I’ve been waiting for years for Genesee (It ain’t Mississippi or Tennessee – you only double the final “e”) to come out with a beer called “Kwah”.
Because then you could say that it has a certain “Genesee Kwah”.
(Ducks and Runs)
::whaps CalMeacham ‘upside the haid’ for that one::
Bad, so bad. Took me a few minutes to figure that one out.
It’s easier to spell Genessee than it is to down one without gagging. Then again, I’m nostalgic for Binghamton Spiedies and salt potatoes right now. Even a GCA would be nice.
Any chocolate beer must be bad, I’ve only had the misfortune of trying one brand. Perhaps the only brand?
— G. Raven
I’m not surprised. OV is a Canadian beer, but you won’t find clear-glass splits of it up here. Only brown-glass bottles. Even then, it’s not good.
Old Vienna is bad enough to begin with, but I once saw a case of clear-glass splits of it in Schenectady, New York. It was in the sunshiny window of the store, and the date code on it (I once worked for Ontario’s largest beer retailer and could read the incomprehensible-to-all-but-us-insiders date code) said that it was eight months old.
A clear-glass beer that spent possibly eight months in a sunshiny window? That store should have been forced to drink the stuff; after recovering, they would never treat beer like that again.
As regards the OP, I agree with those who mentioned Gennesee Cream Ale, and with the poster who was puzzled by the fondness for Sleeman Cream Ale. Although Sleeman’s other products can be rather nice, the Cream Ale is just an average-tasting beer, IMHO; and nothing special.
I got one. A microbrew, as a matter of fact. It’s called Malheur, and it is very appropriately named.
Its odor and taste are highly reminiscent of the cheap type of white eraser you often see on novelty pencils or ones that pre-teen girls like to buy. You know, the ones cut into shapes and then printed with Hello Kitty and stuff like that?
I literally could not finish even the first swallow of that stuff. Nor could I finish the beer I ordered to replace it, which the bartender at the Hopleaf in Chicago gave me for free because she tried to warn me off buying the Malheur.
That has never happened to me before. I was shocked.
Bite your tounge!!
I happen to be quite fond of this beer (the fact that it can be bought in a 5 litre mini-keg for $25 Can. helps a bit too :)). I’ve always enjoyed drinking it. Then again, my tastes are far from refined.
I do have one horrible beer to nominate though. Okanagan Springs Old English Porter. Not the worst beer I’ve ever had, but close. I couldn’t even finish the bottle.
And City Gent, I happen to be very fond of flat soda. In fact, flat, luke warm Dr. Pepper is one of my favorite beverages. Bare this in mind when I talk of beer, if you would be so kind.
Alright, as a hard-drinkin’ college student, I’ve gotta stand up and defend my honor. Yes, all those beers are swill. But some are more swill than others.
Hamms, as befits anything made by the Pabst corporation, is about as bad as it gets. Hell, I can get a 30-pack for 11.50 (less than .40 a can!) at COSTCO, which speaks for itself. Actually, Hamms would be pretty good if it just wasn’t so sweet. That’s the only thing that makes it difficult to get truly trashed on.
As a side note, it still fascinates me that every truly cheap and nasty beer is distributed by Pabst, Inc.- Pabst, Hamms, LoneStar, Pearl, a bunch that I’m not remembering. I guess you just gotta find your niche in the marketplace, eh?
Second, Milwaukee’s Best is disgusting. Beast doesn’t make me happy to be alive, but the true villain in this sad story is Beast Ice. Just when I was worried that there was too much nastiness in regular beast, they concentrate it further. Oh, thanks, guys…
Budweiser may be the king of beers, but I rarely/never drink it. If I’m reduced to drinking cheap beer, I’m not willing to shell out the extra buck or two for Bud’s stupid, sexist, and generally annoying ad campaign. Sorta defeats the purpose, ya know?
Natural Ice, Old Milwaukee, and all the rest of 'em are pretty nasty, but I can’t really tell the difference between most of the rest, which I guess is their best feature. I mean, other than their unbelieveably cheap status.
Finally, however, I gotta address Pabst. Ahh, Pabst, the bane of my existence. While I do dislike PBR, it has grown on me- a lot. It doesn’t taste good (per se), but it’s quiet, bland, and unobtrusive- sort of the Canada of beers. However, the best part about Pabst is that it lends itself well to high-speed consumption. The hundred-Pabst challenge, for instance, would be unthinkable with any other beer. For those out of the loop, the Hunnert Pabst Challenge is truly the Ironman Triathalon of drinking contests. The rules are simple- 10 people and 100 Pabstesess per team. You puke, you’re out. Whatever team finishes first wins, if finishing that much beer can truly be called winning. Putting down that much Pabst isn’t easy, but at least it’s doable. I defy y’all to put down 10 Hamms in an hour- it simply can’t be done. Not like it hasn’t been tried, of course, but I’ve yet to see it done. So, Pabst has reluctantly won my respect as the true champion of cheap and nasty beer. Go figure.
M.
I second (or third, or nth) the justified slagging of Pabst Natural Light. Light, yes, in a nauseating sort of way. Natural? I doubt it.
Years ago, the convenience store across the parking lot from our barracks in Norfolk, VA carried something arguably worse: Red White & Blue. I seem to have suppressed the memory of who brewed it, and don’t even know if it’s still on the market.
