Worst Commercial Beer You've Ever Had?

[mvdilts]

Agree with most of the BMC but Leinenkugel Summer Shandy is at the top of my list at the moment.

 

[zanemoseley]

Knoxville Brewing Company's Pale Ale. I bought a six pack and definitely not right. When you popped off the cap it spewed everywhere as if it were shaken up but wasn't. Then if I remember it has some nasty metallic taste. Definitely the worst pale ale I've ever had, probably the worst beer, I would have easily traded it for a sixer of Natty.

 

[BrewThruYou]

Agree with most of the BMC but Leinenkugel Summer Shandy is at the top of my list at the moment.

That thing can barely be called a beer since it's a lemonade/beer concoction.

I liked some of the beers that you guys named as bad (Sea Dog Blueberry, Pacifico, etc.).

I'll also second the Leinenkugel's Berry Weiss and Sam Adams Cherry Wheat. However, I do have to say that I had Cherry Wheat many many years ago and thought it was good. Then, I tried it again maybe 3 years ago and it was the sweetest tasting thing I ever had...and it was terrible. Maybe they changed the recipe...I dunno...but it was nothing like I remembered.

 

[elpenoso]

Sierra Nevada just had a cask blonde dry hopped with red peppers. Nasty stuff.

 

[Scubbastv]

A few years ago, I tried a holiday (Christmas) ale at Applebees. I don't remember whose it was but it tasted like sucking on a pine cone.

 

[Butcher]

Lone star beer. I think they use urine from genuine Texas longhorns to brew that stuff.

 

[cenla]

65 posts and no one's mentioned Tequiza. Nasty beer. I hope none of you have tried it.

...the mere scent of Mickey's makes me gag.

+1000. and Beast ICE. the thought of either makes me cringe. ah college.

Michelob ultra. May god rot their souls.

yep.

 

[Brewmiser]

Old German, We would use it for beer battered fish. It was the cheapist beer we could find that & the one with the white label that said Beer (yes, that was it just like the old generic foods)

 

[WildGingerBrewing]

The absolute worst beer I have ever tasted is, without a doubt, Dixie Blackened Voodoo Lager. Two sips and threw the entire 6-pack out the window. I have never, and probably will never, taste anything that horrible ever again! Still sends shivers down my spine!

 

[Valcarde]

I tried some kind of St Peters Ale.

It tasted sour. Worst beer I've had so far, but I've not had much exploration yet

 

[MaineLotus]

Aecht Schlenkerla Maerzen Smokebeer - absolutely disguisting. First beer I've tried that I could not finish.

 

[scottieo2]

Natty Ice in college...luckily after 5 or 6 I couldn't taste anything.

Lately had a Hooker Watermelon Ale that was undrinkable. I rarely throw out beer but I couldn't stomach more than a few sips of this. Good smell, bland taste, horrible, soapy finish.

 

[jordanpace]

I'm surprised to see so many well known main stream beers being posted as the "worse" beer someone has ever had.

It seems that it is almost required to list a macro brew for it to be bad.

BMC, Lonestar, Corona, etc. are not THAT bad.

Maybe its just living in a country with a very very very limited beer selection (Budweiser, Heineken, Stella, Brahama and Quilmes) makes me appreciate these "bad" beers.

I can always drink a BMC and be satisfied and enjoy it, where as I have had a few micros that, after one sip, I had to pour it down the drain (Otro Mundo Golden Ale, Antares Kolsch, Barba Roja)

 

[steinsato]

One of the only 6 packs I've ever bought and could not finish was Rio Grande Brewing Co.'s Green Chile Ale. I know quite a few people who bought 6 packs of this stuff thinking it would be a nice change of pace. They'd drink one and then couldn't give the other 5 away.

 

[robertbartsch]

Bud light, Bud, Coors, Coors Light .....this stuff tastes like pis$ to me.

 

[alaskanmoosehunter]

Maybe not the worst I've ever had, but what sticks in my mind as the worst is Schmidt aka Animal Beer. I remember it was about $3-4 a 12-pack. Not good beer.

