Note to Anheuser Busch-

[WayAbvPar]

If a fucking animal won't drink your beer it might be time to recheck that recipe.

Rainier beer, for those who have never had the pleasure, is a local beer in Washington state. It is best served quite cold and consumed before it warms up (since that makes it more likely that you will TASTE it). It was the beer of choice at our high school keggers, mostly because it was cheap.

And it is still 10x than Busch. I think the only beer I wouldn't drink before Busch is malt liquor, and maybe Schmidt. I am a little ill just thinking about it, actually.

[HaemishM]

Rainier sounds like Milwaukee's Best, which is a decent beer if kept at almost absolute freezing and drank fast enough that it wasn't allowed to warm. If at any point it was allowed to warm up, the last dregs of the can would taste like lukewarm ass. It was called "The Beast" not because of the taste, but because of the intestinal issues it would invariably cause you in the morning.

Bears have refined beer taste. Check.

[Bunk]

I tried a can of "Milwaukee's Best" once.  A friend had visited his parents, who don't drink, and they gave him all the old beer they had accumulated in thier fridge.

By the time I got there, the only stuff left was two cans of "Best".  Until that day, I had always thought that Keystone's "Bitter Beer Face" commercials were a joke.  Not true. That had to be the absolute worst, piss water tasting excuse for beer I ever touched.  

I don't think you understand just how badly the taste of that beer scarred me.  I have refined Canadian Beer tastebuds.  That shit almost burned them clean off.

Bad, bad beer.

P.S. - I did finish the can.  Guy rule - you open a beer, you finish it.

[Dark Vengeance]

Cheap beer is what you drink once the onset of buzz has overridden your taste buds. Never before.

Our method in college was to buy a sixer of really good beer, and a case of cheap stuff...then maybe something for shots. You split it up 2 ways. By the 3rd good beer, you're probably good to go with the cheap stuff and not give a shit. This is especially true if the sixer is guiness and the shots are irish whiskey....car bombs for teh drunken win.

Then again, keep in mind that among the bar crowds I go out with, we drink a lot of PBR and other cheap stuff. Dive bars, punk shows tend to be where we go for the cheapo, while Irish Pubs, clubs, and pre- or post-golf drinking are where we tend to go for the pricey stuff.

Bring the noise.
Cheers............

[Paelos]

Best cheap beer I've found for us is Southpaw, but I don't know if that's common everywhere. We usually do something like 6 decent beers (Corona, Killians, Sam Adams) then 6 Bud Light, and the remainder was Southpaw. This is usually over the span of an entire evening or gameday.

[Sky]

I prefer Old Milwaukee. Used to be able to pick up a case of tavern bottles for $7 at a little mart around the corner, it's what my band drank voraciously (and the boxes made a good coffee table, extra seating, monitor stand, etc..). I drink a wide variety of beer, but I always come back to old, cheap, and faithful.

[daveNYC]

Old Style and PBR.

[UD_Delt]

Milwaukee's Best or "Beast" was our college beer of choice, usually got Beast Light for the "ladies" (I don't know if you can still be called a lady after doing Beast Light keg stands...) There was no way possible to beat $32/keg. I don't think I'd say that it was good beer but the price sure was great.

[Furiously]

We drank far too much PBR - mostly because the roomie who never paid and then would leech your beer refused to drink the stuff.

[Murgos]

PBR gives me wind something fierce.  We refferred to them as Depth Charges, they would go down and then blow up.  Bud was our regular followed by PBR or Old English 800 depending on how broke we were/what was on sale.

[WayAbvPar]

PBR gives me wind something fierce.  We refferred to them as Depth Charges, they would go down and then blow up.  Bud was our regular followed by PBR or Old English 800 depending on how broke we were/what was on sale.

Ahh the good old days...young and broke, and willing to drink damned near anything for a buzz =)

[Murgos]

Ahh the good old days...young and broke, and willing to drink damned near anything for a buzz =)

I always thought the white cans that said "BEER" in big black block letters was a movie joke thing.  HAH, they really exist, you just have to be broke enough to be willing to hunt them down.

