Good beer, great value: 10 cheap beers you’ll actually enjoy drinking, including one that’s cheaper than gas

CHICAGO — Inflation won’t quit. The price of gas has reached the stratosphere. The stock market is taking a beating. And I won’t even start on crypto.

Boy, could we use a beer.

But we don’t need just any beer in these fraught economic times. What we need more than ever is good beer at an even better value.

That doesn’t mean it’s time to pretend we’re in college and settle for oceans of cheap, lousy beer. It means bang for the buck. It means finding the beers that perform above their price. It means finding the great deals hiding in plain sight.

I tasted about 25 beers to assemble this list, shopping with an eye on price, but shunning anything that didn’t pass the most essential test: good taste. There is no sacrificing quality on this list. In a few cases — looking at