Mustachian Beer?

[Fishindude]

OK beer drinkers, what's your favorite low priced beer for the money?

My son in law is always one for "value" when purchasing beer, frequently picks up 30 packs of Busch, Keystone, Milwaukees Best, etc.
I'm a Miller High Life guy, but it's a bit more money.

[DJStrong]

Too much of a snob to go cheap, yuengling is the cheapest I will go. 

Keystone is the right answer though, it is perfect if you ever had a Coors Light and said "what if this was just a little worse?"

[onlykelsey]

OK beer drinkers, what's your favorite low priced beer for the money?

My son in law is always one for "value" when purchasing beer, frequently picks up 30 packs of Busch, Keystone, Milwaukees Best, etc.
I'm a Miller High Life guy, but it's a bit more money.

Lonestar!  But it's only cheap in/around the Lonestar State.

[alsoknownasDean]

The Aldi beers take the cake because they're generally quite good and cheaper than most. The Fraser Briggs beer is good for about $32 for a 24 pack.

At the ~$40 per 24 that Carlton and VB and the like go for in bottleshops, I'd rather put a bit extra in and get something nicer.

Although, wine is much cheaper here. I like the Aldi wines and they're quite inexpensive.

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[lemonlyman]

Coors light is my go to if I just want to go cheap.

[Miskatonic]

Grain Belt is the furthest down the ladder I'm willing to go. It is the best cheap American beer, after all.

[Chris22]

Too much of a snob to go cheap, yuengling is the cheapest I will go. 

Keystone is the right answer though, it is perfect if you ever had a Coors Light and said "what if this was just a little worse?"

Yuengling, Sam Adams, and Goose Island 312 are my go-to "just north of cheap macrobrew cheap beer" beers. 

But honestly, I'm a sucker for a cold can of Miller Lite, especially on the patio on a hot day. 

For "good beer" I do Lagunitas generally, but even that isn't that expensive.

[Gone Fishing]

I'm on Beast Light at the moment, but it changes from time to time.  I got a Bud Light at a restaurant a while back because it was on special.  Couldn't believe how watery/bland it was.  Didn't remember it being that bad in college. 

The most mustachian answer would probably be to buy a 12 of something good and make it last a month, and while I like the IPAs, I seem to prefer something lighter these days.

It's been over a decade since I had any Lonestar but I remember it tasting salty.  Around here, High Life often goes on sale for prices similar to the cheapest stuff.  Too bad stocking up is not conducive to saving money... 

[HPstache]

Another vote for coors lite

[eljefe-speaks]

I'm the first to bust out PBR? One of my favorites restaurants in town sells it for $3 / 24 oz can, woot!

[PathtoFIRE]

I see the National Beer of Texas was already mentioned, so I'll just add Shiner Bock, especially as it's expanded outside of Texas in recent years. It's more in the $1/bottle/can range though.

[WranglerBowman]

Generally I go with Keystone for any event where I know I'll be doing some serious boozing because of how cheap it is.  If you're looking for a beer that will get you the most messed up possible for the cheapest price Beast Ice should do the trick, but FYI it does have a side effect not mentioned anywhere which causes you to pee in 2nd drawer of your clothes dresser when you're under the influence of the Ice Beast...beware of the Ice Beast.

[wienerdog]

beware of the Ice Beast.

Release the Ice Beast!

[Jon Bon]

I'd throw in a plug for serria nevada. It's a good beer from a large craft Brewer at a decent price. Their pale ale is great and their iipa torpedo is usually the same price for a higher alcohol content. So 1-2 torpedo is all you need!!

[StarBright]

Although, wine is much cheaper here. I like the Aldi wines and they're quite inexpensive.

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AlsoknownasDean - which wines do you like from Aldi? I've probably tried about a dozen at this point and haven't really enjoyed any of them. Please give me suggestions!

At this point I'd rather drive an hour and make a Trader Joes run and buy Red Fin for $4 a bottle then spend $6 on anything from my Aldi (6$ is the cheapest wine) up the street.

[Miskatonic]

If your #1 goal is to get drunk on beer, make sure you factor in ABV. Here's a handy chart. The sweet spot for great taste + decent price/ABV seems to be Dale's Pale Ale and New Belgium Ranger (of the beers included on this particular list).

[BurtMacklin]

I'm kind of a beer snob and I generally don't drink Light beer. So the cheapest beer that I like is Yuengling.

