POST HERE: What is the worst beer you have ever tasted

[LynneSin]

Seems people aren't happy with the 'Worst Beer ever' list so let's make our own here at DU.

One rule - It must have been something you have tasted - at least one full gulp of whatever it was that was so nasty that it made your innards scream "WHAT THE *#% ARE YOU DOING TO ME".

My vote, has to go for that West Coast Pennsylvanian Legend - IC Light



IC is for Iron City - this is a Pittsburgh brewed beer. And it tastes like the water used to brew this beer was first used to clean out the machinery used to make Iron.

[hlthe2b]

1. You could pretty much go down the list of all the "light" beers

though I do like Michelob Ultra, ok (if I'm going to be "good&quot

[turtlerescue1]

2. My first bottle of "Home Brew", and everyone tried since too.

[arbusto_baboso]

4. You've never tried MY home brew.

I did a barley wine that was a dead-ringer for Rochefort 10.

[Throd]

15. I got lucky on my first batch.

It taste like a creamy, fruity Belgian wheat ale. The more I tried to "fix" it in subsequent batches, the worse it got.

[turtlerescue1]

35. Yeah, I switched to wine.

[Smilo]

67. That's what happened to us...........

now we drink every one else's home brews

[firenewt]

109. Too funny - my first thought was my very first batch of home brew. It resembled a toxic waste site

in both appearance and taste. Beer isn't supposed to be chewy, is it?

[firenewt]

110. Too funny - my first thought was my very first batch of home brew. It resembled a toxic waste site

in both appearance and taste. Beer isn't supposed to be chewy, is it?

[trof]

3. Old Milwaukee

[Populist_Prole]

5. Mickey's Ale

You know the stuff, came in a squat bottle that mimics a barrel and has a wide mouth with a foil pull-cap. Drank gallons of the stuff in out teenaged partying days. Had a cloying sweetness to it but we drank it anyway because it was very inexpensive and readily available. I think back now, and I'm like bleccchhhh!

[HappyMe]

55. Yup, nasty stuff.

Little Kings, too. We used to call them Little Killers.

[OnyxCollie]

170. Green grenades.

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Forties were green torpedoes.

[SalviaBlue]

182. I like the puzzles in the bottle caps.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. I don't drink and I know the answer to that one.

O'Douls.

(Lynnesin: Looking forward to the recap of TB because I know your post is going to get canned if you quote Russell's comment at the end of the show.)

[Gidney N Cloyd]

57. Non-alcoholic and I STILL got a hangover from that crap.

[CBGLuthier]

7. Coors.

Nasty acidic shitwater.


I am a beer snob which is to say i hardly ever drank it until I found the better brews. When beer meant bud and busch and coors i would just as soon have drank my own urine. But I usually got whiskey instead.

[LynneSin]

23. I call COORS product - "Beer Flavored Kool-aid"

I could drink the juice of oranges or I could drink water that is flavored like oranges. To me any of those Coors products is like drinking water flavored like beer.

[Archae]

31. Reminds me of an Aussie joke.

They call British and American beer "Having sex in a canoe," because they're "Fucking close to water."

[Canuckistanian]

126. Hey!

That's originally a Canadian joke for American beers!

I'm offended!

[alfredo]

138. Bud, Miller, and Coors are no longer American beers. Try the craft beers like

those From Three Floyds, Founders, Bells, Great Lakes Brewery, Stone, Sierra Nevada, and Schlafly. Even some of Sam Adams beers are good. Their Boston Lager and their Noble Pils are pretty good. Trader Joe's Stockyard Oatmeal Stout is a nice session beer.

[OnyxCollie]

192. I haven't had anything from Schlafly or Trader Joe's

but I have had some from all that you've listed.

In my area is what may be the best beverage store in Ohio, 101 Bottles. In addition to a HUGE selection of beer, they've got 24 taps that change out weekly, if not sooner.

That's where I tasted Three Floyd's Dreadnaught on tap. Mmm, delicious.

I've tried Founder's Centennial IPA, Dirty Bastard (liked a lot), Breakfast Stout (on tap and outstanding), Red's Rye PA, All Day Session Ale (I don't drink in a "session"; give me one beer with the ABV to make it count!), and Cerise (cherry beer, that while not my favorite, was still enjoyable.)

They have a large selection of Bell's, but when I'm there I can't remember which one to pick based on reviews I've read, so I end up getting something else. Bell's Two-Hearted Ale is one that I've gone back for, however.

I live outside of Cleveland, so the Great Lakes beers are fully stocked. I tend to stay away from GL. I don't think they often live up to the hype. GL's Wright Pils was new this season, so I gave that a shot. Not bad. That aided me as I prepared my garden in spring. I tried the Dopplerock recently because I was intrigued by tales of dark fruit taste. It was okay. Lake Erie Monster is out right now, but I'll probably not revisit it.

I've tried a few from Stone- Levitation (low ABV, so my GF drinks it), Ruination IPA (really good), Smoked Porter (I don't usually go for porters, but this I liked. Decent price for a bomber, too), 11.11.11 Vertical Epic Ale (On tap tasted better than bottled. Peppery!) and the Russian Imperial Stout, which I didn't like as much as I thought I would.

Sierra Nevada's Torpedo Extra IPA and Pale Ale are go-to beers. Their Autumn Tumber was a bland brown ale, though. Last week I had the Southern Hemisphere Harvest Ale. It was satisfactory, but not very memorable. Last January, 101 Bottles marked Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale down to $5.99 a six. I picked up a case and aged some for a few months.

For a while, I was really into Sam Adams, but then I had a few clunkers (one was the Blackberry Witbier, another was the Latitude 48) and moved on to more exotic fare. The Noble Pils is good. I prefer the Boston Ale to the Boston Lager. Alpine Spring is surprisingly snappy. I like their Harvest Pumpkin Ale, but I'm not buying a twelve pack to get it.

