Is this the worst beer ever sold???
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Love me some Brew Dogs and totally stoked they are invading the US with their beer.
At the local Spring Beer and Wine fest a couple years ago I had some beet beer and it was like drinking dirt. Thank goodness it was just a sample size.
So we need the opposite of this thread then: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=571925
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This actually sounds worth trying to me, but then again I love fuggles and beets.
The worst beer I've ever had was this stuff called "mead"...
But srsly, folks...the worst not-a-bad-batch not-a-style-I-dislike non-BMC-or-cheap-drunk beer I've ever drank has been Leinenkugel's Sunset Wheat. I don't dislike American wheat beers, I don't dislike fruited beers / radlers / shandy, but I do dislike a beer that intentionally tastes like a handful of tylenol was ground up and dissolved into my glass of otherwise unremarkable beer.
But srsly, folks...the worst not-a-bad-batch not-a-style-I-dislike non-BMC-or-cheap-drunk beer I've ever drank has been Leinenkugel's Sunset Wheat. I don't dislike American wheat beers, I don't dislike fruited beers / radlers / shandy, but I do dislike a beer that intentionally tastes like a handful of tylenol was ground up and dissolved into my glass of otherwise unremarkable beer.
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Thanks blizz! I think you've laid out some good ground rules. To be the worst commercial beer ever sold, it should not be from a style that you dislike, or a bad batch of an otherwise good beer.
One of my all time favorite beers is Green Flash Hop Head Red. However, I once bought a four pack where every bottle was a drain pour. I probably should have contacted Green Flash, as I imagine they would have liked to know, so they cound determine if it was a brewery or a distribution issue. Probably would have sent me a gift certificate or some swag or something too. Also, when I was in the midwest a couple months ago, I bought a bad sixer of Two Hearted Ale. The first one I opened was a drain pour. Second one was a little better and I managed to get most of it down. But when the third was also a drain pour, I took the rest back to the retailer, who gave me a full refund. Clearly both of these beers were among the worst I have ever drank, but I wouldn't judge the entire output of these beers, or post a review online based on two bad examples, when I've have many more of the same beers that were excellent.
Not to me. I bought a 6 pack and still have 5 bottles of it. I like everything else they make, even the beer with Old Bay in it.
Everyone's tastes are different. For me, Coors light is a good beer on a hot day, in the shade, and ice cold. A much better beer than Busch.
I think one of the worst commercial beers I ever had was a Redds Apple Ale. For me beer and apple don't mix. I used to drink really cheap beer with my brother on his boat in Lake Erie as a teenager. I forget what it was, but it was pretty much your cheap American lager in a can. Definitely not *bad* but nothing to write home about either. 
NoIguanaForZ
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Once upon a time I ordered a glass of...I think it was Avery's Hog Heaven. Sounds familiar. Many positive experiences with beers described as "barleywine" had made me careless.
I think I did in fact choke it down, but now I make sure to ask if what I'm ordering is actually a barleywine, or a misleadingly labeled IPA.
Had a bottle of Shipyard BBA Double Scottish Ale, recently, that was a huge disappointment. I don't know if the batch or bottle was infected or what, but it had acquired a pronounced sourness that swamped out any scotch ale qualities I might have been expecting. Other reviewers I've seen on Google mention sourness and general disappointment, but...
[EDIT]Adding: I've encountered two imperial stouts I disliked. The first was Mother Earth Brewing's, which had the body and mouthfeel of flat Coca-Cola and tasted like licorice and...actually that was pretty much it. The second was Cigar City/Amager's Xiquic and the Hero Twins, which pretty much tasted like wood. Not "wood-aged beer." Wood.
I think I did in fact choke it down, but now I make sure to ask if what I'm ordering is actually a barleywine, or a misleadingly labeled IPA.
Had a bottle of Shipyard BBA Double Scottish Ale, recently, that was a huge disappointment. I don't know if the batch or bottle was infected or what, but it had acquired a pronounced sourness that swamped out any scotch ale qualities I might have been expecting. Other reviewers I've seen on Google mention sourness and general disappointment, but...
[EDIT]Adding: I've encountered two imperial stouts I disliked. The first was Mother Earth Brewing's, which had the body and mouthfeel of flat Coca-Cola and tasted like licorice and...actually that was pretty much it. The second was Cigar City/Amager's Xiquic and the Hero Twins, which pretty much tasted like wood. Not "wood-aged beer." Wood.
