Worst Commercial Beer You've Ever Had?

[paperairplane]

Golden Anniversary - made by Genessee. Used to be $1.99 a 6 pack. Get a pack of "Jacks" cigarettes from Sheetz for $.99, got your party for under $3. (circa 1992)

 

[chisena]

Two words. Big flats. Couple bucks for a sixer at Walgreen's. It's their house brand!

Can't beat Big Flats at the pool on a scorching hot day in Texas [emoji123]

 

[1977Brewer]

Can't beat Big Flats at the pool on a scorching hot day in Texas [emoji123]

You absolutely can. With literally any other beer.

 

[dsaavedra]

Probably would have to go with Natty Daddy or as my friends like to call them, Nasty Daddies. Steel Reserve 211 comes in close second.

 

[Paradigm]

This is my favorite example because it generates such a response... But I had the red-wax Dark Lord (I think it was 2012) with 3 of my friends. We traded a bottle of Juicy for it. It was awful. I love big-ass alcoholic stouts. One of my all time favorite beers is BCBCS. This was pure syrup. All of us hated it. We poured it out and lamented the loss of a bottle of Juicy.

 

[shanecb]

This is my favorite example because it generates such a response... But I had the red-wax Dark Lord (I think it was 2012) with 3 of my friends. We traded a bottle of Juicy for it. It was awful. I love big-ass alcoholic stouts. One of my all time favorite beers is BCBCS. This was pure syrup. All of us hated it. We poured it out and lamented the loss of a bottle of Juicy.

I think Dark Lord is EXTREMELY overrated, personally.

 

[drainbamage]

I think Dark Lord is EXTREMELY overrated, personally.

Agreed. It's nowhere near "bad", but it's mostly fueled by the scarcity and hype.

 

[shanecb]

Agreed. It's nowhere near "bad", but it's mostly fueled by the scarcity and hype.

100% agree. It's not a bad beer but it's nothing totally world class, I think.

But the hype/event around it is kind of fun I guess, so it is what it is

 

[Paradigm]

I hate to disagree, but it was bad. Nothing redeeming about it besides the alcohol. I've read many reviews of this particular vintage, and it's definitely considered the worst of the bunch, but nothing as bad as I describe.

I can only assume it was a bad bottle or someone hoodwinked me, because it was undrinkable.

A friend of mine has I think 3 different years stored up, I think. Might do a vertical. Maybe it'll redeem it in my eyes; we'll see.

 

[shanecb]

I hate to disagree, but it was bad. Nothing redeeming about it besides the alcohol. I've read many reviews of this particular vintage, and it's definitely considered the worst of the bunch, but nothing as bad as I describe.

I can only assume it was a bad bottle or someone hoodwinked me, because it was undrinkable.

A friend of mine has I think 3 different years stored up, I think. Might do a vertical. Maybe it'll redeem it in my eyes; we'll see.

To each their own! Maybe it was just a bad year/bottle you'd had. I wouldn't go out of my way to get it again, but I thought it an average, decent beer.

 

[hunter_le five]

You absolutely can. With literally any other beer.

This.

Bought it once for sh!ts and giggles a few months ago. Tasted turrible and drinking just 4 of them gave me a hangover.

I have no qualms about drinking cheap macrolager from time to time, but I aint buying that crap again, no matter how cheap it is.

 

[zippybasher]

#1 has to be YETI Beer, Couldn't even finish half the bottle with my brother. Disgusting Indian crap.

AND I hate to say this but STONE Green Tea IPA was HORRIBLE! Tried at winter brew fest and I had to dump it, so did 2 of my 3 friends. Nasty Bile tasting IPA, YUCK

 

[Roscoebrewdog]

Pigs Eye-Minnesota peeps know what I'm talking about.

 

[normonster]

Old Chub...whatever the hell it was. Free from a coworker....apparently she wanted me to die...lol

 

[drainbamage]

AND I hate to say this but STONE Green Tea IPA was HORRIBLE! Tried at winter brew fest and I had to dump it, so did 2 of my 3 friends. Nasty Bile tasting IPA, YUCK

Old Chub...whatever the hell it was. Free from a coworker....apparently she wanted me to die...lol

Srsly? I should be so lucky that those were the worst beers I ever had.

 

[jimdkc]

Worst? Gotta be Camo...