I'll check for Schlafly. There are so many to choose from, I may have overlooked it.

[geardaddy]

77. That's close to what I call Corona.

"Beer-flavored beverage."

[dixiegrrrrl]

78. I agree with you. Took a swing 40 years ago and can STILL gag at the memory.

Olympia beeer comes in at almost the same on the yecccch meter,
Rainier beer follows behind.
Bet ya can't tell where my drinking days were...

[bayareaboy]

97. Another West Coast Boy

Oly is the dregs, I used to like Rainier Ale but it comes from some place in Arizona now and last time I had one it tasted rank as hell.

When I was young, Breu 102 in the bay area came up to Oly in sales. Just as bad though.

In my later years I did homemade, but after tasting most Lagunitas beers, and others I gave up.

[citizen blues]

121. No snobbishness needed to hate Coors

I grew up in Colorado. The commercials used the slogan that it was made from "Rocky Mountain spring water." We always called it "Rocky Mountain piss water." The creek they get their water from comes down a canyon full of tourists pissing in the water, not to mention all the old mine tailings the water runs over.

If you want to know more about the Coors family, you can read more here:

http://campusprogress.org/articles/the_dark_side_of_coors_light
[link:http://campusprogress.org/articles/the_dark_side_of_coors_light|

[liberaltrucker]

8. Keystone

[Tobin S.]

9. Strohs

[Ikonoklast]

21. We used to call Stroh's "Canned Headache".

My vote is for P.O.C.

"Pilsener On Call", "Pride Of Cleveland", or like we used to say "Pisswater Out of the Cuyahoga".

[Archae]

32. My Dad used to laugh at Budweiser beer. (Any Budweiser)

He said that's what the horses were really for.

[xxqqqzme]

91. I'll go with your dad on any Budweiser.

I had a friend who said 'Budweiser tastes like horse piss smells'. Thought about that for a second or two, then had to agree with him. I won't let it in my house.

[Archae]

94. Funny thing is, there is a real "Horse Piss Beer."

http://horsepissbeer.com/

[HarveyDarkey]

41. I'll second that

& the canned headache comment following.

[slampoet]

207. ahh yes, the 18 packs! Cheaper than 40 cents a can, when soda was almost a dollar.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

10. COORS. "Rocky Mountain Mouse Piss."

Terrible, terrible stuff. Like tap water with some kind of funny beer-like taste.

[GoCubsGo]

27. Colorado Kool Aid.

Bleh.

[ohiosmith]

11. This swill:

I just realized your's is an IC too!

[Son of Gob]

12. Guinness

In a can.

[Ron Obvious]

222. Guinness...

I rather like Guinness as a rule, and I was pretty happy one time when I got access to the VIP room at Heathrow, with all the free beer I could drink. I picked out a can of Guinness and sat back, ready to enjoy.

It was warm.

It was thoroughly disgusting. Like the IRA had pissed in it before exporting it. By far the worst beer I ever had, and I include the revolting domestic mass-market "Lite" beers in that list.

[LynneSin]

223. I've found that less and less bars have Guiness on tap

It use to be that Guiness was a standard for most bars in area but lately it seems many pubs are pulling guiness on tap in favor of the canned version of it. Let's face it - an order of Guiness isn't a quick pour like regular beers, it usually takes a few minutes since you pour some, let the head settle and pour some more. I'm wondering if that's why I'm seeing more places ditch the Guiness on tap in favor of the can - which is a quick pop open and you're done.

I've had the can too and was not impressed. Wouldn't say it was the worse but it was annoying when you were hoping for a draft of Guiness and they give you that instead. Now I have to clarify instead of 'Do you have Guiness' it's now 'Do you have Guiness on tap'.

[d_r]

227. it is better on tap

but in a can is better than nothing to me

[TreasonousBastard]

13. I have no idea what the name was, but it was in a clear bottle...

with a chili pepper swimming around in there. I think it was "brewed" in New Mexico. But it sucked with the worst of suck.

I left a bottle of it around in a motel kitchen one morning and the resident drunk came in, chugged it, and halfway through spit it all out and almost puked. Nobody ever saw him have a problem drinking anything before.

[hobbit709]

18. Crazy Ed's Chile Beer from Arizone

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/677/2213/
That stuff was awful.

[TreasonousBastard]

34. I do believe that's it...

Fits the description, and the comments ring true.

From the comments:

the beer itself is recycled Carta Blanca that's harvested from various urinals across Tijuana.

Pours yellow as the my urine after a long night of heavy drinking.

The burning in my mouth is just awful. It's like someone buried me to my neck in sand in some desert somewhere, kicked in my teeth and shoved a pepper down my throat. Despite begging for mercy my throat still screams out for the sweet calming peace of death.

If you are reading this... DO NOT EAT THE CHILI PEPPER

After the second and third sips, my stomach still feels unsettled. FML. Never again. This beer isn't even worth the price of the clear screw-top bottle that it is packaged in. I;m going to go boil my tongue.

[OnyxCollie]

171. A "friend" gave us a six of that.

It stayed in the fridge for years.

[KamaAina]

14. Lobko

Shortly after the Czech Republic's Velvet Revolution, it turned up in a grocery on the Upper West Side, labeled "Since 1169". I figured it was probably what they'd been drinking over there all those years.

I was wrong. At least I hope to god I was wrong.

[Throd]

16. Camoflague Malt Liquor

I'm a bit of an enigma in that I really enjoy both obscure foo-foo European beers and cheeeep American malt liquor, while shunning everything in between. My malt liquor affinity has provided me with the ability to choke down the vilest of stuff packaged and sold as "beer".

