Worst Commercial Beer You've Ever Had?

[user 22118]

Steel reserve about a month ago. I had a hangover that same night even before going to bed. Aweful aweful stuff. Me and the lady decided to party it up before she left for a week and were shopping for her camping trip so picked up two of them. Got home and she opened them both, we barely finished one together. Took shots instead.

 

[eschatz]

Steel Reserve is NASTY STUFF!! There was some of that at a party last Saturday. I hadn't tasted the dragon in so long. I went for a can. I was pretty drunk. You know the kind of drunk where painfull is funny? Well I knew it was going to suck but I think I learned my lesson. You know that nasty beer face you get when you drink Natty Ice? Well it goes away after a couple of sips as you adjust. You never adjust with the Reserve. Gut Rot my friends.

 

[StunnedMonkey]

While perhaps not the absolute worst beer I've ever had, a few months ago I paid craft brew prices for a 4 pack of Horse Piss Beer. I figured, with a name like that it must be good. Right?

It seriously tasted like a blend of Miller Lite, Busch Lite, well water, and Palmolive dish soap. Say, 40/40/15/5 on the proportions.

To be avoided.

 

[El_Pistolero45]

My FIRST BAD BEER:
in 1972 at the age of 6. I got into my Grandfather's "Stash" of "Garage Beer". Garage Beer was the stuff he got as a gift or bought on sale and "Lagered" in his garage by his boat. Cases and cases of stuff that was out of date by a long shot. The First bad beer was a Can of Schitz er ahh Schlitz that HAD NO PULL TAB. Who in hell knows how old it truly was? It was BAD!
So Bad, that it was almost 10 years later before I tried another beer/

Bad Beer #2:

Carlings Black Label.... made me believe that Canadians were EVIL. :cross:

 

[AKchill]

Growing up in a bush village, we never had good beer. So when I went to college in Minnesota, I didn't know that there were different classes of beer. Until I drank Lost Lake. That putrid walleye-piss of a beer was so bad that the three of us ACTUALLY DIDN'T FINISH A 30 PACK! We all had the ****s the next day, and one of us couldn't drink beer for the rest of the week! That being said, to this day, my favorite cheap beer is Keystone Ice. It was the only beer we could get our hands on, and I will always love "Black Beauties." Don't judge me.

 

[stever]

I brewed an apa a couple months ago that was pretty hideous. It tasted like feet.. nasty, stanky, swamp feet with a hint of ass. Not only did it taste like it was infected but that **** finished at like 1.022 so it was sickeningly sweet. I refused to throw it out and drank 5 gallons of it. Some of it I cut 60/40 with some dunkel weizen which made it much more bearable, some I drank straight but no matter how you sliced it, that **** was ****ing nasty. I figured it would serve as a good reminder to do my best to brew good beer. I haven't used safale 05 since either.

 

[Recusit8m]

Absolute worst beer ive ever drunk (more than once)....HEFFENREFFER PRIVATE STOCK...Numerous High School weekenders...lol

Haffenreffer Malt Liquor

 

[MeatyPortion]

Steel Reserve is indeed nasty stuff. I bought a 4 pack of it while I was living in downtown Madison. Memories of vomiting loudly are all I can process right now.

Hamm's was another bad one. Had that for 50 cents a can at some bar in River Falls. That was a black out night.

 

[crammer]

Koch's Golden Anniversary Beer is probably the worst beer that I have ever had. In fact, I think a case of Pepsi is more expensive then this beer.

 

[MriswitH]

I also gotta toss in a vote for Steel Reserve as well. On the way home from a tattoo session I decided to buy one because i'd never had it before and I couldn't even finish it. Absolutely wretched stuff.

My other vote goes to Hurricane High Gravity malt liquor. Had a terrible week at work and just wanted to go home and get druck and chill out.

Popped into the local liquor store on the way home, proceeded to the couch and popped open my can of whoop-ass. I think I managed to drink less then half of it down before I ended up giving it back to the porcelain god.

 

[ghpeel]

Does Zima "Malt Beverage" count in this discussion? Hate to admit it, but the first time I got tore'd up on booze was on Zima. I was 15 years old, about 90lbs with wet cloths on, no alcohol tolerance and I chugged 5 of them in about 45-50 minutes because they went down so damn smooth. Puked everywhere, i mean EVERYWHERE. Kitchen sink, corner of room, front lawn, etc....

 

[Kronin]

this, or colt45. both because I used to be very poor. Very hard to drink.

 

[JOHN51277]

Chelada! Like tomato soup vomit after drinking a few bud lights!

Check it: Budweiser Chelada - Anheuser-Busch, Inc. - BeerAdvocate

 

[Yuri_Rage]

I thought I'd be the first to mention Hurricane High Gravity in this thread, but I guess I'm not the only one to suffer that misfortune. Not much of a story - I found one in the fridge and drank (a quarter of) it out of morbid curiosity.

Sam Adams Triple Bock deserves mention here. It was a grand venture by SA, but a dismal failure.

 

[iddqd]

Probably Carlsberg Sort Guld or Carlsberg Elephant. Bjørnebryg 7.5 is pretty awful as well, but I managed to down about half a case of them and then pwn the crap out of some commie.

 

[stormrider27]

I have to vote for the golden anniversary. Even in my poor drunken college days I wasn't able to choke down more than two of these. I gave the rest of the 12 pack away. I bought it because it was cheaper than the high quality Beast that I normally killed the liver on. It was 9.99 for a case of the beast or 2.99 for a 12 pack of GA. I should have known.

