The Cheap Beer thread

Mmhmm. It's lovely.

 

Sure. Actually parts are ok

 

Gods, all of 'em. All of those beers are still available in Ontario - not in stubbies, unfortunately - except Golden and O'Keefe. I drank a lot of Canadian at one time but can't stand it now and switched to Blue. I stopped drinking that a few years ago and while 50 is my go to although I will change it up on occasion and get Ex or OV.

 

In the 80s they weren’t really considered cheap beer. Just beer.

In those days at Brewers’ Retail, there wasn’t much price variance. Brador and Classic were a little bit more, but everything else was roughly the same.

 

As I noted earlier in the thread, there is no such thing as cheap beer in Ontario, less expensive maybe, but not cheap, but you're right, the prices are all still roughly the same at the beer store. 50 is more expensive than Ex, for instance, but not by that much. And you're right: that was pretty much all we had to choose from in those days. Everyone had a dad who drank at least one of those religiously.

 

Now some of the stuff is a little cheaper, $2.00 for a tall boy can. I do remember when I was in high school the LCBO started selling Lone Star and a couple of others for cheaper than domestic beer. Maybe $3 less on a 2-4, and that was fine for us.

The brand loyalty of our dads was amazing. A man had his beer and that was it, and if you went to his house you expected to be served his beer.

 

Your mention of the LCBO selling beer reminded me how excited we were (especially during the beer strike of 1985) to get such exotic brands as Lone Star, Genessee, Amstel and others the beer store didn't carry.

I don't think the major breweries thought their customers' loyalty would ever change until Lakeport in Ontario starting selling its beer for $24 a case ("Make 'er a Laker, it's a buck a beer!") and people flocked to buy it causing the major breweries to lobby the government to institute a minimum price for selling beer and it sure as hell wasn't going to be a buck a beer.

 

I love this time of year. You can find Winter seasonals for clearance prices lower than Guinness.

 

Now this is my kind of thread.

The only thing I loved more than beer was cheap beer.

 

Well, I didn't know we had an SJ.com member in Bonners Ferry, Idaho ...

Just kidding ... welcome back.

 

If I'm going to mix it with tomato, orange, or grapefruit juice, then I'll get the cheapest I can find.

We do a summer brew every year......
4 cans beer (used Natty last time)
12 ounce can of frozen lemonade
Fill the can with vodka

Dump it all into a big pitcher.
Stir well.

Pass out as needed.

 

Skip & Go Naked. We'd mix those in styrofoam coolers and then take out the pontoon boat on the lakes in Minnesota.