It did, however, have a couple of redeeming qualities. First, it was the cheapest thing in the cooler–cheaper than Coca-Cola, even. Second, once you’d pounded the first three or four, your taste buds went numb.
red manace…i applaud you for drinking so much guinness…
Pushkin, you are v. right about the stuff, EXCEPT that guinness does NOT travel well and the stuff you drink in the US doesn’t taste much like the stuff i drink in dublin!
if you don’t like guiness, you could try murphy’s (it’s sweeter) or beamish (horrible, but some people like it, god knows why)
what’s wrong with green bottles, no one like grolsch?
anyhow, the worst beer has to be irelands own…DUTCH GOLD.
it’s about £1.00 a can, which is about $2. and for us that is CHEAP. your basic piss-in-a-can for students, the underage and other serious alkies.
on a side note…
do you get buckast tonic wine (allegedly made by monks-who unknowingly supply to every alcoholic in ireland)in the USA?
it’s not wine and it sure ain’t a tonic!
I’m not much of a beer drinker, but I do like one or two after working in the yard or sitting by the pool, but they have to be very, very cold. I’ll drink a Corona (sure, go ahead, put a slice of lime in there, I don’t care), even though it seems to have received a pretty bad rap in this thread.
From my college days, two distinctly bad beers come to mind - Piels and Weidemanns. Maybe those experiences just soured me on the whole beer thing.
Not one vote for the absolute worst beer in the world. . .Ortlieb’s. It was produced by a brewery in Philadelphia and I think its sale was restricted to southeastern PA and southern NJ. The owner of the brewery was a fella named Joe Ortlieb, and his slogan was, “Try Joe’s Beer.” Well, maybe you’d try it but you sure as hell wouldn’t drink a second one.
It was an interesting beer, really. Rendolent of wet dog with notes of sweatsocks and warm garbage, with a metallic finish that made one wonder why the can hadn’t dissolved.
Running a close second (but drinkable if there’s nothing else); Bud, Miller, etc.
On the flipside; Yuengling Lager. For the love of G-d, don’t buy their “Premium” beer (slogan: “skunky right from the keg!”) but their Lager is excellent.
Oh yeah, almost forgot National Bohemian. That stuff was “pledge beer” in college until Pennsylvania passed an anti-hazing law. I wouldn’t clean my toilet with that stuff.
Yer pal,
Zappo
Wow, me and my group of friends must be the only people in the world who drink Huber. Or, at least, used to drink Huber. Back in the days where price was very much an issue, our favorite beer was Huber Bock. It’s also known around these parts (Boulder area of Colorado) as the Liquor Mart brand beer. Don’t know what you guys are drinking, but for something like $8/case, Huber Bock is the best there is.
Nowadays, about the only stuff I won’t drink is skunky Canadian beer - Labatt’s, Molsen, etc. Anything else is fair game. On a hot day, American Pilsner (Bud, Coors, etc) really hits the spot, and you can drink 'em all day without getting too loopy. Cold winter nights calls for Guinness and/or micro-brews. Semi-hot days calls for Lefthand’s JuJu Ginger. Yummm…
Colt 45 in a clear, glass bottle = The seepage from a skunk’s butt wound. Undrinkable.
Yes, some of those sound like bad beers. I’ve had a few of them, some were hard to keep down, others just weren’t very good. However, the worst beer in the world =
SPORTZ
Most of you have probably never heard of it since it is so bad that nearly no one drinks it.
I brought this topic up to a co-worker who is true beer afficionado and he said that his worst beer experience has been, and I’m quoting here:
“Moosehead. Surely this must be what it tastes like to give a moose head.”
Guinness is one of my favorites, too, so dark stouts, bocks and lagers usually don’t scare me.
Think again. SATB was one of the few micros that made me wish longingly for a cold stubby of Utica Club. I first tried it about six or seven years ago, and … ugh. Poured like cough syrup, and tasted like soy sauce, no exaggeration.
(Now, Sam Adams Millennium on the other hand … nectar of the gods. For the cost of an admission ticket, I drank what would have been the equivalent of a couple hundred bucks worth of Millennium at the GABF last year, and I don’t think a better beer will ever tough my tongue.)
The standard “old man” beers – Pabst Blue Fucking Ribbon, Hamm’s, Schlitz, Old Milwaukee, Piel’s and Old Style – are pretty much undrinkable. They also have the unfortunate side effect of making you “regular,” something that 62 year old Joe Pierdoleniec seems to appreciate more than us younger folk. They do have a more “beery” taste than the “poor college student” brews, though – Meister Brau and ** Milwaukee’s Best** seem to have a very distinctive potato flavor.
Drink two or three pounders, and your butt will flow like the mighty Genessee River, too.
When I was a kid, I remember a couple of my relatives dabating the laxative qualities of old local beers such as Genessee and Iroquois. Simon Pure was deemed to be the best at “cleaning out the 'ol insides.”
A favorite among Buffalo-area old farts, when there was no more Genny in the fridge.
IIRC, that Corona/urine story was the subject of a court case involving racist slurs promoted by a Heineken Distributor.
From Snopes:
Here is the link:http://www.snopes.com/business/secret/corona.htm
I can’t believe there are 2 people who didn’t like lambics… Are you sure it wasn’t past its best before date? Mort Subite Gueuze is great…
The absolute worst beer I’ve ever had was one brewed in Lebanon. Don’t ask me why I ever thought a beer brewed in an Islamic country might be drinkable.
The only beer my dad has ever sent back was Miller, which he got in a US restaurant.
Sam Adams Octoberfest - my God that stuff was vile. I’d rather drink a six-pack of Magnums than one Sam Adams Octoberfest. Until then I’d liked all the Sam Adams brews I had tried, now I’m leery about trying new ones.