A Controversial Question: What is the best crappy beer?

[Chrisbrewbeers]

IM not sure if I'm spoiled on homebrew but I had a fosters oil can that was intolerable and it usually is alright for filling in. PBR is the best for price where I live but Heineken, black crowns are ok with me or corona. Those latter 3 are still 2 times more than PBR. I usually see running out of homebrew as an opportunity to try nice commercial beers I have yet to experience.

 

[KendallAdkins]

Oh, I forgot all about Black Crown. That's a solid BMC. Pricewise here though that and New Belgium are the same price so that's an obvious choice.

 

[ReverbDude]

Lone Star

 

[Paps]

TBH i think the price over/under to define crappy beer should be stated.
PBR is cheaper than Budweiser, Bud is cheaper than Shiner Bock, Shiner is cheaper than ***** Modelo and on Up.
Generally i'd drink these in that order if price were the priority and opposite if taste were the priority.If the taste gets worse than say regular Budweiser.....i'd probably just buy some hard liqour instead.

 

[MaxStout]

Shiner Bock
Grain Belt Nordeast
Coors

But the best "crappy" beer is the one given to you while a guest in someone's house. Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

 

[wort_bear]

My current fave is moosehead lager. Just crisp and invisible.

I used to like Budweiser, but the quality seems to have gone down since it was bought out. Yuengling is good but a little sweet. On a hot day in the middle of the afternoon, a freezing-cold Miller Lite is basically carbonated water, but hard to beat...

 

[DaNewf]

My family humors me for brewing my own beer but they would disown me if I paid money for anything that didn't have Molson on the label.

 

[Yreval]

Before my first homebrew a couple months ago, I wanted to stock up on bottles quickly. Buying empty longneck bottles was $15/24, and buying *filled* Yuengling and PBR bottles was $17/24. I thought the choice was pretty clear—until I got home and realized they were all twist-offs. Still, they worked okay and only one beer out of my first batch turned out flat. I'm slowly replacing them.

Anyway, the point is that I knew Yuengling and PBR to compete for my favorite of the "cheap" beers, and 48 bottles later, PBR reigns as clear king to me. The more you know.:cross:

 

[Devinv]

Killians or Yuengling. Bud/miller/coors/etc all have a watery metallicy taste to me.

 

[thatjonguy]

Beast. I don't pay for crappy beer, has to be free and the only option. I can deal with BMC at weddings and the like. Not gross, just absence of any flavor.

 

[Dopeybrew]

Killians. Or Sam Adams.

 

[worlddivides]

Whaaaaaaaat? Sam Adams is hardly a "crappy beer." Yikes. And quite above the price range of 95% of the beers mentioned in this thread.

Sam Adams... a crappy... beer... oh my goodness...

 

[KendallAdkins]

Yeah, Sam Adams doesn't belong in this category at all. Without looking, I think Boston Lager is like an 87 on Beer Advocate. I might be wrong.

 

[KendallAdkins]

yeah, sam adams doesn't belong in this category at all. Without looking, i think boston lager is like an 87 on beer advocate. I might be wrong.

85.

 

[neolithium]

Coors Light. Like many Coors or Molson products they're dirt cheap here on the Army base. Actually most of the Europeans are cheap as well but I have OCD so if I'm going to get bottles they've got to be brown so I can use them without my eye twitching looking at a home brew stack.

 

[zmanzorro]

Lone Star

Same here. I wouldn't quite put Shiner in the crappy beer section, otherwise I'd go with that.

 

[spetp]

SouthPaw. In college we could buy a 12 pack for 6 dollars


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[Erythro73]

When I go out and there's no craft brews, only BMC and cheap stuff, I just turn to other drinks (water, wine, juices...). I suddenly become the designated driver.

I don't like the taste, and I don't like encouraging them.

 

[ChelisHubby]

Pacifico , at least the bottles are useful.

 

[Bamsdealer]

Keystone Lite for the simple fact they came up with the Keith Stone commercials.

I told my wife to stick with pants or shorts when the Capri pants first popped up. The insert in the last 30 of stones I bought said... "the Capri in Capri pants means you should have worn shorts"... Awesome.

 

[LabRatBrewer]

Lucky Lager with the puzzles under the caps.

 

[jdm61]

I also would not put Shiner or Sam Adams in the crappy beer category. For mass market American beer, I would take regular Coors and maybe Miller. Next step up would be better readily available stuff like Shiner, some of the Mexican stuff like Pacifico, Carta Blanca and even Sol if you MUST have a painted clear bottle, an Candian like Lebatt blue or Molson Export. for the regular AB Inbev stuff from Belgium, I prefer Palm. Stella is okay.

 

[MikeBergan]

I used to drink MGD (Miller Genuine Draft) almost exclusively... until I discovered real craft and homebrewed beers. Now MGD tastes like carb'd water to me.

 

[jdm61]

I used to drink MGD (Miller Genuine Draft) almost exclusively... until I discovered real craft and homebrewed beers. Now MGD tastes like carb'd water to me.

The dirty little secret about MGD is that it is actually unpastuerized keg High Life. That may be one of the few times that a major brewer has actually engaged in completely truthful adverting. That makes me wonder what the difference is between MGD and the current High Life which supposedly went back to the old, better recipe. They may be the same beer now, but perhaps they kept the MGD brand because it had some brand loyalty. KEG Miller was always halfway decent cheap beer.

 

[erick0619]

Modelo all the way man!!! I'll drink that shizz all day long.

 

[captaincrunk]

Although i dont drink ****ty beer often anymore, all local bars have jai alai on draft. I would go with coors light as the least ****ty "****ty" beer.

 

[PatrickGoss]

I think there are a lot of nine+ dollar six packs that guys have listed on here. I'm all about Pottsville's finest or will drink a Coors or BUD if you are shopping in the TV beer price range... but if a guy is talking about truly cheap beer I would have to go with either Busch or the Beast. The outside temperature could be a deciding factor. I would likely buy a handle of cheap vodka and a few packets of koolaid before I bought either... or just not drink, as horrible as that sounds.

 

[Gameface]

At half the price of Bud, PBR gets my vote all day everyday.

If you're looking for cheap beer get cheap beer.

 

[chalkboardbrewer]

I prefer Natty Boh. However, when outside the Baltimore area, I go for PBR.

 

[Heineken]

Rolling Rock for me