The worst beer I have ever had in my life...

[sabotenfighter]

No, it was so long I just didn't remember how to spell it.

Tsing-Tao is actually one of the better macro beers in China. I've had most, and some are so bad they make an MGD look good.

 

[davisc1513]

Several years ago my wife and I were in a Chinese restaurant and I thought, "What the hey, I'll have a Ting-sao (sic) and I could not make it past two sips.

Tastes more like alka-seltzer then beer.

 

[GPP33]

Tsing-Tao is actually one of the better macro beers in China. I've had most, and some are so bad they make an MGD look good.

I only ever saw one offering each in Tiawan and China. Both were super light lagers but a million times better than BMC.

The only beer I haven't finished is Upslope Brewing Thai White IPA. Sounded good but nope.

 

[SynorisTechnologies]

i like that one

 

[Gerry_P]

I thought Destihl's Here Gose Nothing tasted like vomit in a can. Maybe I got a bad batch or something, but if not all the people giving it good reviews must be out of their minds.

 

[skraeling]

So my opinion is meaningless unless "other people" also complained about it?

I have a naval response to that, but forum decorum prevents me from writing it. Imagine a one-fingered salute.

Paul

oh grow up. What I cant share my opinion too? Come on. I was trying to give you the benefit of the doubt, but hey go ahead and continue being super defensive thats ok I guess.

You posted this thread not me.

 

[dmattinson]

I'll probably get crap for this but I lived in Delaware and thought I would support Dog Fish where I could until I bought a sixer of Festina Peche. BLECH!!
Didn't like it, still don't like it - wound up giving it away to a neighbor who asked if I gave him some garbage beer. Bought it from Total Wine (when it was fresh and in season) if that counts for anything as well...

 

[wyowolf]

Chicago 312... and its not even close. I doubt I finished 1/5 of it... only beer I think i have never fully drank.

 

[tri_clamp_ninja]

I'll probably get crap for this but I lived in Delaware and thought I would support Dog Fish where I could until I bought a sixer of Festina Peche. BLECH!!
Didn't like it, still don't like it - wound up giving it away to a neighbor who asked if I gave him some garbage beer. Bought it from Total Wine (when it was fresh and in season) if that counts for anything as well...

Winter Garden! If you come near New Smyrna at all shoot me a PM. The brewery is still in it's testing phase during build out and we'd love another local brewer's opinion on our core brand contenders

 

[Dan_K]

Upslope White Thai IPA
2016 Bleeding Heart from Grimm Brothers
?? Several Beers from Atwater
Shock Top Twisted Pretzel Wheat

 

[bbohanon]

Without a doubt the worst I have had is the "French Toasted Joe" from Heist Brewery here in Charlotte.
I am not sure WTF this beer is supposed to be, but here is a screenshot of what it looked like beside my own stout after being poured out of a $30 growler my wife got me as a gift that turned out badly.


My RIS Stout is the nice dark one with a head on it on the left, the HB FTJoe is on the right...no head, nothing..just sick looking.

Literally looks like lake water and tasted about the same.

I had 4 other beer lovers try it and every one of them looked at the glass suspiciously before taking a sip and promptly spitting it out. Ended up dumping the rest of the growler.

On a good note, their tap room is nice and the food selection is off the hook. Their beers just suck.

 

[JayDog]

Green Man IPA
To their defense, it was a gift, After I took a few sips, I realized it was a year old. Could not drink anymore.

 

[Longtrain]

Although, Dogfishead 60 is one my favorites, at the brewery in Delaware, we sampled their Lobster beer. It was a dark beer with chocolate notes, basil, followed with a very fishy taste on the finish. Asked, it was explained that they indeed add basil and lobster shells to the brew. Positively the worst beer I have ever tasted. Just like the GEICO commercial with the raccoons eating garbage and edging their fellow raccoons, "Hey, this is really bad, you need to taste beer, it's like someone put old lobster shells in it. Really, you need to try this..."
Only available at the brewery, thank goodness.

