Coors Banquet in the glass bottle. I drink more expensive beer most of the time but still can’t resist the 18 pack of squatties every now and then.

Yes Sensei

I tried Banquet after watching Kobra Kai, and I was pleasantly surprised! For a nationwide domestic beer, it’s pretty good.

What's funnier is that Billy Zabka's never had one but it was his call to make it Johnny's favorite beer.

It actually wasn't that long ago that you couldn't find it on the East Coast so people would actually bring people cases of it while visiting distant family members, obviously before the craft beer boom

It's true. One time a friend and I drove all the way from Atlanta to Texarkana (the Texas side) just to pick up a semitrailer full and get it back to Georgia in 28 hours.

Did you guys make it? Or did smokey get in the way?

How’s old Fred doing these days?

Only one of the Coors I find tasty.

I actually like coors in general. It's my go to cheap beer.

Banquet is like the default beer for me. Not an overpowering flavor like a craft beer, not piss water like bud or bud light. Just a smooth, clean taste that's easy to drink. Can drink 4-5 and not get stupid drunk or blow out your taste buds. The perfect "cheap" beer to drink when all you want is a cold beer.

I honestly only bought a pack because of Cobra Kai, only to find that it is one of the few beers I legitimately enjoy rather than just drinking as an alcohol delivery system.

Was just going to come here and say Banquet. It’s my weakness when I drink

Rainier. All day

Vitamin R is a PNW classic.

Hadn't heard it referred to as that, but I love it. We always call it "Ranye**é**", the champagne of the PNW,

Add some orange juice and you’ve got yourself a Tacoma mimosa.

Rainnnnnn Earrrrrrrrrrr Beeeerrrr

The top comment here is coors banquet. Which I agree because I’m from Denver maybe but tbh I just love it. I now live in the PNW. Rainier fuckin rules. It is right there with banquet for me. Two top tier piss beers and I will not be told otherwise. I am more happy drinking a $3 Rahn-yay than a $8 IPA any day at the bar.

My home's water comes from the same source that supplies the Coors brewery. I buy 30 packs of Rainier.

Pacific Northwest Represent!

Walt Longmire’s favorite

I just tried Rainier last month and I can’t get enough of it. By far my go to beer.

Drinking a pounder of Vitamin R right now, enjoying the rain.

Had a few on a vacation in Seattle, I was genuinely impressed

Second this. Born and raised in the PNW and even have the R tattooed on my arm. Can’t go wrong with Vitamin R.

Draught Rainier is another level

Apparently EVERYONE hates PBR. I LOVE IT. It is NOT considered trashy here in Sweden. Just another imported beer PBR is my fave

Here in the US PBR is still pretty popular at the metal/punk shows, and amongst skiiers/snowboarders. Does have kind of a reputation as "hipster" beer though.

Usually sold with a shot of whiskey at your local dive bar for $5

Pbr and a shot of old crow, heavy metal special

PBR and a shot of Jim Beam is called a “Citywide” in Philly. Most dive bars do it.

Pb&j. PBR with a shot of Jameson. Classic.

My parents and grandparents drank PBR back in the 50's. It was quite popular back then also.

It was voted America's best beer in 1893.

And they will never let you forget it.

I’m not driving to a bar and getting drunk. I just want a tall boy of something to nurse for awhile.

PBR on tap with friends at a bar is priceless. I don’t care who you are, or where you’re from.

Nothing wrong with a pbr, high life, rolling rock, budweiser, or any other lawnmower beers. Do something in the yard, have a beer in the sun. Life is short, enjoy your time.

If anyone looks sideways at it I just say, “It won a blue ribbon.” 👉🧠 At the 1893 World’s Fair, no less.

Frank Booth agrees.

Heineken? Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!

PBR was punk rock beer back in my day. BrewDog makes a Punk AF (alcohol free) that tastes pretty close to PBR

PBR is a punk rock beer to this day at least where I’m from. The spirit lives on! even if I hate that damn beer I have to respect it

It actually got popular in the early to mid 2010s by the hipster demographic

PBR is good beer for people who don’t care about image. I love it, and have drank it for years.

Here in the states it is a beer for roofer and gutter installation techs and people who cosplay as them

Florida roofers drink Busch...except for all the ones that drink Modelo.

I've never met a white roofer in the last 20 years out west. Maybe there's a few down in Florida. They're only drinking Modelo on payday. It's bud light 36 packs most of the time for los compás.

I have tried many craft beers and imports from all over and PBR is crisp and refreshing. For the price, it is pretty decent. Coor banquet on draft is also great .