Storm

 

[KYB]

Skunked Bud Light. There was a keg with a hand pump that my friend had at her party, it didn't get finished, and she had another party a few days later. Talk about the worst beer ever. I had to chase that awful beer with straight whiskey. Seriously.

 

[Trevor57]

Falstaff. I don't think they make it anymore. I borrowed it from a garage as a young man.

 

[Pappers_]

Chelada! Like tomato soup vomit after drinking a few bud lights!

Check it: Budweiser Chelada - Anheuser-Busch, Inc. - BeerAdvocate

OMG, I forgot about this! For those who don't know, many Mexicans enjoy drinking clamato juice (kinda like V8 with clam juice in it) with beer or tequila. I've never seen anyone mix it, but rather its drunk as a chaser or side. Some friends introduced me to this and its enjoyable.

Someone at AB thought it would be great to market a mixed beer/clamato juice beverage in a can to urban hispanics. The first time I saw this was at Soldier Field in Chicago, at a US vs. Brazil soccer match. Of course, it was soo tacky that I had to try it - and it was as awful as you might imagine.

Thanks for reminding me, John!

 

[knotquiteawake]

it was some really cheap mexican beer corona knockoff that had been sitting in the sun for a long time apparently and I was dared to drink it... I got about 1/2 way and started to feel like I was going to puke... I truly got to know the FULL meaning of the work Skunked

 

[elkdog]

Sam Adams Triple Bock deserves mention here. It was a grand venture by SA, but a dismal failure.

Agreed. I like beer. I like soy sauce. I did not like that beer. Not one bit. Great idea, bad beer.

 

[ThickHead]

For me it was about 6 cans of this:

When I was a kid I used to hang out quite often (my little brother included) in a small forrest behind my parents house. We weren't the only neighborhood kids to use this particular forrest as a getaway.

Anyway, one afternoon when I was about 12 (little bro 10) we headed out on one of our typical adventures into the forrest and chanced across a campsite that was used the night before by some older neighborhood kids (the Wagner twins and their minions) where they happened to leave the cooler of beer they had been working their way through the previous evening. Being the typically inquisitive younglings we were we opened up the cooler and to our supprise there were six Knickerbockers left. The ice in the cooler (if there ever was any, since there was no water in it either) had long since melted and the afternoon heat was steadily taking its toll. Neither of us wanting to see the opportunity go to waste, we proceeded to plop down and indulge in our incredible windfall. The beer must have been at least 80 degrees F and we sucked back all six. I can still remember the faces my little bro was pulling as we downed them. I am sure I was pulling idendical comedic faces as I choked down each swollow. They were aweful!

 

[Jenks829]

Bud Dry......

My and a buddy were heading down to the New Jersey shore; this is somewhere around 2001/2002. It was pretty late on a Friday night and when we pulled into the beer distributor, they were about to close. We convinced them we knew what we wanted and would only be 5 mins. We ran to look for what ever it was that we wanted (this was before my homebrew days so who knows what I "thought" was good beer) Anyway, we can't find enough cold beer. The fridges are almost empty as it is a Friday night. We thought we would need one more case of beer but wanted it cold. The only option was Bud Dry........there was a reason it was the only beer left in the fridge. I had a hard time choking it down even after a few other beers. We ended up giving it away to some recent high school graduates who partying for senior week.

Now, I prefer dry(er) beers but for the longest time I shied away from any beer labeled or described as dry because of the memory of Bud Dry

 

[humann_brewing]

For me it was Pete's Strawberry blonde. My friends decided to get some cigars and try a new beer while sneaking out to the track to have them since we couldn't really do it in the on campus apartments.

Anyways, I don't recall finishing the beer, it was horrible.

 

[elkdog]

For me it was Pete's Strawberry blonde. My friends decided to get some cigars and try a new beer while sneaking out to the track to have them since we couldn't really do it in the on campus apartments.

Anyways, I don't recall finishing the beer, it was horrible.

Pete's Winter Brew. I like most Pete's products, and I like winter warmers a lot, so I was excited about this one. I had just tried Red Hook's Winterhook, and loved it. Nowhere on the Pete's package did they bother to mention the fact that there were raspberries in the beer. Nutmeg too, I think. Not cool.

 

[wildwest450]

Earthquake Lager!! 12% in a 24oz can. Why did I do it, $1.50, that's why.
I followed it with a sixer of Sweetwater 420 Ipa. That made for one poopy headache the next morning.


The earthquake is on the right. Avoid this beer at all costs.

 

[PseudoChef]

Earthquake Lager!! 12% in a 24oz can. Why did I do it, $1.50, that's why.
I followed it with a sixer of Sweetwater 420 Ipa. That made for one poopy headache the next morning.


The earthquake is on the right. Avoid this beer at all costs.

The other groomsmen of my brother's wedding dared me to chug something very similar to that the morning of his wedding. It was only 10%, IIRC. I didn't notice the abv until after the chug though. Oops.

 

[thomasrj]

Awful, vile stuff that is. Tastes like regurgitated seafood bisque, straight up. Split a four-pack with a buddy one night, and poured 90% down the drain.

 

[Dwain]

Well, this was not beer, it was wine. I went to college in Louisiana for a couple of semesters. We would buy Thunderbird, drink a little out of the neck and then add a package of red Kool-aid. I mean the old school stuff that was straight powder. I can still taste it.

 

[HoppyDaze]

warm Mickeys at a frat party after getting blue balled by a hottie. Lots of rubbing and sharing, but not worth the ******, hold your tongue, I want to put my fist through your head, wow that's what you guys think is cool?- really, that's what chicks tolerate to say they banged this dude from alpha mega sig trash frat? I think I'll go to the bar

I ended up disposing of said "beer" on the kitchen floor on my way out...