Favorite cheap mass produced American beer?

[aquaman]

yuengling and rolling rock are mine. Both Pennsylvania beers, how bout that?

[xmas74]

1. Old Style.

If your gonna drink cheap beer do it right!

[saltpoint]

2. Is Black Label beer still made?

I vote for it if it is.

[realisticphish]

3. if i HAVE to say an american beer

i'd go with good ol' budweiser (NOT bud lite)

[qnr]

4. Well, among the limited selection here in rural western OK, MGD

[Wapsie B]

5. PBR or Old Style.

I wish they still brewed Blatz. That was a decent cheap beer. Had Blatz dark in Milwaukee one time. That was very good.

[mark414]

18. blatz is still around...

though it must just be a regional thing...as i DO live in milwaukee

[Wapsie B]

22. It used to be all over Iowa.

Now I can't find it anywhere. I remember getting Blatz Dark on tap in Beer Town and boy it tasted good.

[napi21]

6. Well, I drink Old Milwaukee all the time!

It's cheap ($11.99 a case of 24) and I like it!

[Strawman]

7. If we're talking cheap, it's PBR n/t

[Omphaloskepsis]

20. Ditto..

PBR is my favorite. And I have never had to apologize in the morning after a night of drinking PBR.

[TreasonousBastard]

8. Whatever happened to...

Schlitz, Rheingold, Knickerbocker, Piel's, Ballantine...

Now, it's Bud and PBR for cheap pisswater. And Old Milwaukee-- the stuff that doesn't pass Bud quality control.

[qnr]

13. I've had Schlitz recently, Rheingold is regional to the NY area I think,

seems like I've seen Piels in Maine, I've seen Ballantine, haven't seen Knickerbocker.

I've also had Schaeffer recently.

Edit: This wasn't while I've been staying here in OK.

[TreasonousBastard]

23. Rheingold, Knickerbocker, Schaeffer and Ballantine...

among many, many others, had local breweries in NYC. Seems every group of Yurpeens who drank beer opened a new one 5 minutes after clearing immigration way back when.

But, as usual, the competition between Miller and Bud knocked most of them out of business over time. Ballantine still makes a pretty good ale, but they make it somewhere else and I haven't seen their beer around. The rest may be somebody bought who the name, but it's just not the same without the Schaeffer-Rheingold wars and the Miss Rheingold pageant.

The beer may have been piss, but it was OUR piss.

[Sandpiper]

9. Rolling Rock

Pass me one a' them green bottles!

[aquaman]

10. I hear ya....

Gotta love it.

[yodermon]

11. Does Killian's Red count?

NEVER MIND, it's Coors. :puke:

[AntiCoup2K4]

12. I used to drink various Henry Weinhard's products.

Don't know how widely distributed they are, but it's pretty common on the west coast. It's big factory beer, but not quite as rancid as Budweiser or Coors products.

But it's strictly the good stuff now days. I drink so damn seldom anymore that when I do, I might as well go for the quality.

[Zuni]

14. I like my beer cheap and mass produced

I don't like fancy beer...I don't like microbrews

I like Miller Lite or Natural Lite. No joke

[billbuckhead]

15. Hoffbauer from Cold Springs Minnesota

$5.40 a twelve pack with your Kroger card

[Lex]

16. Budweiser beats all in a Consumer Reports taste test.

For being tasty, crisp, not bitter and an all around palate pleasing beer.

[Lex]

19. Oops, actually Budweiser came in 4th in Consumer Reports testing

1. Old Milwaukee
2. Stroh's
3. Red Dog
4. Budweiser
5. Icehouse
6. Molson Ice
7. Michelob
8. Bud Ice
9. Busch
10. Coors Original
11. Genesee Cream Ale
12. Miller High Life
13. Pabst Blue Ribbon
14. Milwaukee's Best
15. Miller Genuine Draft
16. Rolling Rock

http://www.petrix.com/beer/


(I agree with Rolling Rock being last--it tastes terrible to me.)

[Droopy]

17. Miller Lite

[evlbstrd]

21. There was a bottled beer I used to get

for about $5 a case when I was an art student. You'd bring in a case of bottles and get a new case. And a lot of the bottles had chips in the business end or break when you popped off the cap,
Fuck, what was the name of that cheap piss?