[WranglerBowman]

If your #1 goal is to get drunk on beer, make sure you factor in ABV. Here's a handy chart. The sweet spot for great taste + decent price/ABV seems to be Dale's Pale Ale and New Belgium Ranger (of the beers included on this particular list).

Ha, nailed it!  Refering to the winner of the beer-gets-you-the-drunkest-the-cheapest-abv-price-chart

beware of the Ice Beast.

Release the Ice Beast!

+5

[PARedbeard]

Yuengling is my "cheap beer" of choice.

[jorjor]

Mixed 12s of Oskar Blues stuff isn't priced too badly. Plus, Oskar Blues is awesome.

If I want to spend less on beer, I'll just drink less beer. Or I'll grab some PBR. Better than the other light beer options.

[Guses]

I brew my own.

My 6.5% ABV 60 IBU IPA cost about 18$ in grains and hops. This is equivalent to about 55 commercial sized beers so 0.32$ per beer.

If you wanted to go cheaper (both in terms of flavor and price), you could probably do a light blonde for like 6-9$.

[Catmandew]

If you're going best bang for your buck and your diet, Natural Ice.

Natural Ice - 25oz can - $1 - $1.19/can and 130 calories per 12oz and 5.9% ABV.

This is the cheapest and most calorie efficient beer on the market people!!

But if you want something a touch classier, I'd recommend the generic beers Trader Joe's offers. They're all pretty good and are usually $1ish a bottle.

[Fishindude]

When I get a little west of here, I like Stag beer too.
See it a lot in Missouri and Illinois.

Used to drink lots of Old Milwaukee, and still like it.

[Panfish]

I love cheap beer. PBR, Busch, Hamms, Rainier, Olympia (brewed by Papst, about $1 cheaper a 12 pack, and in my opinion better), and Grain Belt is probably my favorite but is super localized to the upper Midwest.  These are all full flavored American Lagers that actually have some taste instead of Budweiser, Coors, etc. that are very watered down to the masses.  I love Yuengling but I never travel east of the Mississippi, so I only have one once ever 3 - 5 year.  I think Moose Drool out of Big Sky Brewing is a great deal when you can find it for a $1/beer.  I think Grain Belt Nordeast is the best cheep beer, it's semi dark and a 6 pack of 16 ouncers is usually about 5 bucks. It kind of tastes like if Yuengling and Grain Belt had a baby, alas I have left the comforts of the upper Midwest.

[Miskatonic]

Seconding Panfish's recommendation of Grain Belt Nordeast. Grab some if you ever find yourself "Up Nort"!

[Gone Fishing]

If you're going best bang for your buck and your diet, Natural Ice.

Natural Ice - 25oz can - $1 - $1.19/can and 130 calories per 12oz and 5.9% ABV.

This is the cheapest and most calorie efficient beer on the market people!!

But if you want something a touch classier, I'd recommend the generic beers Trader Joe's offers. They're all pretty good and are usually $1ish a bottle.

Natty Ice is quite drinkable.  Probably the best 5.9 ice beer out there.  I've never looked at the calorie count, but it makes sense, given the beer has a very "thin" mouth feel. The extra carbs are what thicken up beer.

[Chris22]

If you're going best bang for your buck and your diet, Natural Ice.

Natural Ice - 25oz can - $1 - $1.19/can and 130 calories per 12oz and 5.9% ABV.

This is the cheapest and most calorie efficient beer on the market people!!

But if you want something a touch classier, I'd recommend the generic beers Trader Joe's offers. They're all pretty good and are usually $1ish a bottle.

Natty gives me a serious case of the old mudd butt.  Do Not Want.

[acroy]

PBR, Miller High Life,

Walmart had 'Steel Reserve 211' for a while for smoking price. Great stuff, and a very high %. Got the job done!

[BlueHouse]

,I actually like Kirkland beer. Tastes like corona to me

[Tetsuya Hondo]

As a fancy boy with just a few whispy mustache hairs, I recommend cases of Fat Tire at Costco for about a buck a bottle.

Haven't done the likes of Keystone, Natty Ice, etc. since college. Although, I've since learned that beer shouldn't give you mud-butt.

[EuroGap]

I brew my own beer. Right now I have a fresh quite hopsy Pale Ale going, and will be bottling 48 11oz bottles next week. It really turns out quite economic, plus its really fun.

