What craft beer do you secretly despise?

[hunter_le five]

No secret. DFH 120. Most over rated/priced beer on the market. I can't stand the taste of it. Aged or new. It's amazing what hype can do.

I always thought of that more as a "novelty beer" than a legitimately good beer. It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't great either for me... it did get me drunk in short order.

 

[sir_ybarra]

Rogue's Voodoo line... I hunted these down for a while and when I finally got my hands on the Voodoo Donut it was the most terrible thing I've ever tasted.

 

[kev211]

Rogue's Voodoo line... I hunted these down for a while and when I finally got my hands on the Voodoo Donut it was the most terrible thing I've ever tasted.

Novelty beers. My buddy got one of the maple bacon whatever's once. It was like drinking fizzy syrup. I'm with you on this one

 

[user 141939]

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.

They also don't brew in volume. Considering they sell all the pliny they make I would say they don't need a marketing department. Good beers sell themselves.

 

[histo320]

So I brewed the other day and my friend who helps me always tries to bring beer that I've never had. This time he brought Flying Dog Snake Bite and Hop Slayer.

Both are equally as bad. Terrible, just terrible. We had one of each and well, I haven't been able to drink an IPA since.

 

[BlkWater_brewer]

I'd have to go with Heady Topper. Over hyped and just keeping it hard to get to spur sales. The beer equivalent of East Coast Yeast.

 

[firerat]

I've only tried a few Abita beers but did not like either. The IPA that I had was especially nasty in my opinion.

Abita Purple Haze is one of the nastiest beers I have tried in a long time.

The Florida Beer Company makes something called Swamp Ape. Seems a fitting name. Ewww......

Oh, and Golden Monkey from Victory. I like a LOT of brews from Victory, but this one is just, I don't know. All my friends think I'm nuts. They love it.

 

[JordanKnudson]

I have taken the brewery tour of Lakefront in Milwaukee a few times (highly recommended), and while I am enamoured with many of their beers -- Fixed Gear ranking among my favorites -- their Wheat Monkey that they had on tap smelled like rotten farts and tasted like burnt rubber. Not sure what was going on, as all the other beers were great, but that basically has ensured that I will NEVER pay for that beer, ever. (Or even drink it if it's offered free).

 

[Davefox15]

DFH 60 or 90 or 120 for me....why do people love that stuff so much...

 

[MarshmallowBlue]

I'd have to go with Heady Topper. Over hyped and just keeping it hard to get to spur sales. The beer equivalent of East Coast Yeast.

I like heady topper quite a lot, but I do agree that the whole not distributing out of state and only making tiny amounts is a backwards business practice. The demand is there for entire New England distribution and still keep their elusive hard to get reputation.

Now, my secretly despised beer is wheats/ wits/ bad saisons (good saisons not included). They all have this awful weird taste that just doesn't sit right with me.

 

[Mirilis]

Sam Adams Cherry Wheat... i guess its not a secret.. i actually hate that beer and its gross artificial cherry flavoring.

 

[cheddarhed3]

Not a fan of most Rogue beers, DFH IPA's or anything Sam Adams.

 

[firerat]

Sam Adams Cherry Wheat... i guess its not a secret.. i actually hate that beer and its gross artificial cherry flavoring.

+1

That goes for their blueberry thing too. Both taste like cough syrup to me.

 

[Baja_Brewer]

Are shandy's considered beers yet? I know to some people they are....

$hits nasty.

 

[DromJohn]

Second entry for me, but we had another brew from another major English brewer that took over most despised designation from Samuel Smith Organic Chocolate Stout.

I have Wells Bombardier in my brew queue. Yet another English Bitter by Wells was so despicable that it was classically pessimistic. The bottle was half empty on the table when we left Ingleside Village Pizza: Wells Sticky Toffee Pudding Ale.

Hmm, we love Bombardier. Hmm, SWMBO made a sticky toffee pudding for Christmas desert. It was yummy. SWMBO's current favorite brew is a take on another classic Christmas desert: Bush de Noel (AKA Scaldis Noel), also in my brew queue. SWMBO was expecting reasonable competition for current favorite consideration. SWMBO was dismally disappointed. Shame on you Wells for making SWMBO so unhappy.

 

[soccerdad]

smelled like rotten farts and tasted like burnt rubber

Yum - who's got a recipe for that one ?

 

[drgoodbrew]

session IPAs--THERE IS NO SUCH THING!!!!!!!!!

also, founders "all day IPA"--if you like drinking cat pee, this one is for you.

