Worst American Beer

[SammyBlue]

I am a recovering alcohol (356 days). I've had my share of beer. But the list is for the crappest. I know Butt-wiper, Boosh, Miller and Coors suck donkey nuts, but this is for the bottom of the barrel.

Nor does it include beers exclusively in 40 oz. bottles. Those are just puke inducing.

Sadly, the imports are the best. . .unless you like Hardcore (I loved Hard Cider).

[Jed Dilligan]

1. Steel Reserve or Natural Light Ice, official drinks of the homeless

Your "bottom" apparently wasn't THAT low...

[sendero]

15. Steel Reserve is great..

... just cuz you can't handle it don't make it bad :)

My vote goes to Bud Lite, which is little more than scared water. :evilgrin:

[Jed Dilligan]

24. SF board of supes disagrees!

I can handle Steel Reserve, though if I wanted a beer as strong as a wine I would prefer Eye of the Hawk from the Mendocino Brewing Co.

However, a lot of people can't handle their Steel Reserve, or their Taaka vodka. according to the following article:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/10/05/MNGB5F2OAH1.DTL

[sendero]

41. Well...

... I enjoy my Steel Reserve responsibly, in the comfort of my home, in moderation. :)

They'll have to pry it from my cold sweaty hands!

[Jed Dilligan]

44. My cousin's baby daughter

took her first steps attempting to do that very thing (pry the Steel Reserve from his cold, sweaty hands)

Maybe she'll grow up to be an SF supervisor!

[MN ChimpH8R]

2. Three horrible brands

that used to be sold around Minnesota and Wisconsin

Hauenstein, Pfeiffer and Fox DeLuxe, in ascending order of horribleness. Fox DeLuxe ($2.99/case back in the late 1970s) had a sickly sweet aroma like a dead mouse decaying in the wall. Absolutely horrendous, but if you were a broke teenager, you drank it if you couldn't get anything else. By comparison, Hauies and Pfeiffer actually tasted like beer. BAD beer, but beer.

[mac56]

28. Our neighbor used to keep cases of warm Hauie

in his garage. Never bothered to refrigerate it. Warm Hauie is just about the worst thing you can pour into your mouth.

Remember Western? And North Star?

[MN ChimpH8R]

64. I remember North Star

Never saw Western. North Star was better than Hauenstein, IIRC. But warm Hauenstein?? Even the thought makes me want to :puke:. That is just so wrong......

[AngryAmish]

3. Rhinelander

GI doctors should prescribe that for bound up folks.

[Fox Mulder]

4. The Beast:

Sadly, I drink it all the time because it's so cheap.

[ErisFiveFingers]

38. I can't count..

How many lost mornings the beast has brought into my life. Nasty stuff.

[trackfan]

5. I really don't think you can get worse than Bud Light

Milwaukee's best is no great shakes though.

[terrya]

6. Keystone

A bad version of Coors, if that's possible. A Keytone hangover is horrible beyond words. :scared:

[Jed Dilligan]

25. I drank a lot of Keystone in college

I used to joke that if Keystone and GPC had rebate programs, all my friends would be rich

[Truebrit71sbruv]

7. hmmmmmmmmm

... where's the check box for "All of the above"?

[ohiosmith]

8. Iron City

[NewHampshireDem]

17. Iron Shitty ...

That used to piss off all the people from the 'Burgh who I went to college with.

Strohs sucks pretty hardcore too.

But, for the record, Coors Lite is the worst beer ever. Not because of taste but because it is the official beer of Morans everywhere.

[Cornjob]

35. I hate the stuff and I'm from Pittsburgh!

Iron City tastes like it's made from inorganic chemicals.

Maybe it is.

[jmowreader]

9. Schaefer isn't on here?

Iron City isn't on here?

Buckhorn isn't on here?

