What craft beer do you secretly despise?

[NickTheGreat]

I am 4 bottles into my 6pack of Founders Breakfast Stout. It's not good. Maybe the other 2 will be better?

 

[smizak]

Anything labeled 'Cascadian dark ale'... what a joke.

+1,000

not to mention the first real record of a black IPA being commercially brewed was in Vermont by Greg Noonan...such an obnoxiously pretentious name

PS

I guess there's no accounting for taste but IMHO there are some seriously misguided peeps up in this thread.

 

[user 198378]

No secret... any sour or gose.

A sour is a ruined beer, a gose is whale semen.

+1

I had Anderson Valley Holy Gose ale for the first time after a hike expecting a refreshing beverage - it tasted like vomit...waaay too acidic.

 

[soccerdad]

I dont know how anyone can like Founders All Day IPA

Love that stuff! They make a session IPA here in GA that I also like - Terrapin Recreation Ale

But in reality I'm a hata just like everybody else

 

[kh54s10]

Bought a Stone mixed 12 pack. Stone IPA, Ruination IPA, Sublimely Self-Righteous Black IPA and Arrogant Bastard Ale.

I was totally unimpressed with all of them and the black IPA was close to undrinkable, though I did drink them.

 

[Black Island Brewer]

In defense of ABInbev, they do employ a lot of people who rely on that job for income.

They don't really need defending. And I'm not anti publically owned, either. My reasons have to do with the practices that they have used to attempt to gain and maintain an unfair advantage in the marketplace. Again, not militant about it, just mindful, and don't expect anyone else to see our my way. I do the same with Walmart. My wife shops there, I won't.

 

[UncleRusty]

You guys are all too picky. Aside from MillerCoors/inBev crap, I've never had a Craft Beer that I absolutely despised with the exception of a single Gose I had on tap once that tasted like Bile. I don't recall who made the Gose, but I now know this particular one was brewed incorrectly as that is considered an off-flavour coming from improper souring techniques. I've since had several Gose's that are quite good.

The only other beers I didn't like or couldn't finish were either examples that were spoiled or skunked, which is just improper storage in most cases. Obviously some beers are certainly better than others and everyone has their right to their favorites, but I'm not a fan of grilling a single beer as being undrinkable or terrible for such reasons, and I've drank a lot of beer over the years, dozens of examples of every style at this point (Part-Time Alcoholic In-Progress).

 

[DromJohn]

So I went to untappd ...

Here's a third vote for Samuel Smith Organic Chocolate Stout as my least favorite craft beer.

There's a bunch of others.
One themes is adding or mixing something that doesn't seem to work for me, most often when some of my favorite beers are similar. I love coffee stouts when the coffee compliments the stout. I hate coffee stouts when the coffee and the stout are going different directions. It's like the brewer didn't taste it before selling it.

Another theme is, take a good beer and add alcohol, or add a trendy wood a have the achohol or wood conflict.
Hmm, Allagash Odyssey may be my favorite beer. But there are so many misses out there.

A third theme is mixing styles.
Terrapin (Left Hand) Reunion '10 was a great Scottish ale with Belgian yeast. I've had a couple of very bad Scottish ales with bad yeast.

So the rest of my two star untappd, some of these may just be a badly stored bottle or a skunked line:

Gulpener Bierbrouwerij Ur-Pilsner
Lazy Magnolia Jefferson Stout
Chimay Blanche (Cinq Cents)
Baird Jubilation Ale
Clown Shoes Clementine 1.5 (OTOH, I rather like regular Clementine)
Anchor BigLeaf Maple Autumn Red
Meantime Coffee Porter
McChouffe
Professor Fritz Briem 1809 Berliner Style Weisse
Brouwerij Verhaeghe Duchesse de Bourgogne [probably the best rated by others]
Terrapin Double Feature
The Lost Abbey Agave Maria
French Broad Wee-Heavy-Er Scotch Ale
Evil Twin Justin Blåbær

 

[Eugenio]

I only drink Ecto-coolers that my mom packs in my lunch for me and sometimes if I'm good, I get warm milk with Ovaltine for dinner.

I still dont get why the ecto coolers were discontinued. I lived off of those things.

Throw one in the freezer, cut the top off and scrape it with a spoon for an awesome frozen juice pack.

 

[trussell]

The Pumpking and all other pumpkin ales.
Bottled mad elf (but the draft is fine)

I'll add that the many spiced "Christmas" beers I see, most are just crap to me.

 

[Hello]

I only drink Ecto-coolers that my mom packs in my lunch for me and sometimes if I'm good, I get warm milk with Ovaltine for dinner.

Ecto-coolers. Man, I do miss those.

I hate some craft beers but it is mostly because I don't love pilsners and lagers.

 

[JordanKnudson]

Jumping in on the hater bandwagon here. There are quite a few DFH beers that I just don't like. To name a few, I've been particularly turned off by Black and Blue, Midas Touch, and Rhizing Bines (a collab with SN). With that said, I really appreciate their experimental spirit, and I must say that some of their beers (******* Brew, Burton Baton, and Indian Brown Ale come to mind) rank among my favorites ever.

