Ever regretted a "craft" beer purchase? Why?

[Stauffbier]

I'm sure I'll catch crap for this one but the only craft beer I've purchased and haven't been able to finish...Pumking. I love Southern Tier beers but I couldn't finish Pumking. My buddy brewed a pumpkin beer last year and I thought it was good so I figure with how highly Pumking is talked about and the reviews on BA I'd try it...couldn't do it.

 

[saeroner]

I have regretted every Dogfish Head purchase except their punkin ale. I hate their beer.

that 120 though

 

[eltorrente]

that 120 though

Tastes like crap to me..

I also don't like Dogfish. I can get fresh Dogfish at several different stores around here, and have tried many times to appreciate their 60, 90, and 120.. and I just don't like it. At all.

I'm a total hop-head, and love IPA's - but I find those repulsive. I HATE them. I know they are highly rated by many people - but I think my taste buds/DNA has conspired against me and I'm just programmed to reject those beers.

 

[glick]

Tastes like crap to me..

I also don't like Dogfish. I can get fresh Dogfish at several different stores around here, and have tried many times to appreciate their 60, 90, and 120.. and I just don't like it. At all.

I'm a total hop-head, and love IPA's - but I find those repulsive. I HATE them. I know they are highly rated by many people - but I think my taste buds/DNA has conspired against me and I'm just programmed to reject those beers.

My sentiment exactly!!!

 

[rarobe01]

I haven't seen it in probably 15 years but I bough a six-pack of a beer called Bad Frog. It was truly a terrible experience. I can't say that the warning signs weren't there though, it had the word 'Bad' in the name. Come to think of it, it might have been made from actual frogs too...

 

[Quixoticosis]

Every beer I have ever tried by Flying Dog. I keep falling for the cool labels.

 

[boondocksaint]

Scuttlebutt Amber Ale...It was terrible & I haven't tried any of their other beers b/c it was so bad...:smack:

 

[kerant]

Every Sam Adam's specialty pack I ever bought. Why do I keep doing it?!

Agreed- Find most of the beers are crap.

 

[45thparallelhopper]

Every beer I have ever tried by Flying Dog. I keep falling for the cool labels.

I totally agree with this. How can such creative labels belong to such blah beer. False advertising by proxy

 

[eltorrente]

I totally agree with this. How can such creative labels belong to such blah beer. False advertising by proxy

I'm a fan of Raging Bitch though. That was my first Belgian IPA, and I really like that stuff. The rest of their beers aren't terrible, but they aren't all that great either. Just middle of the road IMO.

 

[naughty240]

Sophie, yuck, stuff was like 12 bucks.

 

[troy2000]

A bit of a tangent: way back when Moby Dick was a minnow and I was a young lad, I was hitchhiking up the coast. I got picked up by a guy who detoured through the Olympia brewery, for one of their tour and taste sessions. I wasn't too enthused, because I had always considered Olympia beer to be horse p***.

I was shocked by how good the beer tasted. And about the time the tour was supposed to end, the skies opened up and buckets of water started falling. Instead of chasing us out anyway, they cheerfully gave us lots more beer - and fed us, too. We were full, happy and pretty well snockered by the time the rain let up. Nowadays their corporate lawyers would've been tearing their hair out as we weaved down the road.

When I got back to SoCal, I headed out to my local supermarket and grabbed me a six-pack of Oly. And you know what? It was horse p***....

That was the first time it really occurred to me how much a beer's taste depends on its age, the temperature it's served at, how it's poured and what kind of glass it's poured into, the surroundings, the company being kept, etc.

 

[jafstl38]

Had a run with New Belgiums's Red Hop-tobet, hated it, never had a red I actually enjoyed

 

[grimstuff]

I rarely drink a "bad" beer. What I get disappointing by, however, is the $10 boutique craft bomber of beer that's just mediocre. Pisses me off more than anything.

 

[MaxStout]

I rarely drink a "bad" beer. What I get disappointing by, however, is the $10 boutique craft bomber of beer that's just mediocre. Pisses me off more than anything.

This.

I rarely encounter a truly bad craft beer (Millstream's Great Pumpkin Imperial Stout comes to mind). Mostly, just so-so beers that don't live up to their hype, or their expense. If I'm going to shell out >$10 for a bomber, its contents should be impressive.

 

[oxpajama]

Big Sky puts together some great brews, this is not one of them. To me tasted of soap, otherwise insipid and not refreshing. It was like drinking bad homebrew.

 

[monkeymootj]

I wouldn't say I regretted it exactly.... But I did purchase a six pack of New Albion (Boston Beer Company) at the recommendation of the bottle shop clerk. Stale grains are not worth 10 bucks

 

[pmcint01]

Yes. When it tastes like ****.