 

[Wolfhound180]

Although, Dogfishead 60 is one my favorites, at the brewery in Delaware, we sampled their Lobster beer. It was a dark beer with chocolate notes, basil, followed with a very fishy taste on the finish. Asked, it was explained that they indeed add basil and lobster shells to the brew. Positively the worst beer I have ever tasted. Just like the GEICO commercial with the raccoons eating garbage and edging their fellow raccoons, "Hey, this is really bad, you need to taste beer, it's like someone put old lobster shells in it. Really, you need to try this..."
Only available at the brewery, thank goodness.

I had that one as well. Super strong basil flavor, but overall wasn't too bad.

 

[GrogNerd]

world-wide, I'd say the worst I've ever had was Egyptian Stella.

US beers, worse ever was Magic Hat #9. menu said it was an English pale ale and no mention of apricot. ****ing gak

HB, my own red barleywine, where one hombrew club buddy described the taste as "superelasticbubbleplastic"

 

[dmattinson]

Winter Garden! If you come near New Smyrna at all shoot me a PM. The brewery is still in it's testing phase during build out and we'd love another local brewer's opinion on our core brand contenders

I just might take you up on that offer - have some family coming into town for a couple of weeks and I might need to take break from them

 

[gitano]

I lived in Heidelberg for a year. The city of Heidelberg's beer is Schlossquelle. (Or was when I was there in the late '60s.) Absolutely the worst German beer I ever tasted. Of course lots of folks liked it the point being; taste is very often "in the palate of the beholder". However, the Guinness-in-a-can that I had a Red Robin was swill. Period. It is not possible to imagine that ANYONE would like that crap. I will repeat because I am not exaggerating; it tasted like someone filled a 12 oz glass with water and put a tablespoon of REAL Guinness stout in it. Again for emphasis, before that can of Guinness, the most watered-down beer I had ever tasted was Coors Lite. Exaggerating only slightly, if Coors wasn't yellow-ISH, you wouldn't know it wasn't water. That can of Guinness made Coors Lite taste "strong".

Interesting the list of bad beers this thread has generated. I am surprised at the preponderance of "craft beers" that have been listed as "the worst beer I have ever tasted". I lived in Up-state New York for a while, and the 'local' beloved beer was Genesee. I could drink it in a pinch. PBR was WAY better. Still is. San Miguel - sold in the Philipines when I was there - was pretty rank. We (sailors) drank it because it was the most widely available, and the CHEAPEST. Rumor was, it was preserved wtih formaldehyde.

Paul

 

[Steveruch]

Tsing-Tao is actually one of the better macro beers in China. I've had most, and some are so bad they make an MGD look good.

That's sad.

 

[GHBWNY]

Mmmm, warm Tiger beer.

Sounds about as tempting as warm Tiger-something-else if you get my drift.

 

[sabotenfighter]

I only ever saw one offering each in Tiawan and China. Both were super light lagers but a million times better than BMC.

The only beer I haven't finished is Upslope Brewing Thai White IPA. Sounded good but nope.

"Taiwan Beer" is seriously bad. Very very thin and cidery, especially the Gold Medal one.

PRC macro beers tend to skew regionally, kinda like the old days in the US. The south gets mostly Tsing Tao, north you get various versions of Yanjing, and north east you mostly get Snow, which is even worse. Luckily, in most cities, the convenience stores have a lot of locally brewed German brands, so having a decent beer wasn't hard. Lots of imports as well. I went to a lot of dives with friends though, which meant slightly cooler than room temp Yanjing Lite (forgot the real name, but the 3.6% version).

