Worst Commercial Beer You've Ever Had?

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Billy Beer.

I still have two unopened cans of that crap. Only been in the can for 30+ years. Wonder if it's still fresh?

PTN

I think you need to do a tasting and give us a full report!:cross:

 

[WiseEyes]

ONE, TWO, THREE,
FOUR LOCO

THis is the absolute worst beverage ever concocted by man.....12% alcohol as much caffeine as a pot of coffee and in robutussen like flavorings of grape watermelon, fruit punch and so on this beverage would be bad served in a 1 oz dixie cup but to add insult to injury it is served in 24 oz can. Only a sado masochist would ever drink this malt liquor twice

 

[ndhoffma]

ONE, TWO, THREE,
FOUR LOCO

THis is the absolute worst beverage ever concocted by man.....12% alcohol as much caffeine as a pot of coffee and in robutussen like flavorings of grape watermelon, fruit punch and so on this beverage would be bad served in a 1 oz dixie cup but to add insult to injury it is served in 24 oz can. Only a sado masochist would ever drink this malt liquor twice

Same here... no wonder its being banned in some places

It was the only booze that was around (at a friend's) & I was also tired, so figured Id give it a try

 

[knotquiteawake]

Same here... no wonder its being banned in some places

It was the only booze that was around (at a friend's) & I was also tired, so figured Id give it a try

Ha! I bet that chick from the Beer Wars movie and her "Moon Shot" beer are pretty much done for now. So much for her great idea.

 

[Skarekrough]

About ten years ago I ended up the guest at a fairly upscale wedding happening on Long Island. As we'd traveled a bit to get there and were showing up the day before we were invited to the rehearsal dinner at the brides parents place.

By place I mean "mansion."

And by "rehearsal dinner" I mean catered event with more Lobsters than I have ever seen in one place at one time.

Now, I like lobster. Well, that's not quite right. I say I "like" lobster to convince myself that I don't like it more than I really do and start craving some. In short I have the genes for a serious lobster addiction, but not the wallet.

So, as I'm settling in with my ginormous lobster, my butter, a bib and some shell crackers the waiter swings by and asks me what I would like to drink. A VERY good question!

"What do you have for beer?"
"Bud."

*insert uncomfortable silence here*

...and that was it. If I wanted beer I was drinking Bud.

So there I was with my lobster and a Bud. It wasn't as much that it was a bad combo but it just seemed completely out of place.

The next day the bar at the wedding reception was opened and stocked a little more appropriately.

 

[stanotmano14]

Liberty Street Brewing Company, any of their beer. Quay Street in Port Huron's IPA ranks # 1 though. Didn't even taste like beer.

 

[krisagon]

I had a Sam Adams Cranberry Winter Ale some years back and it was not all that great, I even dumped a couple of them and gave the rest to my not so good friends

I must admit though Sam Adams kind of redeemed themselves with me on their new Oktoberfest, a traditional Oktoberfest and it is a really good one.

Yeah, I'm 50/50 on Boston Beer myself. I usually get their sampler pack for my family to drink during the holidays.
Oddly enough, the Cherry Wheat (gross) remained untouched, even among my BMC drinking cousins.

I do love their Oktoberfest, Winter Ale, and Honey Porter though. Them's good.

 

[Frank99]

Simpler Times six pack sold at Trader Joes for $2.99.
Definitely got what I paid for !

 

[Ben_Persitz]

For me, it was probably Rogue Chipotle Ale - just way over the top chile flavor, blech!

I liked this beer.

Worst beer I've ever had is a tough one.

It wasn't bad per se, but I do not like North Coast's Old Stock ale. Just a bit too much for me. Tasted like I was drinking whiskey (not what I'm looking for in a beer)

 

[brewtus_]

Back in college in the late 80's I tried Wiedeman's. It was less than $4 a case. I still remember 23+ years later that horrible taste. Olympia was a close 2nd.

 

[rjwhite41]

In the midwest we have gas stations named Kum n Go and they have a private label malt liquor named Hiland Reserve. It is the nastiest "beer" I have tasted in my entire life.

