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It depends on where you live honestly sometimes steel reserve is only 6% and sometimes it's 8%. That black labeled stuff tastes even more monkey tier then Schlitz malt liquor bull, or OE800

Why do people drink shit like this instead of just getting a bottle of vodka or something? Surely it isn't better value

>>14624849
If you want to get something that tastes good and will get you just as drunk without the hangover try Mike's harder blackberry or the Alabama slammer or Bahama Mama clubtails.

>>14624864
There is no such thing as a hangover proof alcoholic drink. Maybe if you're pretty young and you get drunk all the time it won't feel that bad, but it's still a hangover. And it gets much worse the older you get.

>>14624859
I don't like liquor, and you can get a 24 oz can of this for $2

>>14624859
For me, it's Steel Reserve. A six pack of Steel Reserve tall boys for $5 vs a fifth of Sobieski vodka for $12. Guess which one give you more alcohol for your buck? It's the Steel Reserve, plus the carbonation gets you drunker quicker. What you know about that?

>>14624859
Au contraire, Steel Reserve is cheaper in alcohol per dollar ounce than bottom shelf vodka.

>>14624871
$2? I can get them for less than $1.50

>>14624891
I'd just buy a single can at gas station after work, obviously not the most economical way to buy beer.

>>14624875
I see

SR tastes like I'm drinking liquid cornbread.

>>14624872
>What you know about that?
Based 40oz malt liquor crew poster

>>14624849
The black label is way less boozy and metallic tasting than the standard 211. Idk about now but for a while you could only get the black label in oregon and washington

>>14625052
Describe the taste if it's not boozy. I like boozy.

The black is way better but hard to find dunno why they distribute the silver more

>>14626330
sleep tight, steeler.

>>14624872
>fifth of Sobieski vodka for $12
just do a handle of something like Aristocrat for the same price. Maybe somewhere weird like Utah might be different, but I've lived in both controlled and privatized states, and liquor is always a cheaper drunk than beer or wine.
>>14624859
I worked ER night shift for a while, so obviously I drank myself to sleep. I usually had to buy high gravity beers and shit because I was living in a control state and could only buy liquor from like 10a-8p, so I'd have to really go out of my way to get liquor, so I'd usually just grab a few malt liquors on my way home from work.

Ok serious question

I can get a 1.75L of bottom shelf bourbon for $14 at a local shop. I spend $1 on a 1.25L of pepsi from a dollar store next door and I make mixed drinks (because I have ulcers and mixed treats me better)

Is it cheaper to buy malt liquor? I always get confused by the alc/vol. Bourbon is 40 alc/vol, most of the malt liquor I see is like 6-10% alc/vol. So I'd have to drink an entire tall boy to get buzzed? Sounds like I'd get bloated as fuck and feel miserable compared to just taking drinks of mixed bourbon.

I'm 6'4" and about 170lbs so I need a decent amount of any alcohol to feel it.
Only asking because I have to live on a tighter budget for a couple months and I can't do it sober.

>>14624869
the Russian Standard people should pay me for always saying this but if you drink enough water the shit won't get you hung over. I've drunk enough to have vodka smelling shit the next morning but still no hangover

>>14626476
It's definitely cheaper to get bottom shelf 40%. Here's some quick math. in order to get 10%, you use 1:4 liquor to mixer. Handle is about 60oz. Tall boys are 24oz?, so you'll use 5oz of liquor and 20oz of mixer meaning you'll get 30 drinks out of a handle roughly equivalent to malt.

>>14626342
the Black label costs more to make, the silver sells better because the brand is already established. I don't understand why you can't figure that out.

>>14624869
I'm 44 years old and I drink 3 handles of Smirnoff 80 proof a week, I drink another case or two of clubtails just to keep the shakes off. I don't get hangovers because I stay drunk

>>14626615
What a fucking pro. I thought I was a serious alchy, but I can only power through about 2 handles of shit a week. Though I am getting 45-50% shit most times.

>>14625052
>>14626531
>It's definitely cheaper to get bottom shelf 40%
You sure about that? It's not like they put the volume and abv on the containers or nothing. It's not like anybody could prove anything with hard numbers.

vol. * (ABV/100)/price
1750 * (.40/100)/15 = .466
2839 * (.081/100)/5 = .459

It's so close a few cents difference in how much alcohol you're getting on the dollar that it doesn't matter. Just drink what you prefer. You'd be splitting pennies if you fret over this but don't think you're saving so much money by buying a bottom shelf handle when you're not.