[Joe]

We coined a new name for Milwaukee's Best: Moose Piss. Most people agree it's far more accurate.

[schmoo]

Huh, didn't know they still made Reindeer beer.  We use to drink that in Hawaii years ago, for some unknown reason.

Worst beer ever:  Primo from the original brewery (before the German braumeister was brought in).

[Pig Destroyer]

Best cheap beer I've found for us is Southpaw, but I don't know if that's common everywhere. We usually do something like 6 decent beers (Corona, Killians, Sam Adams) then 6 Bud Light, and the remainder was Southpaw. This is usually over the span of an entire evening or gameday.

Woo hoo! Someone else knows what Southpaw is.  Southpaw was a staple in high school and college.  I think you can only find it in the southeast.

[Disco Stu]

I have refined Canadian Beer tastebuds.

Candian Beer tastebuds are only refined if you drink good Canadain beer. There is A LOT of shitty Canadian beer in the beer stores. Off the top of my head?

Lakeport Honey (Our normal buy a case to get drunk beer)
Carling Springs (I think this is labatt's cheep beer)
Lucky Lagar (Molson's cheep beer)
Laker (I don't know what it tastes like.. but its not beer)
Sleeman Steam Ale (Not cream... Steam very very important distinction)

Then of course theres the malt liquor the worst being Black Bull. Not the 9% stuff you get in the states. 10% fucking awful. Most people have to chase a black bull to get through it. It's so bad you have to drink it warm so it goes down quicker. Anything above room temp is next to undrinkable.

[Paelos]

Woo hoo! Someone else knows what Southpaw is.  Southpaw was a staple in high school and college.  I think you can only find it in the southeast.

Yeah I was thinking it probably was only southern, and we loved it during college for that late night party/binge. Now I mostly drink liquor and wine, but I've managed to find the best bang-for-the-buck wine out there. Carlo Rossi's 3L Jug of Sangria. Chill it down, put it in a pitcher with a sliced apple and orange for two hours, and then let the good times roll. Don't say I didn't warn you that it can sneak up on you faster than a monkey on a crack binge.

[personman]

Candian Beer tastebuds are only refined if you drink good Canadain beer.

And lay off the BC bud.  According to Time mag that stuffs sets a new standard for hydro.

[Murgos]

Isn't Lucky Lager the stuff with the riddles and jokes in the cap?  You know you're drinking a crappy beer when they have to distract you so you can choke it down.

[WayAbvPar]

Candian Beer tastebuds are only refined if you drink good Canadain beer. There is A LOT of shitty Canadian beer

I hear that overindulgence in Canadian beer can lead to the tragic inability to spell 'Canadian' correctly more than 33% of the time =P

Isn't Lucky Lager the stuff with the riddles and jokes in the cap?

Aye, it is. We had a Lucky Lager weekend my freshman year in the dorms. Someone had found a driver's license that had been lost by an upperclassman (thank you, Aaron Lee Enz) that looked a great deal like me, so I was in charge of procurement. Let me tell you, carrying 5 cases of bottled beer to a carload of beer-guzzling maniacs is an exercise in both patience AND stamina.

The best part of the weekend was jimmying the door of one of our buddies (he was home for the weekend) and having the party in HIS room. He came back to 5 cases of empty beer bottles all over his room, and his pillowcase stuffed with the bottle caps.

Funny sidebar- the Saturday after our Lucky night was the day that high school seniors visited the campus and toured the dorms. We had the door to the room wide open, beer bottles everywhere, and were watching Eddie Murphy: Raw (remember when he used to be funny?) at full volume. Every kid that walked by wanted to live in our dorm, and every parent was horrified =)

[Bunk]

Lucky is is pretty bad shit I must admit.  Not as bad as say "Beer" beer I tried in WA once, but still pretty bad.

Its always bugged me though about our "cheap" beers.  Here's a sample of what prices are like for a six pack in our cold beer stores here:

Labatt Wildcat: $10.50 - Higher % shitty tasting crap
Molson Canadian: $11.50 - Decent average Canadian beer
Okangan Springs Pale Ale: $12.50 - The good shit

What really irks me, is that so many people will buy the cheap stuff to save less than $2 a case, and the beer they are buying tastes like shit.

