Back when I drank beer, up in Ontario, I was a Molson Export guy. That’s ale, so I like ale. I don’t like lager or pilsener, which leaves out a lot of beer. I also didn’t like wheat beer. But the worst swill I ever had the misfortune to swallow was Labatt’s IPA (India Pale Ale). It’s right up there on the scale of awfulness with Labatt’s 50. Pee yew! I couldn’t drink Labatt’s Blue, either. Say, I see a theme here.
I didn’t drink at a time when it was possible to get any number of exotic beers, so I’ve probably never tasted really good beer.
Every Corona I’ve drunk has tasted skunked to me. Maybe if they started putting it in brown bottles, they wouldn’t tell you that you had to stuff a lime wedge in the neck to be able to choke the stuff down.
I’m not a huge beer drinker - however, I absolutely love Guinness. If a go to a place that doesn’t have it on tap, then I’ll settle for the next best stout they have.
However, a friend of mine hates Guinness because she thinks it’s like drinking food. She also admits that she absolutely loves any beer that is usually refered to as “piss water” or “trailer park.”
My rule of thumb is that if it isn’t dark brown, then I probably won’t like it.
All my comrades in Hippie Town, OR seem to love the fat tire, even going so far to deliberately choose it from amongst hundreds of brews in a specialized “brew-mart”.
Feh. Is it just me or does that swill totally lose all flavor at only 2 degrees below Optimum Drinking Temp (37 for me, YMMV)? Not that there was much lost, ya understand…
While I’m here, tho, I will share (not literally) the two worst beers I’ve drunk.
1)Black Label Ale (or something like that) A crappy Canadian pilsener (definitely not an ale) that we found a few cans of in my friend’s mom’s fridge at about 2 AM. Even after gorging on Michelob all night, this cauldron made us retch.
2)Some unheard-of-to-the-civilized-world dreck called Brew 102. Yechhh. Of course, even precocious drunken teenagers could write the punchlines to this joke of a lager (Thank god we weren’t around for brews 1 thru 101, etc). Well, precocious drunken teenagers that didn’t have fake IDs and crapped out with of-age connections and shoulder-tappin so had to go to the Korean store (How old are you? 23? Is goood!) anyway. What?? Oh yeah, what’s up with that? Oh, and Miller High Life tastes just like Corona at two thirds the price. Why you I otta…
Corona, definitely. However, I usually steer away from any beer that even carries an association to the USA; honestly I’ve never tasted one from your country that tastes halfway decent (sorry).
And, contrary to the whole spirit of this thread, you can find out a lot about beer on this site.
I have to agree with you here on all counts. Heinken is awful, Carlsberg is bad, Pilsner Urquell is sometimes pretty good, usually merely so-so, Stella is piss, etc. However, I must say, I’ve had Heineken in the Netherlands, rather reluctantly, but it was actually really quite good. Same with Pilsner Urquell. On draft in the Czech Republic (or even in Budapest, where I lived for five years), it was a yummy, tasty beer. It doesn’t taste much like the stuff that comes in bottle here in the States.
However, all of the above beers, I will drink without complaint. Beers that I simply cannot drink include Busch Lite and Milwaukee’s Best. I physically gag at Busch Lite.
I didn’t have huge expectations but gack, that stuff is just incredibly nasty. Sweet beer? I’m not a beer snot but Blue Moon is so bad I couldn’t even finish the one bottle. Adding an orange slice just made it even worse.
It’s a shame, so many American beers and most of the world is only exposed to budmillercoors. Granted, they all seem to LOVE Bud Longnecks (it’s depressing to go drinking in London and see the tables full of Bud), but it’s not a true indication of what our beer is all about.
Michael Jackson (the Beer Hunter) backs me up on this… If you have a favorite style of beer, odds are there’s an American brewing it and not making it overly sweet or watered down.
We can make good beer, but we don’t export the good stuff just like the Australians and Irish. That is, I assume the Aussies have something better than the swill they send over here.
I can’t drink Guiness in the States after having it in Ireland. Oh lordy, that’s some good stuff they keep over there!
I actually enjoy Blue Moon quite a bit. I will agree, though, that the orange slice makes it worse. It doesn’t so much taste sweet to me as citrusy. I don’t think there’s any point in adding more citrus.
I hate Natural Light, Rolling Rock and Stella. And I don’t understand why so many of my friends are in love with Corona.
The worst beer I’ve ever tasted was called Milwaukee Special Reserve Ice. I’ve never actually seen it in a store. Tastes like garbage water.
I can’t understand dropping citrus slices in beer, period. I usually fish it out of the top and drink the beer as-is - unless the citrus actually makes it drinkable, mind you.
My first prize for undrinkable swill is…FOSTER’S. Some Autrailian Piss, in a large
Steel can. This is not a beer for drinking. This is a beer that should be laid down, and avoided.
It’s probably the yeast you don’t like so much. If you’ve had the imported stuff, then it’s probably the banana-y, clovey yeast strains that you’re tasting. If you’ve had the American wheats (the ones that don’t try to replicate German or Belgian styles, something like a Goose Island 312), then I agree that it’s the wheat you don’t like the taste of.
As to Diggit Camera, since I’m an ale drinker, my favorite beers in the world used to be British pub beers. However, in the last 10 years or so, American brewing has simply undergone a renaissance, and I must say America is producing some of the most innovative (I would say the most innovative) beers in the world and some of the best, as well. And this isn’t American pride talking, because I’m not like that. In my opinion, for the depth and breadth of American brewing, I would have to say this country is a beer drinker’s paradise.
