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TASTE
TEST
The Best
Cheap Beer
Brands
BY KRISTEN AIKEN
E HAVE TO be honest.
We really weren’t looking forward to this taste
test. Swigging down 10
different kinds of bottom-shelf beer
in succession is kind of a gut buster.
The worst part? We’re not drinking
light beers. We’re talking real, regular, American-made beer.
We all have our favorites,
whether we developed an emotional attachment to a particular
brand during college or we just
think the bottle design looks cool
in our hands. But you have to stop
and wonder: Is your favorite brand
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actually the best-tasting beer? Or
does your blind adulation mask the
fact that it tastes like pond scum?
We found out the answer, and it’s
probably going to embarrass you.
We blind-tasted 10 popular
brands of regular, domestic, bottomshelf beer. In a slam to our fiercely
loyal beer-drinking editors’ pride,
we unknowingly ranked some of our
go-to beers near the bottom of our
list. Check out the results below,
and let us know what you think.
As always, this taste test is in
no way influenced by the
brands included.
HUFFINGTON
01.13.13