This round will turn out at 78 cents (USD) per bottle. Plus the bottles just go right back to the next batch so it's a closed loop system :)

[Batastrophe]

When buying at the store, I go Fosters Ale 24oz can 5.5ABV at $1.12 per 12oz.  If I want high-end kickass craft beer, I make it myself for about $0.40 a bottle. ABV varies depending what I'm making. Currently have a Hef and an Irish Red bottle conditioning.

[2Birds1Stone]

I'd throw in a plug for serria nevada. It's a good beer from a large craft Brewer at a decent price. Their pale ale is great and their iipa torpedo is usually the same price for a higher alcohol content. So 1-2 torpedo is all you need!!

They the local bevy has a sale on Sierra Nevada I am able ot get 12 packs of Torpedo for $14.99 which is great for a good IPA.

Yuengling is my go to for BBQ's and day drinking. A close second is Becks (cheap around here for some reason)

[Proud Foot]

My consistent cheap beer choice is Boulevard Wheat.  I can get it for around $6/6pack. For the golf beers it's always Coors Light.

[JimLahey]

As a fancy boy with just a few whispy mustache hairs, I recommend cases of Fat Tire at Costco for about a buck a bottle.

Haven't done the likes of Keystone, Natty Ice, etc. since college. Although, I've since learned that beer shouldn't give you mud-butt.

We need a Costco. I love Fat Tire but the best deal i've found is about $14 for a 12 pack at Wal-Mart. The last time I looked they either didn't have it in stock or weren't carrying it any more. Sam's Club has a 24 pack of Blue Moon for $24 but I haven't found Fat Tire there. I'm not above drinking PBR or Busch Light if i'm looking for something cheap.

[Vertical Mode]

For me, it's context-dependent.

After playing rec league hockey or softball (or during!), light beer just hits the spot, not too heavy or too hoppy considering you're already pretty dehydrated. Bud Light, Coors Light, Miller, PBR, etc. are interchangeable depending on whose turn it is to bring 'em!

At a bar, I will occasionally order a Narragansett Lager (not sure how far these get distributed? $3 tallboys at the local dive) or a Yuengling (or perhaps a "Chetty", were I back in Pottsville).

[Tetsuya Hondo]

We need a Costco. I love Fat Tire but the best deal i've found is about $14 for a 12 pack at Wal-Mart. The last time I looked they either didn't have it in stock or weren't carrying it any more. Sam's Club has a 24 pack of Blue Moon for $24 but I haven't found Fat Tire there. I'm not above drinking PBR or Busch Light if i'm looking for something cheap.

It varies a lot by region, but we do pretty well at our Costco. They often have 24 packs of Fat Tire, mixed Sam Adams, Stella Artois, Sierra, and an occasional Bells offering (Oberon, Two-hearted, etc.) for around $24. Yuengling is no more than $18 if even that.

[Paul der Krake]

No love for Budweiser (the standard, NOT Bud light)? Cheap, doesn't taste bad, often on sale.

I love a good brew at $10 a pack as much as every NPR listener, but I also like not giving a damn and drinking unpretentious, mass-produced, overly-patriotic, cheap belly filler.

[alsoknownasDean]

No love for Budweiser (the standard, NOT Bud light)? Cheap, doesn't taste bad, often on sale.

I love a good brew at $10 a pack as much as every NPR listener, but I also like not giving a damn and drinking unpretentious, mass-produced, overly-patriotic, cheap belly filler.

It's a bit bland but drinkable. What's the difference between it and Bud Light? (here a light beer means less alcohol, usually around 2.5-3%)

If I'm not buying from Aldi, Carlton Draught isn't too bad, especially on tap. Boags Draught is decent too (better than their premium lager, tbh).

I do make my own, but I try not to much any more because the more I have lying around the place, the more I drink.

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[Paul der Krake]

No love for Budweiser (the standard, NOT Bud light)? Cheap, doesn't taste bad, often on sale.

I love a good brew at $10 a pack as much as every NPR listener, but I also like not giving a damn and drinking unpretentious, mass-produced, overly-patriotic, cheap belly filler.

It's a bit bland but drinkable. What's the difference between it and Bud Light? (here a light beer means less alcohol, usually around 2.5-3%)

Same thing here. Less alcohol, less calories. Bud Light also dominates the market and gets a ton of hate for that.

