WORST Non-homebrew you've had!

[TexLaw]

I've had a couple microbrews and brewpub beers that were contaminated, so those are top of the list. However, I doubt that was the intended flavor (although the ******* bartender at the brewpub told me that I knew nothing about "real beer" when I mentioned the contamination).

There was some stuff I had back in college that was the worst, ever. It was as cidery and oxidized as you can get. I think it was called "Braumeister," or something like that. It was not the famous "Meister Brau," mind you, although that stuff ain't great for more than kitsch. I haven't seen it since then, though.

Cave Creek Chili beer is flat-out terrible, but I do not see it around here.

There are a lot of runners-up. The green bottle skunks are among them. However, for those that are readily available today, I give the crown to Corona (pun intended). I cannot stand that stuff, and it has no redeeming value whatsoever.


TL

 

[oguss0311]

Who is unfortunate enough to have tried Iron City Light? Its a Pittsburgh thing, and though I love the city- the beer is 4 types of dreadful.

If you put soapy water in a Bud Light bottle, I'd fail the taste test. Maybe the BMC people should be left out as too obvious.

From people who actually use traditional ingredients, SA Imperial Pils taste like I drank the bile from one of you hop-heads after a long night of drinking and much daring and double dog daring.
I have one bottle left at my house, and rather than turn all the lights on at the end of the night- like a bar- I plan to give it out to get my message across.

 

[BrewDey]

This has got to be right up there:

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/29/27354

BMC, PBR, and other lighter lagers are nothing more than they advertise-I can respect that. This one though-tries to be very complex and it just doesn't work. Admittedly-I like beer to taste like beer-so I probably wouldn't have ordered a vnilla bourbon cask ale if I could help it...but I told SWMBO 'winter lager' and I guess she jumped when she saw 'winter' and bought this stuff. It's probably not as bad as I think, but it still has been sitting in the fridge for months.

 

[TexLaw]

Has Funkenjaeger pitched in on this thread, yet? I'd like to hear what he has to say on this matter.


Tl

 

[sirsloop]

Milwaukee Beast light is probably the worst...

 

[IrregularPulse]

BrewDey - had one of those last night a local sports bar Roosters. All the bars here carry that. It was decent for the first couple swallows, but had to leave 1/3 of when I left. Too sweet. Never had a bourbon ale so i chalked it up to that. I Suppose I'll try another before dismissing the style.

 

[toadyus]

Worst Beer = Molson Canadian...and I'm Canadian...

I can't beleive I'm reading that people don't like Heineken...probably the best beer I've ever had on tap in Amsterdam...but in the bottle I'll agree it's not that great.

 

[BrewDey]

It was decent for the first couple swallows, but had to leave 1/3 of when I left. Too sweet. .

Exactly-at first I thought I liked it, but then I couldn't ignore the sweetness and the artificial vanilla flavor (cited several times in BA reviews)...I appreciate AB trying to produce some different styles, but this one seems a bit extreme.

 

[shunoshi]

I'm lucky enough to have one of the worst breweries in existence right here in MN. Anything made by Gluek's is complete garbage. Here, you can see the awesome grades they've received at BA. The worst of the worst was Gluek's Light. Have you even taken a piss late one night and forgot to flush the toilet then find it sitting there stale in the morning? You know that smell? That's how Gluek's Light tastes.

 

[SteveM]

I remember another dreadful one. This was at some brewpub in Newport Beach, CA (can't recall the name - this was about ten years ago). I was out there for work and me and a couple of friends saw this brew pub advertising dollar drafts from 7:00 to 9:00 on a Monday night in early November. It was obviously an attempt to get people to get cozy for Monday Night Football.

We all agreed that dollar drafts of pub brewed beer followed by MNF was a good deal...until we tried to choke down the sewer sludge they served. We couldn't finish even one and we left to find a place with real beer.

 

[HP_Lovecraft]

Can't believe it's taken this long for someone to mention the object of so much ire. I speak, obviously, of:
Rolling Skunk!
.

I do not understand how RR can even exist.
Yet, when I was in college, RR was considered the "Premium Beer of Choice".

A typical weekend consisted of buying 10 cases of "bottom self", like Old M, Natty, Golden A, etc. Then they would buy a case of the "Good stuff", which to them was RR., to get to the point where they would not notice how bad the bottom-shelf beer tasted.