>>14627633
What's you SR based off of? 16oz 6 packs, which I've never seen them packaged. I think the cheapest is about $2.75 for 42oz bottles. Do you math for that because I'm fucking drunk now and don't care to math.

>>14627673
Also to be fair. You can get Bottom shelf vodka at like $10-11 per 1.75L as well.

>>14627673
16oz 6 packs right.

42oz SR
1242 * (.081/100)/2.75 = .365
That's expensive for SR.

If SR costs you this much then a handle of liquor is more cost effective if you can get it for $19 or less.

>>14627633
>>14627698
I did find Walmart had those 6 packs for 3.77, but using your formula I got .670 or so. Might have fucked up, my guess was that6 pack was a better deal. Fuck I need to get my shit together, I'm a biochem major and I'm pretty sure I've drank myself retarded.

>>14627733
Yeah, the 16oz 6 packs of SR are great fucking deals and .670 is right 42oz are nigger tier. The reuslting number in the formula is how much alcohol you're getting on the dollar.

>>14627746
Ah, I was thinking it was how much price per unit of etoh. Makes more sense now.

>>14624849
Have some self-respect and get your self some decent brews.

>>14627746
>>14627749
I guess also calorie density might matter, but that's honestly probably a fucking joke to heavy drinkers.

>>14627755
Of those, I've had Pilsner Urquell, Hacker Pschorr but don't remember what kind, and that Chimay on the right.

If you're going by what tastes most like bread. Steel Reserve is better. It tastes more like liquid bread than any of those that I've had in your picture. Steel Reserve has a very thick, bready mouthfeel and the taste is bread and corn malt and bit of malted barley, with little hop bitterness and some toasted grains on the finish. The taste is heavy.

I don't know why you're going to trash Steel Reverse when you haven't even drank it. It's very good. There's nothing wrong with it and you're just being pretentious.

>>14627799
Steel Reserve is so fucking sweet. They have to add sugar to it, it has no business being that sweet with that high of an ABV.

Why are you coddled neet white children buying malt liquor? And the absolute worst one at that.

>>14627806
High ABV beers are sweet and it can't be helped, but SR isn't too sweet.

>>14627809
>it can't be helped
Why the fuck not? Sugar is converted into alcohol, so higher ABV shit should have less unconverted sugar. Steel is sweet because they add sugar to it.

>>14627820
More sugars are needed in the brewing process to achieve high ABV. They're not actually adding granulated sugar. You understand that malt is sweet, right?

I'm not sure what SR uses in the brewing process but it's probably barley malt, corn malt, and corn syrup.

>>14626615
Jesus christ dude, that’s insane
Please dont kill yourself

>>14627847
Malt is just a grain, it's not appreciably sweeter than any other cereal grain. They may be adding more sugar that could possibly be used up just to ensure it's there, but on a consumer end, it's noticeably sweeter than anything that isn't flavored.

>>14626509
this, vodka waters are hangover less most of the time. even for me and i get insane hangovers from beer and spirits even at only 21

damn you're a bunch of degenerates in here. drinking steel reserve for what? the memes? that is the absolute worst rot gut to come out of a can. i guess i understand if its all you can get but if not, do yourself a favor and get a hurricane or at least a natty daddy.

>>14626330
Iktf

>>14628058
>don't drink steel reserve, it's fucking rot gut
>instead drink this, the exact same thing
Jesus fuck, you've drunk yourself retarded

>>14626476
>6'4" and about 170lbs
Please eat bro, that isn't healthy

>>14628096
i used to drink 211 because for a time it was the only one with a higher alcohol content. never actually liked it. tried hurricanes and can't go back. last 211 i bought, i threw it out after a few swallows. i'll rather drink an opened hurricane i wake up next to rather than a fresh cold 211.

Is there any reason to drink any variety of Steel Reserve that doesn't involve being a low-functioning alcoholic or underage?

>>14624859
Gotta pace myself.

>>14628932
no
if you're a grown person who just likes the taste of malt liquor, you'd drink King Cobra or Old English or something. The difference between 6.0 and 8.1 is a world of foulness.

For me, it's Double Axe.

>>14628946
Wrong.