Worst Commercial Beer You've Ever Had?

[Aristotelian]

This may be a matter of the style itself not being to my liking - the beer has gotten some decent if unspectacular reviews - but I had a "neapolitan" (chocolate, vanilla and strawberry) milk stout that I truly could not finish. Way too much sweetness, like black coffee that someone dumped a whole box of sweet-n-low into.

http://saugatuckbrewing.com/beer/neapolitan-milk-stout/

 

[dkwolf]

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

You're confusing "commercial" with "macro".

Commercial is anything that isn't a homebrew. If you can BUY it, it's commercial. Inside the "commercial" group, you can break it down to macro, micro, and craft (and probably a couple more I'm forgetting).

 

[bj2387]

i cant remember the brand. but it was a michigan brewery. it was a dark beer that literally tasted like an ash tray. i took one sip, spit it out. and poured it down the drain

 

[thatjonguy]

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

Industrial/macro is more like it.

Left Hand is definitely craft.

Edit: already covered by someone else.

 

[WarrynPeace]

Thanks for the explanations, I basically just didn't want to say,left hand and have people bitching that it wasn't a "commercial" brew. Looks like I got the bitching anyway. Lol, but good to know the definitions. I do appreciate it.

 

[treacheroustexan]

i cant remember the brand. but it was a michigan brewery. it was a dark beer that literally tasted like an ash tray. i took one sip, spit it out. and poured it down the drain

Dark horse maybe? I like most of their beer but there is some that are just awful.

 

[Venari]

You're confusing "commercial" with "macro".

Commercial is anything that isn't a homebrew. If you can BUY it, it's commercial. Inside the "commercial" group, you can break it down to macro, micro, and craft (and probably a couple more I'm forgetting).

Well now I've learned something that should have been obvious. D'oh!
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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.

Here's the one

 

[bj2387]

Dark horse maybe? I like most of their beer but there is some that are just awful.

yeah dark horse sounds like it was the one.

 

[slym2none]

Addendum - that coconut monstrosity that Oscar Blues recently put out. I don't like coconut anyway, but as I do with my friends that don't like a gose, a buddy made me try it.

At least the Moosehead (my initial choice in this thread), I drank. This coconut thing, I spit out.

Also, I just tried Red Hook's pumpkin porter. That was a no as well.

 

[ruger988]

Addendum - that coconut monstrosity that Oscar Blues recently put out. I don't like coconut anyway, but as I do with my friends that don't like a gose, a buddy made me try it.

At least the Moosehead (my initial choice in this thread), I drank. This coconut thing, I spit out.

Also, I just tried Red Hook's pumpkin porter. That was a no as well.

Death By Coconut? Loved that beer!

 

[bondra76]

Death By Coconut isn't horrible. But to each their own!

 

[slym2none]

If you already don't like coconut, then yeah, it's pretty bad. Again, all in my own opinion.

 

[Wingfan13]

Death By Coconut? Loved that beer!

So did I.

 

[arbadarchi]

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This jalapeño ale. Tried it at a beer festival and had to rinse my mouth out.

 

[KijanaKiume]

Now this is a hard question to answer cause I have this weird thing for shi*ty malt liquor. Worse "beer" I've ever had was a Four Loko Gold. Like bubblegum that had been shat out a goats ass. Worst beer though is hard to say. I'll drink anything.

 

[jspain3]

Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Märzen. Just tried it this week and couldn't finish it. This was my first smoked beer experience and I'm sure it's an excellent beer, but I don't like the sensation that I'm licking the inside wall of a smokehouse. Definitely the most expensive beer I've ever poured down the drain.

 

[gometz]

Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Märzen. Just tried it this week and couldn't finish it. This was my first smoked beer experience and I'm sure it's an excellent beer, but I don't like the sensation that I'm licking the inside wall of a smokehouse. Definitely the most expensive beer I've ever poured down the drain.

Rauchbier is a special kind of beer that is really dependent on the person's taste. I love them honestly (the smoked wheat is probably my favorite). The first time I had one it took me a few sips to get into it. Once it warms a little, it really works in my opinion.