I sh*t you not, I was just going to say this. Frooty Pebbles in a glass is really not a very tasty beer IMHO. Maybe not the worst ever sold but pretty terrible.
ThatVideoKid
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There's a HUGE difference between English and American style barleywines
Interestingly enough, it was the beer that saved the brewery, or so the tale on their tour goes.
(But many "barleywine" are hoppy these days - American vs. English)
NoIguanaForZ
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I know; I've had Sierra Nevada's Bigfoot and Anchor's Old Foghorn, and both of them are recognizably "barleywinish" big beers with a strong malt presence and more hops than I entirely enjoy. As opposed to "hopped to the point of '...wait, there's malt in this too?'"
drainbamage
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Was it by Doomsday brewing? I had a beet beer from them and loved 2 3/4 pints of it.....last 1/4 not so much.
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I bought a single of Leinenkugels Sunset Wheat a while back and it tasted undeniably exactly like Fruity Pebbles. Glad to see I'm not alone in that assessment.
I've also had Swamp Ape, bought a single 12 oz bottle for something like $4 and while I didn't think the beer itself was too bad, I was rather put off by the fluffy off white coagulated-something-or-other that came out of the bottle and filled the bottom 1" of my tulip glass.
I definitely agree that Magic Hat #9 has this weird bad fruity taste to it.
I've also had Swamp Ape, bought a single 12 oz bottle for something like $4 and while I didn't think the beer itself was too bad, I was rather put off by the fluffy off white coagulated-something-or-other that came out of the bottle and filled the bottom 1" of my tulip glass.
I definitely agree that Magic Hat #9 has this weird bad fruity taste to it.
ThatVideoKid
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The 312 wheat from goose island? I've almost picked that up many times
ThatVideoKid
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I think one of the worst commercial beers I ever had was a Redds Apple Ale. For me beer and apple don't mix. I used to drink really cheap beer with my brother on his boat in Lake Erie as a teenager. I forget what it was, but it was pretty much your cheap American lager in a can. Definitely not *bad* but nothing to write home about either.
I agree that Redd's Apple ale is terrible, and while it technically is beer, I put it in the category of mikes hard and didn't even think of it for this thread haha. It is terrible though.
Two things:
1. You drank the beer after "fluffy off white coagulated-something-or-other" poured out of the bottle as well? You are apparently far braver than I am.
2. I believe that terrible fruity taste is apricot extract. I'm not a fan.
As a homebrewer, you're scared of a little bottle-conditioning sediment? (Also goes for OP)
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I've had the Blood Orange Lambeek. I stand by my Ratebeer review (jesterdeal).
Someone brought a bottle to a tasting. I didn't know these guys that well and I literally thought they poisoned me. It BURNED all the way town and I immediately started to feel sick. Even the smell of this thing was noxious.
Having flashbacks...not in a fun way :fro:
Someone brought a bottle to a tasting. I didn't know these guys that well and I literally thought they poisoned me. It BURNED all the way town and I immediately started to feel sick. Even the smell of this thing was noxious.
Having flashbacks...not in a fun way :fro:
Not at all, but your description made it seem like it was not normal bottle-conditioning sediment. Plus I've done my best to block out Swamp Ape from my memory and thoughts forever so I didn't recall whether or not it was bottle conditioned.
Dirt_McGirt
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I think one of the worst commercial beers I ever had was a Redds Apple Ale. For me beer and apple don't mix. I used to drink really cheap beer with my brother on his boat in Lake Erie as a teenager. I forget what it was, but it was pretty much your cheap American lager in a can. Definitely not *bad* but nothing to write home about either.
Ugh, so many people in my social circle have Redd's Apple Ale as their go to. I remember trying it on the advice of some waitress (I'd never heard of it), and thinking it was the worst aspects of BMC combined with the worst aspects of cheap artificially flavored cider, and somehow worse than the sum of its parts. I'm hosting a game night/small party tomorrow, and am gonna have to hold my nose and at least buy a six pack of that stuff for the folks who won't even touch my Centennial Blonde or Kölsch.
That said, I've at least had one good apple beer - Epic's Sour Apple Saison is dang tasty, although the apple character is very, very subtle.