How about the infamous Heidelburg? (Spelled that way because the city in Germany and the printing press manufacturing company both threatened to sue over perceived damage to their image.) Y'all with your "Coors is like sex on a beach, it's fucking near water" joke never drank no fuckin' Heidelburg. It was made by Rainier back when there was a Rainier brewery. Heidelburg wasn't fucking near water, it fucking WAS water. No flavor, and you had to drink more than you could stand to get a buzz off it. High school kids wouldn't drink it.

[Seabiscuit]

13. Schaefer and Schlitz are neck and neck for the worst beer ever.

[skygazer]

10. I actually aquired a taste for Genny Cream back in the 70's

One local bar had 25 cent drafts of Genny Cream so we drank a lot of it, being young, stupid and poor. It got so I actually liked the stuff. :scared:

I have to go with Schlitz, though. That stuff was nasty.

edited to add - congrats on your sobriety! :thumbsup:

[Gatchaman]

11. Miller Genuine Draft

I just don't get the appeal of this stuff. I'm a tried and true cheap-american-weak-as-piss beer drinker, but this stuff is just rot-gut.

[Seabiscuit]

12. I was going to say Coors, but you nailed the all-time worst : Schlitz. It

tastes like camel piss in a bucket.

BTW, it's PABST Blue Ribbon.

[KamaAina]

14. Papp's Blue Ribbon?

Ah yes, the official beer of NYC's Shakespeare in the Park :-)

In any case, Pabst Blue Ribbon has lately acquired a sort of retro-chic cool. Hipsters order it in places like the East Village and Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

36. PBR- the beer for the artsy 20- 30- something crowd.

Especially at any faux blue-collar bar in solidly middle class neighborhood where all the cool kids hang, queuing to cue it up on the greens of the pool tables.

:hi:

[devilgrrl]

16. Coors

No explaination needed

[driver8]

18. Jenny Screamers!!!

There is a good reason why we called them "screamers."

[BigMcLargehuge]

19. Three Stooges beer

is to beer what Curly Joe was to the Three Stooges

[dr.strangelove]

65. Hey I like the Stooges beer

I got a case of it a few months ago for the first time and we drank it pretty quickly. Compared to other micro brews, its not very good. But compared to the mass produced shit beers on this list, I thought it was much better. I would have a Stooges over a Beast any day.

[DanCa]

20. Colt 45 rather have the gun in my mouth or eat the albulm.

[gizmo1979]

21. Pearl .

the only redeeming quality is the riddle on the cap.

[Cornjob]

34. It was $4.29/case back in the '80's in TX

And it really wasn't worth it. It was usually on the same shelf as Buckhorn, another real loser.

[gizmo1979]

52. Yes Texas is also

where I had that rot gut crap.

[Initech]

22. The trifecta of bad beer: Coors, Miller, and Budweiser

[CatholicEdHead]

23. Stite Light Lager

http://www.stite.com/

[swag]

26. Coors Light is still number one.

[Cornjob]

33. I'll second that!

Tastes like a really cheap beer cut with seltzer water.

Dreadful stuff!

[tigereye]

48. I still don't understand how anyone can drink light beer

:shrug:

My vote would be for Old Milwaukee. :scared: Alas, many a 9 pak was consumed by my college cronies. Drove me straight into the arms of Heineken Dark, since there were few or no microbrews in those days.

[mac56]

27. Corona.

No, Corona Light. They both suck donkey nuts through a straw.

And my grandpa used to say that whoever named it "near beer" was a poor judge of distance.

[SammyBlue]

29. Corona is not American, it's an import

[mac56]

31. oops - so sorry -

I jumped in before reading everything.

It's North American, but that's just splitting hairs.

Black Label, then.

[ScreamingMeemie]

30. Beer Snobs...

:eyes: Imports suck and are bitter and expensive.

[mac56]

32. Just like my ex girlfriend.

Rim shot! Thank you! I'll be here all week!

[Initech]

37. Beer snob? I went to a beer festival!

[NNadir]

39. Utica Club.

When I was a kid we had enough money to buy either a six pack of Budweiser or a case of Utica Club. We bought the case. We'd always have beer at band practice, and it took months and moths of practice to finally finish off that case. Mostly we dumped the once sipped beer down the sink.

