Cheap Beer, where do I draw the line? (vintage, sale, best)

[NJBest]

Originally Posted by andywire

Last time I home brewed was 2 years ago. $40 of ingredients yielded 90 bottles. Maybe a few bucks more including the yeasts and hops. If you were to buy 3 dirty 30's of PBR here, it would cost you around $45 bucks. I don't know what the current cost of ingredients are today, but I can imagine they are more expensive.

So your saving very little, if anything price wise compared to cheap beer. But if you enjoy high quality beer, this is a value route. What your saving in money, your loosing in time. Since it is a hobby though, many don't mind the time spent.

You're comparing brewing to an expensive way to buy beer. Someone looking to save money isn't going to buy bottled beer.

[Keim]

Originally Posted by andywire

Last time I home brewed was 2 years ago. $40 of ingredients yielded 90 bottles. Maybe a few bucks more including the yeasts and hops. If you were to buy 3 dirty 30's of PBR here, it would cost you around $45 bucks. I don't know what the current cost of ingredients are today, but I can imagine they are more expensive.

So your saving very little, if anything price wise compared to cheap beer. But if you enjoy high quality beer, this is a value route. What your saving in money, your loosing in time. Since it is a hobby though, many don't mind the time spent.

You must be brewing all grain, andywire. I brew extract, and get about 50 bottles for around that price.

[StAcKhOuSe]

i drink alot of PBR, imo, it's a very underrated beer and it has a decent taste for the price

i cant drink natural ice, it rips up my stomach after 3 beers

budweiser is ok, so is coors

busch tastes like urine

old milwawkee is terrible, it is weak and it takes 15 beers just to get a buzz.(not a cheap buy in the 'long' run)

labbat blue is a good and relatively cheap beer, reminds me of a canadian samuel adams

miller high life is terrible, i drink 4 of them and i will automatically vomit and/or have bad diarreah.

i dont drink cheap malt crap like colt 45 or steel reserve anymore, that trash alone will take 5 years off my lifespan


i dont always buy cheap, i love sam adams, especially the seasonal brews. heineken is also high on my list. corona with lime is great. blue moon is my all-time favorite tasting beer

[GloryB]

I'll cut someplace else.....I draw the line at only Icehouse in the bottle.

[jasper12]

Honestly, I would rather drink no beer, than be drinking cheap beer. Just pass me the ice water.

[PNW-type-gal]

My favorite beer is $11.00 a six, or $1.83 each. I can homebrew (usually extract but I have the equip to do all-grain as well) it for around $0.48 each. That's a tremendous savings. A second-favorite beer is around $6.50 a six, or $1.08 each, and it homebrews for around $0.26 each, because we grow the right hops and a farmer down the road grows most of the required grain.

We've owned the brewing equipment at least 7 years, so it's long paid-for - and the chickens love the left-over brewing grains (not the hops, don't feed chickens hops).

I'd just as soon drink regular water than drink the standard American beers - and, speaking of water and frugal, I have one of the soda-makers that uses a CO2 cylinder to make club soda. I'm not sure that, penny-for-penny in the long run, it's really cheaper, BUT I don't have the hassle of bottle deposits and returning bottles.

[elrenocm]

When I lived in the Minneapolis area in the late '80's I used to buy beer in returnable bottles for $7.95 for three cases. You read that right! About 11 cents a bottle. I am trying to remember the brand. It started with "S". Anybody remember the popular cheap brand of that era?

[PeachSalsa]

Originally Posted by elrenocm

When I lived in the Minneapolis area in the late '80's I used to buy beer in returnable bottles for $7.95 for three cases. You read that right! About 11 cents a bottle. I am trying to remember the brand. It started with "S". Anybody remember the popular cheap brand of that era?

Schmidt!

Or Schlitz.

Good ol' Grain Belt and Old Milwaukee were pretty cheap too.

[Flamingo13]

Or Stroh's

[treasurekidd]

Beer is one of several exceptions to my normally frugal lifestyle. It's Sam Adams, Bass, Guinness, Sierra Nevada or nothing. I'd rather not drink than drink cheap beer. My other exceptions are coffee, meats and hotel stays.