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Lucky lager light is the only beer I couldn't finish after I opened it. I've been fortunate enough to not try most of the others here
Worst Commercial Beer You've Ever Had?
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Tried an Oculto 3.2 this weekend. "Beer blended with Blue Agave and aged on Tequila staves".
Seemed interesting. Never heard of any beer aged on wood used for tequila. I like tequila. I like beer.
Did NOT like this. Had a margerita like sweet/sour finish behind what tasted like fermented corn syrup. Smelled like a skunky Corona.
Seemed interesting. Never heard of any beer aged on wood used for tequila. I like tequila. I like beer.
Did NOT like this. Had a margerita like sweet/sour finish behind what tasted like fermented corn syrup. Smelled like a skunky Corona.
My exact thought when I saw that Occulto in the store was "Hmm, looks like Bud is trying to roll out Tequiza again." No thanks.
My bar was out of Yingling so I tried: Samuel Adams - Cold Snap. It was like sucking on an unripe grapefruit, I only got a quarter of the way through it and asked for a budwiser to wash the bad taste out of my mouth. I couldn't finish another beer after that. To me Beer and Fruit don't mix.
The bar dumped half the keg a few weeks later, because nobody would drink it.
The bar dumped half the keg a few weeks later, because nobody would drink it.
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Oklahoma is under a 2 strength system of regulation. Thus most often I am at a bottle shop to get beer. However, several local breweries have opted to make some 3.2% beers. This weekend I decided I wanted to stay with table beers. Put Goose Island IPA back to give this a try.
Not the worst commercial beer, but definitely a not-so-great interaction with a brewery (I won't name them unless someone really wants to know who).
It's a brewery out of Austin that mainly makes so-so beers. I tried their brown ale over the weekend while in Galveston and found it to be really harshly bitter. Like they had used hard water or the wrong kind of bittering hop. I was probably a little harsh with the rating on Untappd (gave it a 2.5*) and left a little comment saying that I thought it was too bitter. The next day I get a comment from them saying "The style is 'Texas Brown Ale', here is the history" (article with history of American Brown Ales linked).
I read the article and learned about the story that the American/Texas brown ale has its origins in homebrewing (apparently in Texas, but then commercially in California). Interesting read. But the thing is, I know about the style. I wasn't comparing it to an English Brown standard. Maybe my comment came off a glib and rude, but holy **** man, that's some bad PR making comments as rude as that to customers.
I have given a 0.5 star rating to a small brewery because it was just a nasty beer, then given another one of theirs a 4. I commented that it was the best by far from them and they responded saying "glad you found one you enjoyed, please keep drinking!". That to me sounded like a good PR work. Don't try to respond to negative comments sounding like you are going to lecture a consumer.
I also kind of had a bad taste in my mouth about this brewery ahead of time. Last year (or maybe 2 years ago) I went to a beer festival here in Houston. I recognized the head brewer by name behind their table. When I asked "hey, you're the owner and head brewer right?" I got a haughty "yea" and nothing else. I was excited and wanted to try more of their beers, but after that I felt like he had no interest in selling me anything or getting me interested. This guy has been part of the homebrew community for years, so I was excited to meet him and figured with his history he'd be great at it. Now I just have no interest in their beers anymore.
*My rating scale generally goes like this:
0-1: not worth drinking
1-2: flawed beer, would drink if it is the only thing available
2-3: has issues, wouldn't buy for a party or hanging out
3-4: no flaws, would buy as a drinking beer
4-4.5: technically no issues, but not my favorites
4.5-5: my favorites
I also try to only judge on style, not on what I like. In other words, I won't give every cream ale a rating less than 3 just because I am not a fan of the style.
It's a brewery out of Austin that mainly makes so-so beers. I tried their brown ale over the weekend while in Galveston and found it to be really harshly bitter. Like they had used hard water or the wrong kind of bittering hop. I was probably a little harsh with the rating on Untappd (gave it a 2.5*) and left a little comment saying that I thought it was too bitter. The next day I get a comment from them saying "The style is 'Texas Brown Ale', here is the history" (article with history of American Brown Ales linked).
I read the article and learned about the story that the American/Texas brown ale has its origins in homebrewing (apparently in Texas, but then commercially in California). Interesting read. But the thing is, I know about the style. I wasn't comparing it to an English Brown standard. Maybe my comment came off a glib and rude, but holy **** man, that's some bad PR making comments as rude as that to customers.
I have given a 0.5 star rating to a small brewery because it was just a nasty beer, then given another one of theirs a 4. I commented that it was the best by far from them and they responded saying "glad you found one you enjoyed, please keep drinking!". That to me sounded like a good PR work. Don't try to respond to negative comments sounding like you are going to lecture a consumer.