To which I would say "Are you kidding me?"
I can understand the DMS-taste in "B". It seems to fit the style I suppose. But I don't understand the soiled-hop taste in "RR".

Me, I was homebrewing in my college room. A few times the RA had said "What the hell is that smell", but I just blamed in on poor hygeine. lol

nick

 

[Junebug]

I had a really vile Canadian brew called "Moosehead" once...I believe it was completely skunked.

 

[Pugilist]

Loved Rolling Rock in my high school/college days, I look back and hang my head in shame. The worst on my list in order from cheapest to most expensive is:

Natty Light
Milwaukee's Beast
Miller Lite
Bud Light
Heineken
Stella
Dixie

 

[Klainmeister]

I'd have to say that the Edmund Fitzgerald was the worst...didn't taste of beer and smelt funny....wasn't that pleasurable. Still don't quite understand why so many of yee enjoy it.

 

[devaspawn]

I hate PBR. I was desperate for some beer and low on cash a roommate had left it here so I tried to choke one down. I have been known to not be too discerning when it came to tastes of brews IN THE PAST if I was trying to tie one on (I have been known to bring Schlitz Malt Liquor Blue Bull to parties cause I know no one will lift my beer). I swear to you I had to pour it out. I felt like I was blaspheming against God by doing this but I figured he knew it tasted like sh*t, too.

Nattie Light tastes exactly like Bud Light to me - Like watered down p*ss! The only redeeming thing that Nattie has going for it is that it manages to be cheaper than Bud Light.

I'd rather drink a handle of the cheapest, vilest, nastiest vodka than drink Heiniken and Rolling Rock! I swear I think the only reason that Rolling Rock is around is because morons love to throw out their theory on what the 33 means on the bottle. I swear I have heard this stupid conversation on multiple occasions! WHO THE HELL CARES!!! IT'S A CRAPPY BEER!

 

[accorn46]

I would have to say the worst beers that I have really tasted would be natty ice and bud light they just didn't have any real taste to me execept barly and water that's all it tasted like.There's nothing really good going for it and the hangover the two produce is pretty bad .

 

[Mustangfreak]

The Beast light, AKA Milwaukees Best Light. Ugh, I only drank it because I couldnt drive to get better beer, and thats all they had. Never drank it again, and never drank with that group of people again either. Worst hangover, ever.

 

[Professor Frink]

I remember in college there was a beer called Brigade. It was only around for about a year. Man that was terrible.

 

[Jammertime]

haha i've had this. I felt like I could taste the grainy cocoa power. It was rough to drink

Tommyknocker Cocoa Porter (http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/156/33639)

Horrible. I thought the beer had soured in the keg, so did the guy at the bar. Apparently that is what the brewer wanted it to taste like.

 

[quickerNu]

Pearl... The only beer I could not get down even when smashed.... And I have put down my fair share of swill

Lone Star, the only place its tollerable is sitting in a tube on a river wetting yourself for 8 hours at a time

(I'll get flamed for this)yuengling lager... Tried it when I was on the east coast for a conference, I thought it was pretty vile. Tasted almost exactly what you would imagine a sweaty armpit would. Don't know if I got a bad batch, but it will take a lot to convince me to try it again.

Natty light/ice *Shudder*

I about p%ssed myself when I read that. I drink Lone Star from July-August when tubing or doing other outdoor stuff. It's like alcoholic water. Just right when it's 104 outside. I bought a "30 stone" cube of keystone ice for everybody helping me move from CS (I was broke). 4 other heavy drinkers and I couldn't finish loading the Uhaul because we were too drunk halfway through the box.

 

[cclloyd]

I had a really vile Canadian brew called "Moosehead" once...I believe it was completely skunked.

I second that emotion - Moosehead is freaking horrible.

 

[EricK The Red]

+1 on the yuengling lager...

*shudder*

 

[bensyverson]

Cave Creek Chili beer is flat-out terrible, but I do not see it around here.

