Worst Commercial Beer You've Ever Had?

[vicratlhead51]

When I turned 21 I was really inexperienced and had no idea what was good and what wasn't. I bought this vanilla beer thinking itd be nice tasty drink. Turned out it was extremely bitter and not in a nice way. Nothing I ate or drank with it would make it even drinkable. I drank 3 and threw the other 3 out. Just couldn't put myself through it any longer

 

[brettwasbtd]

First time I got drunk - warm, and probably skunked, Amstel Light... so rough. Definitely not the beer drinkers light beer.

In college I drank Natty Light religiously (and still do on occassion as it holds a soft spot in my hear). I know everyone knocks the lighter beers, and I def enjoy more flavorful beers, but I will never forget the party I went to and drank a cup and was like "what is this crap?" It was Millwaukees best light... horrible, horrible, horrible beer. Also throw a nod to Sam Adams Cherry Wheat - that tasted like cough medicine.

 

[j1laskey]

Pete's Maple Porter and Genny's Summerbrew....How the FDA let these creatures slip by amazes me

 

[QuixoticDevice]

Back in my college years, me and my mates would always try to find terrible, <i>terrible</i> beverages, mainly for the novelty (but also because they tended to cost next to nothing). A lot went through that house: Milwaukee's Best (The BEAST!), Blue Diamond (It's everybody's best friend! It says so right on the can!), Black Labels, grenades full of Mickey's, and Steel City Lager just to name a few, but by far the worst calamity that some sadist thought to put in a can that ever passed my lips was Evil Eye Malt Liquor (Ojo malo!). I picked one up because of it's cheerful green can with the evil looking eyes. I realize now that the designer must have been trying to put the Mr. Yuck poison control logo on there, but had been killed by the malt liquor fumes half-way through...
When I cracked it back at the house, the first swig tasted like some sort industrial cleaning agent mixed with Chloroseptic spray. The second one went downhill from there. It quickly devolved into one of those, "This is terrible! You have to try it!" situations wherein everyone who came in HAD to take a swig. Even with more than a dozen seasoned terrible-beer-drinkers in the room we didn't even get half-way through the can. I finally poured it out for the homies that are no longer with us who I didn't like very much...

More recently, a buddy of mine tried to a make a hops-free beer (Gruit) for another friends wedding as the bride-to-be is allergic to hops. It was done in time for the wedding, but it never saw the light of day. He and I sampled it, and it went something like this:
*sip* "Ok, it tastes a little weird but not unpleasa..." *pause* "Oh god, that taste keeps going..." *pause* "What did I do to deserve this?!?" *pause* "I NEED TO CLEAN MY TONGUE WITH FIRE!!!"
So, not wanting to make any enemies, it was decided that the beer would be eliminated.

 

[pernox]

I like beer.

I like fancy beer that costs me $10 for a bomber. I like Chimay. I appreciate a good barleywine. I just got home from the store with some DFH 90 minute IPA and a sixer of Anchor Steam. And I like all my homebrew, so far.

I also like adjunct beer - Natty Ice, Keystone, Genessee, and the Narragansett I'm drinking out of the bottle right now. We used to party with 40's of Schlitz, because one of our buddies had a brother that worked at a package store (underage - just returns and cleaning, of course) and the owner would look the other way if he happened to bring home a case or two every so often. Know what? I liked it. I'd probably still like it today, for what it is.

...But this stuff - damn. All I could do to finish the sixer. It's like a questionable-quality pale ale, with a half-bottle of uber-sweet blueberry extract shat into each bottle by the brown-eye of Beelzebub himself.

I like their other beers - I've had a few of them. But this one? Just wow.

 

[GoldMiner]

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.

I remember the first time I had Carlsberg Elephant, my roommate and I picked up a case and we had the bright idea to have a beer before going to the library to study for the night.

Needless to say one thing led to another and we didn't make it to the library that night or class the next day.. or two.

As for the consensus worst beer Steel Reserve, after a bad day it's the perfect beer to have if you don't have anyplace to go.

 

[Ashz]

Two words...Crazy Horse.

 

[billy915]

There's a couple that come to mind. Let's see if I can remember the story behind them.

I guess the first one would be Mickeys. Back in my starting daysof drinking they were about $1 for a 40oz. Usually just one of those would last me all night, but a couple of friends of mine went to spring break one year in South Padre and both brought back beer bongs equiped for 2 people to bong it up at once. So we bought 3 40oz'ers and somehow managed to equip one of the bongs into a 3 hose system. So we uncapped one of the 40's and poured the whole freakin thing into the funnel. Needless to say we finished it fast but never did that again. We were bloated for the rest of the night.

