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I can smell the alcoholic fatties through my screen.

Post your favorite low-end alcoholic beverage. I'm partial to ice beer and malt liquor. My most recent was Mickey's. My standbys are Milwaukee's Best Ice, King Cobra, etc.

What is the better cheap, higher alcohol macro beer style? Ice beer or malt liquor?

Most of the Anheuser-Busch ones are fairly low in calories and taste but good for those that like standard Bud. This includes King Cobra, Natural Ice, etc. Hurricane HG at 8.1 ABV is surprisingly good despite its very high alcohol content for a macro beer. Bud Ice is a standby for old drunks where I live (saw a guy riding a bike 1 handed with a tallboy in the other).

MillerCoors offers Steel Reserve, which is very cheap and very boozy but pretty foul (more off flavor than any beer I've had), also Magnum and Mickeys, neither of which I have tried. Milwaukee's Best Ice is the cheapest source of alcohol (even vs. cheap vodka) at $13 for a 30 pack. It has a more beery flavor but kind of an alkaline taste that many didn't like. I haven't tried Keystone Ice. Icehouse is 99 cents and pretty decent.

I've also had Labatt Ice and Genessee Ice. Genessee was definitely the better of the two.
Any suggestions for other cheap and potent beers?