What's the worst craft brew (commercial) you've had?

[ladodger34]

I like buying "craft brew" from time to time at Trader Joe's. I like the Oatmeal Stout and Dunkelweiss (the dunkel is a treat because the style isn't super popular in southern Ca). $6 a six pack is a pretty good deal for decent beer, plus it is a nice way to eventually get empties. Anyhow, those 2 are brewed for TJs by Gordon Biersch (they also do Kirkland for Costco).

Today, I decided to get Mission St. blonde ale and Kennebunk Port IPA. I got the blonde ale as a comparison for my first brew (blonde ale kit from More Beer). Needless to say, I likes mine better. Got the IPA for the hell of it and it has no hop character at all.

Not the worst craft brews ever (Rogue Maple Bacon takes that prize) but entirely underwhelming stuff. Oh well, the bottles will soon be filled with my stuff!

 

[Mb2658]

Not sure if its considered craft but Goose Island Honkers Ale was just fowl Pun intended.

Agreed.

 

[Revolt]

Clown Shoes Lubrication - I'm sure some like it but it just smells of cigarette butts to me.

Yuengling Bock Beer

 

[Brewtah]

Brux by Sierra Neveda. Their experimental sour. Feed-back from staff seems they won't be doing anything similar for a long while. After I ordered a glass took a couple sips, I guess my face said it all and bar tender said she would pour me something different. Two-headed double Rye IPA yum!

 

[golfduke]

Woodstock brewery thru-hiker RyePA. I hope that I just got a fowl bomber, because it was the first in a long time that I just couldn't suck it up and grit through... It is hard to explain, but it had this really REALLY harsh champagne-like carbonation bite with a fruity off flavor. It just wasn't right. I know rye tends to bite. This was nothing like that. It almost tasted like a carbonation infection, if there is such a thing.

 

[tdhickey]

I would say Rogue Beers to me has the most inconsistent hit/miss ratio. Liqourice Porter - horrid, I do love the maple bacon beer though (it's a breakfest beer), but it is not for everyone. Rogue has had some awesome beers like Double Dead Guy ale, and undrinkables like their Single Malt Ale which is horrendous...I have only poured two beers down the drain, both were Rogue beers. That being said, they also have some of the best beer too (their Barleywine is fantastic).

 

[tdhickey]

Am I the only one who actually liked this beer?

I quite like this beer, it is also really fun to take to a party, camping or event. I make people try it and it is usually 3 out of 10 that actually like it. It is a novelty beer at most, even better as a breakfast beer while camping. In fact that beer can literally be your breakfast!

It's ok to hate on novelty beers, but they are what they are, novelty beers at best. What I don't understand is how a decent brewery will release a crap version of an ale, IPA or really anything that is so unbalanced its undrinkable. That is inexcusable in my mind.

 

[Beergazzi]

Though it may have been a mental thing, Flying Dog Oyster Stout ("Made with real Rapanack River Oysters") just was an unpleasent beverage...but my mental image of oysters in beer may have done it in.

Im sure I've had worse ones, but their names excape me.

FWIW I thought Goose Island Honkers Ale was great.

 

[tdhickey]

OK, I have to join everyone saying Rogue Voodoo Maple Bacon. My friend brought me a bottle and said it was terrible, but I should try it anyway. Cloying artificial maple that coats the inside of your mouth and a liquid smoke flavor backing it up. I poured it into a 2oz taster glass, took one sip, gave my wife one sip, and poured out the other 1.75 ounces followed by the rest of the bottle. Worst beer ever! It makes me mad this beer exists at all, it makes me furious that Rogue sells it for $13+ a bottle.

Nothing artificial in that beer

 

[ktblunden]

Nothing artificial in that beer

Then they managed to turn maple syrup into crap.

 

[CDGoin]

Maybe it was my mood.. maybe the fact I hate licorice..

Labyrinth Black Ale - Uinta Brewing Company was HORRID.. I am not sure how it got a 94 at Beer Advocate.

I Love RIS and other stouts and such.. but this was undrinkable.

Also forgot:

Samuel Adams Bonfire Rauchbier

I almost hurled when I drank it. Bonfire is the right name.. their is smoky beer and then there is this.

If you want your beer to taste like it was filtered through BURNT bacon drippings this is the beer for you. Simply undrinkable.

BTW I like bacon.. but this was something else.

 

[DarknMalty]

I cant decide if I love it or hate it, but Marin Platypus Venom is one serious brew. Its an imperial stout with the mouthfeel and taste of anise cough syrup. It has an intriguing flavor complex, but its incredibly difficult to drink.

