Good beer for about $30/case??

I tried P.U. years ago and could barely finish the six-pack. WAY too hoppy for me, and I suspect most good ol' boys who grew up on Bud or Miller.

If you think they might like Heineken, give Grolsch a shot. It's a lager, but with flavor; not too "foriegn" for a Budweiser palate. Some better stores let you mix-and-match specialty beers at a flat rate, that's always fun.

Otherwise stick with something basic like Molson Canadian or Rolling Rock. Both are great with food.

If you just want to be mean, get 'em a sixer of Tsing-Tao with the hot peppers in it. :eek:
 
You've got lots of choices, although, in my limited experience, many Budweiser drinkers don't appreciate fuller-flavored beers. Want to know a bit about why that's so?

Budweiser is a pale lager. The yeast in lager beers ferments from the bottom of the kettle. The yeast in ales ferments from the top. As Budweiser's flavor evidences, lagers have a much more predictable and even flavor, whereas ales have more variation. Bud tastes like Bud tastes like Bud. It's a lightly-hopped, low-key lager. Not my taste :p

So, knowing this, how can you choose a more flavorful beer that won't disgust your friends? Well, I suggest you buy a variety pack from Costco or Sam's Club if you have a membership.

The following is my assessment of some options:
-Shiner beers have a more generalized, less-specific flavor than most microbrews, yet are tastier than Budweiser. Costco has a 24 pack with 5 types of Shiners for around $20.
-Sam Adams makes a vast assortment of different beers; some are good, some are ok, some are yuck. Costco has a 24 pack with 6 different Sam Adams brews for the low $20s.
-Dundee brand makes a 24 pack of 6 different beers which sells for the low $20s in various liquor stores. Dundee's flagship beer is their Honey Brown, a mellow, honey-infused beer. Dundee's variety pack is surprisingly good for a more mass-produced beer. It has a porter (dark, strong flavor), the honey brown, a pale ale (hoppy, meaning somewhat bitter, yet flavorful), an India Pale Ale (IPA - very bitter, yet surprisingly balanced), a wheat beer, and one other. I'd recommend the Dundee pack for your purposes.
-I cut my beer-tasting teeth on Leinenkugel's Sunset Wheat. It's a balanced wheat beer, flavorful but not overpowering.

Have fun with this! Maybe you'll find someone who enjoys venturing into the vast, ever-expanding world of craft beer!
 
I see you're from PA so it makes it easy ... Yuengling Lager. Or Yuengling Black & Tan. Or Yuengling Lord Chesterfield Ale. Or Yuengling Porter. :D

I just drove by the new Yuengling plant in Pottsville, PA two weeks a go. Good stuff.
 
Great Lakes Burning River and Dog Fish Head 60 Minute IPA are about $30-35 a case depending on where you get them. Thats what I usualy get.
 
I haven't went thru the whole thread BUT, I have discovered a beer new to me "Old Style" and I love Bud Select but here in Oklahoma no 6 point domestic beer:thumbdn::grumpy:! Paid $22.00 for a case of Old Style and 6 point great flavor :thumbup:!!
 
I just bought a 6 pack of this, because I saw it on a fave show of mine (Dexter). It was 7.49 a 6 pack, cold. Have to say the first drink I was thinking it tastes like PBR, but now that I've drank it it's nice and smooth.
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I will never buy Red Stripe again! This is a lot more drinkable and smooth. I'm on vacation 2 weeks and this lovely June day the Shiner is flowing and it's so good.
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Jill, I know those images of yours are not Beer ads, but just seeing them has me thinking, a Cold Beer would be nice. :) :D
 
The thing about Red Stripe is that it's just another second world country local lager . . and it's a perfectly fine specimen of a good local easy drinking brew, but there's nothing really special about it that justifies shipping it around the world. People pay the extra $1 or $2 per six pack because it makes them think of someplace warm and exotic as they drink it.

But at least its not corona. Corona is a mediocre beer shipped from a sunny climate in clear bottles and has an incredibly high likelihood of being skunked by the time you drink it (light + hops = skunk flavor, that's why most beer bottles are brown). American bartenders came up with the gimmick of jamming a lime wedge into the bottle to help cover up that flavor.
 
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