Another one involves keystone ice. This was for my cousins high school graduation. I was the only one of age to buy beer and his friends gave very little cash for beer. I ended up buying a 30 pack of bud light and 3 30 packs of keystone ice. Of course the bud light went very fast and we were all forced to drink keystone. People told me I almost got into a fight with my cousin and was pretty annoying.woke up the next day in his couch with probably one of the worst headaches in my life. Oh, and did I mention his mom and dad showed up the next day early in the morning. His place smelled like beer, cigs, and who knows what else.

Last one would be busch. Me and my buddies would buy this stuff by the quarts and also beer bonged it a quart at a time per person. Long story short, we had a great time walked back to my buddies house and passed out. Only thing I didn't know was one of them needed a ride to work the next morning. I woke up, instantly felt sick and threw up nothing but bile! I haven't touched a busch beer since then

 

[wheatie]

Oh boy. I've had some bad beer in my day...it wasn't even til recently-ish that I knew what good beer was! (And by good beer, I mean Amber Bock and Killian's)

Steel Reserve and Mickey's come to mind for sure. Any ice beer is rotten. Red Dog? I remember people in high school that thought Red Dog was soooo cool because of the dog on the can. They still sell it around here, but I don't think anyone is buying! They also started selling 30 packs of this beer called "Beer". Or "Beer Light". I can only imagine how bad that crap tastes--it's cheaper than Busch!

And I'm not sure if this will get me banned, flamed, or whatever...but my hubby and I still like Miller High Life. Bottled only, though.

 

[FromZwolle]

honey almond light from a company called point. it sounded like a good combo of accent flavors for a light lager-wrong. it's like someone took a warm bud and melted a butterscotch disc from your grandma's purse into it. undrinkable.

 

[lurker18]

Minhas Creek. Beer for the people with out the cash for Lab Lite. Got a buzz on with the Lab Lite, Bud, Coors (I know, but at the time that is what we had). Ran out of the "good stuff" but didn't want to call it a night. Break out the Creek to keep the buzz on. Tastes a little off, but keep the buzz on. Getting a little head ache, must need more Creek. Sleepy now. Morning. RUN TO THE TOILET!!! Massive hershey squirts!!! All done, OOPS NOT YET!!! And again, and again. Didn't get more than 10 feet from the toilet for a couple of hours.

 

[DevilsCreekBrewing]

Yankee Jim Ice and Genuine Draft.

A few years ago, I stumbled across a website someone had set up for his friends. It was a challenge to drink 365 different beer in a year, you could sign up and it tracked for you. It ended up linked to Fark.com, got 1000s of new registrants, and he closed it down.

I however, was determined to drink 365 different beer that year. Please keep in mind that I live in Ontario Canada. We have the LCBO,which is as close to Victorian era control of alcohol as I have seen in the western world. This made it hard for me to get, as I couldn't just buy singles of things at say, Premier Gourmet. So, one evening I bought a six of both Yankee Jim Ice, and Genuine Draft. Managed to finish a can of each, poured the other 10 beer down the drain.

I called the brewery the next day to let them know how much I enjoyed their beer, and they kind of laughed, and said we know, it is contract brewed.

To top it off, I came up about 20 beer short for the year.

 

[Mikeh78]

Worse beer I remember having was Old English 800 back in high school, hey we were young and just wanted to get drunk. Talk about some nasty stuff..

 

[Bigeb]

When I was in the army we had a weekly tradition of buying 40 oz. of Schlitz Malt liquer for $1.10 (for each of us) before going out and getting tanked. For the life of me I can't figure out how my entire fire team came up with the idea of choking down 40 oz. of pure a$$

 

[KFH]

Worst beer ever?

Arrogant Bastard. It felt like my tongue was sexually violated by pine cones.

 

[Mischief_Brewing]

Worst beer ever?

Arrogant Bastard. It felt like my tongue was sexually violated by pine cones.

I somewhat agree, only because back before my homebrewing days, my roommate and I got a 15.5 keg of it. After a week and a half of blackouts and waking up groggily to a trashed house with several unrecognizable people sleeping on the floor, we couldn't bare to take another sip. We dumped at least a gallon down the drain.

Still can't drink the bastard...

 

[bh10]

Miller Chill and Keystone Light.

God, both of those beers are terrible, even when I was broke in college all I ever drank was Natty Light and being in South Georgia, everybody drank AB, no Coors or Miller. Once my girlfriend (now wife) who was at Auburn, me and a couple of my buddys drive to go visit/party for a footballl game, she does the nice thing and buys us 2 30packs, we had 1 each and went to the store to buy natty.

