What no Mickey’s Big Mouth?
Milwaukees Beast came in at only 24?
That was the stuff I used to buy when I was underage. It was cheap and the only thing we could get at the time.
The Australian beers all richly deserve to be on the list. Toohey’s make some startlingly bad beer, although how Toohey’s Red avoided being on either list when Blue and New made it, I don’t know. CUB’s Empire Lager makes it despite only having been released for about 18 months. Yes, it is that bad.
Carton Cold Shot I haven’t tried, but it is Cartlon Cold (a “smooth” US style in a clear bottle) with a shot of vodka in it. Designed for people who don’t like the taste of beer and want to get hammered quickly.
I can only imagine that the tasters haven’t discovered Boag’s Classic Tube. <shudder>
The people who made that list don’t get out much. I defy anyone to find a worse-tasting, worse-looking, or worse-smelling foulness than the putrid mess that is the Egyptian version of Stella.
The drill was to first make sure it was delivered to your table unopened, then hold it up to the light to look for “floaties”, then open and sniff for skunkiness before trying to taste it.
Here in Saudi we make ‘beer’ by taking Budwiser NA (the nonalcoholic variant) and placing it in a large plastic trash can with a tap screwed into the bottom. We then add sugar and let it ferment.
After some period of time, we draw off the foul brew and chill it (to kill the taste). We then drink it with a couple of shots of out-of-the-can Bud NA to give it some bubbles.
I presume gentlemen that I win.
Why go to the trouble? I thought the US army provided cold US beer to the troops at appropriate times and places for beer drinking to be happening. Is it a cost issue, or is it a case of inadequate quantity?
Are the Mutawas watching so close that you guys can’t just import malted barley, hops and yeast, and make something closer to beer?
Homebrew can sometimes be a tad rough, but generally even bad homebrew has to be better than Budweiser NA fermented with table sugar!
He’s not in the Army, IIRC, just a civvie contractor. They have to brew their own stuff. Is it Saudi (or am I thinking of some other Og-forsaken hellhole) that has some fake beer kind of stuff? I think it’s Saudi but can’t remember the name of the stuff. Much worse than any of the other NAs. We drank it one night while being cheated in Poker by the Italians. Fortunately we were only playing for a handful of rials (sp?).
Any list of the world’s worst beers that doesn’t include Miller Lite has absolutely zero credibility. None.
(also I think it’s rather ridiculous that they left non-alcoholic brews on this list - they shouldn’t count.)
The pale stale ale with the foam on the bottm.
Do I get a prize for identifying “Old Frothing Slosh?”
Both of the referenced lists are a joke. Neither of them distinguish between statistically-significant ratings (one of the 50 worst beers in the world with a grand total of 17 votes??? :rolleyes: ) The first one can’t even get the names of the brands correct all the time.
Over the course of my drinking career, I’ve had 17 of the beers on the list.
That proves that I am either
- cheap,
- diverse, or
- high, Opal.
No Coors, either. The list is $&!T. Why include NA “beer”? And why not a vote for water? Its a pretty bad beer too.
Silly…
in no particular order. I’ll start:
- 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 once knew someone with a “beers of the world” poster. Maybe 100 labels on it, including Harp, Guinness, Bass…and Cold Spring Beer, brewed right down the road in Cold Spring, MN.
The next time I came home on leave I picked up a couple of cans. If it’s on a poster like that it’s gotta be good, right?
Dear. GOD. Schmidt’s (another beer not on that linked list) was better than this swill. Jesus.
I think the world is more fortunate now that CSB has gone out of business.
- Skittlebrau! The beer washes all the colors off the Skittles and they get all gray and slimy or so I’ve heard.
What? No fictional beers? D’oh!
I didn’t see New on the list. New’s actually one of the better “lawnmower beers”, if a little sweet. Tooheys Old is, IMHO, the best mass produced beer in Australia. But apart from those, yes Tooheys do churn out some crap. Tooheys Blue is bats’ piss. Tooheys Ted is too, but at least it’s full strength and has its place when you’re poor.
Then there are our friends over at Carlton and United who are responsible for no fewer than SEVEN of the fifty worldwide.
This only goes to illustrate that those tiresome interstate rivalry arguments about beer that take place in pubs the length and breadth of Australia are redundant. Most Australian beer is piss. It’s overly sweet, and otherwise pretty bland.
My vote for the worst beer in Australia (and possibly the world) goes to West End Export, from South Australia. They must have actually tried to make it bad, it’s so vile. Strangely, it wasn’t on the list. Funny that Budweiser wasn’t too.
I’ve made that before with a hoppy IPA (Speakeasy’s Big Daddy). Not too bad, when you consider it’s two things that really shouldn’t ever come into contact with each other (bubblegum and fuckin’ drinkin!).
Careful, though- when you drop the Skittles in, the beer gets very foamy.
As for the OP, any bad-beer list that doesn’t include Rolling Rock is a waste of bandwidth. I had RR at seventeen, and still knew it sucked.
- Labatt 50. If their Blue is horse piss, this is the result of giving the horse piss to a goat and then bottling it.
I’m proud to say I’ve never had any of those beers, and never will.