There are some possible outliers and maybe others that should be included for instance, how available is Coors Extra Gold? I’ve include Tecate and Tecate Light in this list, should I also include other commonly-available Mexican style lagers, or are those considered “premium?” (After considering this I also included Sol from Molson Coors.)Īnd of course there are a number of “Light” and “Ice” variants I did not include. I’ve taken the original list of beers and added more, trying to represent a decent cross-section of widely-available, mass-market American macro lagers. So it’s time to revisit these beers with fresh eyes and data, and offer up The Best Cheap Beers - Reloaded. Since that time, both BeerAdvocate and RateBeer have undergone changes and revised their ratings systems, and Untappd has emerged as big force in the beer ratings world. The original picture I ran with the 2006 best cheap beers piece. To get at the best of the bunch I’m tapping the collective resource of the web-namely, the BeerAdvocate and RateBeer websites. The beers I selected are what you’d typically find at your local grocery/convenience store/bodega: Miller (Genuine Draft, Lite and High Life), Budweiser, Bud Light, Coors Light, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Keystone Light, Rolling Rock, and Corona. The premise is this: I examined website ratings data to determine the best of the inexpensive, macro-brewed beers on the market. Way back in 2006, I originally published The Beer Hacker: Best of the cheap beers? which has since become one of the most-viewed pages on the site.

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