 

[Righlander]

Magic Hat #9 = Putrid

 

[LuckyRVA]

Simpler Times six pack sold at Trader Joes for $2.99.
Definitely got what I paid for !

I've seen this at Trader Joe's. The packaging and price point seemed enough to deter me, but I'm sure I would have tried it eventually. Thanks for the heads up. :cross:

 

[drathbone]

I saw it posted earlier - Earthquake 12.0% ABV High Gravity Lager. $.99 at Sheetz in Southwest VA. Nasty stuff, but you can't beat ~6 beers worth of a quick buzz for less than a buck

 

[sunblock]

What : Steel reserve 9.x% ABV

Why : hmm I'm sure its gross but I wonder .. its only $1.50 wtf

Result : must be the nastiest beer on the planet.

 

[Brewdouche-RuBrew]

14 year old bottle of....

"Old Frothenslosh"

I was 12, and I just couldnt resist after I found it in my grandparents basement.

 

[spookman]

Unibroue's Quelque Chose. It tastes like regurgitated cherry cough syrup. It was so bad I actually felt GOOD pouring 21ozs into my sink.

Edit: Story behind it? Not much of one. My brother had a few 22s of various Unibroues in his house and pawned a few off on me. Took 2 sips of this and said bon voyage to this travesty of a beer.

 

[bobida]

i just visited my parents in Philly. While there were a variety of excellent Victory ales in the fridge, they quickly disappeared with multiple drinkers. By the end of the night we were into Coors Light special marked for the Superbowl. I should have known....there was a layer of dusty fuzz on the tops as it came out of the fridge. ok, i'll rinse and wipe the top. nothing could prepare me for the hideous flavor to pour from the can. after some half drunk interpretation of super bowl roman numerals we deciphered that this batch was from 1999. it was 2010 when we drank it. just plain wrong. i think i just threw up in my mouth recalling this story.

 

[Punx Clever]

Ha! I bet that chick from the Beer Wars movie and her "Moon Shot" beer are pretty much done for now. So much for her great idea.

Yup.
http://www.moonshotbeer.com/Moonshotbeer.com/All_Systems_Go.html

 

[curlyfat]

I grew up on Schaefer's. My dad always bought it in 40s. I think he liked it because it was the same as our last name (and "it's spelled right"). About 5 years ago I saw some in a store and bought a 12er on a nostalgic whim. Holy crap that was awful! My dad still whines that he can't find it anymore in his small town....and this is the man that introduced me to craft beer at the age of 16ish. Weird.

 

[Justibone]

One time, as kids, we were wandering through the woods and stumbled on the "mother lode"... it was hardcore porn (no Internet in the eighties) and four cans of High Life. The cans were so old the paint on the can had started to fade, but the porn had been protected by a plastic bag so it was still good. The beer, sad to say, was completely consumed. I remember it tasting something like water on top, and mud towards the bottom of the can. That was all we could get, though, so we "enjoyed" it.

I like Heineken, but only in the 12-pack bottles. I don't generally enjoy beer from a can, and the six packs are always skunked. The 12-packs are light-protected b/c they are fully enclosed by cardboard. When we go golfing I buy the Heine's mini-keg-cans, though, b/c that's what they sell at the course.

Best Heineken I ever had: in Schip-something airport, Amsterdam, rushing to catch our flight to Turkey. Good times, good times.

The worst liquor I ever drank was made from fermented eggs. I bought two bottles as souvenirs on that same trip for my brothers. They were literally *afraid* to open the bottles. :cross:

 

[jfr1111]

A few years (and pounds) ago, I was part of my university's ski team and pretty much every weekend, we would get druck as crap before the race at seedy bars. Every team acted this way, so it was like steroids, in reverse. We would check in at the hotel, wax our skis and pick up either a few 1.18L bottles of Wildcat 10% or Colt .45, drink that, and hit the dancefloor. Nothing better than getting up at 6:00 AM in the morning, hungover and bloated, to wear spandex in 0F weather.

 

[Daybis]

Coors Light. Went to a friends wedding. He had some red brick, but they put them in this gigantic cooler first. They then put budlight and Coors Light on top of those. I dove in and spent like 5 minutes pulling beer after beer out of it... I could never find the red bricks, so I gave up and just grabbed a Coors. It was hot out and I just wanted a cold beer, so I was like "what the heck, I'll give it a try". Needless to say, I went home not longer after and opened a homebrew to wash the fizzy yellow taste out of my mouth.

 

[KMKsuburbannoise]

The worst beer I ever had was a Dogfish Head. Yes, it was horrible. It was one of their beers that had an extreme ABV and was like 10 or 15 bucks for a 12oz. I got it because I heard how strong it was. It was like drinking hard liquor.

 

[Justibone]

I went to a brewpub Sat. night and ordered a New Castle, not that it's the worst beer in the world, but they were giving away beer glasses with the New Castle and I didn't have that style of glass. I asked SWMBO to order one, too... so we could have the matched pair.

After that I ordered a Dogfish Head strong Belgian ale, something with "Monk" in the name. I thought it was awesome, but I could only drink it in sips because the aroma was such a critical part of the flavor.

 

[bknifefight]

The worst beer I ever had was a Dogfish Head. Yes, it was horrible. It was one of their beers that had an extreme ABV and was like 10 or 15 bucks for a 12oz. I got it because I heard how strong it was. It was like drinking hard liquor.

You bought a beer because you heard how strong it was and are complaining that it was too strong? haha

 

[KMKsuburbannoise]

You bought a beer because you heard how strong it was and are complaining that it was too strong? haha

i was expecting it to be tollerable. I have had strong beers and was just fine with them. This one was like rubbing alcohol with hops.

 

[scrambledegg81]

I was writing for an online dance music "magazine" down in Mexicali, MX one night for a decently top-notch DJ of the time (about 2004 I think). A buddy decided to go with me to see what the fuss was about, and we both arrived at the venue around midnight, in the middle of a farmer's front lot (about 1 acre by 3/4 acre), prior to said DJ starting his set.

The promoter stumbles up to us both and shoves cups of god-knows-what-$hitty Mexican p!ss beer in our hands, yelling expletives in Spanish for all to hear. We both shrug it off, pound the noxious brew, and my friend has a nearly-immediate gut wrenching vomitous reaction to it. 10 minutes go by, and we're decently schnockered, so we head up to the bar setup and in the most horrible Spanglish I could muster, order 2 more.

The next 4 or 5 hours are about as mysterious as the whereabouts of Jimmy Hoffa and his beloved briefcase. All I know is it's almost 7 AM, the venue ends, people are leaving, and we're 2 white boys in the middle of Hillbillyland, Mexico with no car. We end up walking the nearly 9 miles north to the border, somehow pass off as respectable American citizens at the Border Patrol station, and crash out at a McDonald's nearby. We were thrown out about an hour or 2 later by the McD manager.

I should note that it was only thanks to an extremely courteous stagehand that I didn't start trekking off without my work laptop which was still sitting on stage.

I want to find out what that brew was.

 

[TANSTAAFB]

Oly Gold Light. Like Olympia wasn't bad enough. I worked as a plumbers helper for a cantankerous old fart who started drinking it first thing in the morning and drank it all day...until he could get home and start mixing drinks. Over 5 years I think I tried it 3-4 times when we were out on a BFE job site and I ran out of EVERYTHING else to drink. I never got all the way through a can. I did turn him on to Guinness...that was pretty funny to watch...he could drink a case of OGL but 2 Guinness Big Boppers and he was pissed

 

[bknifefight]

i was expecting it to be tollerable. I have had strong beers and was just fine with them. This one was like rubbing alcohol with hops.

I know this is totally off topic and pointless but you didn't say something like "I bought it because the description on the bottle sounded good" or "I bought it because I enjoy the style." You said you bought it because you heard how high the ABV was. That's a bad criteria to buy a beer and then complain about it. In college we bought a case of CAMO 16 oz cans. They tasted like ****, but we bought them because they were 9% ABV. We understood the mess we were getting into. Anyways, which DFH brew was it?