What is the WORST beer you have ever had?

Leinenkugel Sunset Wheat (and several others from them) were nearly undrinkable.

RobbyBeer said:

Really? Perhaps you had a skunked bottle or something... Because elephant piss is better than BMC... And #9 is a bit better than elephant piss...
And I know, I used to work at the circus.. It's where Bud gets most of their ingredients...

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Like someone else said, I'd gladly drink down a Bud Light before a Magic Hat #9. To be fair, I didn't know it was a fruit beer, but I poured out four of the six pack I bought, and the majority of the two bottles I opened. I only opened the second one because I was absolutely certain the first one just must have been a bad bottle. Reminded me of cough syrup.

Now, I've had plenty of beers that were "bad" for some reason or another that were worse than that. Oxidized, infected, skunked, etc. However, Magic Hat #9 is the worst beer I've ever had that tasted like it was supposed to.

King Cobra... horrible stuff

I was in Berkeley visiting some friends and since Pyramid was in the area.. (and the lady friend I was visiting suggested it) I picked up a six pack of their apricot hefe. Im not normally a huge fan of fruit beers to begin with but this beer was down right undrinkable.. I only stomached it as to not offend said friend but even she remarked that it wasnt what she remembered. I was going to assume it was just a bad bottle but the whole sixer was miserable. Im guessing the grocery store that I bought it from must have mishandled it or something but either way I probably wont ever being buying that beer again...

Thanks for the laugh, these stories are hilarious.

Worst beer for me was this past fall, sorry can't remember the name but it was brewed by a small brewery in the St. Louis area. It was a blueberry beer that tasted like wine at first then finished with a horrible after taste. The SWMBO bought it but I ended up drinking the crap because she hated it.

Speckled Hen - was in a Tilted Kilt and they had it on special. Waitress poured it from a bottle... Took a hefty swig and something was def wrong... One more tentative taste - and called waitress back over. When I lifted the bottle to emphasize my point, there was a definite "thud" of a sizeable something that should NOT have been there sliding from one side of the bottom of the bottle to the other... Three important footnotes: I did manage to not barf, I did not have the courage to check to see what IT was, and dinner was free. I would happily have paid for dinner to have avoided that experience!

Another example sits in my cellar at this very moment. A first attempt at a Cali Common went great right up to the point that I pitched the yeast into too-hot wort. 24 hours later, I knew that one was dead. My salvage attempt involved re-pitching the only yeast I had on hand: a dry wine yeast. I can only assume that I attenuated the crap out of the batch - there could not have been two molecules of sugar left in the batch. It's been dubbed my ESRB - extra "sucky" really bitter.

Cheers!

Delirium Tremens. I've tried it a couple of times and really wanted it to be good, but I just can't stand the stuff.

I've gotten a lot of flack from some people, but for me, it might honestly be



My fiancee and I as a unit managed to struggle to finish it. I don't wanna talk about how much OMG IT SUXX, I just chalk it up as a beer not meant for me.

Also hate hate hate hate Killian's.

Heineken and carlsberg are pretty bad!!!

i bought a case of Ice House a few years ago as a joke for my buddy. He brews with me and he said in college they use to drink it and call it Life House. So I bought a case (having never drank it before), and it was just awful. It actually smelled like someone farted when I opened a can. gross.....

Clann said:

I have never had a good beer from magic hat. I'd rather drink natty ice

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Same here. Just something that I can't like no matter how many types I try. #9 was just meh but I hated Ourtoberfest.

passedpawn said:

Leinenkugel Sunset Wheat (and several others from them) were nearly undrinkable.

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Sunset is the only one I like from them. The shandy is interesting though. You just have to imagine that you are eating fruity pebbles/fruit loops for adults.

Abita Strawberry Harvest. Who knows? Maybe it was a bad bottle, but... yuck.

Miller High Life. Surprise? Worst beer in the world. I don't know what they do to make that stuff, but they should just stop.