Then one day at a liquor store rather far off the Las Vegas strip I purchased three 24oz. cans of "Camoflague" malt liquor. They had three different types, so I had to try all three, right? They went in successively higher alcohol contents 8.1%, 10.1% and 12.1%. The first one was pretty crappy right off the bat. The second one was just more intense crap than the previous one. The last one was truly punishment, tasting like it had 2% carburetor cleaner in it for extra kick. I powered through it anyway to prove to myself that no beer can beat me and that I'm a stupid asshole.

[hobbit709]

17. Texas Pride

Was described as stale horse piss with the foam blown off by a fart.

[LynneSin]

24. This from the state that elected George W. Bush and Rick Perry as governor

somehow that beer seems fitting.

[Doc Holliday]

164. That stuff is

almost as nasty as the short-lived "J.R. Ewing's Private Stock." That stuff makes Coors look like Heineken.

Other varieties of dog-peed-in-a-can:

Carling Black Label
Genesee
Oly
Stroh's
Lone Star



And no Anheuser-Busch product will ever be in my refrigerator-- ever.

[TheMightyFavog]

19. Monk's Cafe Flemish Sour Ale....

That shit tastes like vinegar...

[HarveyDarkey]

40. I love it

But then I like sours & Geuzes. It's an acquired taste though.

[harmonicon]

44. Wow.... that's my favourite beer. (nt)

[slampoet]

208. I love the sour beers too. I am so saddened that there are so few American ones.

But I can see why they aren't an everyday thing and why some people would never like the best one.

[harmonicon]

212. It seems like there are an awful lot of American ones these days.

I haven't been back to the US too much in the last few years, but I've noticed a change in the times I have been back. It must have been about 3 or 4 years ago that I had a fantastic Flemish sour-style from Ommegang - better than the Rodenbach the same bar had on tap. When I was last home, over Christmas, I definitely noted far more people making sours. A great number of them seem to be so called "farmhouse-style" ales, which is sort of a pity. I'm afraid that US brewers are doing to them what they did to IPAs; i.e., fail to honor the style, remove all subtlety, and generally fuck them up.

[T_i_B]

217. I generally take "Farmhouse style ale" to mean Saison

Not Lambic. The Flying Dog be I've slagged off elsewhere in this thread was a "farmhouse style IPA", or an attempt at a Saison/IPA hybrid.

Proper Belgian Lambic beer is a difficult, expensive style to reproduce and in my opinion even more difficult to do well. For many years I avoided Lambic beers like the plague but recently I've discovered Cantillion as an occasional beer.

[harmonicon]

220. the copout/inspiration seams to be based on the fact that "farmhouse" isn't actually a style.

I like Saisons when they're done well, but I've never had one that's sour, which is in contrast to what a number of US brewers are selling as "farmhouse." It's like too many US IPAs that might as well be made from water, rubbing alcohol, and shit-loads of hops.

Lambics are hard to make, which is why you won't really see many trying to reproduce them. I do really enjoy them, but it's the sort of thing that I'll only have a few of in a year.

[T_i_B]

221. Kirkstall brewery are doing a Lambic style beer

Saw it in York last week. Didn't have any though.

Other then that UK versions of Lambic beer are very rare indeed. That's probably a good thing on balance.

[harmonicon]

225. I've never had a UK lambic...

but I did have a saison from a UK brewery last year, which was really nice - and, no, of course I can't remember which brewery.

[T_i_B]

228. The most obvious UK one is DarkStar Saison

....Which is delicious.

Ilkley have also come out with one, but it's not as good as DarkStar's. I think Summer Wine might have done a kegged one as well.

[harmonicon]

229. Yeah, DarkStar was probably it - sounds right, and I've had some of their other beers. (nt)

[loli phabay]

20. no matter what brand you drink the worst is always the first, and the taste dosent matter after the

first few.

[HopeHoops]

22. The worst is Schlitz (Shits)

[TheMightyFavog]

38. Ever since they went back to the old formula It's better.

I like it.

[Brother Buzz]

25. Billy Beer

Hell, even Billy Carter secretly drank PBR.

[GoCubsGo]

26. Corona

Being in a clear bottle, it was nice and skunky. And, it had this thick sulfur flavor to it. I was at some shindig, and I had drunk about half of it. I set it down on the ground next to my lawn chain, and when to get something to eat. When I came back, someone had mercifully knocked it over and spilled it. I cheered when I saw it. I really don't understand why that shit is so popular.

[LynneSin]

28. Corona - Mexican Beer Flavored Kool-aid

As I posted with my explanation of Coors - it's water flavored as beer.

I few years back I went to Acapulco for vacation and I found it odd that nowhere did you find anyone serving Corona. Even Mexicans won't touch that crap.

[mzmolly]

95. Agree.

Limes are a clever way to try and hide the consistently skunky flavor. Doesn't work. Blech!

[jmowreader]

198. Corona is Spanish for "Milwaukee's Best"

[mykpart]

29. It's been a long time,

and I don't think they make it any more, but JAX beer was the worst ever! They did have great commercials back in the 60s, though!

[azureblue]

103. I used to walk past they brewery in the Quarter

Didn't they get their water right out the Mississippi river, since they were built on top of the levee?

[azureblue]

105. PS If you didn't like Jax beer

you sure didn't like K&B Beer......

[AsahinaKimi]

30. i have to go with...

I would also throw in
Carling Black Label
and
Utica Club.

[creeksneakers2]

71. I was going to vote for Carling Black Label

I hope they don't make it anymore.

[T_i_B]

72. Oh yes they still make it

Still available just about everywhere in the UK.

[Auggie]

83. We bought Carling Black Label in college only when we were broke

[slampoet]

210. lots of bars in West michigan still have it too. Specials on it for 75 cents.

[Callmecrazy]

86. Carling Black Label tastes like a can of backwash.

And my fraternity parties served $8/keg Schmitz. Tasted like you were drinking dishwater.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

33. Dixie,

rotten!