When I was a teenager in Montana I use to rumble through my Dad's recliner. I could usually find enough money to buy a 12 pack. Schmidt Beer...Lots of memories drinkin' that stuff.

 

[franklinswheat]

Red Stripe, O V splits, or Miller High Life.. out in schdy ny where i live they have this stuff call hurricane.. its like high test steel reserve.. awful

 

[NortheasternPJ]

Genesee "Genny" Lite. Ugh.

Sam Adams Light

I wish I was you. I'm no fan of Sam Light but the worst beer? Jesus. I can think of 30 I'd rather never have again over a Sam Light.

For "Microbrews" (if you consider Harpoon one) then Winter Warmer in a run away. God that stuff is awful. Sam Adams Cranberry Lambic isn't far behind either. We used to get the "holiday pack" and I found in basement 3 years later some Cranberry Lambic, I literally couldn't give it away.

 

[C3Candy]

Damn, Just after I bought a 12 pack of Samuel Adams Coastal wheat beer I read this thread and i have to agree this beer is terrible!! I wouldn't even call it lawn mowing beer like some of you mentioned

To add to the list i cant stand Samuel Adams Black berry wheat beer either.

 

[grathan]

Does NA beers count? Coors Cutter was pretty wretched.

 

[a10t2]

By far "Buffalo Sweat Stout" (on tap) by Tallgrass Brewing Company and I'm a stout drinker.

I picked up a four-pack of Buffalo Sweat cans in AR recently. Really tasty; I suspect you had a bad keg.

I've tried four different beers from Atwater Block out of Detroit, and they were all massively contaminated (funky and "gushers").

 

[NortheasternPJ]

Damn, Just after I bought a 12 pack of Samuel Adams Coastal wheat beer I read this thread and i have to agree this beer is terrible!! I wouldn't even call it lawn mowing beer like some of you mentioned

Nothing like going to a bar that has Bud, Bud Light, Heineken, Amstel, Sam Summer and Sam Coastal Wheat! So many to choose from!

 

[JKoravos]

Seems like a lot of people are just posting styles they don't like, such as BMC and fruit beers, or beers that were infected. For me the worst beers are the ones that try to be one thing but miss the mark by a mile. There was one experience I had that really sticks out in my mind. I bought a mixed 12-pk from River Horse brewing. Every one of the beers tasted the same, though they were drastically different styles. They were bland as hell and just poorly made. Not surprisingly, they went out of business/were bought out shortly after that. That beer was putrid.

The worst tasting beer I've had is Sam Adams Triple Bock, but at least I can give them some credit because they were trying to produce something different and unique. I couldn't take more than two sips, though.

 

[bilder]

Not sure if it can be called beer, but Colt 45 is horrible stuff.

 

[lumpher]

killians irish red is nasty. where's the flavor? it's way off style; no malt, no hops, bad yeast. 20 years ago i thought it was good stuff, so maybe my tastes changed, or maybe it did. i think both...

 

[completegeek]

Coors Light

Had it at a Football game recently and I thought it might as well be water for all the flavor it had.

 

[HickoryMike]

I don't care for Magic Hat at all. I have never finished one of their beers.

 

[Jenks829]

.....There was one experience I had that really sticks out in my mind. I bought a mixed 12-pk from River Horse brewing. Every one of the beers tasted the same, though they were drastically different styles. They were bland as hell and just poorly made. Not surprisingly, they went out of business/were bought out shortly after that. That beer was putrid.

This breaks my heart! Are you speaking of River Horse Brewing Company in Lambertville, New Jersey? This is one of my favorite breweries.

 

[bniesen]

I can stomach BMC alright. The worst I'va had recently was Capital Brewery (out of Middleton WI) Supper Club. I thought it tasted like they used the cheapest malt and dirty hops. The only way I would ever drink it again would be at a food pairing.

 

[motobrewer]

i thought supper club was alright. cheap malt, dirty hops? i donno about that. heavy corn, that's for sure, maybe that's what you're tasting?

one pilsner i didn't care for at all is lakefront's local acre. "Imperial Pilsner", wasn't very good.