I guess BobotheOptimist said it all in his contribution:
I agree about Corona and Coors Light-they taste like soda water to me. That said, low-priced beer can be OK-brews like Pabst Lue Ribbon and Miller GD are actually quite good. Another thing about imports-beer does not age or travel well. I’ve had a LOT of skunky beer, and many of them have been imports. They just sit too long on the shelf.
Oh no! I’ve been loving me some Fat Tire lately. We used to get it all the time in college, but it’s only in the last month or so that they’re selling it in the Chicago market and I was so excited to see it that I bought a whole case of the 22oz bottles, lest it fail and disappear from the shelves. It’s no Samuel Smiths, but there’s nothing wrong with Fat Tire at all. To each their own.
However the wheat beer with an orange thing is raging out of control around here lately and I can’t stand it. Cloudy and sweet are not usually two things I look for in a beer. Top it off with an orange slice and it veers scarily close to being an alcopop for men. Horrible.
Yep - it’s the wheat I don’t like. I love Goose Island’s brews, but I don’t like their wheat beer.
And, like you, I’m an ale drinker. And my favorites used to be the British pub beers. But the ales produced in the USA - Bell’s Amber, for example may be the very best ale I’ve ever tasted in the world - make me convinced that there is no better time for a beer lover to be alive than right now and right here!
Of course, you are correct in this clarification. However, I rarely have the time nor inclination to explain the actual difference, so I go with the common understanding of the two. While all pilsers are lagers, and not all lagers are pilsners, it’s just easier to call them by either name to define which you’re talking about. I see it akin to saying Spanish and Portugese are seperate languages without adding the caveat that they are in the same language family.
Whatever the case, if you put a glass of “lager” and a glass of “pilsner” in front of me unmarked, I can tell which is which. That’s all I was saying.
i feel u on that!!! straight up skunk piss…
I’m almost ashamed to admit that I like Blue Moon (sans fruit wedges), at least I did until they started filtering it - I want to see dead yeasties in my bottle, dag nabbit!
Corona… I’ve never finished a bottle of Corona <gkack>
St. Pauli Girl
Meisterbrau
Anything with an elaborate or cutesy name (like “joe’s damp cellar satanspawn stout”). Seems the longer the name, the worse the beer.
Shipping is shorter than you think - Heinekin and Carlsberg are brewed locally.
Aside from the macrobrews, I really don’t understand the appeal of Rolling Rock. I had one when I was like 17 and even then I thought to myself, “Jesus, this is horrible beer!”
I’m pretty sure it was Spaten, a German beer made from duck testicles.
Yes.
Wait, you mean the thread title wasn’t a question?
Stout any kind sucks
Lite beers should be against the law
Iron City tastes like the city needs a better sewer system
Carrlings tastes like chalk
Years ago we were driving to Dallas. On the radio, for miles, we kept hearing ads for Sam Adams award winning beer. It wasn’t very common here in the sticks, I’d never heard of it. So as soon as we got to The Big City, I stopped and grabbed a six pack. Damn that shit sucked. We figured it wasn’t cold enough (it was from a convenience store) and iced it down. It sucked just as bad cold. We threw it away.
Now Dallas is a fer piece from Boston, maybe they ship the dregs down here… I don’t know, but that was some foul shit.
I see Sam Adams has 18 different beers these days. I’m tempted to try some more, surely all 18 can’t suck as bad as what we got. I’m not even sure what one we got, seems like there was just Sam Adams back then, certainly no 18 beer assortment at a roadside convenience store.
These kind of threads (stuff you hate) really never seem to lead to anything good. That said, I’ll have to buck popular opinion on SDMB and say that I dislike any beer darker than say, a Bud or a Miller High Life. Why in the hell would I want to put a liquid in my mouth that has an extremely burnt taste and even more disgusting after taste? That’s how all dark beers taste to me, even something like Sam Adams.
I’ve tried to enjoy dark beers. Really, I have. I used to go with friends to brew pubs all the time. Our local brew pubs don’t carry the big American mass produced brews (Bud, Miller, Coors, etc.). That’s when I discovered Rolling Rock. I can’t say I like Rolling Rock. It’s just less offensive that most of the rest at a brew pub.
Those bashing on Mich Ultra, you do realize that it is marketed as the most diet of all diet beers, right? Not exactly something you would expect to need a knife and fork for like say, Guiness, for example.
Have your dark beers. Drink all you want. Pass me that Bud Light.
I’m not going to argue taste (and I fully understand not liking dark beers, even though I consider Guinness quite light and smooth), but it’s interesting to note that at 125 calories per 12 oz, Guinness has less calories than MGD (143 cal), Budweiser (145 cal), etc., and only 15 calories more than most light beers (MGD Lite, Bud Light, Busch Light, etc. all clock in at 110).
Man, I give up, apparently I will never be a beer expert. My friends in Med school say that Stella Artois best tasting beer and hate Guinness. And know I find out that the Belgians despise it. It really is confusing 
So what is considered a good beer in Belgium? If I go there on vacation, I wouldn’t want to look like a slob. 
Me, I prefer Heineken and Sleeman’s Silver Creek Lager (Canadian brand).
Every Bahamian male seems to like Guinness but I don’t like it as much as they do.
Another Corona hater here.
I also can’t stand Bud/Miller/Coors, in any variation (Miller Lite may be the ickiest think I ever put in my mouth).
Tried to drink a Foster’s once - spat it back out.
I don’t care for India Pale Ales in general, though I’ve had an American Pale Ale and an English Pale Ale that weren’t too bad. Not a porter or stout fan, either.
Let it be understood from the beginning that I don’t like beer. I can choke it down if a social situation demands it, but I have never encountered a beer that rose higher in my estimation than “not too horrible”.
That said, I have certainly encountered some beers–even relatively popular brews–that are clearly worse than others. The one that sprang to mind was a brew called Dixie Blackened Voodoo Lager. It was quite popular for a time in southern Louisiana. A good friend of mine happened to be one of the most dedicated drinkers to ever pass out on Friday night and wake up on Friday morning. He bought a six-pack of the stuff to try at a casual little gathering.
I conceded that it had a nifty label, but wanted no part of it. My personal foibles being well understood, he left me to my cheap tequila, and undertook to sample it alone. I knew something was amiss the moment he popped the first cap. An aroma spread through the room, stilling conversation and causing heads to turn…away. It didn’t smell like skunk. It smelled like something a skunk would call the EPA to complain about. It smelled dead, causing me to wonder if the nominal “Voodoo” didn’t involve some arcane process for bottling zombies.
Still, this was a man who could drink Turbo Dog and smile, or Green Mamba and fail to hurl. Squaring his shoulders, he took a sip. He looked reflectively at the bottle for a moment, then picked up the six-pack and walked into the kitchen and poured his beer down the drain. He then opened each bottle in turn, took a ceremonial sip, shook his head, and sent the remainder of the contents down to the sewer (where they no doubt lowered the tone considerably). He rinsed the bottles and chased the last traces down the drain with bleach and hot water.
He never spoke of the incident again, but one of the bottles remains in his collection. It stands a bit apart from the other bottles, the spectre at the feast.
This is really scary. We seem to agree quite a bit on beer. Newcastle is ass.
The other thing I can’t abide is Rauchbier. I’ve tried it a number of times, but just can’t get over the fact that it’s essential liquid beef jerky. I don’t mind beers that have some smoky overtones & have had a couple of pretty nice smoked porters in my time. I just can’t take those big German rauchbiers.
I’ve brewed a couple of award-winning rauchbiers, but you would never catch me drinking one. Beer is meant as a counter-point to BBQ, not as BBQ.