What's the Cheapest Beer in America?

[N2NH]

Honestly, I'm asking. I don't know. I don't even know if it would be worth drinking. But there has to be one that is the cheapest beer in the country. Might taste like monkey pee, but if it's beer it qualifies.

I've heard Pabst Blue Ribbon, Keystone, Steel Reserve, Milwaukee's Best and Pig's Eye.

I'm open to suggestions. Drinking, OTOH, maybe. :yuck: Or not. :chin:

[NQ6U]

Check out this site:

http://www.tinsel.org/beer/

It might have the info you're looking for.

[KC2UGV]

Gennessee Beer. You can get a case of cans for about $4. I've yet to find a cheaper swill. The cream ale isn't horrid, however.

[kb2crk]

Gennessee Beer. You can get a case of cans for about $4. I've yet to find a cheaper swill. The cream ale isn't horrid, however.

the genny is sold as a premium beer here in ga. about 6 bucks a six pack

[KC2UGV]

the genny is sold as a premium beer here in ga. about 6 bucks a six pack

Wow. Premium? Seriously?

Must be because it's "imported" from the Yankees :snicker:

[NQ6U]

the genny is sold as a premium beer here in ga. about 6 bucks a six pack

Damn! I can get Sierra Nevada--the Anheiser-Busch of craft brewers--Pale Ale for that price.

[KG4CGC]

That is not as easy to determine as one might think. A few years ago the tax structre in SC was changed to reflect a tax based on alcohol content, about the time they lifted the ban on beer over 4%. Before that there was an argument going on because the state wanted to tax beer and wine by the container. 65 cents tax per container. On a 6-pack that would come out to $3.90 but a large bottle of wine would still be 65 cents.

It was argued that this tax was targeting poor people, who normally would drink beer vs the type of people who would purchase champagne. They even ran TV ads showing the triumphant, well to do, celebrating the new tax over glasses of champagne.

Another aspect of the tax based on percentage of alcohol was how this affected the cost of distilled spirits. My favorite Glenmorgie 18 y/o single malt has progressively been climbing in cost over the last 15 years. Once a $50 a bottle delicacy it is now approaching the $100 mark. $94 - $96 last time I checked. For you cheap vodka fans, a $6 fifth can not be had for any cheaper than $14 ..................... ...---...

[kc7jty]

Beer is like crack cocaine. It SHOULD carry a higher punishment!
...and you thought prohibition was repealed. Just another indicator of Nanny's dick in your arse.

[kc7jty]

Damn! I can get Sierra Nevada--the Anheiser-Busch of craft brewers--Pale Ale for that price.

Picked up a 12pk of Celebration yesterday for $11.99
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A_opcg_BeKs/TNWqlSNOlJI/AAAAAAAAB1k/G1R5j9w494Q/s400/Sierra+Nevada+Celebration+Ale+2010.jpg

[WØTKX]

http://www.drunkard.com/index.html

http://www.drunkard.com/img/mdm-header.jpg

http://www.drunkard.com/issues/03_03/03-03_forty_fury.htm

http://www.drunkard.com/issues/03_03/images/forty-ounce-fury.jpg

[KG4CGC]

Picked up a 12pk of Celebration yesterday for $11.99
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A_opcg_BeKs/TNWqlSNOlJI/AAAAAAAAB1k/G1R5j9w494Q/s400/Sierra+Nevada+Celebration+Ale+2010.jpg
Is that a sale or regular price. We have 12 packs of Sierra Nevada regularly offered for $16 to $17 versus the 6-pack price of $8.79.

[NQ6U]

Picked up a 12pk of Celebration yesterday for $11.99

I need to pick some up--that stuff is great to cook with. Bread a couple of pork chops, brown 'em in a skillet, then pour in a half-bottle of C.A. and cover. Drink the rest of the beer and simmer the pork chops until they're tender. Killer.

[kb2crk]

here in ga a six pack of yuengling is about 6 bucks along with bud, miller or many others. the genny runs about 6.99. rolling rock 7.99. PBR 4.99.
a 12 pack is about 11 across the board.

[kc7jty]

Is that a sale or regular price. We have 12 packs of Sierra Nevada regularly offered for $16 to $17 versus the 6-pack price of $8.79.

