# 50 Worst Beers in the World - The pale, stale ales with the foam on the bottom! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 17, 2004, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-worst-beers-in-the-world-the-pale-stale-ales-with-the-foam-on-the-bottom/255523 "2004-07-17T01:14:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Early\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Early\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Early_Out)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-worst-beers-in-the-world-the-pale-stale-ales-with-the-foam-on-the-bottom/255523/41 "2004-07-20T11:43:11Z")
> [@Inigo Montoya](#): > > The pale stale ale with the foam on the bottm. > > Do I get a prize for identifying [“Old Frothing Slosh?”](http://www.rustycans.com/oldfroth.html) Ah, yes, I spotted that, too! Devastated to learn, from your link, of the death of Miss Frothingslosh, the Woman of Quality and Quantity. Not sure I can go on… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-worst-beers-in-the-world-the-pale-stale-ales-with-the-foam-on-the-bottom/255523/42 "2004-07-20T12:32:16Z")
> [@bump](#): > > Are the Mutawas watching so close that you guys can’t just import malted barley, hops and yeast, and make something closer to beer? I am an American civilian who is an employee of the Ministry of Defence and Aviation. No PX for Paul! In any case, you have given me a chance to mention The Legend of Malt Mountain. I have been in Saudi for eight years now, but even then it was an old story. One bright, cloudless day, the police all over the Kingdom seized all the malt and barely. They took it to a big pit in the desert and dumped it. The pit was large, but not large enough and supposedly taking your 4x4 up a fly-covered Malt Mountain was quite the thing to do. ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-worst-beers-in-the-world-the-pale-stale-ales-with-the-foam-on-the-bottom/255523/43 "2004-07-20T12:41:04Z")
> [@Spavined Gelding](#): > > I am so disappointed that neither _Grain Belt_ or _Wisconsin Ace_, those low price standards for the impecunious mid 1960s college student, did not make the list. Maybe they were so bad they went out of business. As I recall _Grain Belt_ came only in quart bottles – which give you a hint of its target market. I think that a major failing of that list is the lack of spectacularly bad regional brews in general. For instance, the F.X. Matt brewery in Utica, while capable of producing some excellent stuff like the Saranac brews, is also responsible for the abomination known as Knickerbocker, which I don’t believe is available any longer. Of course, given that it is/was made from corn, I’m not sure Knickerbocker actually qualifies as beer. ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-worst-beers-in-the-world-the-pale-stale-ales-with-the-foam-on-the-bottom/255523/44 "2004-07-20T12:43:55Z")
> [@Mehitabel](#): > > 1. Skittlebrau! The beer washes all the colors off the Skittles and they get all gray and slimy or so I’ve heard. I did that. The beer ends up tasting like skittles and when you’ve finished drinking the liquid, you munch on the white soggy mess at the bottom, which tastes like beer. I highly encourage everyone to try it. ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-worst-beers-in-the-world-the-pale-stale-ales-with-the-foam-on-the-bottom/255523/45 "2004-07-20T12:58:08Z")
Number 24 - Diamond White Strong Cider - Blimey! do you get this crap in America? For those unaware of Diamond White it is 7.5% alcohol and tastes like paint - it is made with EU surplus apples and only drunk by teenage chavs in burberry and tramps in bus shelters. Most of the others are American - no suprises there then. ---
**Author:** ![Winnie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e480ec/32.png) [@Winnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnie)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-worst-beers-in-the-world-the-pale-stale-ales-with-the-foam-on-the-bottom/255523/46 "2004-07-20T15:00:33Z")
I showed this to my dad who is an experienced beer drinker 😛 and he couldn’t believe Black Label or Olympia weren’t on there. Do they even make those anymore? He remembers a horrid beer from the 1970s made by 7-11. It was called 7-11 Brew or something and had the red and green logo on it. Of course they drank it because back then it was like $1.99 for a twelver, but it was one of those beers that you tasted every time you burped for weeks. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-worst-beers-in-the-world-the-pale-stale-ales-with-the-foam-on-the-bottom/255523/47 "2004-07-20T16:43:56Z")