[bullsnarfle]

69. DING DING DING!!!

You nailed it!
When I was stationed in TX I used to think Lone Star was the worst of the worst (even if there was a FREE KEG of that crap at a party we would take up a collection & send someone to the store); hell, even Pearl was basically drinkable compared to LS.
Then when I was back in FL a bunch of us went to a seafood festival. It was sponsored by Dixie. That's the ONLY beer they served at this event. So we all got one. Just one swig and it all got spat out & poured out --- NOBODY could stomach it!
We left and went to nice little bar with a microbrewery; ordered the beer-of-the-day, a delicious, summery blueberry wheat. Heaven.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

36. Olympia

Blech!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Brewed in Tumwater, WA I think. Watery, tasteless stuff.......

[oldhippydude]

89. Blitz Wienhard

another pacific coast beer (1960's)... way too much hops, tasted like piss

[WheelWalker]

112. I likened it to old dishwater. Really, really bad stuff.

[WheelWalker]

111. Agreed. Oly = #1 worst; close second is the original Blitz. But Blitz tried harder to be worst,

though.

[digonswine]

37. Zima-

and Pig's Eye--maybe from Minnesota?

[LynneSin]

42. Zima is not beer

It's the piss you have after a night of drinking Natty Light

Just saying!

[geardaddy]

59. Yes, Pig's Eye.

From St. Paul. That is nasty.

Pig's Eye was the original name of St. Paul, after Pig's Eye Parrant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Parrant

[TheMightyFavog]

39. I know I said the sour ale was the worst, but this comes in a close second

Now, their other beers are pretty good, and their Steamboat Shandy is nothing short amazing. Better than Leinie's. But the reboot of the original Potosi?

[Bombtrack]

43. Coors Light (aka tin-water, glass included) is the worst. How dare the person who said Guiness.

And I think I've had my share of beers. I plan on having a Sierra Nevada Torpedo momentarily.

[thelordofhell]

114. In defense of the Guinness person........they did say the canned stuff

Guinness from the tap........perfection
Guinness from a bottle.......close
Guinness from a can..........horrible

[harmonicon]

45. Sainsbury's Basics Bitter.

I think it's about 2% alcohol. I thought I'd try it as a laugh, but it wasn't even funny.

A close second is Carling. It's like a vaguely barley-flavoured soda. I'll drink almost any beer if it's free, but that shit I'd turn down.

[T_i_B]

46. If you've ever been piddled on by a hamster...

...then you'll have a good idea what Carling Black Label is like. It tastes exactly how hamster piss smells.

Worst beer I've ever tasted is Ridley's Rumpus, as I've said on another thread.

Worst beer I've had this year? Well Newcastle Founders Pale Ale was bad in every way but after this weekend I have to mention a trendy US "craft" beer. Flying Dog Wild Man IPA is just horrid and does terrible things to my digestive system.

[harmonicon]

48. I've never understood why people like Flying Dog beers.

I remember trying some when they were new in the US, and thought they weren't very good. I guess they were one of the first of that kind of US beer in the UK, so it became well-known, but now that there are much better American beers available, but I don't know why it still sells. I've been drinking loads of Brooklyn Summer Ale lately, and it's terrific. I also had several pints of Saltaire Blond a few days ago, which was also a good summer beer. At the same pub, my friend Andy had a Foster's. So sad.

[T_i_B]

49. I quite like Gonzo Porter

But the hoppier stuff of theirs I find tends to be on the sweet side.

[HarveyDarkey]

56. Gonzo Porter is one of my favorites

Unfortunately can no longer get it in my state.

[kwassa]

187. Flying Dog's Raging Bitch is simply the best beer made anywhere.

An IPA.

I'm sitting here drinking one of their Woody Creek Belgian-style whites

[OnyxCollie]

195. Woody Creek White is tasty.

I like Flying Dog's In Heat Wheat, and I don't normally go for hefeweizens.

I recommend the Double Dog Double Pale Ale.

[kwassa]

197. I'll have to give it a try. Thanks for the rec.

[OnyxCollie]

193. Newcastle Founder's Pale Ale

is fucking terrible.

Even Guinness Black Lager tastes better than that.

[T_i_B]

196. It's like the brewers at Scottish & Newcastle all sat round a table....

....and all decided to make the worst beer they possibly could.

I've been told that their summer ale is even worse, but I have no interest in finding out.

[solara]

47. Balentine Ale

The skunky cousin to skunky Heineken, which is also extremely over rated IMO

Gimme a Good stout or porter

[RiffRandell]

50. Rheingold, Narragansett and Tuborg.

In the late eighties, Tuborg was sold in eight packs (vs. six) for I believe 2 bucks.

[sarge43]

51. Long Star

The Zoomer crowd around San Antonio called it Aggie Piss

[Rozlee]

117. Yessss!

[EastTennesseeDem]

52. Spaten Dunkel weizen

It was heavily recommended to me by my friend at our beer pub. Yick. I made him buy whatever it was I replaced it with.

[HereSince1628]

53. Blatz, very apt name for it's flatulogenic properties

[annonymous]

54. I am surprised nobody has mentioned Red White & Blue

Nobody drank it because they liked it, they drank it to get drunk. It smelled like cat piss and tasted like it too. Runner up for bad beers is Crazy Eds Chili Beer. I tried that once and I thought it tasted like rotten salsa.

[Bozvotros]

118. I remember it well.

I think it was a buck a six pack which helped make it go down easier. Particularly good at cutting the pain of busted knuckles and the taste of old motor oil you somehow acquired after removing that heater from the 63 rambler at the salvage yard in the dead of winter.

[hifiguy]

58. There are many.

Hauenstein and Pfeiffer, two Minnesota/Wisconsin "classics" you could get for three bucks a case back in the 1970s, were both foul as hell - kind of greasy tasting, heavy and highly productive of vile farts. Even worse was Fox DeLuxe. Ugh, I am getting queasy even thinking of that stuff, which resembled cow piss.

Carling Black Label, which always a weird solvent smell.