 

[UnDeFiNeD_EK-808]

You guys are teasing rogue beers but i think that there are some u guys never tried... How about brutial ipa or the hazelnut 1

 

[downtown3641]

You guys are teasing rogue beers but i think that there are some u guys never tried... How about brutial ipa or the hazelnut 1

I enjoy the Brutal IPA (I think it was "Brutal Bitter" the last time I had it), the Shakespeare Stout, and Dad's Little Helper.

 

[603Brew]

The fact that Rogue treats their employees like garbage makes me not go out of my way anymore to drink their stuff

 

[chungking]

Old Speckled hen...worst beer ever! I was pretty sure i was drinking regurgitated beer in a glass.

 

[Mb2658]

Old Speckled hen...worst beer ever! I was pretty sure i was drinking regurgitated beer in a glass.

What!? Old Speckled Hen is tasty.

 

[Ridire]

Drinking it right now. Capital Hop Cream. Hands down the worst beer I've ever had.

 

[jerryteague]

Old Speckled hen...worst beer ever! I was pretty sure i was drinking regurgitated beer in a glass.

Old Speckled Hen is awesome in cans. In bottles, not so much. Cans are hard to come by, but totally worth the price, if you can find it. Their bottled version is almost always skunked and/or spoiled...

 

[paliessmann]

Sam Adams old fezziwig is top of my list. I didn't pour any out but I definitely won't buy any more. And anything with fruit that's too sweet I just can't drink.

 

[Fordzilla]

Sam Adams old fezziwig is top of my list. I didn't pour any out but I definitely won't buy any more.

Good. All the people in this thread talking about dumping out beer makes me cringe. That's alcohol abuse!

 

[cank]

I'm getting down on the bad Rogue Maple Bacon reviews (and you don't want to know what I paid for it ***$17.00*** shh).
My sister lives in Portland and She took us to Voodoo Donuts, and I got the maple bacon doughnut. It was the best doughnut I've ever had! Two years later I was in my Local(read closest liquor store to my dry county line) package store in Arkansas and What did I see, A pink bottle of maple bacon beer. I didn't care how much I had to pay and I've been saving it ever since.
That was five months ago... I hope I'm not let down.
Breakfast beer huh? I wonder if my wife will be as gullible as my mom when I said Jägermeister was cough syrup when I crack it open tomorrow morning!

 

[Nomad]

New Holland Dragon's Milk. $14 for 4 beers that tasted like a Jack and Coke. I don't think their original recipe was finished in whiskey barrels-- it was much better; a big, caramelly, barley wine. Great name, though!

 

[1fast636]

Though it may have been a mental thing, Flying Dog Oyster Stout ("Made with real Rapanack River Oysters") just was an unpleasent beverage...but my mental image of oysters in beer may have done it in.

Im sure I've had worse ones, but their names excape me.

FWIW I thought Goose Island Honkers Ale was great.

I think it might of been in your head man that was the first stout I ever drank and it was fantastic. They boil with the oysters for some additive to the wort the oysters do not stay in the beer or fermenter.

 

[Tabb]

I was in greely, co went to a little brewery called crabtree brewing. Their stout won 2nd place a few years back it was good for a dry stout. Everything else they had was eh. They had a raspberry beer that had no hint of beer to it. It was raspberry koolaid. The sour they had was like tasting vinegar, I honesty would have made dressing with it rather then drink it. First time me or my buddy ever walked away from a flight of beer. We got ten taster glasses but about 2 1/2 were drank.

 

[SuperBobbyM]

Rogue Voodoo Bacon Maple Donut. Blah.

The most disgusting swill I've ever had! Couldn't get through the bottle, down the drain it went!

 

[thatjonguy]

Anything with cherries (except sours/krieks) especially Sam Adams Cherry Wheat. Tastes like Rx cough syrup.

 

[mpride1911]

I think it might of been in your head man that was the first stout I ever drank and it was fantastic. They boil with the oysters for some additive to the wort the oysters do not stay in the beer or fermenter.

An episode of Drinking Made Easy in either Tennessee or Asheville NC, went to a small brew pub that did an oyster stout also. They said the same thing, they're only in for a short time and then discarded. The shells are used for mineralizing the water. The calcium or whatever, changes the water profile to make it suitable for the beer.

 

[casesensative]

I think it might of been in your head man that was the first stout I ever drank and it was fantastic. They boil with the oysters for some additive to the wort the oysters do not stay in the beer or fermenter.

+1 to this. Their oyster stout is really good, and their regular pale ale is amazing and im not a hop head at all. Would love to find a clone recipe for both beers.

 

[Tinga]

I'll try everything and usually more than once.... but I had "hell hath no fury" from bells and it was absolutely terrible. It's a belgian stout. blech