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

[brewbama]

Oriental Brewery ('OB') in Korea back in '82-'83. OMG it was rank.

 

[Beernip]

Mmmm, cough syrup.

 

[JayDog]

Michael Jackson called it the worst "beer" in the world.

I personally like Olde English. Kept me through high school. A nice 64 oz. worked good.
Aahh what does Michael Jackson know.

 

[Steveruch]

I personally like Olde English. Kept me through high school.

I must admit to downing some Colt 45 during my misspent youth.

 

[thunderwagn]

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

LOL! I can totally second the Bleeding Heart from Grimm. It was truly terrible. I was incredibly disappointed in Grimm Brothers for actually releasing such a sub-par product. While some of their brews may not be the styles I would 'go to' they are still well done.

I don't think I've ever seen a Guinness can like the one in the OP. Then again, I can't remember the last time I purchased a Guinness.

 

[Dizzey]

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

Atwater for sure... I wonder how they sell them? They werent very cheap here, and I can get way better beers for cheaper, like 7-8 dollars for 6. The beer I brew is not very good at all (it gets better every time though), and up until you reminded me of Atwater, I was telling myself it doesnt even come close to being "store bought" quality. Not necessarily true, but I dont say that in a good way for Atwater.

Their Chocolate Java beer or whatever, it tasted like ... metal and something else. Like old, reheated coffee served mixed with weak brown beer, served out of an army canteen that's been sitting in the mud in Vietnam for the past 40 years. Ive tasted some bad fake chocolate beers (my sister loves them but I think the artificial chocolate they use in them, I drink it and immediately taste tootsie rolls), but that fake cheap chocolate flavoring they use in other cheap chocolate beers would have actually been an improvement on this.

 

[MidAtlanticBrew]

Koch's Golden Anniversary beer. The Fred Koch brewery, Dunkirk NY, was the second smallest in the US in the late 70's. The reason .... The quality of the beer

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[robc311]

I had Sea Dog blueberry beer at a restaurant and it tasted like cough syrup...hated it. I also got a variety 12 pack of Sam Adams beers which included Bonfire Blonde which has smoke flavor added. I found it undrinkable.

 

[gitano]

Just for the record, Guinness calls THIS beer "Draught STOUT".

Paul

 

[JayDog]

I had Sea Dog blueberry beer at a restaurant and it tasted like cough syrup...hated it. I also got a variety 12 pack of Sam Adams beers which included Bonfire Blonde which has smoke flavor added. I found it undrinkable.

Stopped at the Sea Dog pub in Orlando. Had a flight of beers and a pulled pork sandwich. Couldn't finish the flight. The pulled pork tasted like something from the freezer aisle.

 

[Spyk'd]

Worst "beer" was Olde English in college.

Puleeeeease don't disparage my OE!

OE wasn't quite as highfalutin as your Bend offerings, but there were worse choices back then...

 

[Atlmustang]

Anything magic hat puts out has been disgusting IMO.

Guiness Nitro IPA is disgusting.

Yuengling black and tan is undrinkable to me.

I can't stand Rolling Rock.

 

[violinguy]

My wife and I regularly visit a Japanese steakhouse near us and I always order a Sapporo. One time we went and when my giant can and glass arrived, I opened it and nothing happened. It was like opening a can of kool-aid. No fiz, no nothing. No head, no carbonation. I sent it back and got another one. Same thing. Must have been a bad case or whatever. It's not great beer anyways, but it's really bad flat.

Years ago I got a case of Sam Adams strawberry lambic (or something like that - don't really remember) for my birthday for my birthday . I drank exactly 1 of them. Ew.

 

[gitano]

how do you get a musician off your porch?

Pay for the pizza.

Paul

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Beside a home brew gose, this was the first thing that came to mind. I'd take bUD anyday of the week to this..

 

[JusticeBrewers]

PBR.....

my wife and I went to Miami for my brother-in-law's college graduation and went to the beach with him and his buddies. Doesn't help that it had been sitting in the trunk of his car in the Miami heat.

 

[gitano]

I gotta say, for "over-the-counter" beer, PBR is 'right up there' among my favorites.

Paul

 

[Upthewazzu]

I gotta say, for "over-the-counter" beer, PBR is 'right up there' among my favorites.

