Three "Go To" mediocre beers

I always keep a 12 pack of Yuengling in the fridge to switch to if I drink a few hoppy beers in a row and wreck my palate and/or drink enough to get drunk past the point of really being able to taste the beer.

 

I've gotten to a pretty ridiculous state where I essentially avoid any beer that I don't consider remarkable. If I'm not excited to drink it, either because I love it or because I've never had it, I don't.

When I don't have options though, of course I'll drink any beer. Sober's just a terrible alternative

 

If one of the following isn't offered by draft or bottle (at least in CA), I'm looking to other beverage types:

SN Pale
Deschutes BB
Anchor Steam

 

I assume you mean "when at Applebee's or some other chain restaurant and there aren't many beer options..." and to that I would answer
1. Sierra Nevada Pale Ale (not mediocre at all)
2. Sam Adams Boston Lager
3. Blue Moon (if I have to)

 

Anyone listing Sierra Nevada Pale as mediocre should look in the mirror. The person staring back at you is what is wrong with beer today.

 

Sam Adams Boston Lager, Blue Moon and Shocktop......If I have no other choices....all three are drinkable and I can drink a bunch of them if forced to......

 

I try to avoid repurchasing mediocre beer but when I'm trying to cut back on spending I'll happily grab a Franziskaner: Hefe-Weisse instead of a Schneider Weisse: Tap 7
Or a BrewDog: Jet Black Heart instead of a Left Hand: Milk Stout Nitro. If it's not the right time of year for FBS, I'm happy to settle for a Siren: Broken Dream.

These are all about half the cost of my preferred alternative/ better examples of the style but are still solid choices.

 

Pretty much everyone that has listed it thus far has qualified their response. The OP is kinda vague and, despite the thread's title, asks for average beers, not mediocre.

 

Fat Tire
90 Shilling
Dale's Pale Ale

 

None...if there isn't a beer I either want to try, or which I've had and loved, I don't order one. I don't drink just to drink. And quite frankly I don't find myself in bars without good beers, because the bees offered determine the bars I visit. While I'm perfectly willing to get a beer at lunch or dinner, I don't really plan on it, so if the restaurant I opt to visit only has a few basic, boring options from Founders, Bells, or New Belgium, I have water, knowing I have tons of choices at home.

 

Tennents lager - not the worst commodity lager about , also available almost everywhere here and cheap
Deuchars - again available in lots of places, not as good as it once was but better than the other easily available scottish ales like Best etc
Hobgoblin - tedious marketing and slagged off by craft wankers but I don't mind it

 

I don't have a go to mediocre beer, even though I like a few AALs. Even those AALs I wouldn't consider mediocre or I wouldn't buy them.

 

"Mediocre" Beers? Never touch the stuff...

 

I'll play. My "mediocre" ( beers I drink the most of and always have on hand) are:

Founders All Day
Strawberry Short's Cake
Two Hearted

 

I'm not trying to single you out - this really isn't aimed at you, but the problem is that mediocre means not very good. It's terrible that beer fans are starting to use that word to simply signify beers that are easily obtainable.

 

This whole thing is a bit of an oxymoron. How can it be a go-to and yet be mediocre? If you thought it was mediocre then it probably wouldn't be a go-to. I think most people here have better uses for their disposable income than buying beer they perceive as mediocre.
Now, if you want to know go-to beers for me that have zero hype, that's easy.
Smuttynose Old Brown Dog
Oliver Creator Destroyer
Firestone Walker Union Jack
If I'm out somewhere with a crappy list then SNPA.

 

Wow, I guess you're not allowed to have your own opinion on here. If someone calls it mediocre then that's what it is to them. Not everyone has to like all the same beer/styles. As for readily available helping define what's mediocre, what's readily available for you might not be readily available for me. Distribution where I live is terrible!!