As for Miller Chill, me and the wife go to Lambeau Field for a Packer game in 07, the last game of the year so it was cold, not terrible, but a cool 16* w/ wind, so be buy some beer, so I finish my 12pk and start walking to the game. We see a huge Miller Chill semi trailer, with two tables in front of it with probably 2000 bottles of the stuff and there was nobody there besides the two beer girls serving, when I stay nobody I mean it not a soul. I walked up and asked what the deal was, they said "We're giving tastings, there free", so I was baffle and asked why nobody was taking advantage of this and why there wasnt a line or anything, which both said they didnt have a clue. So I grabbed as many as I could carry (now, Ive never heard of the stuff before). Me and the wife both have a sip and give each other the look of, did someone just take a dump in our mouths look (you guys know the one), so we go to the dumpster right next to the trailer and try to toss the 12 beers we grab in. No lie the damn thing was full of those Miller Chill bottles and it look like everyone was full. I had a good laugh about that.

 

[bkov]

sparks plus

wanted to try it but it tasted horrible. Turns out it doesnt even have caffiene anymore

 

[thisjrp4]

Dunnes Stores Lager. It's a department store in Ireland. Beer tastes like a 9V battery.

 

[Mermaid]

Some craft brewery I can't remember off the top of my head, brewed this porter made with oyster "juice".
Was out at a beer tasting at one of my favorite local package stores. Aieeee!! Had to taste a bunch of other stuff (and some wine) to wash away the taste. Thank the gods I didn't actually pay for the stuff.

Aside from that, the Natty Ice I (drunkenly) tasted at a party, has to be up there on the foul scale.

 

[GregR]

the first batch of mine that got infected. after seeing the thick fur coat on top I decided to bottle anyway. it was bad and continued to get worse. to prove a point to friends that even infected beer can't hurt you I would crack a bottle after showing them the film in the neck and take a swig or two. god that **** was horrible. worse than anything I have ever drank.

 

[northernlad]

The worst beer I have ever had is MGD.
I worked at a restaurant and, due to my job, drank more than a few beers on the house.
One day I decided to drink all the beers I said I never would to see if I was being an *******. Turns out Coors original is not a half bad beer, but MGD is the biggest waste of water on the planet.

 

[buffalobrewer]

tastes like somebody dunked a chicken wing in microwaved natty light.

 

[Bopper]

By far the worst I've had is a Heinekin "keg can" that had been rolling around in the trunk of my old Caddy (first car) for at least a week in the summer heat. I muscled through about 1/2 of it before I almost threw up.

 

[UnverrBrau]

I remember going to a friends house to celebrate a overdue birthday party *back when said buddy was still drinking of course* and while we had some nice beer to drink in the beginning we soon ran out * gasp I know* The birthday boy had some homebrew * from a kit he got at a hardware store that came along with generic yeast and your own plastic bottles to brew in how cool is that!!* But it was woefully to young and I told him to let it settle a bit more.

There was a few friends that were still late coming so we called them up to bring reinforcements for the few bottles of beer left we had. They came to the party with what must of been the evil axis powers of beer in tow. A pack of Colt 45, a couple of bottles of OE 800 and a few 40 oz bottles of what is probably the devil's curse on mankind " High gravity King Kobra" *dear god help us* I swear this stuff was like what runs through those critters blood in the movie "Aliens" and could burn its way through steel plate if you let it.A few games of quarters and a couple of bottle chugs later and the night got rather interesting is all I can say without going into too much detail. One that had me carrying people to the bathroom to give their offerings to the porcelain gods before I was called for my priestly duty.

The only thing that could of made that night worse was if someone had decided to bring over a bottle of wild turkey, I dont think any of us would of survived that one. I wish I could say that this is my only bad moment but I've got quite a few more epic tales to tell for another night, I do believe there is still that video of me chugging the 2L boot in under 1 minute somewhere out there *ugh*

 

[Jakeedaman21]

Warm keystone out of old dirty beerpong cups. By the end of the night I ended up trying to pick up girls by using thumb-war as an opener. It was bad...

 

[JebCkr]

Warm keystone out of old dirty beerpong cups. By the end of the night I ended up trying to pick up girls by using thumb-war as an opener. It was bad...

Did that inspire your Thumb War! Honey Ale?

 

[millworkman]

Magic Hat #9, tasted like bubble gum.

It was poured out of a gatorade cooler and was only 50 cents a piece.

 

[Jakeedaman21]

Did that inspire your Thumb War! Honey Ale?

Lol... unfortunately yes. Most of my brews are named after fairly embarrassing events in my past. Like my next one, will be named for the time I accidentally ripped open my friends knee with a Karambit. Ahhhhh... College >.>

 

[hal2814]

I was at the liquor store years ago and Red Brick put out a summer beer that was discounted down to $3 for a 6-pack. I thought, "$3 beer! How bad could it be?!" It was that bad. It tasted like a carbonated can of Lipton tea.

Heineken is an honorable mention. I've tried to drink that beer several times in my life and just never could enjoy it. I thought maybe it was because of skunky green bottles but even in the keg can and the new whiz-bang mini-kegs it still tastes awful to me.