HOLY SMOKES!! It's the sale price, but recently it seems the sale price is on 50% of the time. Full price is probably around $15/12pk (rarely see it that high)

They are giving wine away here. Must be a glut on the market. Bought another 6 bottles of $6/7 a bottle wine for $2 today. Have about 115 bottles in my stash at the momento. $9/10 a bottle wine for $4.19, it's nutz.
You get a sale price, then 10% off when you buy 6, then $3 per bottle rebate by mail.

[kc7jty]

I need to pick some up--that stuff is great to cook with. Bread a couple of pork chops, brown 'em in a skillet, then pour in a half-bottle of C.A. and cover. Drink the rest of the beer and simmer the pork chops until they're tender. Killer.

Sounds good.

SNCA is NOT a high quality beer but for the price it's definitely a do. If you can buy a beer made by Bell's in Michigan jump on it. They are first class all the way.
http://www.ratebeer.com/beerimages/full_size/1502.jpghttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3558/3827993386_991e7e2b93_z.jpghttp://pavementandbeerforpeace.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/hopslam.jpg

[kb2crk]

i forgot about natural light and natural ice. 7.99 a 12 pack and taste like crapola

[KG4CGC]

HOLY SMOKES!! It's the sale price, but recently it seems the sale price is on 50% of the time. Full price is probably around $15/12pk (rarely see it that high)

They are giving wine away here. Must be a glut on the market. Bought another 6 bottles of $6/7 a bottle wine for $2 today. Have about 115 bottles in my stash at the momento. $9/10 a bottle wine for $4.19, it's nutz.
You get a sale price, then 10% off when you buy 6, then $3 per bottle rebate by mail.
It's called forced moderation. These days I just get 2 or 3 22oz. bottles maybe once a week.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/bebop5/447f1b80.jpg

[kc7jty]

here in ga a six pack of yuengling is about 6 bucks along with bud, miller or many others. the genny runs about 6.99. rolling rock 7.99. PBR 4.99.
a 12 pack is about 11 across the board.

CHRIST! Those holy Christians are putting the royal HORSE PHUCK onto your ass.

[kc7jty]

That's an indicator something's wrong right there.
More than 2 cigarettes at once is just plain off the page.

[al2n]

6 pack of Sam Adams is around 8 bucks up here.

Bud and other such crap is a little cheaper. Blue Ribbon is 10 bucks for a 12 pack on sale.

Cheapest by far is home brew. I can make my own beer for about 3 bucks a gallon. Taste is far better than the cheap stuff at the store.

[kc7jty]

everything costs more up there.

[W3MIV]

The cheapest beer is the one you love most; the most expensive, the one you won't drink. Cost and pleasure are both relative when it comes to anything not fundamental to survival. One can derive the most pleasure from a single bottle of beer, but no one can have his beer and drink it, too.

[KG4CGC]

The cheapest beer is the one you love most; the most expensive, the one you won't drink. Cost and pleasure are both relative when it comes to anything not fundamental to survival. One can derive the most pleasure from a single bottle of beer, but no one can have his beer and drink it, too.
Sounds similar to the state approved lesson plan for Economics in 1982.
And a good point too. Example, Gluten Free beer made from sorghum. Unpalatable.

[N2NH]

Sounds similar to the state approved lesson plan for Economics in 1982.
And a good point too. Example, Gluten Free beer made from sorghum. Unpalatable.

I know someone who has a taste for pumpkin beer. Seems to be popular too. I liked Champale once. It's made with apples from what I've heard. The taste had nothing to do with it. Getting THERE fast did.

Orange beer? Looks like a urine sample.

[n0iu]

I remember this stuff from my younger days.... when the drinking age for beer and wine was 18 --

http://i676.photobucket.com/albums/vv124/scottaschultz/905.jpg

[KC9ECI]

I buy Boxer, it's 5% and $11 for 36 cans. Add enough lime and its reasonably drinkable.

[KG4CGC]

I buy Boxer, it's 5% and $11 for 36 cans. Add enough lime and its reasonably drinkable.
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/boxer-lager/83231/
This is lulzy:
Pale straw body with a small foamy white head settling to a whispy ring. Aroma of grains, rice, corn husk, some grassy hops, and a faint floral clover note. Some light sweet malt shows up in the flavor with expressions of corn, corn husk; there is a soda cracker crispiness in the aftertaste, corn husk lingers a bit in the finish. Shared the rest of my pint with the sink

[KC9ECI]

I wouldn't guess there is any hops in the brew to begin with. The alcohol almost overpowers what flavor it does have. At the end of the day it's a cheap drunk and after the first 6 beers no one cares any more anyway. Besides, binocular vision isn't all that important.