I also kind of had a bad taste in my mouth about this brewery ahead of time. Last year (or maybe 2 years ago) I went to a beer festival here in Houston. I recognized the head brewer by name behind their table. When I asked "hey, you're the owner and head brewer right?" I got a haughty "yea" and nothing else. I was excited and wanted to try more of their beers, but after that I felt like he had no interest in selling me anything or getting me interested. This guy has been part of the homebrew community for years, so I was excited to meet him and figured with his history he'd be great at it. Now I just have no interest in their beers anymore.
*My rating scale generally goes like this:
0-1: not worth drinking
1-2: flawed beer, would drink if it is the only thing available
2-3: has issues, wouldn't buy for a party or hanging out
3-4: no flaws, would buy as a drinking beer
4-4.5: technically no issues, but not my favorites
4.5-5: my favorites
I also try to only judge on style, not on what I like. In other words, I won't give every cream ale a rating less than 3 just because I am not a fan of the style.
jstringer1983
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I once bought a 6 dollar 12 pack from wal mart called josef haufbauer. It was made by anheuser busch and tasted distinctly like mushroom soup. I couldnt do it, 11 went down the drain
CreamyGoodness
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GARY! You Live!
New Belgium Snapshot, SN Hophunter. Take your choice.
drainbamage
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I wanted to hate Shock Top [Belgian White] but it was on sale so cheap today I bought a 12-pack just to try it. It is not as good as Hoegaarden, but it's better than most of the witbiers I've had.
Classic Gary.
He was such a punctuation hating scamp.
slym2none
"Lazy extract brewer."
Only beer I couldn`t finish was a rye beer with added black pepper. Couldn`t taste a thing except for overpowering pepper. Second would be a nut brown ale with nut flavor that tasted like nasty coffee hazelnut syrup, Brooklyn Brewery maybe?
If you can get a flqvor naturally from the beer reinforcing that flavor by adding adjuncts to turn it up to 11 makes it really easy to overdo it. Except chocolate stouts, those are generally at least OK.
If you can get a flqvor naturally from the beer reinforcing that flavor by adding adjuncts to turn it up to 11 makes it really easy to overdo it. Except chocolate stouts, those are generally at least OK.
drainbamage
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I tried a new contender this weekend. Goose Island Dunkel Buck. It was a brewpub-only offering. They listed it as a dunkelweizen, but it seemed completely off-style. The color was about right, but the flavor was thin and vaguely metallic, with hardly any banana/clove esters. Also, it smelled like they dry-hopped with moldy gym socks.
I gave them a fair chance in spite of being owned by the "Evil Empire" (and everything else I tried was decent to good), but sweet Jeebus, that one was bad. I didn't see any other horrible reactions to it online--aside from just calling it boring--so the keg must have been going bad.
I gave them a fair chance in spite of being owned by the "Evil Empire" (and everything else I tried was decent to good), but sweet Jeebus, that one was bad. I didn't see any other horrible reactions to it online--aside from just calling it boring--so the keg must have been going bad.
That's bad, you can fix a bad recipe, even a bad idea, but once they go lax on tap hygiene, there usually is a fast downfall ahead....
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This Shiner was absolutely horrible, like drinking semi sweet chocolate.
This Shiner was absolutely horrible, like drinking semi sweet chocolate.
Miyoshinum5
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I had my new worst beer last night. I figured I'd give Blue Moon's white IPA a chance and not write it off just because it's Blue Moon, never again... Just nasty, no discernible hop flavor, fake orange/citrus taste, overly strong wheaty flavor.
frettfreak
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As much as i HATE to admit it... Ballast Point - Indra Kunindra. its an "inda export stout" brewed with Curry and spices. I LOVE almost everything BP does but this was a dumper. BAAAAAAD
Michigan_Wolfman
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Worst commercial beer I've ever had?...................Rolling Rock. How the hell can anyone drink that garbage?! 
1977Brewer
Free Dan Hess.
The sheer level of hyperbole in this thread is going to break the Internet.
Go get a sixer of big flats and you'll never hate another beer.
Go get a sixer of big flats and you'll never hate another beer.
GoodOleDave
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Heidelberg (if I am spelling it right) is without a doubt the worst beer I ever had. Bought a 12 pack for 6 bucks in 1991. By 1992, the 12 pack, less one beer each stop, had passed through 5 different bachelor pads. It may still be floating around somewhere waiting for a new rube to take a swig.
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Worst commercial beer I have ever had that was a commercial craft beer was by far parallel 49's Lil Red... They're a decent brewery out in Vancouver Canada, but holy crapola was that beer bad. Tasted like you drank the juice of maraschino cherries that someone had puked up then refrigerated. God awful beer!
suppose to be a lager,taste there isn't any..even the mates spit it out when offer a sample..
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