Oddly, Black Label is found around the world. It is brewed all over the place. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-worst-beers-in-the-world-the-pale-stale-ales-with-the-foam-on-the-bottom/255523/48 "2004-07-20T16:44:11Z")
> [@](#): > > 1. Samuel Adams Cherry Stout. > description: imagine weak cherry-flavored cough syrup watered down with horse piss and fermented over a thick bed of mud. Now carbonate it. I’ve had this beer. Once. It’s really that bad. Whichever brewer thought that this swill was good should be fired immediately. Also, I’m dismayed to see that Red Stripe isn’t on the list. It’s this beer from Jamaica that comes in little bottles. I tried it in a bar once, and almost asked for my money back. Blech. I can only assume that Rastafarians drink it when they’re too stoned to know or care what they’re doing. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-worst-beers-in-the-world-the-pale-stale-ales-with-the-foam-on-the-bottom/255523/49 "2004-07-20T17:09:48Z")
I don’t think they should put a cider on that list. It’s a different entity. But, if they’re going to put them together they should have put TNT cider in there. Horrible awful stuff. The cider equivalent of malt liquor. ---
**Author:** ![scule](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@scule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scule)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-worst-beers-in-the-world-the-pale-stale-ales-with-the-foam-on-the-bottom/255523/50 "2004-07-20T17:33:29Z")
I’m amazed that Budweiser and Coors Light were not tied for number one on either list. I’ve never tasted horse piss before, but I’m sure I have after having tried those two. I’d rather suck on raw chicken that drink that shit. There are two beers here in Canada (well Quebec, anyway) called Fin du Monde and Maudite. They’re both about 8 or 9% alcohol, and just awful. Still not as bad as Bud or Coors. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-worst-beers-in-the-world-the-pale-stale-ales-with-the-foam-on-the-bottom/255523/51 "2004-07-20T18:56:22Z")
Hmm, looking at those beer sights it appears the falacy of more-taste=good, less taste=bad, is alive and well. Most of those mass produced beers are not the 50 worst in the world, simply because they don’t have much taste. A bad beer with a strong taste is magnitudes worse than a beer with no taste, or a bad beer with low taste. Have you ever had a bad scotch ale? Tastes like spiced motor oil. Or a really bad lambic? Lysol with a hint of fruit. Some of the crappy tripple bocks? Soy sauce seasoned with infected ass. Most of the best beers in the world according to those sights are Stouts. Mostly I’d imagine produced by people who want to be beer guys and think that they can only be beer guys if they say the darkest strongest beers out there are the best. I got no problem with stout, I love stout, but some of the best beers in the world are carefully, and subtly crafted, and they don’t get respect on sites like that. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-worst-beers-in-the-world-the-pale-stale-ales-with-the-foam-on-the-bottom/255523/52 "2004-07-20T19:02:50Z")
> [@Winnie](#): > > I showed this to my dad who is an experienced beer drinker 😛 and he couldn’t believe Black Label or Olympia weren’t on there. Do they even make those anymore? Oly is dead and [gone.](http://www.kelleyad.com/mktcasehist.htm) The link is too kind. Any beer that loses to Rainier is unfit for human consumption–no clever advertisement can change that. The soap opera continues. A while back, Stroh bought Rainier. Sold it to Pabst who already owned Olympia, Old Milwaukee, Schlitz, Falstaff, Schaefer, Old Style, Schmidt’s, Lone Star, Ballantine, Lucky Lager and Pearl. Stroh also sold Stroh to Pabst and got the hell out of the industrial waste business. Rumor has it they’ve since cleaned up their act and operate some infinitely cleaner chemical production facilities in New Jersey. What I don’t get is why anybody would consolidate these recipes and then fail to burn them. I think if you’re not careful, you can still get Rainier. But you have to wrestle a sasquatch for it. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-worst-beers-in-the-world-the-pale-stale-ales-with-the-foam-on-the-bottom/255523/53 "2004-07-20T19:16:58Z")
I’m not much of a beer drinker, but I know what I like. I don’t like Weidemann’s or Piel’s, both of which I drank (once) while in college. I’d rather be thirsty and/or sober. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-worst-beers-in-the-world-the-pale-stale-ales-with-the-foam-on-the-bottom/255523.md?page=2)