The cheap beer thread

[clamum]

Icehouse, Blatz, Old Milwaukee, Milwaukee's Best, ALL GOOD SH!T.

 

[Casawi]

Originally posted by: clamum
Icehouse, Blatz, Old Milwaukee, Milwaukee's Best, ALL GOOD SH!T.

Blatz is a good one. Any of you folks tried it ?

 

[Drako]

Red White & Blue, back in my beer swilling days.

MGD in modern times .

 

[djheater]

Since you live in MN, you should stop by or order from Midwest Supplies

They're a great stroe with great service.
Brewing is easy, fun, and no other hobby give you quite the same roi, IMO. Maybe, that's 'cause I love beer.

DO NOT HOMEBREW TO SAVE MONEY.
I look at it as a wash, I brew great fresh beer for cheaper than I could buy a similar (and never as good) product at the store, but it's nowhere near as inexpensive as a 30 pack of coors light.

If you're unemployed, and don't have extra cash, just keep buying pbr 'til you can afford a setup.

For a beginner you can't go wrong with the following kit:

Starter kit.

You'll need a big kettle that can boil about 3 gallons, and a stove with sufficient power to boil it and you can save sam adams bottles (or any non twist off).

 

[AnthroAndStargate]

Originally posted by: andylawcc
Natural Light from Walmart....

it was like $16.99 for a case of 30-plus cans when I was in Missouri.
sad to find out the "best deal" now here in LA is $16.99 for a case of 18/20 can.

Ewww! That is Frat2O

 

[Coquito]

$24 for a case of anything made by Butternuts.
$13-14 for a case of Yeungling when it's on sale.
$22 for Spaten Oktoberfest @ Costco whenever they start carrying it.

 

[JakwoW]

Henry Weinhard's Private Reserve FTW.

But natural light usually fills my fridge because I'm a cheap bastard.

 

[wheresmybacon]

PBR

 

[JasonCoder]

Originally posted by: Fmr12B
Cheap and one of my favorite beers: Miller Lite

18pk bottles 9.99

Wow dude, where do you live and what store stocks 18pk bottles of Lite? Seriously.

 

[SampSon]

Utica Club. $7.99 for a case.

 

[JasonCoder]

Originally posted by: 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.

Thought you guys were talking about beer bongs until about the 2nd time it got misspelled. Looked up beer pong, damn that's a deadly looking game. Worse than Three Man.

 

[compuwiz1]

My local shell gas station has Natural Ice for $7.68 per 18 pak. Not really good beer, but it WILL mess you up, if that's what you're after.

 

[pyonir]

Originally posted by: 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.

Thanks for all the info guys...i'm definintely going to give it a shot when i get the scratch together. Sounds fun...and i always love trying different kinds of beers. Brewing my own seems like a great answer.

Originally posted by: djheater
Since you live in MN, you should stop by or order from Midwest Supplies

They're a great stroe with great service.
Brewing is easy, fun, and no other hobby give you quite the same roi, IMO. Maybe, that's 'cause I love beer.

DO NOT HOMEBREW TO SAVE MONEY.
I look at it as a wash, I brew great fresh beer for cheaper than I could buy a similar (and never as good) product at the store, but it's nowhere near as inexpensive as a 30 pack of coors light.

If you're unemployed, and don't have extra cash, just keep buying pbr 'til you can afford a setup.

For a beginner you can't go wrong with the following kit:

Starter kit.

You'll need a big kettle that can boil about 3 gallons, and a stove with sufficient power to boil it and you can save sam adams bottles (or any non twist off).

Thanks for the heads up on a place to go man...appreciate it. I'll def be checking it out in the future.

 

[jiggahertz]

Originally posted by: 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.

I assume this is for a 10 gal batch? I'm paying around $30 per 5 gallon batch at my local homebrew store. Where did you find the sam summer clone for that price?

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Local brew supply stores are the best but, if you can't locate one in your area, try here.
I echo the comment about not getting into home brewing to save money. I'd say it's a wash. The one thing you do learn after doing a few batches of homebrew is that "Life's too short to drink bad beer."

 

[Colt45]

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[PHiuR]

pabst blue ribbon>genny cream ale>miller high life>coors light>keystones

 

[HombrePequeno]

Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
Steel Reserve or Colt 45. I actually like the taste of Colt, but Steel Reserve just needs to be chugged before you gag.
Get drunk for 5$ a day. By DangerAardvark

I agree with Colt 45. I actually think it tastes alright. Unfortunately the only place I can find it here in Seattle is the liquor store that sells it for $6 for a six-pack of tall boys.

Some cheap beer that i completely try to avoid are Key Light and Natty Light. Good ol' frat in a can. I've had enough of those during my four years in the fraternity to last several lifetimes.

 

[pyonir]

Picked up a sixer of Big Sky Summer Honey today with my 24 of Gluek. Pretty darn good stuff. I still like Honey Brown the most of this type of beer...but it's still very good.

 

[Red Dawn]

I drink about 6 beers in a year and it's always a beer someone has bought me so I don't spare any expense:beer::thumbsup:

 

[alkemyst]

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'd say most have a job too, but if you are buying beer only 6 at a time...you really aren't beer drinker.

I like mich ultra because I feel less guilty about it even though most of the 'fat' is in the alcohol.

BJ's and Costco have it for around $18 in 24 bottles/can sizes. I used to drink Guinness Stout exclusively, but that was packing on the weight.

I used to consume no less than 60 beers a week, sometimes into the 100's.

I like beer, I miss it; but when I bought my house I have stuck to 12 over the weekend since. It's a savings of close to $300 per month.

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

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'd say most have a job too, but if you are buying beer only 6 at a time...you really aren't beer drinker.

I like mich ultra because I feel less guilty about it even though most of the 'fat' is in the alcohol.

BJ's and Costco have it for around $18 in 24 bottles/can sizes. I used to drink Guinness Stout exclusively, but that was packing on the weight.

I used to consume no less than 60 beers a week, sometimes into the 100's.

I like beer, I miss it; but when I bought my house I have stuck to 12 over the weekend since. It's a savings of close to $300 per month.

Now you, my friend, are a perfect candidate for homebrewing. It's really not that hard, the community is completely cool, and YOU'LL BE MAKING BEER.

Seriously, check it out.

 

[herm0016]

Originally posted by: Casawi

Originally posted by: clamum
Icehouse, Blatz, Old Milwaukee, Milwaukee's Best, ALL GOOD SH!T.

Blatz is a good one. Any of you folks tried it ?

blatz is good, best cheap beer i know of.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: djheater
Now you, my friend, are a perfect candidate for homebrewing. It's really not that hard, the community is completely cool, and YOU'LL BE MAKING BEER.

Seriously, check it out.

I have, I like to drink my beer after work instead of working to drink it

It looks interesting, but not my thing. I really get irritated by those queer beer drinkers that go on and on in a bar about their Stella's or how X beer is so much better than any of the 20 or so beers on tap at the time and then the homebrewer will chime in about how it's so much better back at home with his own beer.

:beer::;:beer: