Old Milwaukee hands down. Great beer for a great price. $4.99 a 12 pack here.
Any other nominations?
Miller High Life. $10.99 /30 pack.
Icehouse (made by Miller, for when you just want to get stupid fast). 2 30pks for $22 is the current special.
Ever consider Busch beer? 
We are talking beer here…not colored water.
Just taking a playful shot at you, as long as we’re talking about alcohol.
Got me beat. Champagne is $10/24 here. You win.
Actually the CORRECT answer is Tecate.
Next question.
I guess the next question is: How much does a twelve-pack of Tecate cost where you are?
'Cos for me, paying more than $0.50 for a twelve-ounce serving automatically means it isn’t cheap beer.
And, yes, I am envious of all you folks quoting prices that cipher out to less than $0.40 per serving.
I used to love a cheap beer called Southpaw - $5.99 for a 12 pack of bottles - but I can’t find it out here in Arizona. Anyone ever had it? I believe it’s from the Planck Road Brewery, but I’m not completely sure.
Pabst Blue Ribbon, despite common belief, is actually decent, but it seems to give horrible hangovers if you have too many.
Schlitz The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous. Just A Kiss Of The Hops. $2.69 a six pack at the Rite Aid not 200 yards from my doorstep.
On another note I definitely have to say that best moderately priced beer is Yuengling, hands down. They have a nice amber lager.
What’s the point of cheap beer? If I really need to get drunk cheap I’ll buy a $4 bottle of vodka.
The point of cheap beer is that some of us like to drink beer.
I went to school in Pittsburgh, where the cheap decent beer of choice was Rolling Rock, made in nearby Latrobe. It’s still my favorite.
Is BLATZ (Milwaukee) still made? It was a damn good beer, and 1/2 the price of the major brewers.
I happen to like Genessee (Upstate NY). $12.00 for 30 cans…good flavor, nice finish. medium hopped. An excellent lager, and easy on the pocketbook.
Really, many of the smaller breweries make an excellent beer…and, becuase they don’t spend a lot on advertising, you get a good beer at a good price.
Also, amny of the majors have second brands , which are just as good as their “premium” brand…take “Keystone”…it is Coors, for 60% of the price.
One caveat: be careful with some of the smaller regional brewers…many times, their beer doesn’t seel fast, so be sure to check expiration dates. You don’t want to buy skunky beer!
Then why buy cheap beer? Spend the same amount of money for a few less bottles of something decent.
This is going to be the thing I miss most when I leave Germany. Even the best beers here are pretty cheap. Andech’s is about the most expensive beer at the local store, and it’s still only 14 Euro for a 20 pack (this is half liter bottles too…17 oz). So…my answer: any German beer…in Germany.
Natural Ice is pretty good and its $99 for a 32oz bottle. In my experience most beer is good for the first swig, then it goes progressively downhill no matter what beer you’re drinking.
I gotta go with An Arky and choose Schlitz. Particularly since I tried a Falstaff for the first time in years last night; and whatever legs it had once have been ground down fine. Nastiest shit I’ve ever drunk, and I made and drank vodka and wheatgrass just so I could claim that I had.
And ralph124c is right about Genessee. Found a corner bar in (whatever town Kirk Douglas was born in) one day about noon that had Genny pitchers for a buck. A group of us camped there until 4ish. Good times. Good, drunken, stagger about and piss on random automobile tires times.
I don’t drink beer, but bacj in 1983-84, I worked in a convenience store while in school. We sold a 12-pack of Schaeffer’s (sp?) for $2.99. “Regular” brands like Bud were $5.99+. There were two guys who came in 2 or 3 times a night on Fridays and Saturdays and bought a 12-pack each time. I asked them why they didn’t buy the “regular” brands (since Schaeffer’s was considered to be one step above horse piss) instead. They said they liked the taste and they got more for their money.
To each his own, I guess.
That doesn’t sound very cheap.
And while I agree with you that beer isn’t very good, there are some decent varieties out there. Michelob Amber Boch is pretty damned good. No idea what it costs though as I very rarely buy beer.
I’m gonna have to third this. It has been a while, but for quite a few years, my cheap beer of choice was Schlitz. It tasted better than Budweiser or the other cheap beers. I also used to like Gennessee Cream Ale and Mickey’s Widemouths.