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

[diodeart]

It was a sorgham beer. Ten years ago. I remember it like it was yesterday. Still gives me the heebeegeebees. Tasted like icky syrup. Had a picture of an elephant outline on an african plain. I would love to hear if anyone has had it, can not recall the name of that abomination. I killed slugs with it for years, poor slugs. Midas Touch takes second prize, with honorable mentions going to arrogant bastard oaked (like chewing on a chair leg) and surley smoke (how dare me)(which was way too smokey, a struggle for a guy who loves campfires).

 

[dannypo]

Had a Mission Street Hefeweizen from Trader Joe's.

Holy Belgian phenolic. This one was a real struggle for me to drink.

RateBeer and Beer Advocate seem to disagree with me. Perhaps I got a bad bottle. Or perhaps I just don't like Belgian funk in my Hefs.

My favorite hefes always have big clove phenolics like Schneider Weiss. But being a Trader Joe's beer which knows. There stuff is sometimes very old. I bought a Vienna Lager from them that was so oxidized it tasted like wet cardboard coated in very old caramel. Disgusting.

 

[thadius856]

My favorite hefes always have big clove phenolics like Schneider Weiss. But being a Trader Joe's beer which knows. There stuff is sometimes very old. I bought a Vienna Lager from them that was so oxidized it tasted like wet cardboard coated in very old caramel. Disgusting.

Dated 25 Jan 13.

 

[andvari7]

I'd have to go with Pete's Wicked Strawberry Blonde, off memory. I remember having a difficult time finishing one with my brother. For whatever reason, I bought another six three years later, and it was just as wretched.

Mind you, I'm sure Pete made some truly wicked ales, but I haven't even given them a second thought since that lost weekend.

 

[Jipper]

Epic Ales in Washington made some pretty aweful beers. We were sent a package from one of our suppliers with 4 of their beers, and the "Epic Fales" jokes started after the first two...the second two didn't save anything for them.

Will still be open to drinking them down the road, just won't be spending my money on it! :cross:

 

[Dave1096]

Three Philosophers. I know I'm gonna make alot of people mad with that one, but it tastes like cherry cough syrup to me.

 

[Jipper]

I wish my cherry cough syrup tasted like beer! Glad most beers don't taste like cherry cough syrup though

 

[ladodger34]

My favorite hefes always have big clove phenolics like Schneider Weiss. But being a Trader Joe's beer which knows. There stuff is sometimes very old. I bought a Vienna Lager from them that was so oxidized it tasted like wet cardboard coated in very old caramel. Disgusting.

The TJs stuff is pretty hit and miss. Their Oatmeal Stout is pretty good and so is the Dunkelweiss.

That said, the Mission St. Blonde is awful and so is the Kennebunkport IPA.

 

[julioardz]

Abita Jockamo IPA.

My momma always say if I have nottin nice to say I should just keep my trap shut. So I quote you instead. You eva taste sweat of a possums back?

 

[highgravitybacon]

Bought a 6er of Sam Adams Summer Ale last night. That beer seems to have so much artifical fruit flavor. It just has a weird fake kinda taste. I dont remember it being that way on draft in the past years Ive had it.

I had one on draught that was horrifying. It reminded of someone's first homebrew batch. Not their first batch, but the first batch where they tried to "get creative" with a recipe. God awful.

In all honesty, none of the Sam Adams beers have ever been very good. I've never, ever, purchased the same product of theirs twice. Some are okay, some are meh and some are just craptacular.

Back on the subject of trader joes, avoid at all costs the Twin Screw Double IPA. Pure ****. Nothing double or IPA about it. Just junk. I wrote to their customer service since it's a private label thing I think and told them the beer tasted like a tampon soaked in stale beer. And that it was a fitting name, Twin Screw, since you're screwed when you buy it and screwed again when you drink it. They never wrote back.

 

[Pugnax88]

I had one on draught that was horrifying. It reminded of someone's first homebrew batch. Not their first batch, but the first batch where they tried to "get creative" with a recipe. God awful.

In all honesty, none of the Sam Adams beers have ever been very good. I've never, ever, purchased the same product of theirs twice. Some are okay, some are meh and some are just craptacular.

Back on the subject of trader joes, avoid at all costs the Twin Screw Double IPA. Pure ****. Nothing double or IPA about it. Just junk. I wrote to their customer service since it's a private label thing I think and told them the beer tasted like a tampon soaked in stale beer. And that it was a fitting name, Twin Screw, since you're screwed when you buy it and screwed again when you drink it. They never wrote back.

I agree 100% on all counts. I feel the same way about Sam Adams. That Saod, its not the worst or close to the worst, ill drink it.

 

[herc1354]

Pabst has been around as long as anyone else and actually tastes as good as anything else in my opinion. Naming your beer after the Hendrix experience seems pretty hipster to me.

Agreed.
I've toured the Abita brewery, good tour, small brewery...well at least ten years ago it was...purple haze is okay at best, bad name though. Actually nothing about Abita beer makes me go WOW, Now that is a tasty beverage.

 

[MotorcycleMatt]

Local breweries take on a berlinner weiss. Except it was a smoked beer. Awful. Tasted like regurgitated hot dogs with a copper penny aftertaste. We dumped it

 

[highgravitybacon]

Local breweries take on a berlinner weiss. Except it was a smoked beer. Awful. Tasted like regurgitated hot dogs with a copper penny aftertaste. We dumped it

I think that's ultra old school. Seriously. I have read somewhere, perhaps in my many trips to the great brewing libraries of Bavaria (or maybe somewhere on the internet), that smoked malts were used prior to the introduction of plain malt.