 

[jimdkc]

Worst? Gotta be Camo...

OK... I thought of one I had just recently that may actually be worse than Camo:

New Belgium and 3 Floyds collaboration Lips of Faith Series Grätzer...

Sour... smoked... (both of which I usually like!) near-dead style from Poland. There are some styles of beer that should be allowed to die!

http://www.newbelgium.com/beer/detail.aspx?id=bda75e42-8a28-4f2b-860e-9fa40938b877

I bought 2 bombers of this... Have no idea what I'm going to do with the other one...

 

[uatuba]

I want to update my previous comment to say: anything from Lazy Magnolia. They just need to shut down.

 

[chisena]

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.

I crushed a fouty of Steel Reserve a while back. I was already half in the bag and I remember thinking, "this stuff isn't that bad"...

 

[hunter_le five]

I crushed a fouty of Steel Reserve a while back. I was already half in the bag and I remember thinking, "this stuff isn't that bad"...

SR is foul stuff. I'm an Olde English man. Edward Forty-Hands, anyone?

 

[chisena]

SR is foul stuff. I'm an Olde English man. Edward Forty-Hands, anyone?

Maybe it was OE I was thinking of... Therein lies the problem.

 

[1977Brewer]

OE and Mickeys taste like beer. The rest taste like...not beer.

 

[djonesax]

The only "commercial" beer I have ever actually gagged on is Tequeza, and a close second in the terrible category is Bud Light Lime. You can imagine how amused I was when I saw this, looking for a picture of Tequeza.

 

[Kharnynb]

bud lime light was once described to me as follows:
take a bad cheap light beer, now add "ajax lime" dishwashing liquid.

I decided against ever bothering to find that "beer"

 

[treacheroustexan]

High school days.. 5 years ago haha. We drank a lot of busch light, natty light and four lokos (the originals). But the worst beer I have ever had was Bürger Light. But for 5.99 for a 12 pack we drank it... a lot. Maybe I would like it now, but let's not even try. But other than beer, we drank a lot of Old Dan Tucker that we would get from walmart and then a few bottles at a time of generic 105 proof and bacardi 151.

Though to this day, not all "cheap" beer is bad. I still drink strohs, sometimes pbr and rolling rock. Those are my go to brews when I am just in the mood to pound a few.

 

[slym2none]

Moosehead.

I might have posted this before. If so, pardons.

If not... yeah. Moosehead. Bitter pisswasser.

 

[beerme70]

I'm not going to sift through all the posts to see if someone has already mentioned it, but my vote for worst commercial beer has got to be Bud. Gray water, at best. I would be remiss if I didn't give a nasty beer honorable mention to Dogfishhead 90 minute and 120 minute IPA.

 

[gometz]

The only "commercial" beer I have ever actually gagged on is Tequeza, and a close second in the terrible category is Bud Light Lime. You can imagine how amused I was when I saw this, looking for a picture of Tequeza.

Budweiser is trying to trick people with Oculto. It claims it is made by Broken Barrel Brewing Company in Houston, TX AND WIlliamsburg, VA (pretty much a dead giveaway that there are two breweries). Essentially the exact same thing as Tequiza (which I had forgotten about until now).

 

[gometz]

OK... I thought of one I had just recently that may actually be worse than Camo:

New Belgium and 3 Floyds collaboration Lips of Faith Series Grätzer...

Sour... smoked... (both of which I usually like!) near-dead style from Poland. There are some styles of beer that should be allowed to die!

http://www.newbelgium.com/beer/detail.aspx?id=bda75e42-8a28-4f2b-860e-9fa40938b877

I bought 2 bombers of this... Have no idea what I'm going to do with the other one...

I actually really liked the Graetzer. Theirs is not traditional in that it is dark and roasty from what I understand (thought their idea may have been to recreate the old way of malting).

I think wheat beers go really well with smoke and roast for some reason...

 

[gometz]

Red Dog. Tried it for nostalgia a couple years back, horrible idea. Couldn't believe that they still brewed it, or maybe it was left over from 1992...

Had a Steel Reserve for nostalgic reasons on the way to New Orleans for my bachelor party two months ago. I regret nothing (but it was terrible). I was hungover and drinking in the back seat of a Police Interceptor (decommissioned) at noon.