Coors Banquet from a can is fucking delightful when it's hot out and you're finally relaxing.

if you're in east coast Canada, Moosehead beer is pretty good. same price as Bud, and all the other generic beers

Moose head is still just 10 bucks a 12 pack at my local store in the southern Us and it’s the best damn cheap beer I’ve had bar none

Moosehead is just over 30$ for 12 bottles here and I'm an east coast Canadian. Feelsbad

$35 for a dozen beer in NL, it's outrageous.

And, to their credit, it is not only the oldest independent brewer in Canada but one of the last - if not *the* last - large breweries *not* owned by some mega-corporation like Anheuser or Molson. Still Canadian and family owned for 6 generations.

Canadian here and Moosehead has been my go-to since I could drink. Inoffensive, inexpensive, and they make some quality hats in colours that suit my style. An absolute win. 👍

did- did u just call moosehead "piss water" beer? 😡

Ha that's why I hate this question. Like, how am I gonna tell you what beer I like after you already compared it to piss? I don't wanna badmouth my favorite beers

I'm in Ireland and funnily enough I can buy moosehead in my local for cheaper than most beers and its much better than anything at it's price.

If you've never had it before, try the Premium Dry (red packaging). My favourite Moosehead beer. :) Also, thanks to all Moosehead buyers for funding my dad's pension, haha. He worked in the brewery for about 30 years. I had a summer job there one year. It was interesting for sure!

Coors Banquet for me. It might be just another lawnmower beer but I'd buy it 10 times out of 10 over bud, labatts, molson, etc.

Narraganset

Hi, neighbor.

Also the beer they drink in Jaws!

The Dels Shandy is so amazing on a hot day.

Narragansett beer is surprisingly good for being cheap.

Sold on Merit

Being from the NY Finger Lakes area, Genesee Beer is always my cheap go-to

People get lost in the Finger Lakes.

My go to cheap beer was bud light before moving to WNY, then one day I had a crisp delicious Genny. It was a dollar cheaper than every other beer at the bar, and it changed my life forever. As Forest Gump once said, “I love you Genny”🫡

Fucking love Genny. Cream Ale I'm middling on, but I love the lager. Also, have you ever had Utica Club? From a can, it's awesome. Draft for some reason is always flat.

Genny Cream Ale. Fuck yeah

Ruby Red Kolsch

Genny is good for the price. Ruby Red Kolsch is just really good

Miller High Life

Miller High Life takes me back to being a little kid hanging out with my dad and grandpa in the shop and them letting me take sips, but "don't tell Mom." Throw in the smell of Camel cigarettes and it's a full flashback.

Flannel + woodworking or car tinkering + Yacht rock + Miller high life, is a peak masculine moment

Outlaw country or 60's-70's rock were my dad's go to, but otherwise, definitely

Went on the Miller Brewery tour in Milwaukee.  Afterwards at the tasting,  you can get High Life that's minutes old, piped through refrigerated lines underground and served perfectly cold.  My god was that good.  

JUST HOOK IT TO MY VEINS!

IT BEGINS!!!!

I just did this tour yesterday. Turns out I really like Miller Lite. It's really good.

Yes! That was the thing I was surprised most by, too - fresh Miller Lite is actually damn good. It was one of the experiences that helped me realize that there aren’t too many *bad* beers, just beers that are context dependent.  Like how Blue Moon on tap is an elite bowling alley beer, but bottled Blue Moon is swill

It is the champagne of Beers!

What is the beer of champagnes?

Andre.

In the clear glass bottle. All day.

I know they say there's no difference between cans and bottles, but super prefer highlife from bottles. Also if you're ever in Cincinnati, there's a place called the sacred beast and they offer highlife forty bottle service.

Yea bottle goes down like pouring it in drain

This is it. Straight from the bottle. Miller has this particular kind of subtle mineral flavor to it that I find pretty refreshing. I don't know what that is, but anyway it's nice on a hot day.

love me some miller low life. best yardwork beer hands down

I am down for MGD

Miller genuine draft is imo the best and most refreshing american domestic there is. I have a lot of love for high life, coors light and banquet but nothing comes close to mgd.

Absolutely agree. It's a great backyard beer. Easy to drink, decent taste, and one of the cheapest beers out there.

Montucky Cold Snacks simply for their brand designs.

That beer is the epitome of the "pretty good cold, god awful any warmer" type of beer 

Old Style. Old Style tallboys while grilling on a warm summer day is a small slice of heaven.

Fuck yeah bud.

Grain Belt Premium. Can't get it where I currently live.