 

[user 141939]

Shipyard pumkinhead/melonhead/applehead/gingerbread head, these aren't really beers though, more like malt beverages. I believe it's all the same base beer with different nasty syrups added

Then there is the shipyard xxxx ipa. Really hard to drink. I tasted a sip of a buddys while I was drinking SN torpedo and the difference was night and day.

Than there's the smashed pumpkin/blueberry beers they make. Same nasty artificial flavor you love from the originals, now with amped up harsh alcohol notes. Yum.

I don't secretly despise thought, for that I'd have to say founders KBS.

 

[nelsonjw]

With the exception of their Hemp Rye, which is at least okay, I've started avoiding anything by O'Fallon. There are too many better beers in the area and theirs always seem to underwhelm in comparison.

I haven't been very impressed with any of the Excel Brewing Co. beers I have tried either.

Goose Island bottles have gone downhill since the InBev takeover too. It's still pretty good at the brewpubs in Chicago. On tap elsewhere in the Midwest is more hit-and-miss now.

Rock Bridge Smoked Brown. I like supporting local breweries and I like some of their other beers, but I have never tried a smoke beer that tasted quite this much like a glass of Liquid Smoke. 4 Hands Smoked Pigasus does a better job in this category.

 

[huckstep]

I'm not a big fan of most lagers that I've had but have had some that are pretty good. IPAs are one of my favorite styles but at the same time I wish some brewery's would start doing less of them as I feel like every time something new comes out seems to be another IPA.

 

[craigger64]

I hope this thread has a quick death

Amen

 

[Chadwick]

The O'Fallon Smoked Porter is pretty good. Although I agree about the rest of their line, not so great.

Has anyone tried Old Monk 10,000? I can't remember if I mentioned this one before or not. In case anyone is curious, it tastes like someone took a two dollar 40oz malt liquer and poured 2 shots of the worst tequila ever created into it. It's easy to recognize on the shelf. Its the glass bottle with so many air bubbles in the glass that you are a little bit afraid to touch it.

It was so bad that I feel a little bit embarrased to even admit to trying it.

 

[guldalian]

There are 3 tied for 1st place for me.
One was a blond ale from a brewery in St. Charles MO that tasted like they used sweat to brew it instead of water.
The 2nd was a Belgian something or other, aged on cherries, and looked, smelled and tasted like the straight up juice from a jar of grocery store maraschino cherries.
The 3rd was a Berliner weisse I had at a festival that was just extremely foul. No other way to describe it. I held one sip in my mouth for approx. 2 seconds before abandoning the decency to even swallow it and spitting it into a nearby trash can. It was even an unappetizing pink color. (I think they put strawberries in it).
On a different note, looking through these posts, I'm like DFH 90? Enjoy By? Dark Truth? Whaaaaa? Insanity.

 

[satownsend]

Tröegs Mad Elf. I can't drink it without thinking of cough syrup. I enjoy most of their other beers though.

 

[Pyg]

While I don't despise it, I was let down by Lagunitas Brown Shugga.
It was good, not great.
I had heard so much about how great this brew was, it just didn't live up to the hype.
I will drink it again next year, but won't save a bottle for my beer buddy neighbor.(we introduce each other to good micro brews)

 

[podz]

Nobody despises craft beer more than BMC-style companies.

Here in Finland, they have just passed sweeping legislation preventing any and all forms of alcohol advertising. The law lists thousands of situations that are prohibited and there is a very active monitoring agency doing the enforcement.

Who was behind this? The Finnish equivalents of BMC (Karhu, Koff and Karjala). Everybody knows their name and they want to destroy the sales of all these pesky little newcomers.

 

[ciderWI]

Third Shift, and my dislike of it is no secret. Beer flavored kool aid masquerading as craft beer.

 

[beerenstein]

Nobody despises craft beer more than BMC-style companies.

Here in Finland, they have just passed sweeping legislation preventing any and all forms of alcohol advertising. The law lists thousands of situations that are prohibited and there is a very active monitoring agency doing the enforcement.

Who was behind this? The Finnish equivalents of BMC (Karhu, Koff and Karjala). Everybody knows their name and they want to destroy the sales of all these pesky little newcomers.

The KKK is against beer? (Karhu, koff, karjala)

Lol

 

[nelsonjw]

Third Shift, and my dislike of it is no secret. Beer flavored kool aid masquerading as craft beer.

...and brewed by Coors.

 

[pumahunter]

I gotta agree with a couple posts I've seen about DFH... I just don't get it, I've tried to make myself like their brews. I'm an IPA fanatic and just can't stand the taste of any of theirs.