 

[00p]

I had a Sam Adams cherry lambic that was in a winter mix 12 pack about ten years ago. At that point, there was no beer I wouldn't drink, especially if someone else was buying. This stuff was freaking wretched. I couldn't even get a single swallow down. I passed the bottle to my soon to be brother in law, who thought i was being a wuss. He almost threw up when it hit his lips.

It is incomprehensible that anyone would sell something that tasted this horrific, so I assume it was a bad bottle. A very, very bad bottle. To paraphrase a quote from Futurama, this beer would have tasted better as vomit.

 

[THURN1S_HALEY]

I had a Sam Adams cherry lambic that was in a winter mix 12 pack about ten years ago. At that point, there was no beer I wouldn't drink, especially if someone else was buying. This stuff was freaking wretched. I couldn't even get a single swallow down. I passed the bottle to my soon to be brother in law, who thought i was being a wuss. He almost threw up when it hit his lips.

It is incomprehensible that anyone would sell something that tasted this horrific, so I assume it was a bad bottle. A very, very bad bottle. To paraphrase a quote from Futurama, this beer would have tasted better as vomit.

Nope, not a bad bottle, just a sad excuse for a lambic. Or beer in general. It's my worst as well. Along with a lot of others on this thread

 

[wcraw]

The only positive about Abita is that the labels simply fall off when you soak them.

 

[D_Nyholm]

I really like abita restoration pale ale. Good hop aroma and taste and a nice malt to round out the taste. Purple haze was just OK and the same with turbo dog.

I wouldn't personally put them on my list of worst beers at all.

 

[MotorcycleMatt]

I think that's ultra old school. Seriously. I have read somewhere, perhaps in my many trips to the great brewing libraries of Bavaria (or maybe somewhere on the internet), that smoked malts were used prior to the introduction of plain malt.

I don't know if their intention was old school but it was foul. Hot dog flavored vomit I tell ya. I had a friend give me a sample of a breweries smoked ale and it tasted like I was drinking liquid smoke. I don't know what brewery it was from though

 

[ryno1981]

Anything by Victory brewing where it seems their motto is if a little is good, then a ****load is awesome. I love IPAs but theirs is way over the top. There's not enough toothpaste to rid that taste.

I don't know, Hop Devil is pretty awesome in my opinion.

 

[ryno1981]

I have a couple to add to this interesting thread, the first being Dark Horse Brewing Co. Perkulator. Awful to say the least. And the second being Dark Seas from Mission Brewery. Didn't dump neither but came real close!

 

[herc1354]

I started out liking Victory beers but then it seemed as though they lost control over hop additions, to me a beer with that much hops is soapy tasting. I don't get the point, one can only pick up and taste so many IBUs, they are just wasting good hops just so they can market that they use WAY to much hops.
Now on to Sam Adams beer....Boston Lager is good....I'll lever it at that.

 

[Swarley88]

I really like abita restoration pale ale. Good hop aroma and taste and a nice malt to round out the taste. Purple haze was just OK and the same with turbo dog.

I wouldn't personally put them on my list of worst beers at all.

Well it seems the only reason Purple Haze was listed earlier as the worst beer is because of the name. People have been doing that in this thread. I dont think they are getting the point where it's one beer from the brewery that was so digusting with

 

[Swarley88]

Well it seems the only reason Purple Haze was listed earlier as the worst beer is because of the name. People have been doing that in this thread. I dont think they are getting the point where it's one beer from the brewery that was so digusting with

...Off flavors and you can hardly drink it. Not because its a Hipster beer or cause it has a bad name or you don't like styles or its too hoppy in your opinion or you don't like the brewmaster or any of that other ****.

 

[nateburn]

I've seen it mentioned before and I'll add my 2 cents:

Stone 12/12/12. Oh man, and I love Stone beers...

It drinks like a Clove Syrup challenging you to finish the bottle. I couldn't.
It probably could use aging, but at what point did the brewer think: "Yeah, it will be drinkable in 3-5 years?"

I second that first beer I dumped

 

[WesleyS]

I actually really liked 12-12-12.

 

[Swarley88]

Me too. It for sure is a beer that you either love it or hate it though.

 

[kylevester]

Hey there folks, let's try to keep this as on topic as possible. The topic is the worst CRAFT BREW you've ever had, not your least favorite brewery or trashing of macrobrews.

For example, I opened this thread thanks to the gawd awful Maple Bacon Donut brew from Rogue. Everything else I've had from them has been good to amazing.

Please name a specific brew that you found especially atrocious. And also add why.

Thanks, folks, and let's keep this active, because there's a lot of experiments out there that brewers are doing that are fails. I see this thread as being a repository for caution on weird brews.

 

[Eisenhans]

Henry Weinhard's was absolutely great until it sold its soul to the devil.

Blue Dog Mead was utterly tasteless.

Coincidentally, they were both from Oregon

 

[MindenMan]

I agree, Henry Weinhard's used to not suck. My first choice for nasty is EKU 28, followed by Red Tail Ale; all I could taste was a nasty metallic that wouldn't go away. I guess now it was probably the hops they used, But to me it still sucked.