Favorite "Cheap" Beer

Regular Coors (no light beer in my house), Red Stripe of Modelo Negro
 
I posted a pic of one of those I was drinking the other night and I was threatened with being banned from the forum.

If your face was in the pic, I would approve of the ban.
 
Short story here. Once upon a time Pabst was not considered “cheap” beer. It was always “premium” beer way back in the day till they decided they wanted more US market share, so they did an incredibly stupid thing from a branding and marketing stand point and lowered their prices. The old farts here will remember the TV ads. “Premium beer at popular prices”

I was assigned my senior business school paper on the brewing industry, and Pabst was the case study for what not to do. They lowered the prices, and ruined their brand inadvertently by giving the impression they were now “cheap” beer.
 
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I love West Coast IPAs.... They are my favorite!

But, when it comes to cheap beer:

In college I drank SouthPaw

In the military I drank Miller Lite

Now, I'm on a Bud Light kick....
 
Since when was this cheap beer?
I like it, but it’s priced along with the rest of the craft/import/high falootin beers around here
Its not too expensive if you purchase growlers at the brewery........but in stores its expensive.
 
Since when was this cheap beer?
I like it, but it’s priced along with the rest of the craft/import/high falootin beers around here[/Q UOTE]

Today many of the craft sissy beers I have tried cost much more!

That's as cheap as I care to go after many years of not having a choice.

Life is far too short for really cheap beer and whiskey!
 
You uncultured swines...Corona is my grass cuttin’ and taco beer. No lime.
 
Our economy beer in college was Busch beer. $3.29/12 pack. The legal age was also 18.

After the first couple, you didn't taste them any more.

This is why I never owned a CZ.
 
Our economy beer in college was Busch beer. $3.29/12 pack. The legal age was also 18.

After the first couple, you didn't taste them any more.
I drank a crap load of Busch in the early 80’s
 
Carling Black Label

I’ve been looking for it in gas stations since 1975
Hey, Mabel! If the Black Label was the only beer available back then I would have saved a lot of money. I couldn't sand that stuff. But, they did have catchy commercials.
 
Hey, Mabel! If the Black Label was the only beer available back then I would have saved a lot of money. I couldn't sand that stuff. But, they did have catchy commercials.
They had the worst quality control ever. It tasted different every time I bought it, but the pitchers of Carling draft at Doc’s Rock Shop in Asheville around 1975 were great.
 
They had the worst quality control ever. It tasted different every time I bought it, but the pitchers of Carling draft at Doc’s Rock Shop in Asheville around 1975 were great.
Nobody in my AO had Carling on draft. I don't know if I'd been brave enough to try it if they had.
 
And before Busch, there was Busch Bavarian.

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For cheap guzzling beer, Miller High Life. It used to be called the "champagne of bottled beers".
For good non-cheap beer it's a German Hefeweizen.
 
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I think I drank my first beer in 1971.

Geezer was probably 30 by then.
I remember my first taste of beer like it was yesterday. My day drank Schlitz. One hot summer Saturday he was doing some yard work and had Some Schliyz in the basement. He'd open one take a gulp, go out side and work a few minutes, come back in for another gulp, and repeat for a couple of 6 packs.
Mom had always told me not to drink that stuff, it was awful and tasted nasty. I listened to her...but dad sure did seem to like it. That Saturday, after dad had just opened one, with a church key, and took the first gulp and went outside, I saw my chance. I grabbed the can and turned it up and took a big gulp. I swallowed it and immediately had a big burp.
Here's where confusion set in. I loved my mama and I knew my mama loved me. But, had my mamma lied to me? Was she just mistaken? This was the best stuff I had ever tasted. After that day, I stole many more gulps. I was 7 years old that hot summer day in 1960. I would turn 8 that September.
 
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I remember my first taste of beer like it was yesterday. My day drank Schlitz. One hot summer Saturday he was doing some yard work and had Some Schliyz in the basement. He'd open one take a gulp, go out side and work a few minutes, come back in for another gulp, and repeat for a couple of 6 packs.
Mom had always told me not to drink that stuff, it was awful and tasted nasty. I listened to her...but dad sure did seem to like it. That Saturday, after dad had just opened one, with a church key, and took the first gulp and went outside, I saw my chance. I grabbed the can and turned it up and took a big gulp. I swallowed it and immediately had a big burp.
Here's where confusion set in. I loved my mama and I knew my mama loved me. But, had my mamma lied to me? Was she just mistaken? This was the best stuff I had ever tasted. After that day, I stole many more gulps. I was 7 years old that hot summer day in 1960. I would turn 8 that September.
We used to be just two years apart. Every birthday you get two years older than me.
 
I'm medicated, it's had an effect on my math. I've changed it about 4 times now. I was 6 or 7. Born September. Maybe I could start a poll, pole and let some of the math nerds figger it out for me.
 
Back in the days on the reservation, we would drink Coors Light in our mobile homes.

Thank God I'm rich, now.
 
I was drinking in '75 if you count my dad slipping me pony bottles of Miller at 5 y/o when my mother wasn't looking.

As a very German family, if you did a man's work, you drank a man's drink. At 11 or 12 & throwin' hay or choppin' sileage in the summer, that meant Grandma making hourly runs to the field with a cooler fulla PBR or Schlitz on ice.

I like big, bold high alcohol craft beers on occasion, but Hamm's or Coors will do me just fine for day to day.
 
I was drinking in '75 if you count my dad slipping me pony bottles of Miller at 5 y/o when my mother wasn't looking.

As a very German family, if you did a man's work, you drank a man's drink. At 11 or 12 & throwin' hay or choppin' sileage in the summer, that meant Grandma making hourly runs to the field with a cooler fulla PBR or Schlitz on ice.

I like big, bold high alcohol craft beers on occasion, but Hamm's or Coors will do me just fine for day to day.

That's probably why you have such a girlish figure.
 
For cheap guzzling beer, Miller High Life. It used to be called the "champagne of bottled beers".
For good non-cheap beer it's a German Hefeweizen.
Daddy drank Miller when I was little. That was the first beer I ever tried.
 
Who drinks beer because it’s cheap or expensive?

I should be partaken of for taste alone.

and ABV

Any 4.0-4.5 crap is like beer flavored water. It no worky.

It needs to be 5.0 +
 
I'm surprised nobody has owned up to drinking Natural Light.
 
I'm surprised nobody has owned up to drinking Natural Light.
I drank a case of it one time with a friend, who also drank a case, while standing in Lake Wylie waist deep one 100 degree Saturday afternoon. I think they left out the ethanol, so I didn’t drink it again.
 
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I drank a case of it one time with a friend, who also drank a case, while standing in Lake Wylie waist deep one 100 degree Saturday afternoon. I think they left out the ethanol, so I didn’t drink it again.
I bet the lake level rose 2ft.
 
Best cheap beer with a kick is IceHouse. The best cheap "premium" beer is Miller Highlife.

Everybody has their favorites, but no way Stella, Red Oak, the Modelos and Coronas, and some of those others count as cheap beers. Those Mexican beers might be cheap down south, but I heard other things are too. Once you "import" them, the prices go up.
 
I bet the lake level rose 2ft.
The water was already like a bathtub it was so hot. I probably needed to wash those cut-off bluejeans after that outing.
 
Natty Bo for the win! #DMVoldschool

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I remember their tv advertising jingle from the 1950s or 60s.
"National beer, National beer,
You'll like the taste of National beer.
And while we're at it we're proud to say
That it's brewed on the shores
Of the Chesapeake Bay."
They must have advertised on the Saturday baseball games.
 
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