The worst was Crucial Brew, a truly horrific Jamaican "beer" I had once in the '90s. Stuff smelled like degreaser cut with Hauenstein and Everclear, and the godawful hangover showed up halfway through the first bottle. Absolutely disgusting.

[geardaddy]

60. Ah Hauenstein. That was the stuff.

Fart-tastic.

You forgot Green Death. That shit gave me a headache.



And Dog Pyle

[hifiguy]

61. Special Ex or PBR was always the quickest ways to a horrible

hangover for me. I kinda liked Dog Style for a cheap brew.

[japple]

62. Foster's Lager. What a fruity mess!!

n/t

[malthaussen]

63. Yuengling Lager

Although I like their other products. In general, I don't much like lagers to begin with, but the Yuengling tasted like sour water.

-- Mal

[Kingofalldems]

130. Agree. I bought a six pack 2 weeks ago. Still 4 left.

Nasty.

[14thColony]

64. Schuter's Red Star from East Germany (DDR)

It was so bad I ordered a second one because I assumed the first was just an abberation. My assumption was quickly proven false.

[frylock]

65. Stella

hate it.

[alphafemale]

107. Seconded.

But really no flavor to object to. No flavor whatsoever, in fact.

[tomp]

160. hate it, too. nt

[Chipper Chat]

66. Sterling

Brewed in Evansville, Indiana in the 60s. You had the runs for 3 days.

[xxqqqzme]

92. Do you live in E-ville?

I grew up there and remember the brewery very well. I never saw any relative ever drink Sterling (and my dad's brothers were HUGE beer drinkers).

[Chipper Chat]

99. About 40 miles from E'town.

Sterling was cheap when you bought it in kegs. That's why a lot of taverns had it on tap. And I speak from actual experience. I attended a banquet at a KofC where Sterling was served. I just can't tell you how bad my next 3 days were!

[xxqqqzme]

186. I remember my uncles

Joking about the inevitable after affects.

[alfredo]

135. If you remember than, then you'd remember Falls City, Fehr's and Oertel's.

Falls City is back using the old recipe. A small brewery bought it.

[Chipper Chat]

156. Falls City had a real grainy taste.

It was OK in a pinch. I kinda liked Oertel's 92. I think it was a Cincinnati beer.

[alfredo]

178. My uncle was a big investor in Oertel's and was a forman at Four Roses. He

never tasted a drop of either one. I think he also owned stock in the tobacco companies but didn't smoke. My mother when she was a 14 or 15, worked at Brown & Williamson. She was so short she had to stand on a box to reach the machine. She was pulled out of school in the second grade to work as a servant, then later in the factories. Such was the fate of the orphan in those days. Dad lost his dad and was raised in a home with the actor Victor Mature. He didn't like him one bit.

My favorite beer was what was called common black beer. You'd supply the gallon jug and a dollar and you had enough beer to get you and your friends sloppy drunk. None of us were old enough to drive, so we walked miles to get to the bar. It was not a favorite for taste, it was my favorite because it was available and cheap.


I lived downwind from the distilleries, and at times down wind from Rubber town. I preferred being down wind from the distilleries. Occasionally we'd catch a whiff from the refinery on Algonquin parkway.

[geardaddy]

68. Schaeffer

The one to have when you're having more than one.

[LynneSin]

73. I actually liked Schaeffer Beer - it was my 'go-to' beer when I wanted to get drunk

That was back in college. Our biology group use to do these field trips to various marshlands on the east coast and of course these trips usually involved copious amounts of drinking at night. There was a core group of 10 of us and we were required to bring our own beer - each of us seemed to have our own favorite cheap beer and I was part of the Schaeffer Crowd. The other 2 fan favorites was Milwaukee's Best and Piels.

You could get a case of 16oz cans for like $6!

[geardaddy]

76. I liked Piehl's

It was dirt cheap in Upstate NY in the 80s when I was in college. I almost never drank Genesee, if I didn't have to.

[LynneSin]

79. I think I would rather recycle my alcohol soaked piss than to drink Piel's

I found it to be quite nasty!

[a la izquierda]

122. I am literally dying laughing.

My husband said none of his friends would even drink that when they were underage!!

[Stuckinthebush]

163. That beer was awful!

We'd buy it for a buck 30 in college for a six-pack and get toasted. If we couldn't stomach Schaeffer, we'd get Schaeffer Light. That was a little better but still quite nasty.

[GeorgeGist]

70. Schmidt ...

tastes like bottled dust.

[Phentex]

74. Anything with lime added...

tastes medicinal to me.

[LynneSin]

75. My rule of thumb - if I have to add fruit to a beer to make it drinkable...

then it's a beer I really don't want to drink.

When Mexican beers start making it big in the late 90s, bars got into a habit of putting a lime into any beer that was Mexican regardless if it was needed or not. I actually like Dos Equus Lagar and Negro Mordelo beers and was so annoyed when the dumbass bartender would put a lime into it. I would send it back too because even though the lime was only placed on the side of the glass or top of the bottle - I could still taste the lime in the beverage after drinking it.

I also refuse to drink fruit flavored beer - ugh!

[Initech]

87. I'm with you there - I hate most fruit flavored beers as well.

There are a couple of exceptions as always - when I'm in the midwest New Glarus makes an awesome dark cherry beer, and I had a kiwi beer a while back that wasn't too bad. For the most part I like strong dark ales.

[MannyGoldstein]

80. I was going to say Iron City, but

IC Lite must be even worse, by definition.

Yuck.

[NRaleighLiberal]

81. Bud Light....actually, *any brand* light. followed by most mega dist. American lagers.

Then again, we are pretty particular about our beer, and favor microbrew stouts and porters.

[elzenmahn]

144. Personally, I stay away from anything made by Anheuser Belch...

...and any of the big, so-called "American" breweries.

I like the smaller labels myself.