Paul

Gotta agree, love me some PBR.

HOWEVER, I swear it tastes different in different regions on the country. I grabbed a case down in TN a couple weeks ago and it seemed much sweeter than what I'm used to drinking up here in WA.

 

[gitano]

I had probably gone 30 years without drinking a can PBR when the son of a friend of mine shows up at the cabin with a case of PBR. (Dad has been making ALL the beer he drinks for decades. The son is so tight he squeaks.) I wasn't too excited to see it, but then I'm not too excited about any OTC beer. Since we were a long way from anywhere, I just drank it. It was good. I drank more. When I got back to town, I actually bought some.

Paul

 

[HarborTownBrewing]

Am I the only one wondering how a thread titled "the worst beer I've had in my life" turned into a lengthy rant complaining that Red Robin wasn't providing a good enough burger for free?

Anyways, I've had plenty of bad ones; I've tried most of them again to see if there was something wrong with the batch, and most of them have not tasted consistently (providing at least a little redemption for the brewery).

But as a general rule, there is a Trader Joes that had a great beer selection but the beer was always horrible. I think they may have been storing it in their unconditioned dock, or something.

 

[GrogNerd]

This stuff was friggin' revolting.

just noticed this one

brew club buddy brought in a '94, wasn't really that bad

SORT OF a soy sauce aroma/taste, but kind of a GOOD soy sauce aroma/taste. NOT like Kikkomans, but like a CRAFT soy sauce

then again, my palate is almost worthless. anything not completely foul tastes OK to me and the Triple Bock wasn't completely foul

 

[TorMag]

This thread reminds me of the GEICO commercial floating around right now with the raccoons. "Man, you got to taste this, it's really bad."

 

[allucinari]

the only one i can remember by name is this, in bottles... http://flyingdogbrewery.com/?beers=mint-julep-ale
...i'll try most anything, and appreciate a wide range of experimental stuff, but found that it just did not work for me... it was like someone slopped together a bottle of junky festbier and one of those vintage novelty shaped bottle of avon found at a goodwill.

...however, my sister in law told me to, and i quote "shut my wh*re mouth" when i dogged on it, then again she is evangelical about being a Marylander...

I remember it because i find flying dog otherwise generally good.

 

[drksky]

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.

Looks like it has a ton of suspended yeast in it. Or trub.

 

[GrogNerd]

it's like the roasty version of a poorly-made NE IPA

not appealing at all

 

[gitano]

Am I the only one wondering how a thread titled "the worst beer I've had in my life" turned into a lengthy rant complaining that Red Robin wasn't providing a good enough burger for free?

1) Yes. Because:
2) The thread didn't "turn into" ANY rant about "free burgers". The OP is the ONLY place that was mentioned. AND
2) Even in the OP there were multiple explanations about how I DID NOT think RR "owed" me ANYTHING. AND
3) The comments about how RR was USING veterans - NOT about a "free burger", wasn't lengthy for anyone with an attention span longer than that of a tsetse fly. AND
4) You're trying to make something of literally nothing by misrepresenting the truth. There's a name for people that "misrepresent the truth". AND finally,
5) YOU are the ONLY one that has mentioned the burger "issue" after the OP.

HarborTownBrewing: A name to remember.

Paul

 

[slym2none]

@bbohanon - that one looks like the water we have in a nearby lake. There's even a film on the glass.

That looks like Yuck City.

 

[Genghis]

it's like the roasty version of a poorly-made NE IPA

Green Mountains Dark Ale?

 

[littletommy]

Anything magic hat puts out has been disgusting IMO.

Guiness Nitro IPA is disgusting.

Yuengling black and tan is undrinkable to me.

I can't stand Rolling Rock.

I've given rolling rock several tries over the years, and while it's not the worst beer I've ever had, it definitely does suck, and, even though my tastes in beer have evolved over the years, that stuff still sucks in the same way! I guess they get points for consistency, anyway.

 

[HIM_Tattoos]

My number 1 worst is New Belgium's "Watermelon Lime Ale", tasted like gym sock water. Though a close second is Blue Moon's "Horchata Ale". Both of these are prime examples of things that shouldn't be combined with beers.