[Vertical Mode]

No love for Budweiser (the standard, NOT Bud light)? Cheap, doesn't taste bad, often on sale.

I love a good brew at $10 a pack as much as every NPR listener, but I also like not giving a damn and drinking unpretentious, mass-produced, overly-patriotic, cheap belly filler.

I like Bud Heavy, too. Occasionally, it shows up after hockey games and I'll have one, but people usually go with the Light options.

[yuka]

For a lot of reasons I'm bummed out about leaving the CA coast where I live, but I'm excited to get back to the East where you can buy something other than IPAs. I'm always happy with Yuengling unless I just want variety. In CA though, 805 is my favorite I've found (don't know the price, but about $1/bottle).

[rageth]

I don't drink too much, so I splurge and get either New Glarus Spotted Cow (Wisconsin only) or Leinenkugel's Summer Shandy, Blue Moon or Guinness if I'm really splurging.  It's such an uncommon expense, normally in summer when I can ramp up my side hustle income, that I don't feel bad paying a little more for the higher quality.

[CLB]

Though I've almost completely cut out all alcohol from my diet in order to lose weight and help with other health factors, I still consider myself a beer drinker and used to be quite the connoisseur of both wine and beer. Now my wine fridge is full of fruit and veggies. Since I don't buy alcohol, it really helps the budget too.

So, my beer-of-choice these days is whatever is offered by whoever is offering. I only drink when at friends' houses, and most of the time I still just stick to water, except when someone has bought something special for me or there is a homebrew.

[SaskyStache]

Probably not available where most of you are located, but I like Great Western Brewhouse Pilsner as a budget beer. Cheaper than Coors Light in my province's liquor stores and I like it quite a bit more.

Also President's Choice Honey Red isn't bad too either.

[rubybeth]

I usually buy a variety of things, depending on what's on sale, or what the local corner liquor store has when we walk there, which I figure is Mustachian, so whatever we buy is good. :) My favorites are Stella Artois, Hoegaarden, and Heineken. My husband likes IPAs and darker beers but he usually gets local stuff--there are a surprising number of breweries in Minnesota. But none of these are particularly cheap.

If I'm trying to be economical, I will buy Rolling Rock. I like to put lemon in my beer, though. Leinenkugel is good, too. I don't know if that would be considered Mustachian, but it's usually not too expensive.

It's very rare that we buy beer in cans--I don't know why, but I think it's because my husband got me interested in beer and he prefers bottles, so now I do, too.

[Willbrewer]

I've learned a few of tricks that can make cheap beer more palatable. First one, a squeeze of lime can drastically up the drinkability. Second, make Red beer, adding V-8 or tomato juice, plus hot sauce and maybe a little Worcestershire sauce. Third, grab a bottle of Guinness Extra Stout, and add an ounce or so to your can or bottle of cheap beer - really adds a lot of flavor and richness.

Also with cheap beers, try drinking them at different temperatures. An ice-cold beer tastes much different that one that's at 50-55 degrees.

[retiringearly]

I actually like Kirkland Signature Light - $23 for 48 cans.

[brandino29]

Also with cheap beers, try drinking them at different temperatures. An ice-cold beer tastes much different that one that's at 50-55 degrees.

I discovered a couple of years ago that drinking a standard crappy beer (e.g. Bud heavy) at room temperature actually makes the beer much more flavorful and worthwhile.  For whatever odd reason, we as Americans have determined that the closer to the temperature of ice a beer is the better it is, turns out that is flatly wrong.  (Though it does work great for light beers on hot summer days)

[Willbrewer]

Also with cheap beers, try drinking them at different temperatures. An ice-cold beer tastes much different that one that's at 50-55 degrees.

I discovered a couple of years ago that drinking a standard crappy beer (e.g. Bud heavy) at room temperature actually makes the beer much more flavorful and worthwhile.  For whatever odd reason, we as Americans have determined that the closer to the temperature of ice a beer is the better it is, turns out that is flatly wrong.  (Though it does work great for light beers on hot summer days)

The colder the beer, the more pronounced the bittering (hop) flavors. As it warms, the malt flavors become more evident. After prohibition, breweries started pushing colder, lighter bodied beers because it was more profitable to adjust consumers' tastes to lighter beers made using corn and rice as adjuncts, which don't have the same good flavor as the more expensive malted barley used to make "real" beer.