I like the finer things in life, I prefer my beer to be brewed at a microbrewery by a talented craft brewer who carefully blends the hops, barley and yeast to create a phenomenal beer that I would gladly pay 8 bucks for.
Currently I'm working at a ski area and waiting for it to snow, it won't be long until we get plenty of snow and I can get back to making a decent wage, but for now, I'm making next to shit, and that severely affects my drinking habits.
I don't get paid until Friday, and right now I have a $20 in my wallet which is all the money I have to my name, thanks to the economy (blaming the economy is just our American way of referring to illegal Mexican immigrants in a politically correct way). I can't afford an 8 dollar beer, couple that with the fact that my low gas light is on, I still have 4 more days until I get paid, and I'm out of weed. I was driving home from a hard day at work and decided I needed to chemically impair my brain. Knowing that a 20 bill is going to have to last me until Friday (today's Monday) I knew that liquor was out of the question, I'd have to go low, I'd have to find the cheapest thing in the entire liquor store that still had enough quantity to get me decently drunk. The result, a 40oz bottle of Steel Reserve 211 for $2.60. I usually drink Bass or Magic Hat #9 or Rogue American Ale, but tonight I'm drinking the cheapest thing I could possibly find, and to be perfectly honest, it's actually not that bad. Dare I say it, I actually like it, it's got a somewhat sweet taste to it, and best of all, it's 8.1% alcohol by volume. I'm halfway through it and I already have a decent buzz going.
Anyway, if you're wondering why I started a thread to say this, what I want to know is what's your favorite way to get drunk on a really thin budget? What's that bottle you buy, whether it's a screw-top wine from a gas station, 40 oz bottles from a convenience store, cheap as hell liquor, or even if you just drink raw ethanol (which is essentially what moonshine is), admit to it, even the finest beer snob has at one point in his life found himself at a convenience store with 5 bucks on hand, staring at the cooler. What's your favorite cheap alcohol?