I have respect for BMC products. They are the best at what they do (light beer). I just hate Miller High Life that much.

danorocks17 said:

i bought a case of Ice House a few years ago as a joke for my buddy. He brews with me and he said in college they use to drink it and call it Life House. So I bought a case (having never drank it before), and it was just awful. It actually smelled like someone farted when I opened a can. gross.....

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U think its bad cold. When I was 19 I was stationed at kirtland afb in new Mexico. After work one day me and my buddies walked out to the parking lot. One of the guys was standing by his truck and asked me if I wanted a beer. I replied hell yes because I was underage so he grabs 2 and toss me a tall boy ice house. When it landed in my hands I was thinking Wtf. I said hey man this is f'in hot. He just laughed opened his beer and took a swig. Turns out the guy only liked hot ice house and from 5 feet away it smelled like dirty balls. I saw the guy at lots of partys and never saw him drink a cold beer

Dogfish Head Black & Red. Cough syrup city.

MC

Unopened Sapporo from the 1940s

Leinenkugel Sunset Wheat was undrinkable.

That stuff is horrid and should not be allowed to call itself beer.

BTW, I found pretty much anything that I have had from Leinenkugal sucked, but Sunset Wheat is its own private circle of Beer Hell.

Nasty, nasty nasty (did I say nasty?) stuff.

Warm Milwaukee's Best Ice Light

Lazy Mutt. Friend purchase an 8 pack and not one beer was more then half gone.

My last rotation out of Afghanistan, we had a couple of days in Manas, Krgystan - I had this nasty ass Russian beer, Baltika 9 - headache city!!!

Last Christmas, I was at a party and my girlfriends dad had a bottle of a homebrew Christmas ale that someone had given him...5 years ago, at Texas room temperature ( that means the beer was kept at a cool 85 degrees)

jmprdood said:

My last rotation out of Afghanistan, we had a couple of days in Manas, Krgystan - I had this nasty ass Russian beer, Baltika 9 - headache city!!!

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Holy **** how did I forget " number 9s" I was in K2 Uzbekistan and went on a mrt to man-ass. We were only allowed 2 a piece. But the aircrew I was with got me there's so I drank like 6 of them before getting back on the plane to fly back to k2 which was only like a 2 hour flight. Dude after 2 hours of sleep I woke up and felt like a bag of smashed a-holes. But every time I went to manas I always drank that crappy beer. Good times Chopps

In college I drank out of a pony bottle that someone was using as a spit bottle. Not exactly the worst beer, but I thought it was beer until that nasty **** hit the back of my throat.

One time in college I was at a party and was pretty drunk. I walk through the party and a big group of friends start chanting my name and try to get me to chug a corona. Of course I grab the bottle and commence chugging. About halfway through the taste hits me and I immediately run outside and throw up everywhere. Aparently they had found a corona half buried behind the house In the woods. Who knows how long it was sitting there. Maybe years. I was throwing up all night and could still taste the vile swill in the morning when I burped.

JoeyC--yep 2 per day, and $2 a piece for a half-liter of pure hell in a bottle--and i too drank 'em up for the 5 days I was there

BesteBrew said:

One time in college I was at a party and was pretty drunk. I walk through the party and a big group of friends start chanting my name and try to get me to chug a corona. Of course I grab the bottle and commence chugging. About halfway through the taste hits me and I immediately run outside and throw up everywhere. Aparently they had found a corona half buried behind the house In the woods. Who knows how long it was sitting there. Maybe years. I was throwing up all night and could still taste the vile swill in the morning when I burped.

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Easily could have been a fresh one.

jmprdood said:

JoeyC--yep 2 per day, and $2 a piece for a half-liter of pure hell in a bottle--and i too drank 'em up for the 5 days I was there

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God as bad as that beer tasted I miss the good ol days. Ot but what do u do in the af?

SERE Specialist - worked with the rescue guys my first time then USFOR-A as a liaison for rescue stuff

I drank a lot of Piels once in college, and it was pretty horrible. It cost about 5 bucks a case.

As far as bad when it should've been good, I had a bottle of 2007 Lees Harvest-Lagavulin cask aged barleywine a couple months ago, and it was awful. It tasted like an old saddle.