Defeat price tyranny! The hunt for the cheapest Sam Adams

Maybe Benjamin Franklin didn’t actually say “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy,” but we definitely do want you to be happy, and especially happily — and thriftily — drinking on America’s 235th birthday. For our latest price smackdown, we wanted to choose the right beer: it had to be domestic. It had to be tasteful and crisp, which of course led us to one of the more controversial Founding Fathers: Samuel Adams Beer. To help you make poor choices regarding fireworks, we ran down the best and worst prices for six packs of the lager, light and summer ale from 36 stores across the borough.

BEST PRICES
Samuel Adams Boston Lager: Target, Atlantic Center $7.99
Samuel Adams Light: Target, Atlantic Center $7.99
Samuel Adams Summer Ale: Target, Atlantic Center $7.99

WORST PRICES
Samuel Adams Boston Lager: Smith’s Grocery, Smith and Bergen streets, Cobble Hill $13.20
Samuel Adams Light: Deli, (Bedford Ave btw Green and Lexington, Bed-Stuy) $12.00
Samuel Adams Summer Ale: Smith’s Grocery, Cobble Hill $13.20

STORE/NEIGHBORHOOD Lager / Sam Adams Light / Summer Ale
C-Town (16th and Marlborough, Flatbush) $9.99 / 0 / 0
Brooklyn Natural (Bushwick Ave., Bushwick) $11.49 / 0 / $11.49
BP (Flushing Av and Bushwick Ave., Bushwick) $9.49 / 0 / $9.49
5 Stars Gourmet Deli (Bushwick Ave., Bushwick) $0 / 0 / $10
Deli (375 Bushwick Ave., Bushwick) $9.99 / 0 / $9.99
Khim’s Millenium Mart (Bushwick Ave., Bushwick) $12 / 0 / $12
Quik Stop Grocery (Montrose Ave., Bushwick) $11 / 0 / 0
Deli (235 Bushwick Ave, Bushwick) $11 / 0 / $11
United Deli & Grocery (Bushwick Ave., Bushwick) $11.75 / 0 / $11.75
T+F (Bushwick Ave, Bushwick) $9.99 / 0 / 0
Eagle Mini Mart (Bushwick Ave, Bushwick) $9.99 / 0 / $9.99
L-Mo’s Market (Morgan Ave. and Grattan, Bushwick) $10.50 / 0 / 0
Duane Reade (Nostrand and Myrtle Ave., Bed-Stuy) $10.50 / $10.50 / $10.50
Key Foods (Myrtle Ave. and Throop, Bed-Stuy) $10 / $10 / $10
Associated Supermarket (Marcy and MLK JR, Bed-Stuy) $9.99 / $9.99 / $9.99
Myrtle Ave Deli and Grocery (Myrtle Ave & Marcy,
Bed-Stuy) $10 / $10 / $10
Compare Foods (Bed-Stuy) $10 / $10 / $10
Foodtown (Bed-Stuy) $11 / $11 / $11
C-Town (Dekalb Ave, Bed-Stuy) $10.99 / $10.99 / $10.99
Foodtown (N. 3rd St, Williamsburg) $9.99 / $9.99 / $9.99
Pathmark (Atlantic Center, Downtown) $8.99 / $8.99 / $8.99
Ziad’s Deli (Smith Street, Cobble Hill) $11.94 / 0 / $11.94
Union Market (Court Street, Cobble Hill) $11.29 / 0 / $11.29
Trader Joe’s (Court Street, Cobble Hill) $8.99 / 0 / $8.99
Met Foods (Smith Street, Cobble Hill) $10.99 / $10.99 / $10.99
Met Foods (Fifth Avenue, Park Slope) $9.99 / 0 / $9.99
C-Town (9th Ave., Park Slope) $9.99 /0 / $9.99
Los Amigos Deli (N8th and Havermayer,
Williamsburg) $11 / $11 / 0
Associated Supermarket (Manhattan Ave,
Greenpoint) $9.99 / $9.99 / 0
God Bless Deli (Manhattan Ave, Greenpoint) $11 / 0 / $11
7-11 (Manhattan Ave, Greenpoint) $9.99 / 0 / 0
Busy Bee (Nassau Ave, Greenpoint) $0 / 0 / $10.15
OHS (Near McGolrick Park, Greenpoint) $11 / 0 / 0

Thanks to Team Brokelyn for help price scouting: Meghan Doherty, Timothy Krause, Karina Briski, Tom Sullivan, Meredith Olson, Faye Penn, David Colon, Andrew Linderman and Tim Donnelly.

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Dave says:

Jul 4, 2011 at 2:14 pm

And somewhere, John Quincy Adams curses and wonders why he can't even get a bargain basement whiskey named after him.