Worst Commercial Beer You've Ever Had?

[LexxTalon]

Steel Reserve 221 hands down... we all had one in memory of my brother's friend who was killed in Iraq(who drank them pretty regularly)... man... that was the most conflicting moment of my adult life... cause I couldn't just spit it out... like drinking straight mercury... and I'm pretty sure it sat in my stomach for like 3 days... lol!

Also... a friend picked up a 6 er of Wild Blue to try... and yeh... ended up buying a Dead Guy to wash it down... we gave the other 4 to a homeless guy... and he started cursing at us. You know it's bad when the homeless guy who smells of sewage and hasn't brushed his teeth in a year can't stand the taste of it...

 

[Jota21]

I actually like the cave creek chili beer. Spicy! I want to try something similar with some homegrown peppers. You don't need Tabasco on your pizza with that beer!

I got a bottle of that for x-mas. My brother and his girlfriend got me and SWMBO a case of mix/match bottles. We lined them all up on the counter and had a draft (no pun intended) to pick 12 for each of us. The chili beer was picked dead last, by me, and it took me about a month to work up the courage to try it.

It is the only beer that i've ever poured down the drain. I could only choke down half a sip... Glad someone likes it though!

 

[Gameface]

Tiger Beer in Singapore and Malaysia.

 

[Refly]

Tiger Beer in Singapore and Malaysia.

It's probably in my bottom five or for this thread I guess my top 5. One of the few beers that the more you drink the worse it gets. I avoid it at all costs when in Singapore. It doesn't help that the locals talk about it being made with formaldehyde which sounds like a bit of an urban legend but it is totally believable after having some.

Rounding out the worst for me - Meisterbrau in a can. Awful when fresh, but my father in law had to keep it stored in his garage where the temperature in the summer would exceed 100 degrees. The single redeeming feature was that it was ridiculously cheap. I thought it couldn't get worse but they were trailblazers and jumped on the light beer bandwagon early and introduced Meisterbrau light. Mercifully, I don't think they are in business anymore.

 

[Mike_A]

Old Style is the only beer I will adamantly refuse to drink. Everything else I can at least stomach.

 

[nickharbour]

Tiger Beer in Singapore and Malaysia.

tiger beer is still a much better option than many other non-exported beers in south east asia, though it normally costs more in the bars.

speaking of bad beers, Gary from homebrew TV just nearly gagged drinking Orange Blossom beer from Buckbean Brewery in his latest episode (#28).

 

[NorthRiverS]

Schmidt. . . . . . . . Tastes like ScHmIdT ! !

NRS

 

[maltbarleyhops]

Big Flats Premium Lager. seen this at Walgreens one night and thought id try a sixer for the hell of it.

if i was dehydrated, severly, i wouldnt waste the 2.99 a sixer.

i still have 3 in my fridge, i gave a couple to people that were pidsin and moaning about no "regular" beer in my fridge. they didnt even like it.

tastes exactly like seltzer water only with no aroma of any kind. maybe a bit of CO2 aroma.

 

[maltbarleyhops]

hoegaarden, f'in nastiness

 

[Conehead]

Laker Lager from Ontario. Horrible. Since there is a minimum price on beer in Ontario ( Price Fixing ) even lousy beer sells for a premium price. $26.40 a case. Start a brewery in Ontario, brew crap beer and get rich.

 

[broseph]

stroh's...that tears my inside apart every time.

 

[Bubba]

San Adams Pumpkin Ale it is one of the nastiest tasting brews I ever had.

 

[wooda2008]

Sam Adam's Noble Pils.

Maybe it was just a bad keg, but it tasted like somebody mixed rancid olive oil with a can of Bud

 

[bmckenzie]

mendocino brewing company blue heron pale ale,I am thinking about going out and licking my dog butt to get the taste out of my mouth. not just me, but also the wife and my nephew who is also a home brewer. yuck

 

[JefeTheVol]

Lienenkugels Sunset Wheat

 

[TacoBrew]

Wild Blue blueberry lager, hands down. It is the only beer I have not been able to finish. If I had realized it was a blueberry beer, I never would have bought one bottle, let alone a six pack. I've even tried to give it to ladies who like fruity drinks, and they've hated it too. It is NASTY.

