What craft beer do you secretly despise?

[Pyg]

I'm all honesty I think some breweries should not allow the brewmasters to drink during work hours because some beer tastes like cat piss and I can't understand how anyone can drink it *cough* BEERCAMP *cough*

+1

I was kind of geeked at the idea of a hoppy Lager.
I though this was a great chance to introduce all my Lager friends to hops.

This beer tries to be a Lager and Hoppy, unfortunately it succeeds at just that!

 

[supermutantbrewmaster]

+1

I was kind of geeked at the idea of a hoppy Lager.
I though this was a great chance to introduce all my Lager friends to hops.

This beer tries to be a Lager and Hoppy, unfortunately it succeeds at just that!

Pyramids IPL is pretty good but I don't know how it compares to beercamp.

Personally I hate pyramids apricot ale but only when it's in the bottle. On tap, it's golden nectar.

 

[smizak]

I haven't found anything brewed by Rogue that I don't dislike. I really find their beers mediocre at best. I don't understand how they're so popular honestly.

This too

 

[Pyg]

Grabbed a pick 6 today, so I finally got to try a SN Hop Hunter.
I had high expectations since I like most everything from SN (except beer camp & rye ipa)
Hop Hunter reminds me of soda that has a flavor extract added.
It is a beer with a hop flavor added just before bottling.
A real let down, just glad I had 1 and not an entire 6 pack
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[Tomcat0304]

DFH Midas Touch. Way too sweet and didn't like the grape in my beer.

Southern Tier Pumking and Warlock. Both were just bad, and I tried to like Pumking in '13 and '14. Couldn't do it...

 

[MichaelsBrewing]

Yuengling!

However, I guess I wouldn't call it "craft"

 

[TrustyOlJohnson]

I love brown ales... Having said that, I wouldn't drink Newcastle is you waterboarded me

 

[TrustyOlJohnson]

And I had some Green Flash Palate Wrecker that took 2 sips and I poured it down the drain

 

[Billy-Klubb]

I love brown ales... Having said that, I wouldn't drink Newcastle is you waterboarded me

I've had "The Broon" when I was in Newcastle, England. it was way better over there. I've tried back in the U.S. again and can't do it..

And I had some Green Flash Palate Wrecker that took 2 sips and I poured it down the drain

next time, just send it to me.

 

[TrustyOlJohnson]

Billy-Klubb, thats a promise

 

[razyrsharpe]

idk about craft beers i hate, but the commercial import i despise secretly is Foster's Lager. Still, it's better than most american commercial efforts.

 

[Oberon67]

Sampled a Grand Cru sour once.

Once.

I know people love 'em, but I'm pretty sure that sours are just not my thing.

 

[supermutantbrewmaster]

idk about craft beers i hate, but the commercial import i despise secretly is Foster's Lager. Still, it's better than most american commercial efforts.

Same here. Is Australian Lager supposed to taste like kerosene?

 

[Homercidal]

Boston Beer Company. I see they are teamed up with some former Magic Hat people to create subsidiaries of crappy novelty beers.

So.... Pretty much doing what the Big Name breweries have been doing: Selling beer for business purposes, rather than for the sake of selling good beer. This will probably happen to most craft breweries when they get bigger and market share gets more difficult to get hold of.

 

[NickTheGreat]

Same here. Is Australian Lager supposed to taste like kerosene?

When I went to Australia in college, somebody asked about (or ordered) a Fosters. Everybody started laughing. They said that is the crappy beer they send to the Americans. :fro:

 

[user 141939]

Dogfish Head makes way too many different beers to dislike them categorically. Their Palo Santo Marron is really quite excellent.

It's true.

 

[user 141939]

I actually have a few 120 mins aging alongside a narwhal and Bigfoot going to do a year by year comparison eventually

You've reminded me of something I never understood, aged bigfoot. The whole point of an american barleywine is that big hop character. Why age them into a oxidized mess. I love that beer fresh. Way better than side by sides i've done with aged ones.

 

[Todd820]

Used to like it, but I just can't get into Great Lakes Xmas ale anymore. Most of these holiday ales are too over the top for me, I may have one a year to remind myself why I should just stick with a good porter or oatmeal stout in the dead of winter

 

[Calichusetts]

You've reminded me of something I never understood, aged bigfoot. The whole point of an american barleywine is that big hop character. Why age them into a oxidized mess. I love that beer fresh. Way better than side by sides i've done with aged ones.

Have to disagree. Oxidation in bigfoot takes on a woody and sherry characteristic. Bigfoot is fantastic after 7 years. I do 6 year verticals and usually the aged 3-years and 6-year tie as the best. Don't get me wrong, fresh is awesome too. I am drinking at least a 4 pack a week of that stuff right now.

 

[user 141939]

Perhaps i've had unproperly aged ones. I just remember the last time tasting cardboard.

 

[VulgarCelt]

I kept hearing about it and figured it must be good. Since i could not get any, i brewed 10 gallons of it. I can't look a chinook hop without thinking yuck and I live 15 miles from Stone.

Stone does not make my favorite beers but I do like visiting the brewery, for the food, and atmosphere.

+1

Great advertising. Nasty beer.

 

[MirImage]

For me, I think IPA's are overrated. I enjoy some of them but many are so 1 dimensional that it is hard to appreciate them.

This. I love IPAs but I hate when I goto a place and this is the majority of their craft beer selection... When I lived in TX, HEB had this issue.

 

[razyrsharpe]

oh, and i also found out that i dislike sour beers intensely.

 

[Oberon67]

Yeah... sours. More for everybody else, none for me thanks.

 

[doublehaul]

Pliny the Elder, its still a good beer but just overrated. I live fairly close to Russian River so I have had it alot, but there are just better IPA's now.


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[desabat]

Yeah... sours. More for everybody else, none for me thanks.

I'll keep trying sours 'till I can understand what all the fuss is about but from the limited selection I've had so far they taste like starters.

 

[drainbamage]

I'll keep trying sours 'till I can understand what all the fuss is about but from the limited selection I've had so far they taste like starters.

That's my philosophy too. I never liked IPAs either until one day I did. I've found a few sours that I could see being good in the right circumstances, but nothing that really made the light bulb come on like "ok, I get it now."

 

[MirImage]

I'll keep trying sours 'till I can understand what all the fuss is about but from the limited selection I've had so far they taste like starters.

Keep trying them, I feel like that this is a category that has a huge variety in tasting profile compared to other "categories".

 

[Gabbs1228]

Magic Hat. Not because of how it tastes but because they harassed a new local brewery because they said their label was too similar (which it wasn't even close). Apparently it wasn't their first time doing this sort of this either. Haven't had as much as a sip of Magic Hat since.

Me either. But to be fair--I'm not a huge fan of W6th. I just don't care for their business philosophy and their "we're going to save the world paying it forward" thing when in fact they are making more $$ then they know what to do with. LOVE their Black IPA but it's seasonal. Just my $0.02.

 

[tellyho]

Harpoon. I live in Boston and haven't bought one in a decade.