[TexasProgresive]

82. Well there's no accounting for taste- I like stout like Murphys and Guinness

and lots hate them.

The worst for me was some kind of ESB (Extra Strong Bitter) I think it was Redhook or Fullers. Anyway lots like both of those but not me!

[alfredo]

179. Try these stouts: Sierra Nevada Stout, Left Hand Milk stout, Founders Breakfast Stout,

and Ayinger Celebrator Doppelbock (not a stout). The last one is one hell of a beer.

Porters are a favorite for me. Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald, and Anchor Porter are my favorite.

Schlafly made a good ESB. I liked it better than Fullers, though Fullers was not bad. Their APA is a good session beer.


Barney Flats Oatmeal Stout (Anderson Valley) is quite good too.

[GoCubsGo]

200. Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout is one of the best.

Hell, pretty much everything Samuel Smith's puts out is tops. Check out their Taddy Porter, too. And, their Nut Brown Ale.

Celebrator Doppelbock is one of the best doppelbocks out there. One of my all-time favorites of any beer. Spaten Optimator is very good, too.

[alfredo]

203. Samuel Smith Taddy Porter is excellent, so is the Oatmeal Stout.

I just tried the Great Lakes Wright Pils. Nice

[flashsmith99]

84. Olde Frothingslosh Pale Stale Ale

Worst Ever: [link:|

[Hokie]

154. "The pale stale ale with the foam on the bottom"

Miss Frothingslosh's favorite hobby was arc welding.

[Rambis]

166. Had that in my beer can collection

several versions of it

[robbob]

85. Not sure if this is the exact brand, but....

The style of beer is referred to as "smoked beer:



It was at Bukowskis in down town Boston; part of the "99 bottles of beer" promotion we had to go through to get our own customized mug and join the "dead authors club". And is WASN'T a cheap beer (like many of the offerings here.

Put it this way; if your idea of a good beer is one which tastes of bacon and hot rod pepperoni sticks, then maybe this is the beer for you. It made me gag...

[GoCubsGo]

98. I don't like smoked beers, either.

I tried the Smoke Ale by Rogue several years ago. It is the only beer of theirs that I do not like. It would be great in a meat marinade, however. That's if you like a smokey flavor to your meat.

[T_i_B]

158. That would almost certainly have been the beer

I love Rauchbier, but it's just about the wierdest beer on the planet. You'll either love it or loathe it.

One thing I would say with smoked beers is that it matters a great deal what the malt's been smoked with. Beech is great but peat smoked malt pretty much guarantees that the beer will taste of mud.

[OnyxCollie]

172. Stone's Smoke Porter is good and reasonably priced.

Last night I had a Rogue Voodoo Doughnut bacon maple ale.

I liked it.

[Caeser67]

88. This is it

http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&sa=X&biw=1280&bih=906&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=kh0BN_Dk98-VAM:&imgrefurl=http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php%3Ff%3D7%26t%3D78130%26start%3D160&docid=Rs49wR-6Ro4jOM&imgurl=&w=270&h=273&ei=EbQFUPe8NYaa2AWi5s3VBQ&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=391&sig=100123136645303015022&page=1&tbnh=173&tbnw=171&start=0&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:4,s:0,i:88&tx=77&ty=77


^^^^^

This! Walmart (buddy had this shit in his cooler), we call it Dragon Piss.

[LeeM]

165. Beer Beer!

I had forgotten about that stuff, or at least destroyed all those brain cells back in college.

[benld74]

90. Way back in the high school days,,,

we pooled funds to get Red White and Blue. GAD it was bad, but we were underage, so I guess it worked out. I can recall dropping a just opened can, on pavement,,, it didn't even FOAM!

[1monster]

93. Any and all beers!

[lobodons]

96. Busch Beer

Haven't been able to chug a drop of Busch beer since 2000.

[infidel dog]

100. Ballantine and Schaefer are actually great cheap swill. I'll drink them over Budweiser any day.

I think the worst beer is anything with light or "lite" on the label. Horrible, all of them.

[fishwax]

101. Probabaly Big Flats (Walgreen's House Brand)

I first tried it right after it came out, and it was truly awful. This was not a surprise, given that the basic price is 3 bucks for a 6-pack (and I think the store had it on an introductory sale for 2.49, but I could be remembering wrong). It has an odor, when you crack it open, that suggests it was purchased at an estate sale rather than a drugstore--or as though you'd hidden it from your parents back in high school and just now stumbled upon it after all these years.

If your first sip of beer came from a can of cheap swill scavenged from underneath some newspapers in the bed of your older brother's beat-up El Camino and then passed around among your middle-school friends while watching Friday Night Videos in your wood-paneled basement, each of you harnessing every ounce of will you had in order to stifle the gag reflex long enough to proclaim the beer was "good shit," then you probably have a pretty good sense of what it tasted like. Truly awful.

And yet, kind of awesome.

Stephen Colbert gave his review some time later in his Tip of the Hat, Wag of My Finger feature. (The beer talk starts at about the 2:10 mark.) -- http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/stephen-colbert-tastes-walgreens-new-private-label-beer-big-flats/

[phantom power]

102. I'm going to go with the worst beer from my absolute favorite brewery...

Festina Peche... man, it's sour and nasty. Sam, wtf???

[T_i_B]

157. Festina Peche could have been a very rare thing....

.....a US wheat beer that's actually quite good.

But then they went and added Peach extract and utterly ruined it.

That said, I'm a HUGE fan of Dogfish Head beers. Really wish they still exported to the UK.

[OnyxCollie]

173. Dogfish Head Namaste.

The worst thing about it is the price.

$9.99 for a 25 oz witbier?

[T_i_B]

175. I know of a couple of bars in the UK which are charging £20.00 for a Dogfish Head wheat beer

The reason being that sadly, Dogfish Head beers are now very rare indeed over here. You have to wonder how those bars got the stuff in the 1st place.