[KG4CGC]

I've never heard of it being an uneducated 4 lander so I had to look it up. There were a couple of more positive sounding reviews. The way you just described it reminds me of the taste of "high gravity" brew. The taste of alcohol is strong, like adding vodka to a beer. I drank a few 211s when they came out here and they were very popular but one day they changed something. I couldn't tolerate the new taste and they stopped flying off the shelves as fast.
About this same time they started sell 211 "Select" reserve in the black cans @8% and it was simply horrid!

[w3bny]

Cheepest beer in America? Easy. Somebody elses beer. Its free!

[KC9ECI]

I told the wife to grab me a 12 pack of the cheapest beer she could find and she brought home Lost Lake. http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/lost-lake/11386/ As luck would have it, limes were on sale for .10 ea. A couple wedges of lime squeezed in lets it have a little flavor and I won't get scurvy this week.

[kc7jty]

In your profile you state beer as your sole interest, and you drink that?

http://www.ratebeer.com/Place/la-crosse-wi-mn/la-crosse-wi-mn/woodmans-food-market-onalaska-lacrosse/1050.htm

You should be able to get Surly offerings there. They are highly acclaimed.
http://www.ratebeer.com/brewers//surly-brewing-company/6337/

[KG4CGC]

I told the wife to grab me a 12 pack of the cheapest beer she could find and she brought home Lost Lake. http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/lost-lake/11386/ As luck would have it, limes were on sale for .10 ea. A couple wedges of lime squeezed in lets it have a little flavor and I won't get scurvy this week.
Many moons ago, soiled Blausers were the Scarlett Letter of dorm life.

[n2ize]

Why bother with cheap beer ? Just get the cheapest vodka you can lay your hands on, get the cheapest club soda you can get your hands on and mix it and there you have it.... cheap beer.

[W5GA]

When I was in high school, you could get this for 39 cents a quart

3632

And my Dad used to drink this by the gallon

3633

[KG4CGC]

Been years but I remember drinking Private Stock. It had a puzzle on the inside of the cap.

[kc7jty]

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:69tWsY6lFDom9M:http://askuncleralph.com/buckhorn_beer_can.jpg&t=1
Back in the 70s/80s this was the cheapest in N Idaho. I couldn't drink it it was so bad.

[kc7jty]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Olympia_Beer_label_1914.jpg/240px-Olympia_Beer_label_1914.jpg
This was cheap and doable.
Was a major regional seller in the NW until the (Wiki quote)

The beer declined increasingly in sales when the president of the brewery was caught engaging in a homosexual act, and was therefore publicly outed in the early 1980s.

[W5GA]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Olympia_Beer_label_1914.jpg/240px-Olympia_Beer_label_1914.jpg
This was cheap and doable.
Was a major regional seller in the NW until the (Wiki quote)
And their ads in the early 80's were great, too. Same with Ranier.

[kc7jty]

Yeah, like the guy on the motor cycle shifting gears,
Rayyyyy,Neeeeer,Beeeer

I drank Oly & Rainier for a while then started buying Coors Banquet by the 1/2 bbl. Kept in a small refer I had in the garage with a hole cut into the side for a tap handle.
Had to burn a 60 watt bulb on a dimmer control inside the refer when it got real cold in winter.

[KC9ECI]

I like trying different beers. Eventually a guy has to slum it with ome of the cheaper brands. re: Woodmans, they have an excellent beer cave. Festival Foods also has a great beer cave but not as good as Woodmans. There are some excellent beer caves acro the border in Winona, MN as well that I like to check out from time to time.

[KG4CGC]

I almost forgot about Pearl and Lone Star. Lone Star was so cheap back in the day, mid 80s, $5 a case of long necks with returnable bottles in heavy duty returnable cartons.

[kc7jty]

Lone Star was so cheap back in the day, mid 80s, $5 a case of long necks with returnable bottles in heavy duty returnable cartons.

When I lived in PA I drank Schaefer in 16 oz return bottles, cheap. http://www.schaeferbeer.com/ban5.gif

[W3MIV]

Hellzbellz, you wanna talk ancient history, before 1973 National's two beers, National Bohemian and National Premium, were among the best around. In 1967, on a first-class flight from Frankfurt to New York, I was served a National Premium on TWA. The only other beer on the flight was Löwenbräu. Bohemian was a Pilsner of some excellence back then. Carling bought the brewery from Jerry Hoffberger in 1973. It then went to hell and is now owned by Pabst. Drech.