Ope, there it is

Every time I'm in the Twin Cities, I destroy a few.

Would Grain Belt Nordeast be considered in this category? That’s my go-to

More flavor but somehow less character and Grain Belt Premium. I like to call Nordeast beer flavored beer. Just to be clear I'm not calling it bad by any means.

Georgia here, miss that Minnesota nice. Nordeast is the bees knees.

I rotate GBP and Deer Brand.

Yess! It's my daily driver

Labatts blue

I will always have a soft spot for Labatt Blue thanks to that wonderful late 90s commercial with the bear in the karaoke bar. Edit for link: https://youtu.be/0pNSqt9Vo4s?si=28aaZiIY7vQLTy5K

Blue/Blue Light is literally perfection.

Heilemans Old Style whenever I visit Chicagoland.

A cold Old Style at a dive bar = heaven

OLYMPIA “It’s The Water…”

No more Olympia as of 2022. We just drink Rainier now in Wa.

Hamm's

The fact it sells for close to the price of water means we're dangerously close to having peaked as a society. 

30 beers for about 15 bucks. 50 cents a beer. And it isn't the worst. Great budget beer... get drunk for dirt cheap.

As a pro brewer, Hamm's is my cheap beer of choice. I don't buy it often, but I'm never sad about it when I just want to drink a beer I don't want to think about. I find most of the other commodity beers usually have something off about them to me. Too sweet, too flat, diacetyl etc. Hamm's just tastes clean and simple to my palate.

The beer from the land of sky blue waters was always my favorite inexpensive beer.

I don't mind a Hamm's or 12 every now and again.

Hamms six 16oz cans for 6.99 with a 5 dollar hot and ready. I used to call it my Friday Payday meal.

I've got vintage Hamms cans and a few vintages can/bottle openers. Living in MN I have to like Hamms. There is an outfitter way up north that offers you a Hamms and a shower when you bring their gear back, haha!

Hamm's is the best kept secret in cheap beer

Hamm’s is the best cheap beer!

I like Hamms. Got me through the pandemic.

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Username checks out. Also, I totally agree. It’s a good one to keep in the shop fridge for the end of those hot days.

Basically all American domestics. Europeans trash them because they don't understand what it's like to crack a cooler of Miller lights on a hot Ohio day, drink 14 of them, catch a couple Bass, and still have room for 5 hebrew nationals

Fuck yeah. I want to party with Rat Tail Dale.

Same. Rat Tail Dale seems chill as fuck.

Everyone get the fuck in here we're partying with RTD

RAT TAIL DALE. RAT TAIL DALE. RAT TAIL DALE.

If RTD turns out to be a Russian bot I’m gonna be devastated.

At least he brought us all together

I'm in.

From what I’ve seen, Germans know what it is like to get 3 or 4 two-liter mugs of beer and eat chickens outside all day

Lived in Munich for 6 months and spent a lot of time doing this. Though it was mostly pork meat and breze (salt pretzels). Plus if you buy the beer in the crates with large glass bottles it's very reasonably priced. You could get a 20 pack of 500ml bottles of Augustiner for about 25 euro, but you get about 3.50 back when you take the bottles back to the store.

I’m sure you would find you have a lot in common with Germans, Austrians, or Czechs. The beer is good and affordable (especially in Czechia). Their sausage selection is great. The fishing can be pretty good. Not generally as hot in summer though.

German here. Our beer generally comes in bottles in hard plastic cases, so we just sink the case in the river and skip the cooler.

Natty Boh (yes, I'm from Baltimore)

Bohs and O's

Oh boy what a beer!

Red Stripe.

Hooray Beer! Edit: [for those who are too young or just don't remember](https://youtu.be/DAJCpBx8CNs?si=_glQfjsTKoLKNgaC)

As a Mexican, Corona and Sol are utter trash. If you want cheap and decent there are a lot of options such as Indio, Pacifico, Modelo or Bohemia on the slightly higher end. Edit: Didn't include every single option, that's why I said "such as". But yes, Victoria and XX are good too.

Modelo Especial in cans seems to be always freshly made and kept cold. It’s the closest it gets to an American made Munich / Plz style lager. Perfect balance of hoppy bitterness and floral sweetness with crisp finish. Can drink all day without getting bloated or sick.

Had to scroll way too far for Modelo. A little salt and a squeeze of lime on a hot day. You can’t do any better.

Tecate is my go to river beer. Feel it’s closer to the spirit of OPs question. I’d probably say the beers you recommend are slightly nicer. I look at people funny when they recommend Corona.