If you want overpriced beer, just come over to the UK and go in any Brewdog bar.

[OnyxCollie]

176. I've been told that it's too expensive

to go out drinking in the UK.

That's okay, 'cause I do my drinking in the Mi Casa lounge.

[T_i_B]

177. Depends where you go

London is much better for drinking good beer then it used to be, but the prices are still high there. Outside of London it is possible to find some more reasonably priced stuff.

There's always JD Wetherspoons pubs for cheap beer of variable quality, although some of them can be a bit on the rough side.

The good US imports are always expensive outside of supermarkets. And don't get me started on the new wave of key-keg beers from the more trendy breweries. The quality is there by and large, but the price of such beer is outrageous!

[DFW]

104. ALL OF THEM

I have always hated the taste of beer.

[BabbaTam]

106. mud puddle water

JUST THE WORST EVER!

[fishwax]

191. I'm a big Shiner fan, generally, but

I don't think I've had the light blonde. (Frankly, I think the Blonde is plenty light enough.) I had the Wild Hare Pale Ale not too long ago, though, and was pretty disappointed. (Haven't tried the seasonal Ruby Red yet, as I've not generally been a fan of fruit beers, a few varieties of shandy excepted.)

[RedSpartan]

108. Utica Club Light

[emmadoggy]

113. Most of mine have already been mentioned, but

just to list them:

Schmidt, Schlitz, Blatz, Schaefer, Old Milwaukee (Old Swill).

Also some of the new "flavory" beers. Some I've tried are not bad, but there are some that are just outright strange and wrong. I also have a really hard time with any really dark beers.

I'm not much of a beer drinker.

[Rain Mcloud]

115. Anything from the Pearl Brewing company and that is quite a hefty number of beers.

Back in the '80's when I was unsuccessfully playing rock star in shitty dives and dew drop inn's it seemed the only beer you could get were bad beer's.
There wasn't enough weed,coke,Ludes,Mollies or "H" that could make me like the local flavor.
I did discover Mexican beer and it has been a passion ever since even through rehab.
Worst:
Falstaff,Pearl,Jax,Lone Star,Scotch Buy,Old Milwaukee,Milwaukee's Finest,Miller Lite,Coors,Coors Light,Shiner
Honorable Mention:
Hamm's,Olympia Gold,Micky's,Little King's,Stroh's,Lowenbreau,Schlitz Malt Liquor,Colt 45.
Palatable with food:
Rolling Rock,Foster's,
Good(especially with real Mexican food not that El Chico's Tex-Mex shit)
Sympatico,Chihuahua,Dos Equis Lager.
Great:
Modelo Lager and Negre,Dos Equis Negre,Guiness,Killian's,Harp,Chamay White Label.
El Supremo:
Chamay Red or Blue label.

I intend more research into the German beers if my liver holds up.
And I had to go get a Dos Equis Amber from the fridge to enjoy with my Tostito's and Salsa,just now.
Damn its good!

[Bozvotros]

116. The ones with cigarette butts marinating in them

As I recall "Old Crown" could range from palatable to very bad. I also recall heaving up a six pack of the iconic "Grain Belt" brand circa 1973 or so but that could have been the ouzo shots I had earlier.

[NoPasaran]

119. Buckhorn

Death in a can.

[Bozvotros]

148. Reasonably priced death in a can

Don't forget that...

[hifiguy]

167. That brings back some horrible memories.

I'd forgotten about Buckhorn. That's Fox DeLuxe bad.

[Canuckistanian]

120. Ok, some aren't going to like this

Back in the 80s, our government-controlled beer distribution company called Brewer's Retail got hit by a strike by their union.

All of our favorite Canadian beers were suddenly unavailable - Molson's, Labatt's, etc. Instead, we got a selection of American beers.

I ordered a case of this mysterious beer I'd never heard of. It was weak, tasteless, bland and SO watery I doubted it was actually beer.

It was "Pabst Blue Ribbon"

[kentauros]

123. Flat Tire

I tried one, didn't finish it, and poured it out along with the rest of the six-pack. I needed to recycle the bottles and didn't think anyone else should suffer. It's not even worth being "free beer".

[kwassa]

230. I don't get Flat Tire, either.

Why is this beer semi-trendy!

[a la izquierda]

124. Cerveza Gallo...

Guatemalan beer. Just wretched, and $2/ sixer.

[Unca Jim]

125. Milwaukee's Best

Yeah, the joke was whatever the Milwaukee breweries had left over in their plumbing was mixed up and...voila!

[elzenmahn]

142. It was the "best" they had at the time...

...so I guess they had the "truth in advertising" angle covered...

I guess.

[Historic NY]

127. Gennie Screamers....Genesee cream ale

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=genny%20screamers

[liberal N proud]

128. Any green bottle beer.

[sadbear]

131. Rolling Rock

[Historic NY]

134. "green death".

[Taverner]

129. A Budweiser that had sat for over a year in a box outside, 20 feet from Lake Tahoe

Cooked in the heat, frozen, then thawed, then frozen, then thawed, then cooked again.

Dirtwater.

This was back in HS (85)

[Odin2005]

132. Bud Lite.

Piss water.

[vanlassie]

133. Sam Adams Cherry Wheat

Tastes like shit.

[alfredo]

137. Their Nobel Pils is pretty good.

[D23MIURG23]

152. I agree, that is the worst beer of theirs I've ever had.

[alfredo]

136. Melotti, an Eritrean beer ruined many a morning. Nasty crap, but

I'd drink it before I'd drink any of the swill out of Coors.


It could make you shit through the eye of a needle at fifty yards. At least that would take your mind off the crushing headache.


BTW, Sam Adams Nobel Pils is pretty good. If you like Pilsners, you will like it.

[alfredo]

139. If the beer says it should be drunk ice cold, that means the beer tastes like shit.

The cold deadens the taste buds.

