better than the cream ale. Around $18 for a 30 pack near me which is an accomplishment in this age of inflation. Interestingly, genesee contract brews Narragansett to a better standard than their in house flagships in my opinion.
Yuengling can be found in Massachusetts these days if any granite staters here were looking for a closer option. Cheers!

 

[ComicBass]

Call me a snob, but the cheapest beer I actually like is Negra Modelo. It is a very good example of a Vienna lager. Beautiful beer.

 

[dbflats]

Why ya snob ya

 

[J-Bass RMR]

I miss cheap beer lol. I used to buy Hi Brau Beer in the 70's back in Chicago for like $6 a case in returnable bottles, brewed by Joseph Huber in WI.

My home town!

Life's too short for cheap beer!

On the other hand, our favorite local hang has this on tap now!
I LOVE saying; "I'll have a Schlitz, please!"

Leinie's (Leinenkugel) Original.

And the Honey Weisse!
Too bad they're shutting down the (original) brewery...

 

[jmattbassplaya]

I think I’m the only one voting Bud Light in this thread. Tastes incredibly neutral to me, which is nice on a hot day by a pool. But to be honest, I don’t drink beer much these days. I’m not much of an alcohol drinker anymore, but I do enjoy a vodka/sprint or glass of red wine on occasion.

 

[2112]

When I was in college about 150 years ago, I bought a bass and had dreams of playing in bands, so obviously I had ZERO money. When I could round up $3.99, I'd hop on my bike and pedal on down to the local Kroger and pick up a 12 pack of bottles of... Arctic Bay! It was advertised as a "classic Canadian lager beer", so you know it was top tier. It was actually pretty decent-tasting. I dunno how much alcohol was in it, but 4 of them got me there if I drank them fast enough... so 3 decent drunks for less than a fin for the win!

Sadly, I haven't been able to find it for decades now.

 

[dbflats]

I can tolerate Schlitz. A little sweet, but not too bad. Another one that's still under a buck a bottle.

Yeah, sucks the corporate behemoth is shutting down Chippewa Falls.

That Arctic Bay label color scheme kinda reminds me of Labatt's.

 

[Winton]

Warning: I will get a bit beer geeky but bear with me (or shall I say “beer with me”?)

So the first time I played with a band when I was 32yo, they brought in a 12 pack of Coors. At the time, I was working in the craft beer industry so I kinda half-sneered down at it while still intrigued. I had Coors for the first time and actually enjoyed it. I jokingly “confessed” to my friend who has his 2nd level cicerone certification, he said that Coors is actually legit good for a macrobrew. i didn’t have to question my discerning tastebuds.

Now I live in Japan and don’t have access to Coors. I actually want Coors once in a while. But recently, my friend brought me Pub Beer by 10 Barrel Brewing. It is such a normal lager but soooooooo good! It’s also 80 cents per can so you can drink it all day. Oh to live in the states again….

 

[Mike N]

Genesee was the stuff all us cool NY kids cut out teeth on in the 70's & 80's...... fast forward 40+ years later and I still drink it.

The one brewery makes it best and we used to rehearse in a warehouse across the street from the one & only Genesee Brewery.

 

[Cactus Bob]

My home town!

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Life's too short for cheap beer!

On the other hand, our favorite local hang has this on tap now!
I LOVE saying; "I'll have a Schlitz, please!"


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And the Honey Weisse!
Too bad they're shutting down the (original) brewery...

Love that Hi Brau can what a great shrine! My dad loved Hi Brau . . . I downed a lot of those with him back in the 70's.

 

[GIBrat51]

I just went to the convenience store and bought a 4-pk of Hamm's tall boys for just $3.50. You'd think it would be the worst swill out there but actually it's a non-offensive adjunct-lager with good taste! I've had pretty much the most expensive craft beers $$$ can buy so I like to measure up the affordable classic offerings! Premium Grain Belt is one of my stables being from MN lol...

How 'bout you guys??

Well...
On the few occasions when I drink beer - now - it's pretty much always Yuengling. Not the best beer I've ever had (I grew up in the UK, when almost every town had at least one local brewery, so...), but it's pretty good. Where I live now, there are more micro-brews - from Pilsners to Stouts - than you can shake a stick at. Most are very good - but not "cheap". However...
The "cheapest beer" I ever drank? Pabst Blue Ribbon, and Carling Black Label, when I was stationed at Kunsan AB, Korea. I drank them for free. Every squadron on base had a squadron "hooch"; pool table; foosball table; dart board; music; and a bar. That Engineering squadron - like every other one I was ever in - was fixated on Budweiser products. I loathe Budweiser products. Most of the time, I drank Miller High Life. One afternoon, I asked our hooch manager, Miss Kim, for one. "We out", she said. "We out of 'most everything!" When I asked why, she took me into the large, walk-in cooler behind the bar. Except for a few - a very few - cases of Budweiser and Michelob? There was nothing else in there but cases of PBR and Carling. A LOT of the stuff. And there really was almost no room for anything else. "I got no room in here! Nobody ever drink this beer! I can not throw it out!" Well, I'm not one to pass up an opportunity, so I told her "I'll be glad to drink that beer, Miss Kim. Just to help you get rid of it. But, only if I can have it for free." She hesitated for about 5 seconds, and said "OK. But you not tell anybody you drink for free. I get in trouble." I promised her I'd say nothing. All the hooches worked on a "hooch ticket system" at the time. You bought a ticket - there were several denominations - and the hooch managers would punch the tickets for every kind of drink you "bought". Since I ran the Drafting and Surveying Shop - guess who had designed and printed all the tickets for all the hooches...? I did. So, when I "bought" my beer from Miss Kim, she would punch my "counterfeit" hooch ticket - and no one was the wiser. I spent that year drinking a lot of free beer. I do like PBR, although it had a tendency to be a little "green". Carling Black Label? Well, it was drinkable - but that's about it. By the time my tour was up? I'd managed to get rid of most of Miss Kim's "orphan beer"...

 

[Smith357]

FREE

 

[micguy]

I played in a college band (when I was young) and literally every weekend was free beer - bars, parties, etc. I didn't pay for a beer for over a year and a half at one point. As a college student, that was a major savings budget wise.