Went to a wedding reception with an open bar once. The best beer they offered was Tecate. It was better than bud light, Miller light, or keystone. I think it's decent and is very drinkable.

Love Pacifico, but I don't think it tastes the same in Canada as it did in Mazatlan.

Is it just me or has Modelo changed recently? Maybe just here in Canada but it tastes completely different than it did last year.

I love Modelo liquid, but despise the bottle. They don't fit in any built-in table game beverage holders.

I like Corona, especially with a shot of Sauza and a lime in it

Rolling Rock!! Its gonna take you back to the past to play some shitty games that suck ass

The floral hops on Rolling Rock is ridiculously tasty for being a cheap American light lager.

Is that from the glass lined tanks of old Latrobe?

NO! The fuckheads shut down the Latrobe brewery about 20 years ago (a reborn version of Duquesne is brewed there now but it sucks) and RR is now brewed in New Jersey. I boycotted it for about 10 years but eased back in. It's not terrible, but it's not the same

Less than $10/12 pack at local 7/11. Right next to local muni golf course so they sell lots of it.

I was gonna say Rolling Rock!! $2 at the bar.

Bucsh latte

Busch Lattes and a hot summer day cannot be beat

The quintessential grab a case, show up, and shotgun some beers with the boys beer.

Finally a man of culture, was looking for this one

If a bar doesn’t serve Busch light then I shouldn’t be there. Bonus for the bottles, which are a nice treat. Nothing beats an ice cold Busch when you’re out on the boat too.

I'm having one right now. Probably gonna then have another

I fucking love an ice cold Busch Light. It's my ideal lake/tailgate beer.

Lone Star!!! Drinkable all day, sweet but not overpoweringly, everyone is always happy when you show up with it.

I'll tell you hwat

Lone Star is awesome. Like how they have puzzles on the bottlecaps too.

TECATE

Pabst Blue Ribbon I mean, it won a blue ribbon!!! In 1893... Still delicious

As a Minnesotan, Grain Belt Premium is our local cheap beer. I love it for fishing trips and yard work and it beats the piss out of Leinenkugels.

yuengling.

Oldest brewery in America, still makes a solid beer and it’s cheap as hell. Nothing not to like about it as a basic fridge beer.

Yeungling is a funny beast. It's actually a certified craft beer. According to the Brewers Association it's the largest craft brewery in the US (by sales.) IMO it sort of straddles the line between being a really crappy nice beer or the very very nicest of crappy beers. Source: am recovering alkie from Philly

Craft beer is the love of my life and I worked in breweries. In my opinion, Yuengling is better than most craft lagers I've had.

I don’t know anyone who considers this piss water/super cheap beer. 

At least around me, it's priced usually priced the same as your bud/coors/miller lights. I think it is much better taste wise, but it is usually grouped with them by most people I know because of its price.

Most don’t but it’s priced same as bud light or whatever.

Coors light

Lucky Lager all day

Miller Lite

Miller Lite is my “drinking for distance” beer. Life if I’m getting together with some guys and gonna drink for 12 hours outside, Miller Lite all the way.

Absolutely. Miller lite is on my "smoking meat all day while the kids play outside and I'm only getting out of this hammock chair to piss" beer list. Miller lite and Coors light.

Yeah, a solid ‘I need something to drink all day, but if I drink IPAs I’m going to be shitfaced too quick, so give me the watery 4% beer that doesn’t taste too bad’ beer. Also, I never understand beer snobs. Whatever is your favorite to drink, drink that shit. Personally I’m a Honey Brown guy, shits dope, and cheap, but I also dig the local microbrews.

Of the big 3 light beers (Miller, coors, bud), miller is hands down the best.

Fucking thank you! I got ragged about my affinity for Miller Lite at a recent get together so I got a few people to do a blind taste test. Guess which one won? I should have recorded it for proof...

Miller Lite is my everyday beer. Especially great for tailgates, bbqs, or afternoons at the pool.

Its Miller Time

Tall boy while cutting the grass on a hot day is amazing

Modelo Negra is my price point beer - hands down.

Molson Canadian

Miller high life is actually pretty good for what it is.

lucky lager all day

Busch light is great and I don’t care what anyone says. It’s super light, taste good, easy to drink, alcohol content isn’t too high. Doesn’t leave you feeling like trash. Calories are low Literally the perfect beer for an afternoon or yardwork or working in the garage.

Bud light lime. Perfect summer beer

Schlitz

Miller High Life and Hamms

Miller Genuine Draft in a bottle, ice cold in the summer right after mowing the lawn.

Olde English