Now, I have to point out that just because it wasn't a style you liked, that doesn't make it a bad commercial beer. It is still a well made beer, just not something you liked.

I had a beer recently from a small brewery in Houston that was absolutely terrible. It was oxidized and overly malty for a pale ale. I tried it again a week later and my suspicion of a bad keg was confirmed. It still wasn't a great beer, but it wasn't the terrible beer I had had earlier.

 

[brewbama]

When I was in basic training in 1981, we were allowed to go to the bowling alley on one occasion. Of course, we all wanted beer. They had two choices: Blatz and Old Milwaukee. Either fit the subject here.

 

[jspain3]

Rauchbier is a special kind of beer that is really dependent on the person's taste. I love them honestly (the smoked wheat is probably my favorite). The first time I had one it took me a few sips to get into it. Once it warms a little, it really works in my opinion.



Now, I have to point out that just because it wasn't a style you liked, that doesn't make it a bad commercial beer. It is still a well made beer, just not something you liked.



I had a beer recently from a small brewery in Houston that was absolutely terrible. It was oxidized and overly malty for a pale ale. I tried it again a week later and my suspicion of a bad keg was confirmed. It still wasn't a great beer, but it wasn't the terrible beer I had had earlier.

Oh I know. I picked it specifically because it's highly rated. I know it's excellent just not my cup of tea. I still rated it well on Untappd because it was perfect to style and well done. I'm honestly impressed with the smokiness in aroma and flavor they achieved.

I had a badly oxidized Nevada Celebration at a restaurant one time. Had I been more confident in my palate then, I would've notified the bartender the keg had turned.

 

[Newsman]

Any "Apple-flavored Beer." I've tried a couple different ones and they all suck

 

[FloppyKnockers]

The worst beer I ever had was a fat gulp from an Pittsburgh Steelers Iron City can circa 1976 about ten years back (this makes the beer about 30 years old for all the math challenged out there). Between the warm temperature, unidentified chunks that formed, flatness, and odd flavors like rust, metal, mold, and stagnation this made me violently projectile vomit in ways that can only be described as catastrophic and life-changing. I pulled my back out and ruptured a blood vessel in my eye.

It is this experience that makes me think beers like PBR, Coors Light, Old English and the like really aren't all that bad.

 

[madscientist451]

Back in my college days, West Virginia was still a 3.2% beer state, left over from when prohibition ended. The big brewers solved this by adding water.
3.2 Strohs, served not very cold, in a college bar that smelled of spilled beer and puke from the years of it soaking in the carpet. There were probably other beers worse, but this stick out in my mind.

 

[enkamania]

I change my vote to Watermelon Dorado by Ballast Point. Watermelon syrup, just disgusting.

 

[petey_c]

...a college bar that smelled of spilled beer and puke from the years of it soaking in the carpet.

Carpet in a college bar?? I'd think you'd want tile or terrazzo, etc. Something that you can hose down at the end of the night. I'm picturing a gigantic bio-hazard petri dish...

 

[madscientist451]

Carpet in a college bar?? I'd think you'd want tile or terrazzo, etc. Something that you can hose down at the end of the night. I'm picturing a gigantic bio-hazard petri dish...

Yeah it was pretty nasty, the place is long gone.

 

[dkwolf]

Carpet in a college bar?? I'd think you'd want tile or terrazzo, etc. Something that you can hose down at the end of the night. I'm picturing a gigantic bio-hazard petri dish...

I'd probably go concrete, with an epoxy sealer.

 

[EcuPirate07]

Don't know if it's been said but that Piraate Ale, I couldn't even finish it.

 

[Yeastieboy]

Ballast Point Indra Kunindra... by far the worst beer I have ever had. Reminds me of being packed on a bus full of people in the sweltering summer headed out to Agra, India to see the Taj Mahal. Neither the bus ride nor the beer were a pleasant experience.

 

[schematix]

Not the bud light in the background.
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This was like drinking pure fire.

 

[mprowland]

Hands down, Boxer Lager. I drink Blatz, PBR, Hamm's and Milwaukee's Best on occasion. I can't even get one can of Boxer down. The first and only beer I couldn't stomach.