Go to your neighborhood liquor store. That's the cheapest beer in town. The only sketchy people you'll have to worry about are your roommates... and maybe yourself.

Old Style at Carmody. Swill in a can will get you where you want to go.

Pioneer bar has 25 oz. tap beers of Bell's Two Hearted for like $5. Guzzle 2 or 3 of those and you'll be missing the dart board completely. No sketchy cats either. Famous Dave's isn't really a bar but they have $2 pints all day everyday. I had some grub and pre-bar beers there recently. Ten bucks and five beers later is pretty cheap.

You can get a burger and a pitcher at the Anchor for about $10 I believe.  I miss my college days at Carignan's, Ten Cent Taps on Fridays!!  ugh.

The Hammond in Superior has $2 Summit and New Castle pints every night of the week.  Plus you kind of still feel like you are in Duluth because it's right at the base of the bridge.

LaBelle's is super sketch.  Make sure you say Hi to the guy with the hook arm and watch out for the pieces of falling ceiling that always end up in your drink.  haha

Some friends and I did the stumble to the shore this summer.  That is, we started at Belknap, and had a drink at every bar along Tower Ave, ending at Off The Wagon  (and Tom's Cedar Lounge ... I'm told).

The cheapest beer by far was indeed at LaBelle's:  $.50 for 10oz of Old Milwaukee.  I believe a pitcher was $4.

Wabegon dollar tap Thursdays. I'll buy the first round, then tubing at the ski hill next door.

The Bedrock has $3 30oz mugs of Premium and some other light beers. It also gets a huge boost in my book for having every imaginable bar game - foosball, shuffle puck, ping pong, pool, arcade, and I think even a Wii. I'm not positive if the $3 30oz is all the time or not though.

This is on my list.

My roomate and I used to get 2 burgers, 2 orders of fries, and a pitcher for 8 bucks.

I was just thinking about Schooners "Beach Club!" I was at a Hot Toddy Valentine's show and I remember him doing Happy Hours there, occasionally I would run sound, usually I would just sit there and try to get wasted for cheap before we went out with whatever we picked up at the bar ... rarely women, usually a bored businessman staying in the hotel looking for a "sketchy" time with some locals.  It's been awhile for me, but I remember Grandma's Sports Garden had $2 strong long island teas if you went there early enough.  That would get even me pretty looped for ten bucks.  But maybe that's still too much for a poor college student.

Go to the Warehouse on Monday nights for $.25 taps.

Oh, sorry. I was temporarily transported to 1990.

Oh for the love of - WTF?  A non-sketchy crowd? Fail on so many levels.

I agree Paul!!  Though my Hwy 23 runs usually start out in Kerrik at Lobo's where they used to have (IMHO) awesome Bloody Mary's and then we'd work our way back toward Gary, making sure to hit the Duquette River Inn (before it burned down), the Nickerson Bar, the Hitching Post (before it burned ... I see a pattern here), The Boneyard, then on to the Wab, the Alpine and Shotz.  Man I miss the days of being an irresponsible adult with weekdays off.

c-freak, your post fails on so many levels

Matt, if you're so set on drinking with "non-sketchy" people, I'd have to say you should go drink at the gitch. I guess the rest of us are too slummy for ya.

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Try Curly's Bar in the West End.

Old Style at the Copesetic is always a cold cheap pint.

Let's meet at Curly's, Sunday night at ten?

I seriously regret my sketchiness statement. Can I retract it? And I will have to get back to you on that sometime next week, I definitely owe you for some great advice!