[elzenmahn]

140. HAMMS!

Rot of the gut, piss of the horse...

Nasty stuff.

[Kablooie]

145. But it's from the land of sky blue water.

[elzenmahn]

146. I wonder just what made that water so "sky blue"...

...especially if that "sky blue" water was used in making that swill? Was was the "secret ingredient"?
Was it water at all? I wonder...

[Kablooie]

150. Maybe it was swimming pool water.

[svpadgham]

141. Harpoon Oyster Stout

Just not my thing.

[StateApparatus]

149. I just threw up a little in my mouth...

Reminds me of a friend of mine who likes "Bloody Beer," which is apparently beer with bloody mary mix... including clamato juice. Beer and molluscs should not be blended.

[Kablooie]

143. Budweiser

Watery empty taste

[StateApparatus]

147. Is Zima a beer?

If not, I'd have to say PBR or Schafer. Like skunky, carbonated urine.

[D23MIURG23]

151. Its a tie between Tsingtao and Busch light n/t

[Hokie]

153. Drummond Brothers

I have several nominees from the past:

These are far worse than IC Light:

Drummond Brothers - I can't describe how bad this was. Piss just doesn't do it justice.
Falls City - The after taste was measured in hours.
A&P Tudor Beer - Yes, they had a store brand beer. You can imagine.

[D23MIURG23]

155. Incidentally I think the most notorious beer on Ratebeer is probably Bud Chelada...

http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/budweiser-chelada/74833/

Its Budweiser with clamato juice mixed in. I've heard that it tastes like canned puke, but luckily I have a mild shellfish allergy, and thus an excuse not to try it.

[JonLP24]

162. Ooh that may be a winner

I thought at first it was Tomato flavored beer but was dead wrong.

Pabst though is pretty awful. Chelada is close.

[slampoet]

209. Holy crap i saw some of that on sale the other day. Didn't realize what it was.

[Rincewind]

159. Wisconsin Club

In the early '70s it was 88 cents an eight pack. Waaaayyyy overpriced.

[JonLP24]

161. Pabst

Natural Ice close second

[Anarcho-Socialist]

168. Carling

It's ubiquitous here in the UK and it is the blandest thing you can choose to drink. It tends to be drunk by those who don't care what they drink.

[awoke_in_2003]

169. Natural Light. nt

[OnyxCollie]

174. Black Belt malt liquor or St. Ides.

My days as an undergrad, drinking forties out of a paper bag.

[Bertha Venation]

180. Coors Light. May as well drink water.

[Capt. America]

181. Genny Creme Ale, Corona, Bud light.

[SalviaBlue]

183. All gluten free beers...

I think I have tried them all and they just don't taste good.

[LynneSin]

188. Same thing with these low carb beers

If I want to go low carb I'll drink water - less of a nasty aftertaste!

[GoCubsGo]

201. Well...

That nasty aftertaste is the only taste they have.

[slampoet]

211. And all Sorghum Beers.....ugh.

I did have a great rice beer the other day but it wasn't gluten-free like some.

[Broken_Hero]

184. Budweiser American Ale

bought a six pack, choked one down, and poured the rest out a month later....

[littlewolf]

185. so many here that I agree with

however I have to add Pearl beer ...
truly nasty ...

also the export version of
San Miguel they use formaldehyde in it ....

and in South Korea stay away from
Oriental Breweries (OB). truly foul ....

[DebJ]

189. My first one: 1974 Bud served warm and watered down in DC

at a place for the US Marines there to gather. I was told they served
the beer warm and watered down to keep the enlisted men from
getting too tanked and hot-headed.

Needless to say, that being my first experience with the stuff,
I've only rarely ever after had any beer at all.

[WiffenPoof]

190. Brew 102...

...with Lone Star a close second.

-P

[OnyxCollie]

194. If left to stand on their own,

and not accompanying some extra, extra spicy curry, a lot of Asian beers are kinda funky.

Hue, 33 Import, Hite, and Kingfisher (India) often take place next to my plate, but not in my refrigerator.

[jmowreader]

199. Schultheiss, in cans

Schultheiss is made in Berlin. It has no flavor whatsoever.

[Pholus]

202. Canadian Black Label STILL wasn't worth it when I was a broke undergrad. nt

[Generic Brad]

204. Special Export

Unfortunately I was unlucky enough to drink some that had not been shipped off. What a horrible tasting beer with no redeeming qualities.

I sure hope that is shipped to our enemies.

[Iggo]

205. Lucky Lager.

Horrible, horrible tasting beer. It was a chore finishing off even one of those bad boys. And, of corse, the whole point was to drink as many as you could. That's why they were like two bucks a twelver.

Fun puzzles in the caps, though.

[slampoet]

206. There was a stack of Weidemans beer in the restaurant where i worked when i was eighteen.

There was debate on whether the old skunked warm beer was FIT to make onion rings let alone drink.

The funniest thing is that Wikkipedia says the the Weidemans brewery went out of biz in 1983.

I worked at the kitchen in 1989.

[HipChick]

213. Any American Beer pretty much..

[demguy_5692]

214. bud light, by a long shot

revolting stuff

[Special Prosciuto]

215. Anything with the name Budweiser.

I was in a bar mens' room. A guy walked in and dumped a full "bottle o' bud" down the urinal.

"Tired of being the middle man," he explained.

[Jack Rabbit]

216. After a few year of drinking microbrews, I went to a place where all I could get was a Bud

Now, that was the worst beer I ever had.

[robk6295sie]

218. coors

[Kennah]

219. Toss up between Natty Boh and Blatz

[Remmah2]

224. Blatz & Goebel

Add Fort Schuyler beer.

All circa 1977. 99 cents a six pack.

[Orsino]

226. Pils

Had this at a cast party back in the eighties, and it was nasty.

I'm not putting on airs, I hope. I quite enjoyed Miller and Coors.