3634

Mr Boh is still a Baltimore landmark.

[NQ6U]

I remember this stuff, brewed in San Francisco:

http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz79/gyrogeerloose/burgie.png

Locally known as Burgie, it was the first beer I ever drank. Put me off beer for years.

[W3MIV]

I remember with some amusement the squat, little Boh bottles that had no neck. That Natty Boh was sold as a "Don Shinnick" 'cause it had no neck. Some of you may remember the old Baltimore Colts -- the ones that drunken plumber sneaked out of town in the dark of night.

Guess you had to be there...

[KG4CGC]

Ballentine! ALWAYS one or two flat cans in a sixer.
Blatz! Only once. Learned about getting a case of the blatz afterwards.
Goebel! Miss that one around here. Found some in a dingey little gas station in the early 80s. It was the same stock that had been there for years. Owner of the gas station thanked me for buying it up.

[kd8dey]

3 of the cheapest beers I recall from the 80's
Top Hat (Dunno if still made)
Red White & Blue (Dunno if still made)
Milwaukee's Best.

[W3MIV]

Red, White and Blue is the only beer I ever tried that gave me a headache while I was drinking it.

[KG4CGC]

Carling

Black

Label

[kc7jty]

Milwaukee's Best.

Used to buy that in the 32 oz bottle when I was camping out with homeless friends in Yuma, AZ circa 1990. They were 99c each. I think the 40 oz bottles were $1.19.
VOLUMES of that chit passed through my gizzard.

[NA4BH]

Gonna try Trappistes Rochefort "10" tonight

[KG4CGC]

Gonna try Trappistes Rochefort "10" tonight
I'd drink that one while IN the bed. Kind of like when you see a Nyquil commercials and they show people taking it, IN the bed. LOL!

[kc7jty]

Gonna try Trappistes Rochefort "10" tonight

I believe that is a quite sweet, thick, syrupy concoction that requires time to develop an appreciation for, but that's just me.

here's my rate of it, I gave it a 3.9 (rather high rating):

bottle 33cl .Hazy brown w big nitro mocha colored head that lasted, good sticky lace. Aroma is dark roast malt w chocolate & that Euro in the bottle, slightly skunky hops, Belgian yeast, herbs & spices. Flavor is big spicy dark roast malt w alcohol noticable & the hops described. Nice bitterness, clean, spicy, rather sweet body & finish. Lots of sediment. Well into med bodied, nice herbal nuances. I feel this would go well with vanilla ice cream. Nice, interesting, complex, but not really my style. Rather sweet & syrupy on the palate

[kd8dey]

Learned about getting a case of the blatz afterwards.

Is that something like the "Schlitz"

[KG4CGC]

Is that something like the "Schlitz"
Yes, but it slaps the water in the bowl with much more force.

[NA4BH]

I believe that is a quite sweet, thick, syrupy concoction that requires time to develop an appreciation for, but that's just me.

here's my rate of it, I gave it a 3.9 (rather high rating):

bottle 33cl .Hazy brown w big nitro mocha colored head that lasted, good sticky lace. Aroma is dark roast malt w chocolate & that Euro in the bottle, slightly skunky hops, Belgian yeast, herbs & spices. Flavor is big spicy dark roast malt w alcohol noticable & the hops described. Nice bitterness, clean, spicy, rather sweet body & finish. Lots of sediment. Well into med bodied, nice herbal nuances. I feel this would go well with vanilla ice cream. Nice, interesting, complex, but not really my style. Rather sweet & syrupy on the palate

Bill,

I raided the beer store today.

Nogne - # 100, Peculiar Yule, Andhriminir Barley Wine Ale
La Chouffe - Belgian Golden Ale w/ spice
Schneider & Sohn - Aventinus
Trappistes Rochefort - 8 & 10

[KG4CGC]

I miss Mackeson Triple Stout. (http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/9/19/)

[kc7jty]

Bill,

I raided the beer store today.

Nogne - # 100, Peculiar Yule, Andhriminir Barley Wine Ale
La Chouffe - Belgian Golden Ale w/ spice
Schneider & Sohn - Aventinus
Trappistes Rochefort - 8 & 10

La Chouffe is good. Had it on tap.
Don't think I ever had the Aventinus. It's rated very highly.
Had the 8 & 10, not my style.

Lemme know what you think.