I had that once and loved it -- but I'm a pepperhead, so I'm biased... :rockin:

Honestly, I'm surprised to see Heineken singled out. I mean, it's not mindblowing, but it's a solid lager. The single most objectionable thing about Heineken to me is the douchey post-frat singles crowd that loves it and calls it "Heiney" -- which still can't compare to the nails-on-the-chalkboard squeal of someone ordering an "Amstey." (PS: Why are the pet names only applied to beers from Amsterdam? Possible answer: because "Guinney" would be 100 times more annoying than "Heiney" and "Amstey" combined.)

As for commercial beers that deserve true scorn, I nominate anything that tastes more like a marketing executive than a beer (see: Blue Moon, "Miller Lite Brewers Collection," etc)...

But "worst" has to be a bottle of Tsingtao I had in Beijing. They reuse the bottles there, and this one in particular had some "floaters" in it. Wins on gross-out points alone. Then again, they were about 20 US cents per 22oz bottle, so I bit the bullet and bought another. When you find a bottle without floaties, it tastes exactly like Pilsner Urquell!

 

[Aaron1983]

Some horrible beers that come to mind right now:

Miller Chill
Corona Extra
Heineken
Grolsch (I actually buy them for the bottle... not the greatest beer, but I just cannot bring myself to dump it...oh well).
Some other mexican beer...although I don't remember the name it was a fruity beer similar to Miller Chill.

Finally, the one beer that I if I were offered water or beer, I would take water:
Coors Light

 

[Fusorfodder]

Festina Peche

Had this at the Dogfish in Gaithersburg, MD. I frequently get their sampler and this was on it. It tasted like the piss of a donkey with a urinary tract infection that ate 23 bushels of rotten peaches.

 

[jaxbrewer]

Blue Moon is the ONLY beer that I refuse to drink.

 

[blizz81]

I have to second on Cranberry Lambic and also add in SA Cherry Wheat in there. There's other SAs I dislike but these two just boggle me.


Also must agree with Leinenkugel Sunset Wheat...tastes astringent, like there's 5 ground-up aspirin in every bottle. My friends like to buy me this at bars because "it sounds German"...it's a rough journey to the bottom of the glass every time.


I still drink with the "plebians" here and there and can tolerate/drink "bad" beer generally, but I could not finish a sixer of Sweaty Betty Blonde. There's a few other craft beers around here that I disliked from the likes of Left Hand, Big Sky, etc, but purged my memory of the actual names and instead try to stay away from the brand names altogether.

 

[Arrog@nt B@st@rd]

I have to add another vote for Miller Chill...followed closely by MGD.

 

[CBBaron]

I'd have to say that the Edmund Fitzgerald was the worst...didn't taste of beer and smelt funny....wasn't that pleasurable. Still don't quite understand why so many of yee enjoy it.

I don't understand your experience with EF. You must have gotten a bad bottle. EF is a excellent example of a Robust Porter.

As for my least favorite beers:

I can't drink any BMC style beers so I won't even include them. They all taste the same to me and it isn't pleasant.

I recently tried a Lindemann's Framboise. I thought it tasted like a bad koolaid. The it was way too sweet and fruity. The fruit flavors tasted artificial to me. And I have like several other sour beers so I don't think that was the problem.

The other beer was an IPA from Put-In-Bay Brewery on one of the Lake Erie Islands off the Ohio coast. The Brewpub was tiny with a glassed in closet for a brewery. The beer had a bad off flavor, like oxidation and rotten yeast. The only reason I could finish it was due to the large hops flavor counteracting the flaws. Even better they listed 3 beers on their menu a Blonde, an IPA and a Brown. After the IPA I thought I would try the Brown just to see if maybe there was just a bad batch. I was told they only made the Brown for the fall. This is in a tourist town that sees 90% of its visitors between Memorial Day and Labor Day. A very bad Brew pub experience from a beer point of view. The up side was the wait staff was pleasant and the food was good.

Craig

 

[Rhoobarb]

+1 on Cave Creek Chili beer. Do they still make it anymore? Haven't see it in a long time. The other would be Buffalo Bill's Pumpkin Ale.

But the worst commercial domestic I ever had was my first Schlitz back in 1978. I bought a sixer on sale in college thinking I would be "grabbing some gusto" and drinking better than the usual crap beer we usually bought. What a letdown!

Fruit and corn, all at the same time. Couldn't finish the sixer, it was so awful. I later found out that this was the beginning of the end for Schlitz. They had cut costs by cutting corners in the ingredients and brewing process. What I had was the result of those actions.