If you are gping to drink shitty beer, just go across the line and gets some US Bud for $4 a case or whatever the hell they charge...

[Sky]

For a sixer? What the hell is the exchange rate these days, I pay $11 for a two-four of Old Mil!

[Bunk]

For a sixer? What the hell is the exchange rate these days, I pay $11 for a two-four of Old Mil!

Its not the exchange rate, its the taxes. We pay out our asses on all alchohol.  Note that those are cold beer store prices, which are usually 10 - 15% higher than government liquor store prices.

I just checked the website:

Molson Canadian 12 pack - bottles: $17.95

At current exchange rates - thats $13.84 USD

Also add $1.20 for bottle deposit.

[daveNYC]

I used to drop $14 for a case of Molson Golden/Export/Canadian/Ice back in college, how much are the taxes these days?

[Bunk]

We don't actually see the tax added, its built in to the cost.  Last I heard, roughly 50% of what we pay for beer is tax.  

Beyond that, prices have gone up in recent years. Basically, you expect to spend $18 - $21 on most cases including deposit.

[Sky]

Suddenly I don't want to move to Cernadia no more!!

[Disco Stu]

We don't actually see the tax added, its built in to the cost.  Last I heard, roughly 50% of what we pay for beer is tax.  

Beyond that, prices have gone up in recent years. Basically, you expect to spend $18 - $21 on most cases including deposit.

And its getting worse not better... here in Ontario we went through another price hike. Now ever the cheepest shit is more than a dollar a beer. The cheepest I can find is around 13.25 now and Malt Liquor almost fucking doubled in price.

[Arcadian Del Sol]

my beer makes your beer look like a faggot.

[Roac]

Beer?  That's just piss in a bottle.



Scotch neat - now that's a drink.

[El Gallo]

AH, I remember being a young'un and drinking "the beast" (Milwaukees Best).  We also drank a lot of Rolling Rock and Iron City (grew up in Pittsburgh obviously) which were both pretty cheap as well (this was before Rolling Rock began marketing iteself as if it were good).  I could probably still recite the Rolling Rock pledge from the back of the bottle if I was drunk enough.  Of course it's hard to beat malt liquor in the "buzz for your buck" category, I have fond memories of King Cobra and Old E 800.  And that "vodka" we'd drink.  More like paint thinner.  Popov I think it was called.  Could get a 1.75 liter jug of the stuff (plastic of course!) for like ten bucks.  Those were the days.

I have to respectfully disagree with Mr. Par (and the bear) though.  Busch was always just about my favorite of the super-cheap beers, mostly because it didn't really taste like anything if it was cold enough.  The one beer I simply will not ever drink is Coors (the regular old Coors) that shit is just nasty.  It's like drinking liquid dirt.

[Paelos]

Oh man Popov, we made the pledges drink that stuff in college as punishment.

[Sky]

When I lived in Los Angeles, the local store only carried 40oz'ers. Being Irish, I drank Mickey's (of big mouth 'fame') in preference over Old 8-ball or King Cobra.

[Abagadro]

Nati-Bo was one of our staples in college if we were buying cans. Busch was the other if we were getting a keg.

Couldn't drink "the beast" (and still can't) after I spent a night sleeping in my own vomit which was a mixture of about 10 parts Milwaukee's Best to 1 part Ramen noodles.

[personman]

... about 10 parts Milwaukee's Best to 1 part Ramen noodles.

Ah Top Ramen - the universal experience of all the college-educated.  How can we have war and strife when we share so much... ;)

I have never eaten Top Ramen or Kraft Mac & Cheese since those days.  "Burned out" would be an understatement.

[Arcadian Del Sol]

Beer?  That's just piss in a bottle.



Scotch neat - now that's a drink.

Glenfiddich is the sound of two drunk faggots having sex in a tub full of beer.

It also sounds like a retarded Harry Potter background character.

"Hello chums. my name is Glen Fiddich. I'm a muggle eating faggot who drinks expensive paint thinner in green glass bottles."

faggot.