Budget Beers

I think Deschutes has some great beers that you should be able to find for $8.99 a 6-pack!

 

SN Hop Hunter 12pak on sale for 13.99. awesome value.

 

when it comes to consistent ABV+quality+availability (like my corner gas station) vs. price its nearly always Lagunitas here in my end of California as well. bear republic used to be everywhere but now the only offering I ever see out here is racer five( god i miss my hop-rod-rye).There is always S/N.. Prohibition ale is exploding around these parts but for some reason there beers dont agree with me the next morning , but while drinking they are generally fabulous. Finally I live about 10 minutes from the dust bowl brewery so if i go there the prices arent bad....but if I buy from a store the prices are absurd...go figure.

 

Stone...

 

Sierra Nevada, Bear Republic, Deschutes and Lagunitas are actually really affordable crafts. and these are 6-packs. of course Stone IPA, 22oz I've seen go on sale for $2.99 at some stores I frequent.

 

Agreed...Deschutes has some great beers but the regular seasonals (22oz) are in the 6-8 range and the limited are great also but pricy.

 

Just about anything from Germany.

 

I would tend to agree. In terms of value and price point, Lagunitas has that on lock down. I don't think any brewery can top them in that area. Sierra Nevada is amazing and not too expensive, but they can't even top Lagunitas price points. I live in Chicago and the Target near me has every Lagunitas release at an even cheaper price point then said liquor stores. The only release they didn't get was Born yesterday Pale Ale, but that was hard to get every place. Hell, I picked up nighttime Ale for 6 pack for 8.99. That is a killer deal for that beer.

 

Lagunitas gives a lot of bang for the buck! No one can even come close to the $4 bomber of Hop Stoopid.

 

But that kerning though...

 

Well, a 22 ounce bottle at $4 comes out to roughly $13 for a standard 6 x 12 ounce pack. With that in mind, there are A LOT of quality beers one can purchase at that price point. I'll list some examples from the six-pack format:

Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier
Franziskaner Weissbier
Spaten Optimator
Palauner Hefeweizen
Paulaner Salvator
Rogue Hazelnut Brown (believe it! $9.99 a sixer)
Great Divide Titan IPA
Anchor Porter
Ballast Point Big Eye IPA
Deschutes Black Butter Porter
Stone IPA
Odell Cutthroat Porter
Odell IPA
Victory Prima Pils

And many more.....

 

Now that I've been thinking about it, with regards to some crazy price mistake by a bottle shop, picking up 6-packs of Laguniatas Born Yesterday for $8.99 might be just about the best quality to price combination I've ever had.

 

Lagunitas, Stone, and Sierra Nevada have some great 'inexpensive' offerings (more so than some of the more local breweries).

 

I am on the German side of things too. Use to buy 50 cl bottles here in Spain, which would be something like 17 oz in the US. They usually come fresh from Germany and i drink them no later than 2 months since production (more often than not). These are the converted prices of some of the seasonal beers which i find great in quality but yet affordable in the long term. Maybe not the cheapest ever but i would go lemonade before drinking the likes of Heineken or....buff, San Miguel. I wonder what you think about these prices from across the pond. There might be more brands from Germany in this range but this is a comprehensive sample;

17 oz bottles

Hofbrau Dunkel - 1.27 USD
Franziskaner Weissbier - 1.42 USD
Konig Pilsner - 1.6 USD
Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier - 1.7 USD

 

Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout at $7.99 for a 4 pack

 

My vote is for Harpoon Chocolate Stout and I just got some old dusty 12oz bottles of New Belgium Happy Ending for 1.79.

 

Founders All-day 15 pack $13.99