Everytime I go to Trader Joe's I pick up a pack! It is really good. ^

I agree with the motto "life's too short to drink cheap beer," but at an open bar with all domestics, I'll take Coors over Bud or Miller

You can also usually get Full Sail there, which is excellent and priced well.

Where I live we are able to buy Sierra Nevada all day long for under $6! Pale Ale is quite easily the best beer in America if not the world!!

Just to clear this up: "Natural ingredients" is not the same thing as "organic". If you have hops and malt that have been grown with chemical fertilizers and/or are from genetically manipulated seeds, these are NOT organic.

German beer is generally good in quality but it is not necessarily organic. It does help that it is made from top quality natural ingredients and not the garbage that goes into most mass-produced beers.

Sad to say but Pilsener Urquell today is but a parody of itself. Like Staropramen, this company was bought by a global brewer and they have steadily degraded its quality, using cheaper ingredients and also cutting the "lagering" (storage/ageing) process vastly. Just using Pilzen water is not enough to keep it as a good beer - there is also mediocre beer to be found in Czech Rep too and Pilsener Urqell is one of them: premium priced, yes, but still a cheaply and poorly made product, not really any different than San Miguel or other generic "premium" brands..

Anyway to add to the list:
- In the UK, Cains Brewery of Liverpool makes fantastic quality ales and lagers, often keenly priced. Worth a try as well.
- In Croatia there is a brand called "Karlovacko", which is relatively cheap but is the best quality beer that I found in my time there

One I liked (even though mass market in Russia) is Baltika. Not that expensive, although anything liquor wise is cheap in Russia. Pretty tasty.

Best beers I had were in Belgium. Not that expensive (from a Canuck's standpoint, nothing in Europe is "cheap") on average, and very good. Could have a good pint to half litre for around 2 to 3 euros in most restaurants/bars. About the cost of a coke, but with much better taste

I have seen Baltika at Wild Oat Market. I think it was $1.29 a big bottle. I bought one and dropped it on the way to my hotel. Never got to try it. :(

I remember the beer in Ghana was cheaper than pop. STAR and GUINESS MALT.

Where in Ghana was this? In Accra, I can't find Star cheaper than GHC 9000 anywhere but most Coke/Sprite/etc... are around GHC 5000.

This was when I was there in 2001. Yes, Accra, Cape Coast, and Kumasi.

Just had Toña, a lager brewed in Nicaragua. Bought in Mpls, MN @ $12 for a case of 24 bottles.

I really like this beer, esp. for $.50. It is much higher quality in my opinion than even most (if not all) of the other $1 and below beers.

I guess it's been in Nicaragua since 1926 and the US since 2003, but this is the first I've heard/seen and will be buying more.

Being fiscally challenged again, I was pleased to find Genesee
Cream Ale on sale for some 40c a can in case lots and revisited
this brew: not bad at all - better than most of the domestic
"premium" beers.

No one has mentioned Bia hoi (draft beer) in Vietnam it's a pilsener ,no preservatives (Czech formula).About 10 to 15 cents a glass and I have seen the locals drink it until they pass out and fall off their chairs they are then re deposited back onto the chair by their friends,face slapped 1 or 2 times and they awaken to continue drinking

Just returned from Cambodia and was drinking both Ankor and Anchor cans of beer for about 40cents each. Not the best beer, but certainly did the trick.

I like Hite from Korea. It's totally cheap and my favorite of cheap, Asian beers

:) My college roommate and her friends drank Keystone Light, IIRC... It was always easy to tell which beer was mine... it cost more that $6 for a 6-pack.

Stegmaier isn't bad, and when Mr. Kipper was in college, it was cheaper than Beast per ounce. It was $11 for pounders.

Nice way to put it! I like it.... :D

"It does help that it is made from top quality natural ingredients and not the garbage that goes into most mass-produced beers."

The macros don't use poor quality ingredients. They have a brand to protect and they use excellent quality hops, grain, water and yeast as well. They also brew in a much more consistent manner than the micros. They do add things like corn which adds highly fermentable sugars to the mash to increase the attenuation of the yeast. By doing this, they can make a beer that tastes lighter and people can easily drink a lot of. It might not have as much taste as a micro, but it's not accurate to look down on it as low quality.

For me, I'll go bud or miller lite. I do like the budvar yeast and bud has a reasonable amount of taste in it. Miller lite is nice and has a good hop character. I just wish that the US breweries would realize that light doesn't have to apply to both calories and alcohol. The only good beer I found in Australia was the low carb kind...they were full alcohol though.

When violist was in college, Piels was $3.49 for 24x12.
Sometimes down to $2.99 on sale.

The majors do use low quality ingredients - and as as a consequence they also use tons of additives, preservatives and E-numbers, all of which they are not required to declare in - at least not in the USA and not in most of the EU. Guess who lobbied for those laws?

As for consistency, some of the junk that goes in a Heineken or Becks in USA is not even allowed in Germany, so how do you figure. The only thing consistent is the mediocrity. In any case beer is supposed to be a craft product not a product that staste the same every time it is brewed - THAT is what those additives are required for, along with a dumbed down brwing process.

Corn as used by the major breweries is cheap junk added to beer because the US govt pays the tab via farm subsidies - which same reason as that corn ends up in coke, in cows, pancake syrup and a million other things you never realised - cheap filler. Ditto for rice. Dont let anyone fool you into thinking otherwise.