I will second this. Absolutely the worst. Had about half a glass and handed off the six pack to someone with zero no taste buds.

 

[scubapoet]

National - Honduras. Man I would not give it to a lawer

 

[CousinDave]

Banks Beer off the coast of Saint Vincent during a tropical wave.
We even came up with a great tag line for a Banks Beer commercial.
"When you're having a really bad time, we have a really bad beer.
Banks Beer."

 

[edgeofblade]

I will second this. Absolutely the worst. Had about half a glass and handed off the six pack to someone with zero no taste buds.

I will third it. I can drink this ice cold and it's not bad, but give it a handful of degrees and it becomes foul tasting swill that wrecks any good taste in your mouth. However, I DO recommend using wild blue for beer bread. Sub in this unpalatable brew for another beer in a bread recipe and toss in a handful or two of frozen blueberries. That's better than having this beer toss your cookies.

 

[IceFisherChris]

WILD BLUE.
If you have said there is something worse, then I don't think you have ever had a Wild Blue.

 

[StMarcos]

Jalapeno beer from some brewery in moab utah. I think they are closed now, this was 12 years ago or so. Dumped it.

 

[Bruin]

The prose put forth by the homebrewers in this thread to describe their most reviled brew experience is nothing short of Stephen King eloquence. I really love seeing the new entries competing with the old. My face aches from smiling while I read some of the most original descriptions I have ever read. I mean,

I think it tasted better coming back up than it did going down.

Kind of says it all, lol.

 

[JonM]

Without question, it was this abomination called "Bicycle Beer." It was a beer/energy drink combo that was around back in the mid-90s. Bright screaming orange and tasted like, well, I guess I've blocked that memory out. It was so bad, my local liquor store gave a CASE away free with any purchase. That should have been my first clue that it'd be awful.

 

[BeerNut24]

Going "Old School" with this, Huber and Fox Deluxe. Both I believe are long gone, and for good reason.

 

[slawre5]

leinenkugels berry weiss- tastes like cheap sugary cereal

big flats the walgreens beer- tastes like fizzy water

 

[kinison_fan]

mendocino brewing company blue heron pale ale,I am thinking about going out and licking my dog butt to get the taste out of my mouth. not just me, but also the wife and my nephew who is also a home brewer. yuck

You're gonna make your wife and nephew lick the dog's butt? Good luck with that, my wife would fight like hell!
Plus, why pick on the nephew, especially if he's a homebrewer.

 

[tbel]

Going "Old School" with this, Huber and Fox Deluxe. Both I believe are long gone, and for good reason.

OH. I've never had Huber, but I clearly remember Fox Deluxe from a Rugby road trip back in '87'. We were about halfway between Marquette, MI and I believe we were headed to UW Stout. There were about 8 of us piled in the back of a pickup with a topper on it. We had finnished of a 1/4 barrel and stopped at the first bar we ccould find. That stuff cost us about 10cents a bottle but was definitely the worst I've ever had. I have no doubt it would have tasted better coming out of us.

 

[d2005]

Anything by San Tan Brewing in Gilbert, AZ. Last time we went there every single beer tasted like soap. This is probably because they are using excessive amounts of high protien malt and are leaving "carbon skeletons" in their brew. Gross!

 

[donshizzles]

Celis White

 

[user 70770]

Hands down the worse beer I've ever had was Pacifico. I don't know if I caught a bad bottle (this was a bbq at a friends house so I don't normally drink that stuff) or that stuff is just naturally vile, but I couldn't get through more than 1/3 of the bottle before tossing it. And that says a lot since I've been able to stomach some pretty nasty batches of homebrew I've made when I was starting.