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Celeborn Skywalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-16-11 03:00 PM
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Favorite cheap mass produced American beer?
I gotta go with Coors with Budweiser being a close second. I guess I'm not much of a beer aficionado haha
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The Big Vetolski Donating Member (436 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-16-11 03:09 PM
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1. In a pinch, out of the Big Three I'd have to go with Miller Genuine
Draft, but it's still yuckadoodles. I grew up not too far from the Mexican border where Carta Blanca six packs were cheaper than Coca-Cola ones, and the "Lone Star of Mexico" puts all mass-produced American beers to shame. Now I'm in Cleveland, and Labatt's is almost universally available AND affordable, so that's my most common.

Full disclosure: right now I have a Stella Artois in front of me, so I can't help you much. I think Coors, Bud, and Miller should be avoided if at all possible, in that order.
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Throd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-16-11 03:29 PM
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2. Steel Reserve 211
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21st Century FDR Donating Member (398 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-16-11 04:27 PM
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3. Sam Adams
That's as mass produced as I get. Guinness works too, but it's not American. :beer:
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GoCubsGo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-17-11 07:35 AM
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17. Yeah, but it isn't cheap.
At least not where I live. It costs at least as much as any of the imports and microbrews.
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-16-11 05:36 PM
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4. Old Millwater NA
Regular Old Millwater sucks moose cock, but the NA is actually about the best out there - and cheap.
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-17-11 10:17 AM
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21. Remember their slogan?
"It doesn't get any better than this!"

Yeah, we know. But we buy it anyway, 'cause a bag o' weed ain't cheap.

Ah, the good old days.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-16-11 06:21 PM
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5. PBR easily.
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NightWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-16-11 06:50 PM
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7. I love that for breakfast. I can drink it all day and feel fine in the morning
er I mean the next afternoon.


Plus it contains a natural antihistimine. I dont know if it is the hops or the barley, but it helps my ragweed allergy. Other people have noted this too.
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hibbing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-16-11 09:46 PM
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11. PBR Also
Hi,
My cheap beer of choice when I'm not splurging.

"Selected as America's Best in 1893", hehehe

Peace
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Brickbat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-16-11 06:41 PM
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6. It's not American, but I love Molson. It's our cheap everyday table beer.
I also am a sucker for Sam Adams' Winter Ale. If I can't get those, it's Leinie's or Summit.
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-16-11 06:56 PM
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8. Blatz for the name alone
Let's get Blatzed!
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abq e streeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-16-11 06:59 PM
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9. I've always been a fan of good bud, so...
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-16-11 08:35 PM
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10. yeungling
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GoCubsGo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-17-11 07:38 AM
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18. That and Old Style
I can't get Old Style here, so Yuengling it is. Yuengling Light to be specific. Trying to keep my ass from expanding faster than it already is, and this is as "good" as any light beer--not that there is any such thing as a good light beer. But, after 10 hours a day working outside in the South Carolina heat and humidity, a light beer actually hits the spot.
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Patiod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-17-11 10:13 AM
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20. They gave it away free at a college class reunion
many years ago, and I actually liked it. Especially Yuengling Lager.
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-16-11 11:35 PM
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12. Shiner Bock is the cheapest stuff I'll allow in my house.
I drink something from A-B or Miller-Coors and I wonder "Do I drink this, or did I already?"
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-16-11 11:51 PM
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14. LOL!
:thumbsup:
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Tallulah Donating Member (127 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-16-11 11:47 PM
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13. Blue Moon
If you drink it fast with a straw you get buzzed quick.

I heard that. LOL.
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provis99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-17-11 02:02 AM
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15. Schlitz.
Edited on Sun Jul-17-11 02:07 AM by provis99
Because they abandoned the mass-market slop recipe that dominated in the 1960s-1990s, phoned up some old Schlitz brewers, and reconstructed the recipe they used in the old days.

And sorry, Budweiser ain't American. It's Belgian.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jul/17/fooddrinks.useconomy
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Earth Bound Misfit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-17-11 07:13 AM
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16. Sam Adams...


:evilgrin:
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-17-11 08:24 AM
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19. Life is too short to drink cheap beer.
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Celeborn Skywalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-17-11 10:32 PM
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26. I just like it better.
I know it's weird. I like higher end whiskeys, rums, tequilas, etc., but for some reason, cheap, American, straw-colored beer is the taste I prefer.
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T_i_B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-17-11 02:03 PM
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22. Does Sierra Nevada Pale Ale count?
Well you can get it in UK supermarkets!

Quite a few places round where I am sell Brooklyn Lager as well.
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21st Century FDR Donating Member (398 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-17-11 04:26 PM
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23. I had no idea Sierra Nevada exported to the UK
Hell, I didn't think it made it any further than the West Coast of the US.