We were hard drinking kids too.

[SammyBlue]

42. You from that area? My mother grew up on Corn Hill

On James and Taylor.

My grandmother liked at Bleeker and Pellitari.

My G-dfather has a restaurant call Joe's at Catherine and Pellitari.

[NNadir]

43. No. I'm from Long Island. For some reason they sold that stuff there.

Only for a little while. It didn't make much of a splash, except when you poured it down the sink.

[artv28]

45. They also produced the Matt's Beer Ball

An even better bargain than cases of Utica Club was the beer ball. For about $15 you basically got a big brown beach ball that held the equivalent of around 3 cases of beer. The only problem was you had to buy a special tap that only fit beer balls. I think Genny also made a beer ball.

[SammyBlue]

46. FX Matt? That's the Brewery there. Same shit, different name.

More like Ball Beer. . .beer made from the sweat that comes off the (censored) of overweight football fans.

[flvegan]

40. Hamm's. Smells like piss, but with half the ambiance.

can you say www.nastyshit.com? Thought you could.

[Broken_Hero]

47. Cobra beer...

or is it King Cobra beer, i only seen it in 40 ounce bottles, i think its made by Budweiser, but i think, they use all the beer that accidentally fell onto the floor, and scrapt it up and bottled it, and called it Cobra, ....:(

[Richard Steele]

62. King Kobra. And technically it's "malt liquor", so it might not count.

It's certainly NASTY though.

When I lived in Balmer, I used to wait for my bus
at 5th & N. Charles; the liquor store there was
always running a 99cent special on 32oz KK.

I only see it in 40s these days.

[Robeson]

49. Miller, aka headache in a bottle.

[sleipnir]

50. Actually, Zima is beer.

It's a malt liquor, basically, a beer with large amounts malts added (ie, sugars)and the color is taken out. But, it's beer, oddly flavored beer, but beer nonetheless. Just like all those other Soda-pop-type drinks, like Smirnoff Ice, etc, they are all flavored beers with no natural colors.

[begin_within]

51. Coors. Many guys have pissed in the stream it comes from. Plus it's owned

by right-wingers.

[RoyGBiv]

53. None of the above : Black Label ...

You have some truly atrocious beers listed, but none surpasses the sublime awfulness of beers like Black Label. This is nothing but piss filtered through a beer-like substance to impart some degree of beerish flavor. It comes in a white can with a -- you guessed it -- black label. I've seen similar labels of bottles of poison.

Gluek is also rather horrid, and I once had a small taste of Red, White, and Blue beer before forcibly ejecting it from my mouth after seeing those colors flash before my eyes as it hit my tongue. So, at least I know how it was named.

[fujiyama]

57. I like your screen name

Red OrangeYellow Green Blue Indigo Violet

[PittPoliSci]

54. how is it that I'm the first to vote for Pabst?

YUUUUUCKKKKK!!!!!!

[Robeson]

60. Dang. You got me there. Its so bad I guess I forgot it was beer....

...nasty stuff. Amazes me how a lot of people think its cool to drink now. When I was growing up, it was piss-water. Still is.

[phusion]

55. Hamms?

that shit is NASTY.

[Fairlyunbalanced]

56. MMMm natural light anyone?

Or how about budweiser? :puke:

[JVS]

58. Hamm's is good drinkin beer

[Historic NY]

59. Genney screamers.................n/t

[njdemocrat106]

61. Coors Light

It's the closest thing to alcoholic water, and I also hate their advertising.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

63. Back in the days when "generic" products were all the rage

someone brought a case of "generic" beer (cans with white labels that just said "beer" in plain black letters) to a party.

The general consensus was that it was so bad that no company would claim it.

[mnmoderatedem]

66. Coors, Old Style, Black Label, Grain Belt

yuk

[liberalconscious]

67. Hey, Grain Belt is delicious

Bud light on the other hand is not.