The cheap beer thread

[lizardth]

Budweiser Select is as cheap as we get.

 

[imported_Mike]

Stone is local and cheap for me. 2 liitre growler is less then $10 to fill up. I'll get Stone Pale Ale or their IPA. If im going for quantity at a party though, I will pick up CL.

 

[Trey22]

Miller Lite on the cheap.

Newcastle on tap ($7 pitchers during happy hour).

 

[BUTCH1]

Piels "big mouth" bottles...

 

[adairusmc]

The cheapest beer I will buy is Henry Weinhard's private reserve.

I only drink beer in bottles, and if the bottle has a twist-off cap then it is unworthy and I refuse to even consider tasting the stuff. Same goes for beer in a clear bottle.

 

[Excelsior]

Yuengling, easily. I think I can get 24 bottles for like 13.99. Thats as cheap as I go with beer.

 

[PhoenixOrion]

PBR

/thread.

 

[foghorn67]

Originally posted by: Kadarin
Coors Light

I concur. The new cans are making summertime easier. I love a good beer, but nothing wrong with Coors light after you get a couple in.

 

[HombrePequeno]

If it's cheap beer, it's gotta be PBR.

One of the greatest billoards I've ever seen though was by Keylight. We were driving in Boise, ID when we see a giant billboard with a Keylight can that said "Keylight: Good for special occasions...like Tuesdays."

 

[jiggahertz]

Originally posted by: Sphexi

Originally posted by: pyonir

Originally posted by: AMCRambler
Costs a to get started.Equipment and all that.Once you have everything you can brew enough that youll never have to buy it.

Um...but you'll eventually have to buy more product to brew with...is that relatively cheap?

I was just looking at pricing on some English site, looks like $30USD for enough product to make 45-50 pints worth of beer. That's a hell of a deal considering how much a pint costs in a bar these days.

It comes out to be about $1.50 for a beer which isn't bad, but I wouldn't call it a cheap beer. I'd recommend getting into it for a hobby and not a way to save money.

 

[amish]

Originally posted by: PhoenixOrion
PBR

/thread.

 

[TwiceOver]

If I had to drink cheap beer it would be MGD.

 

[Casawi]

High Life is my cheapest beer these days. It used to be ICE house. I still buy high life all the time, I like pounding it ...lol..ummm I am ganna drink some tonight.

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: jimmythesuperstar
I have a job, so I buy 6-pack $4.99 Honey Brown or I may go nutz and pay $7.99 6-pack Samual Adams, damn sometimes I get crazy like that, wanting to spend money and all.

I buy 12 packs of John Dundees Honey Brown for $7.99. That's very reasonable for a beer that smooth. It's a really decent brew that works well both in the summer and the winter.

 

[AMCRambler]

Originally posted by: pyonir

Originally posted by: Sphexi

Originally posted by: pyonir

Originally posted by: AMCRambler
Costs a to get started.Equipment and all that.Once you have everything you can brew enough that youll never have to buy it.

Um...but you'll eventually have to buy more product to brew with...is that relatively cheap?

I was just looking at pricing on some English site, looks like $30USD for enough product to make 45-50 pints worth of beer. That's a hell of a deal considering how much a pint costs in a bar these days.

Hell yeah i'd say that's pretty good...dang....

Like most things, the more you make, the cheaper it gets. A fellow I work with brews like 300 gallons a year. Never has to buy beer. He's got a pretty nice amateur setup from what he's told me. Couple of 5 gallon buckets for mixing stuff, a big pot and a propane burner that he cooks it on, two fermenting containers(this is key for getting the beer to clarify otherwise it's cloudy) and a couple of small kegs and a CO2 setup for carbonating it. It will probably cost a couple of hundred to buy all the equipment, but it should pay for itself in a couple years if you make enough.
I guess it all comes down to how much beer you drink, whether or not it's worth brewing it yourself. It's fun for a hobby though. I've got a Mr. Beer kit myself that will make about 8 quarts per brew. It's only a one stage brewing set up though so it usually doesn't taste excellent. It's drinkable though and an enjoyable hobby. Pretty easy too!

