Top Scores (Highest to Lowest), by Site Untappd: Beer Untappd and BeerAdvocate are close in some scores, more variant in others, and while Untappd generally scores highest, BeerAdvocate occasionally surprises (look at Schlitz).

In every case, RateBeer awarded lower scores that the other two sites. Overall Scores, in Alphabetical Order by Beerįor ease of comparison, I’m only showing the average score (on a scale of 1 to 5), omitting BeerAdvocate’s and RateBeer’s overall ranking levels. Note: Scores are current as of the end of April. If there’s a demand to see that data here, then I can always update. 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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