 

[bragona71]

I`m not sure sam adams is considered a craft brew anymore but their Octoberfest is horrible IMO and that's all you find on tap besides yellow beer around here..Also had their winter crap at a party last weekend was not impressed with any. I came home and filled a growler of my IPA to drink at the party

 

[Bobcatbrewing42]

The phony craft beers that are made by mega breweries are what I despise. I still like to drink Bud and Coors as Session beers or thirst quenching but Blue Moon and Shock Top do nothing for me.

 

[bragona71]

In defense of ABInbev, they do employ a lot of people who rely on that job for income.

I would like to know if their products are all American grown..I also love to support local mom and pop places and favor American made or union product.years ago my dad quit drinking bud and went to mgd just because the CAN(lol) said "union made"

My favorite bar is actually called "mom and pops" LOL believe it or not..Not applebees or chilis ect

 

[Bowfisher]

Absolute worst thing I've ever drank-Dragon's Milk, Red Hook Pumpkin Porter being a close 2nd.

 

[dkevinb]

Blind Pig. I bought a 6-pack, took one swallow. Forced myself to take 2 more swallows, threw it all away.

 

[Braufessor]

I don't like arrogant bastard - ordered one on tap once, drank a bit of it, left the rest and ordered something else. I really have not cared much for any Lagunitas beers I have had. (I have gotten them on tap, at places that generally do a good job of serving fresh beer, that has been well-handled, so I don't think it was that.) Not a big fan of Surly Furious - although, I do like Abrasive.

There are other beers that are certainly over rated, but I would not say I "despise" them. But, I would order a budweiser before I would order an arrogant bastard again.

 

[cjgenever]

I secretly despise nothing. I wear my revolt like a badge!

 

[jbaysurfer]

Blind Pig. I bought a 6-pack, took one swallow. Forced myself to take 2 more swallows, threw it all away.

A fool and his clean Karma are soon parted.

 

[Peyope]

Schlafly's barley wine is just terrible.

 

[podz]

I don't secretely dispise anything; I do it openly.

Overhyped and overpriced things get onto the top of my sh:it:t:list really quickly.

Pliny The Elder, for example.

 

[Strut]

I was wondering how someone knew what booty hole tasted like. Sounds like a totally new thread. Beers that taste like unwashed booty hole.

Never took too big a lick from a puss flavored ice cream cone huh?

 

[jbaysurfer]

I don't secretely dispise anything; I do it openly.

Overhyped and overpriced things get onto the top of my sh:it:t:list really quickly.

Pliny The Elder, for example.

I'll take "Beers I hate because I can't get" for $500.

Pliny is cheap. Russian River has no marketing department. The hype comes from beer drinkers, not the brewer.

 

[jbb3]

First, I AM an IPA guy. Sweetwater IPA is my favorite daily drinker.

Now, I know this could border on blasphemy... but I don't like Sculpin IPA. Maybe the absolutely ridiculous price they charge for it might have something do with it as well.

 

[Hoosierbrewer]

Alternative thread names:
Opportunities to bash what other people like.
I hate IPA v.11896174-B
I hate sours v.9274723-Zz
Beers I hate because I can't get them.
Beers I hate because everyone else seems to like them.
Haters unite! What do YOU hate?
Happy Haterdays!
I've never had Pliny so therefore I hate it.
It took so long for me to get Enjoy By I was convinced it was life changing and it wasn't. Hated it!

I love it. I had no clue it would generate this much discussion. We should create 2 home brewer groups. Those that brew everything and those that brew IPA's. Lol.

Seriously great response

 

[jbaysurfer]

You guys know that the price you're paying for CA beers in other parts of the country/world is set by the distributors and retailers serving your local markets...right?

Edit: I guess the reason you hate it isn't all that relevant in the vein of the thread. My bad...carry on.

 

[Hoosierbrewer]

In response to if AB grows in US.

They grow a lot of barley where I grew up in Montana. They have facilities out there for the grain

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

I don't secretely dispise anything; I do it openly.

Overhyped and overpriced things get onto the top of my sh:it:t:list really quickly.

Pliny The Elder, for example.

This. But, to be clear, I don't despise Pliny. I despise the hype that culminates around a limited supply product. The beer itself is respectable enough, just not enough to justify the craze.

 

[soupfist]

Despise is a tough word. How can you despise a beer?

I've had beers I tried & won't buy again. Most recently: Allagash White. Apparently somewhat popular, has won some awards. My SWMBO & her friend are fans and wanted me to brew a clone. I found the flavor profile confusing and unpleasant - just not my thing. I drank the whole 4-pack though.

I can only think of two craft beers that I hated enough to not finish. One was Bell's Porter, which I likened to putting a burnt match in my mouth - I took two sips and gave the rest to my wife (who liked it just fine). The second was a pumpkin porter I sampled at a local beer fest, which I took care to pour out on a dirty patch of soil so as to not subject any innocent blades of grass to drinking it too. I guess this all sounds like I don't like porter...but I do.