 

[quakefiend420]

moosehead is pretty good for cheap beer

 

[Bartolo]

Seeing as how I live in Ontario and the cheapest legal price is a buck a bottle plus deposit, my fav cheap beer is Lakeport Honey Lager, which 24 for 24. But at the moment I'm living in New Brunswick and they don't have discount brands, so all beer costs basically the same, 12 pack for over $18.

 

[Tifababy]

Originally posted by: AMCRambler

Originally posted by: pyonir

Originally posted by: Sphexi

Originally posted by: pyonir

Originally posted by: AMCRambler
Costs a to get started.Equipment and all that.Once you have everything you can brew enough that youll never have to buy it.

Um...but you'll eventually have to buy more product to brew with...is that relatively cheap?

I was just looking at pricing on some English site, looks like $30USD for enough product to make 45-50 pints worth of beer. That's a hell of a deal considering how much a pint costs in a bar these days.

Hell yeah i'd say that's pretty good...dang....

Like most things, the more you make, the cheaper it gets. A fellow I work with brews like 300 gallons a year. Never has to buy beer. He's got a pretty nice amateur setup from what he's told me. Couple of 5 gallon buckets for mixing stuff, a big pot and a propane burner that he cooks it on, two fermenting containers(this is key for getting the beer to clarify otherwise it's cloudy) and a couple of small kegs and a CO2 setup for carbonating it. It will probably cost a couple of hundred to buy all the equipment, but it should pay for itself in a couple years if you make enough.
I guess it all comes down to how much beer you drink, whether or not it's worth brewing it yourself. It's fun for a hobby though. I've got a Mr. Beer kit myself that will make about 8 quarts per brew. It's only a one stage brewing set up though so it usually doesn't taste excellent. It's drinkable though and an enjoyable hobby. Pretty easy too!

I'm just getting into home brew. I'll be brewing my first batch tomorrow. I got 3 kegs, hoses, connectors, brewing supplies and ingredients for 10 gallons for just under $400, but I already had a co2 tank and regulator from my kegerator. So if you bought everything new, it would be around $500. I didn't want to get into homebrew to save money, I wanted to drink better beer. I could only get Miller lite, bud light or Michelob golden light in kegs at my local liquor store. My first batch of ingredients is going to be a sam adam's summer ale clone and it cost around $28 after shipping, which comes out to about $0.53/12 oz beer, much cheaper than I can buy it in bottles (probably $12.99/12 pack here). So of course there is the big investment in equipment up front, but after a few years I'll probably be ahead...although I'll probably keep buying more equipment, but it's a hobby.

 

[ggnl]

Shiner Bock is choice #1 for relatively cheap (10.49 for 12 pack of longnecks). 24s of Hurricane High Grav if I'm really hurting for cash (1.29 each).

I :heart: malt liquor.

 

[KMc]

Originally posted by: foghorn67

Originally posted by: Kadarin
Coors Light

I concur. The new cans are making summertime easier. I love a good beer, but nothing wrong with Coors light after you get a couple in.

Me too. I used to be a Miller Lite fan, but Coors Light is now my staple cheap beer. Plus I can get 20 oz. drafts of it for $2 at my local watering hole.

 

[aircooled]

For cheap beer, I pick Icehouse.

 

[Turin39789]

Originally posted by: Canai
My beer pong beer (closest to 'cheap' that I drink) is Spaten.

Back when I was a foolish beer noob, I bough Coors light for beer pong. Every once in a while I'll get a 12 pack for when I go kayaking, but other than that, I'm a regular beer snob haha.

One of these days I want to play beer pong with imperial stouts.

 

[PepePeru]

natty light

 

[KMFJD]

Lakeport Pilsner , 29.40 for a case of 24 cans , cheapest i can get in Canada

 

[SirStev0]

Lionshead Pilsner by Lion's brewery in Wilkes-barre, PA. $12.00 for a 24 pack of bottles. Puzzles underneath the caps. Really good tasting beer for how cheap it is. Not really a microbrew, just a really old brewery that somehow managed to stay afloat.