I think they're still considered a "micro brewery" even though they're probably one of the larger ones, with 5 year-round products, 4 seasonals, and several "limited edition" brews. All good stuff too :beer:
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T_i_B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-17-11 04:32 PM
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24. I was amazed to find out that people on the East Coast don't get it
As Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is available in a number of UK supermarkets. Heck even my local pub stocks a range of their beers.

There's a number of "craft" breweries whose beers are becoming increasingly available in the UK. Odell, Flying Dog, Goose Island, Brooklyn and the like. Although sadly Dogfishhead have stopped exporting over here. :-(
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kwassa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-17-11 09:35 PM
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25. Yeah, we get. all the Sierra Nevada beers here on the East Coast.
I used to buy it in the old days, but newer and better micro-breweries offer better beers.

My town has a Dogfishhead brew pub. There are only two. The other is near their brewery in Delaware.

I like Flying Dog myself.
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Celeborn Skywalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-17-11 10:33 PM
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27. What's a good UK beer?
It can be mass-produced
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T_i_B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-11 12:14 AM
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29. Where to start?
Edited on Mon Jul-18-11 12:20 AM by T_i_B
Loads of great British beer out there. But most good British beer is cask conditioned real ale, and that doesn't travel very well. It usually works out cheaper then keg beer in UK pubs but I doubt it will be quite such good value after it's been exported.

I'd suggest Thornbridge (Kipling & Japipur) and Brewdog (Punk IPA & 5am Saint) as 2 good British breweries to start off with, although I would not be suprised if both those breweries wares are quite pricey.
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Spider Jerusalem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-11 03:21 AM
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32. A few:
Samuel Smith's Pure Brewed Lager (not usually a fan of lagers, but this one is not bad at all)
Young's Double Chocolate Stout (stout tastes a bit of chocolate anyway, from the malt, but they add real chocolate during the brewing)
Mackeson's Triple Stout
Theakston's Old Peculier
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T_i_B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-11 06:25 AM
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36. Dunno if they export it....
....but Saltaire Triple Chocoholic is awesome!

Marble Chocolate Stout is also excellent but that won't be cheap.
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trackfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-17-11 10:42 PM
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28. I guess Coors.
In the old days, when there were actually more than 3 or 4, I liked Schiltz; however, now that I'm much older, I pretty much realize that what my father always said, is pretty much true, i.e. that they all taste the same. (I always thought that he just said that so he could by whatever was on sale, being a child of the depression).

http://martinigod.com/blog.htm
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-11 12:23 AM
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30. Henry Weinhard's
Either Private Reserve or Blue Boar. Brewed in Oregon. Good stuff.
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Kablooie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-11 02:53 AM
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31. Where's Hamms when you need it? From the land of sky blue waters.
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southerncrone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-11 03:27 AM
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33. Yeungling
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yankeepants Donating Member (602 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-11 03:43 AM
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34. Rolling Rock
"Old 33" Made from the sparkling waters of the Lehigh Valley of Latrobe, PA
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-11 06:49 AM
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37. Sparkling water of Lehigh Vally my ass. It's made from that dirty river in Philly
A truck driver once told me that so it must be true.
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eShirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-11 05:00 AM
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35. if you mean ultra-cheap, then Miller High Life "The Champagne of Beers" ("union made")
here a 30 pack is maybe $1 more than Keystone and Milwaukee's Best, which are carbonated alcohol water that was briefly shown a photo of barley and one of hops
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hifiguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-11 09:15 AM
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38. Grain Belt Premium
a Minnesota tradition. A malty and refreshing brew, absolutely nothing tastes better on a hot and muggy day than an ice cold GBP.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-11 09:25 AM
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39. Schaefer - because it's the one beer to have when you're having more then one
Edited on Mon Jul-18-11 09:28 AM by LynneSin
:D

Even Lucille Ball agrees with me:
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dembotoz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-11 09:33 AM
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40. Uncles favorite--usa beer (u save alot) whatever is cheaper on sale
I have had some might fine cheap brews and some might awful ones too.

although i DO NOT EVER BUY BUDWEISER products
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Gidney N Cloyd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-11 10:43 AM
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41. Miller Genuine Draft
I can't even drink the NA stuff from Anheuser-Busch without feeling sick the next morning.
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HappyMe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-11 12:00 PM
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42. When you say Budweiser, you've said it all!
That and the PBR.
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kick-ass-bob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-11 12:56 PM
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43. Miller, then Coors.
But only Miller because that's what more neighbors drink than anything else. When I bought Coors for New Years, the last one was gone as of 2 weeks ago.

If it was Miller, it would have all been gone that night.

I don't want cheap beer clogging my fridge for that long...
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