Beer snob discussion thread

• Bio-Hazzzzard

  

  Apparently this beer is sold at some Walgreens stores for $2.99 for a six-pack.
  
  Anyone tried this stuff?
  
  http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/app/blogs/brew/?p=2952
• BORIStheCrusher

  

  Never seen it at the Walgreens by my house but I would imagine it tastes pretty shitty.
• LJ

  

  nope, but I have had some of the $6.99 12 packs from Aldi, and that beer is pretty good
• tcarrier32

  

  you talkin bout Genny Light? nasty shit man
• Bigred1995

  

  Never heard of it, but when I was in college we drank Jacob's Best and that cost a whopping $6.35 a CASE!!!! That was some pretty bad stuff, but for the money, it was like a sore peter!
• OSH

  

  Hahaha. That's great that you bring up Big Flats!
  
  When I was in Ft. Lauderdale at the beginning of the year we had a night in but the guys still wanted to drink. So we ran to Walgreens to pick up some booze for them and settled with the Big Flats as a joke. They said it wasn't awful. One British guy actually liked it a decent amount.
  
  I don't drink, so I can't say much about it. But the guys drank it and no one really complained that it was awful.
• justincredible

  

  I'll try it. For $2.99 it's worth a shot. When I'm buying a case of beer I usually go for Busch Light so if this is comparable I can save a little bit of money.
• queencitybuckeye

  LJ;658869 wrote:nope, but I have had some of the $6.99 12 packs from Aldi, and that beer is pretty good

  
  They have a faux-Warsteiner that's not terrible.
• I Wear Pants

  I was at Trader Joe's a week or so ago and they had $2.99 six packs of a beer there as well. I forget what it was called but it said that it was brewed for them by America's second oldest brewery. Not that it means anything.
• ts1227

  

  This was featured on an NFL Jamboroo post on Deadspin a few weeks back.
  
  http://deadspin.com/5716085/the-nfl-is-phasing-out-saturday-afternoon-football-because-they-hate-you
  

  BIG FLATS LAGER! From reader JohnnyDakotaStateU comes this beer that looks like it was created strictly to be a design on a $5 Old Navy t-shirt.[INDENT] "$3.79 for a sixer at Walgreens. "It's the water that makes it." Makes it what? We'll never know."
  [/INDENT]It's the water that makes it so watery! Duh! That's an amazing can. Just a huge clusterfuck of bad fonts. And the water wheel! It's like someone stole it from a riverboat. I love the GENUINE BEER note on the bottom. Because so often, I'm tricked into buying imitation beer from Haiti. They also crammed a mountain into the background. Mountains are crucial, as always. I MUST HAVE IT. I feel like playing Oregon Trail when I look at that can. The graphics are about on par.

  
• justincredible

  

  Trader Joe's has some legit beer. Their vintage ale is good stuff.
• Gblock

  on campus at the shell near 17th they have 30 packs of keystone, stroh's, miller high life for 10.99-11.99 most times.
• I Wear Pants

  I remember it was a Pilsner and it was in cans. Was gonna buy some but I had just gotten some Great Lakes.
• Commander of Awesome

  

  Miller High Life is the cheapest 6 pack I can get around me at $4.99 a 6er.
• O-Trap

  

  Can't bring myself to do it.
  
  Had a bottle of Three Philosophers last night. Good stuff, but nowhere in the ballpark, price-wise, and probably nowhere in the ballpark, taste-wise either.
• BORIStheCrusher

  

  ^^^ Much better choice.
• O-Trap

  

  BORIStheCrusher;659208 wrote:^^^ Much better choice.

  
  Just about anything from Ommegang is.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Commander of Awesome;659202 wrote:Miller High Life is the cheapest 6 pack I can get around me at $4.99 a 6er.

  
  Six-Pack of Keystone tallboys is $4.99. That's actually 8 beers. Yum.
• BORIStheCrusher

  

  I've got a bottle of Ommegeddon sitting in my growing collection.
• O-Trap

  

  BORIStheCrusher;659214 wrote:I've got a bottle of Ommegeddon sitting in my growing collection.

  
  Ooooooooh ...
  
  Had an aged Brooklyn Monster Ale the other day. It'd been aging for a year. Had a couple when they were first purchased, and then one a year later.
  
  Completely different, and delicious a year later.
  
  I'm currently aging a couple Founders and Unibroue, as well as a couple others down there. Really yeasty ones. I'm stoked.
• I Wear Pants

  Commander of Awesome;659202 wrote:Miller High Life is the cheapest 6 pack I can get around me at $4.99 a 6er.

  I bet there are gas stations that sell 6 packs of 18 oz Genesee for $2.99 in your area.
  
  Not that you'd really want it.
  
  I have some Great Lakes Eliot Ness and Commodore Perry in my beer fridge right now. Really like those.
• BORIStheCrusher

  

  O-Trap;659217 wrote:Ooooooooh ...
  
  Had an aged Brooklyn Monster Ale the other day. It'd been aging for a year. Had a couple when they were first purchased, and then one a year later.
  
  Completely different, and delicious a year later.
  
  I'm currently aging a couple Founders and Unibroue, as well as a couple others down there. Really yeasty ones. I'm stoked.

  
  I actually almost picked that up this weekend, but haven't tried it yet. Instead I tried Goose Island Pepe Niro and Lagunitas Lil Sumpin Wild, both very good.
• BORIStheCrusher

  

  O-Trap;659217 wrote:
  I'm currently aging a couple Founders and Unibroue, as well as a couple others down there. Really yeasty ones. I'm stoked.

  
  Kentucky Breakfast Stout perhaps? Amazing with some time on it.
• O-Trap

  

  Almost tried Pepe Niro last week. I'll have to give it a go now.
• Commander of Awesome

  

  I Wear Pants;659218 wrote:I bet there are gas stations that sell 6 packs of 18 oz Genesee for $2.99 in your area.
  
  Not that you'd really want it.

  
  Nope, about the closest I can get is a 3 pack of bud tall boys for $5.