Hands down worst beer I've ever had was Odaiba Beer. Only sold on Odaiba Island in Tokyo, it really shows why there was a huge microbrewery market crash in Japan in the early 2000s. It was so horribly infected. Tasted extremely farmy, but not pleasant horse blanket, more like horse-**** blanket with a sweet weird background of fresh cut hay and old straw. I don't think I could make a worse beer if I **** straight in the fermenter. I tried, and failed, to find another bottle last year. I am fairly confident that one of the medium current micros, that sells contracted brews made it.

 

[TooDogly]

People keep referring to "Guinness Stout" but I think what you mean is "Guinness Drought"? The stout is strong, the drought is not strong.

 

[TooDogly]

Worst "beer" was Olde English in college. Mickey's was a much better malt liquor.

Worst beer recently was a sixer of Lagunitas IPA I got on a trip to Titusville, FL. Went to a liquor store to get beer for the party we were attending and could not find anything other than bud/coors/miller etc. then finally spotted the one single six pack of an IPA they had. I should have known when I went to pay and the guy couldn't find it in the computer. I had to go show him the spot on the shelf where the price tag was. Of course it wasn't in a cold case either. By the taste of it that six pack had been sitting in the Florida heat for a year or more....

Lesson learned I guess.

 

[planker101]

Mine was "Game Day" It came from a grocery outlet and was something like $4 for a 12 pack. We ended up using them for target practice, and I'll drink some pretty bad beer just so it won't get wasted.

 

[Hanglow]

I couldn't narrow it down to one beer

McEwans Lager for mass produced lager crap
Boddingtons for mass produced ale crap. Or maybe John Smiths. It's been a long time since I've had either.
For modern craft beers, I had a bretted citra pale from a brewery called Chorlton in England that was horrendous - all higher alcohols, rotting fruit, overpowering butteryness. Terrible but apparently they tend to make some good beers so I'll give them another go once I've recovered from the experience in a few years perhaps.

Guinness also continue their complete inability to make a decent beer outwith strong stouts - their Red, Blonde, lagers and so on have all been awful.

 

[myndflyte]

My worst was Beer30. Imagine someone mopping up the floor at Miller and then proceeding to wring the mop into a can. That's probably also why it cost $4 for a 12 pack.

 

[madscientist451]

If you want a decent burger, find a local, independent restaurant that uses real meat, not a national chain that uses "pink slime" which is "100% Beef"
but is made by processing the meat left on bones and in hard to reach places like the Anus of a Cow:
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZxArzatz5E[/ame]

Your Local, Independent restaurant will also most likely have a better beer selection or let you bring your own, if they don't have a licence.
I haven't eaten in a national chain restaurant in 20 years.

 

[Longtrain]

If you want a decent burger, find a local, independent restaurant that uses real meat...

I'm pretty spoiled, besides making my own beer & wine, friends raise our grass feed, hormone free, black angus every year. Friends can't believe the difference between this and grocery store beef.

 

[gitano]

People keep referring to "Guinness Stout" but I think what you mean is "Guinness Drought"? The stout is strong, the drought is not strong.

You're probably correct TooDogly. It looked like stout. I was told it was stout ("All we have is Guinness stout"), but the can most certainly says "Draught". I am perfectly fine with being corrected. While the name doesn't change the taste, I acknowledge that it is important to get the name right. That's why I posted the picture of the can.

Paul

 

[dallasdb]

Great post OP.

I am shocked that Guinness in a can was that bad. I've had it from the can before and it wasn't as good as draft but it wasn't bad.

I bet a lot of people don't order Guinness and that can had probably been "ageing" for a long time.

Anything in a 40oz bottle.

I'm actually a fan of Mickey's. A group of friends used to have "Thursday 40's" and we'd go to the skatepark drinking our 40's. These were 30 year old men drinking 40's and trying to relive our youth!

Pretty comical but the 40's helped ease the pain of falling all over the place.

"Thursday 40's" led to "Really sore and bruised Fridays"

 

[Steveruch]

Worst "beer" was Olde English in college. Mickey's was a much better malt liquor.
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Michael Jackson called it the worst "beer" in the world.