Worst thing you ever brewed?

[Radboud]

Altbeer using a kit x2, dme and steeping grains. That day I learned about scaling recipes which is not always linear. Extremely black and bitter from the specialties. Kept the bottles around for 4 years, came out even nastier.

 

[brewbama]

I recently brewed a Blonde Ale that just was not my cup of tea. The recipe was from a very reputable brewer but it just wasn’t the beer I like. Interestingly, one of my Christmas guests really seemed to enjoy it. I dry hopped it and took it out of rotation to mature. A month + later it’s turned into an ‘OK’ pint but still not one I’ll ever brew again. One thing though: it is clear as a bell. Probably the brightest homebrew I’ve had on tap.

 

[Professor Frink]

Black Witbier. It had star anise. I hate anise. I probably should have thought of that before I brewed it.

 

[seatazzz]

Bell's Two Hearted clone. Followed the recipe to the letter, and it turned out technically a good beer....but I hated it. Grassy grassy grassy piney yuck. I like piney in moderation but could do without the grassiness I got from the Centennial. It was also dry as a bone, bleah.

And other than abject failures when I was first learning, I've brewed two for a friend that I won't touch with a 39 1/2 foot pole; one brewed with jalapenos and the other with habaneros. He loved them but....eeew. I still have some bottles that I can't get rid of.

 

[firerat]

I tried making a pumpkin beer using sweet potatoes instead of pumpkin.

Tried.

We won't be doing that again.

 

[baulz]

I did a Raspberry Wheat from berries we grew. My wife called it the Dirty Clam, it was not good.

A friend did a smoked stout, added too much smoke and it was like drinking an ashtray.

 

[bracconiere]

Sort of a taste like dipping a fig newton in a flat diet coke

LOL, and as far as the topic goes....you mean other people make good beer?

 

[balrog]

Wheat free Blue Moon clone attempt #1. Just use more flaked oats, right? Add amylase enzyme to ensure conversion.

Like drinking mineral oil strained through oatmeal.