Worst Commercial Beer You've Ever Had?

[chisena]

I literally lol'd at pliney. I would agree it's way over hyped, however it's far from the worst of anything lol

Ahhhhh I couldn't resist. Honestly, my true vote goes to Ballast Points Indra Kanindra. Tastes like an Indian Arm Pit.

 

[frettfreak]

Ahhhhh I couldn't resist. Honestly, my true vote goes to Ballast Points Indra Kanindra. Tastes like an Indian Arm Pit.

Lmao.. That was my vote too! First beer from BP that I had to dump.

 

[littletommy]

I had a Schlafly Octoberfest recently, it had a strange wet dog smell, and a flavor that I can only describe as "fizzy cream of mushroom soup" took 2 or 3 sips and dumped it. Maybe it was mishandled, dunno, won't try another one.

 

[QuadConPana]

I would be interested in trying it again just to see if it was as bad as I remembered.

35 years ago, in college, my go to beer was Foster's Lager in the oil cans. I actually didn't like it at all, but I thought it made me seem cool to drink something exotic and hear everybody ask, "How can you drink that?"

 

[robbyice]

Seedy Blonde by Red Hook is total garb. its the lowest rated beer on untappd that I have had.

 

[Tknishi]

Shore Break IPA, not even sure why this is called an IPA.

 

[christyle]

Bought this at around midnight from a gas station down the street while working in the garage. Oh. My. God. We now use it solely for pranking friends, much the way you "Ice" someone with Smirnoff Ices

 

[jspain3]

21st Amendment Fireside Chat for me. SWMBO got it for me as a surprise, so I drank one. It was a struggle. I gave it another try the day after, but could only get a third of the way through it before I dumped it and the remaining cans. It felt like I was drinking Pine Sol or some furniture varnish.

 

[drainbamage]

Bought this at around midnight from a gas station down the street while working in the garage. Oh. My. God. We now use it solely for pranking friends, much the way you "Ice" someone with Smirnoff Ices

That stuff was so weird. It was as if they didn't end up with enough honey sweetness, so they added a bunch of beeswax to the wort instead. Like drinking a candle.

 

[GHBWNY]

Utica Club. Sorry, Schultz & Dooley. While going to school in Syracuse in the late 60s, we occasionally *had* to drink U.C. when a little deli on the east side was out of Bud in church-key cans for $3.99 a case (yeah, 24 cans for $3.99). Syracuse, being about an hour west of Utica, must have had a direct line from the brewery. On tap, it was hands down the greenest, skunkiest, most headache-/nausea-inducing beer I have ever, to this day, had.

 

[christyle]

That stuff was so weird. It was as if they didn't end up with enough honey sweetness, so they added a bunch of beeswax to the wort instead. Like drinking a candle.

Like a candle you tried to put out with a boilermaker (cheap beer and cheaper whiskey), then put it all in a bottle and sold it to idiots like me.

 

[Brewernaut51]

I love Bells Brewery and a few years ago my brother brought me a sampler six pack from Kalamazoo for my birthday. There was this Java Stout in there that just tasted like cold carbonated black coffee. I wasn't a fan and I've had good coffee beers before. The Petosky brewery had a really tasty mocha stout my father in-law and I really enjoyed. I just couldn't taste any flavor other than black coffee in the Bells Java Stout.

 

[SanPancho]

two contenders-

worst "idea" is the bottle of blue moon horchata i have in my fridge waiting to prank someone. beer reps gave it out as promos when they did their initial marketing push. exactly what you'd think would happen when a big ol macro brewery tried to copy the latest craft /homebrew craze.

worst beer- in my opinion it has to be beck's dark. WTF. its like somebody worked so hard for so long to make a ****ty beer like beck's, and then some other a-hole comes along with a brilliant idea to make it "better".

i'm convinced they made "dark" by taking regular becks and adding the follwing items to the mash:
-old cardboard taken from the dumpster of the nearest chinese restaurant
-a bunch of dirty socks and underwear they found in the gutter near a homeless encampment
- spent grains initially given to a local farmer to feed his cows, which have been "reclaimed" by becks from the dried cow patties to be used again

oddly enough, my uncle loves it.

 

[lumpher]

Hands-down, has to be Boddingtons Pub Ale. My brother and I tried a 4 pack a while back. 3.5 of the 4 got dumped on the ground.

WTF send it to me. Maybe it's not what you were expecting, but it's still a well-made ordinary bitter.

Maybe that was a REALLY bad 4 pack, but even if I still had it, I'd save you the shipping and just tell you to pick up a really rotten, slimy apple off the ground and start licking it. You'd have the same thing.

 

[Venari]

It wasn't a commercial. But I did buy it at the LCBO.

Iron Spike blonde. Tasted like Cool Ranch doritos. I love Ranch chips but not ranch beer.

 

[schematix]

Heineken

 

[brhenrio]

I made the mistake of falling for a twelve pack of Alexander Keith's Hop Series sampler pack, which included 3 bottles of three different single-hop beers (Cascade, Galaxy and Hallertauer) plus three bottles of their "IPA". This is the one brewer in the entire world that can make Bud Light look good. It was a terrible, awful and downright criminal affront to call any of it "beer". And that fact that it cost me $25 CAD only added insult to series injury...

I have to agree. AK hop series turned me off of IPA'S for a while with how nasty they were.

 

[29Savoy]

I was reading the "worst commercial beer" posts for some amusement and ran across this one that was the exact same experience I had in college back in the 70s when I knew nothing about beer. What a laugh! I was on a seriously limited budget and bought a 12pk for $6 at the A&P. I was with a group of friends and was asked if I could spare one. Sure I said kind of smiling inside. The next thing I knew my bud was asking "What the hell is in this stuff???" My apologies to the talking steins as well but the stuff was pure awful. Happy ending, I learned about homebrewing and what real beer is.

 

[Devon]

I'm pretty sure I know what killed the crow. Holy mother of all that is good and holy was this stuff awful.


And I'm not the only one who thinks so.

 

[BigMack]

Swamp Ape IPA by Florida Beer Company. Possibly a more flavor appropriate name would be Swamp Ass IPA. This thing was truly nasty. And I don't recall the exact price but it was a damn expensive four pack.

 

[ruger988]

I'm pretty sure I know what killed the crow. Holy mother of all that is good and holy was this stuff awful.


And I'm not the only one who thinks so.

ISO..

Seriously.

 

[Devon]

ISO..

Seriously.

I don't know what this means.

 

[Skep18]

I don't know what this means.

"In Search Of" I believe.

 

[ruger988]

I don't know what this means.

In search of.

I'd like to find a bottle.

 

[Jthornburgh]

Fosters

 

[Bosh]

Meh, too many people choosing boring light lagers. Those don't have enough flavor to be the worst. It's like calling Wonder Bread the worst bread, sure it sucks but it doesn't have enough flavor to be really offensive.

I'd far rather have some ****ty flavorless lager than Sam Adam's Cherry Wheat for example.

 

[bondra76]

oh man this is easy

horrible horrible beer. 100 times over the worst I have ever had.

 

[WarrynPeace]

Not really commercial, but Left Hand's 400lb Monkey, which is supposed to be an english IPA is truly repulsive, and no where near similar to an english IPA.

 

[thatjonguy]

Not really commercial, but Left Hand's 400lb Monkey, which is supposed to be an english IPA is truly repulsive, and no where near similar to an english IPA.

I'm confused on how Left Hand isn't commercial.

 

[WarrynPeace]

Well when I think "commercial" I think anhueser-busch, coors brewing company, ect. Left Hand is supposedly a craft brew company.