There was a post a while back about everyone's favorite beers, so I want to know everyone's choices for their favorite cheap beers. My personal favorite lately is Pabst Blue Ribbon but I'm looking to expand my horizons without impacting my wallet because I've been broke as fuck lately. I'm essentially looking for the best tasting, most inexpensive beer with the highest alcohol content that's not malt liquor. Please enlighten me gentlemen. Posts from members in Houston or Austin, TX are especially welcomed.

PBR is pretty tough to beat in the cost/benefit analysis. For the sake of variety, you might try Blatz or Hamm's if they're available in your area. Not horrendous! Old Milwaukee can be tolerable; its quality depends on where it's produced. It's pretty good out East; excrable in the Midwest.

Budweiser packs a good punch at 5% ABV; if it's on sale, it can be a good buy.

In Kansas City, MO (well the south and midwest as well) there is a convenience store chain called Quick Trip which is just like Circle K and 7-11, etc. They have their own signature series of certain items like grocery stores do. Their thing was to have the "Q" and "T" in each name to signify the Quick Trip connection. Their beer was called "Quitin' Time". I have not had it in ten years but I can still remember the smell.... peeyew! I have never been a big drinker but I think I threw-up more Quitin' Time than any other beer.

In Texas we drank Shafer. It was commonly referred to as 'corn' by the locals. It was cheaper than soda. I think they took it off the market after all those hillbillies went blind.

In Austin Shiner Boch used to be the local cheap good beer. Is it still? I always remember bars selling out of it by 11:30 on weekends due to it's cheapness yet good flavor.

Shiner Bock is indeed a great beer. I'd go as far as to say the best massed produced beer i've ever had.

When you said "Shafer" did you mean "Schaffer?" Because that shit is horrible, horrible, and bad.

The drummer of the first band I was in (high school) had the Texan fishin' Dad. He constantly drank Schaffer Lite. We called it "DIET SCHAFFER LITE" for some reason, probably in open mockery of it's horrible, horrible taste.

The amount of money owed to David Lynch and Dennis Hopper by PBR is incalculable...

Yuengling is great. It's cheap here in B-more.might not be in the midwest if ts even there.
McHenry.Local brew here. it rules.
DeGroens.another local.
my advice is drink the local domestics. avoid the wateries at all costs unless it's national bohemian.

personally, I'm a big fan of Icehouse for a great cheap beer. It's 5.5% and you can get a 12pk of bottles for $8, and I think it tastes pretty good.

When I'm home in Austin, TX, I drink liberal amounts of Lone Star, but it's a bummer that you can't really find it outside of TX.

Shiner Bock is also a kick ass beer, I don't know if I would call it "mass produced", though.

Shitty cheap beer: Milwaukee's Best (i think that we can all agree here) and Pearl ("San Antonio's Best", if you will)

Schell's "Deer Brand"

Shiner Bock is a decent beer but it's more in the middle as far as price goes. And it hasn't been the same since they stopped using artesian water to brew it. It's still good, just not as good as it used to be. Lone Star is okay but it's a little too sweet for me. I'm certainly not above buying it when it's on sale but I prefer PBR. It's a shame that both beers (Lone Star & PBR) are considered "hipster" beers around here.

High Life is my new cheap beer of choice, replacing PBR.

When I lived in Pittsburgh for a few months, it was Iron City (more commonly referred to as "Iron Shitty").

Blatz is usually good too.