# Is there anything worse than Coors Light in a can? Anything? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 2, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810 "2005-12-02T21:03:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_in_second_hand_clothing)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/41 "2005-12-03T04:31:14Z")
If you see a bottle of Monty Python’s Holy GrAil and think “Hey, that’s a novel idea!” Buy the bottle if you must, but **don’t** drink it. I would have _gladly_ traded it for a Natty Ice. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/42 "2005-12-03T05:20:23Z")
It doesn’t look like many people in this thread are east bound and down. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/43 "2005-12-03T05:23:30Z")
Freshman year in college, my roommate and I got to grocery store for beer. We have enough money for a 6-pack of Bud. Then we noticed that the same ammount of money would buy us a _case_ of Brown Derby. Bad times man, bad times. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/44 "2005-12-03T06:24:43Z")
I’m happy to say that of all the godawful beers named in this thread, I have only had the bad taste to taste Rolling Rock and Black Label. And in my defense, I had never heard of either beer before I had it. But the cranberry lambic seems intriguing… ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/45 "2005-12-03T06:57:11Z")
There’s a South Australian beer called West End which is reputed to be the worst in the world. Every year, the Bathurst 1000 car race involves a weekend of thousands of people camping by the racetrack and getting absolutely smashed on beer after beer after beer. Except for the one abortive year West End sponsored the race and it was all you could get. Everybody was stone cold sober. As further proof, a friend of mine was invited to some sort of West End promotion in a club. There were big vats of cans of West End in ice that were dotted all over the floor of the club - the beer was free. People were still queuing at the bar to pay for drinks. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/46 "2005-12-03T07:31:01Z")
> [@Barbarian](#): > > But the cranberry lambic seems intriguing… For the love of God, man, don’t do it! I had that same thought, but my tastebuds are still reeling! ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/47 "2005-12-03T07:42:53Z")
I always find that grabbing a wild skunk, holding its ass up, and having it spray all over my face, is what I would call “bracing.” As opposed to drinking Coors light out of a can, which I would call, “less bracing than the skunk,” depending on what exactly you wanted out of that skunk. ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/48 "2005-12-03T08:00:25Z")
> [@TheLoadedDog](#): > > There’s a South Australian beer called West End which is reputed to be the worst in the world. I came here to mention West End. A beer even Australians won’t drink - WTF is _that_? mm ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/49 "2005-12-03T08:13:46Z")
> [@wolf in second hand clothing](#): > > If you see a bottle of Monty Python’s Holy GrAil and think “Hey, that’s a novel idea!” Buy the bottle if you must, but **don’t** drink it. “This is not a beer for drinking, this is a beer for lying down and avoiding.” That reminds me of the last time I bought a beer on the strength of its label: Flying Dog Pale Ale. It has an attractive Ralph Steadman label, but is a singularly mediocre brew. Not “Coors Light” terrible, but not pleasant, either. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/50 "2005-12-03T08:28:21Z")
> [@mamboman](#): > > I came here to mention West End. A beer even Australians won’t drink - WTF is _that_? We don’t drink Foster’s either (but we could in an emergency - such as after having had a mouthful of West End by mistake). ---
**Author:** ![Dan\_Norder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@Dan\_Norder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dan_Norder)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/51 "2005-12-04T02:18:25Z")
> [@Birdmonster](#): > > I Is there anything worse than Coors Light in a can? Anything? Coors Light in a can isn’t bad at all. Now, Coors Light in your _mouth_… now that’s much worse. Perfectly straight line like that and nobody took it until now… you guys are slipping. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/52 "2005-12-04T02:23:18Z")
Coors Lite is my favorite beer. I hate the taste of beer, and Coors Lite is as close to water as I can find. In my 'hood, we call it “Bitch Beer” because it’s the drink of choice of so many of us desperate housewives. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/53 "2005-12-04T04:25:16Z")
> [@wolf in second hand clothing](#): > > If you see a bottle of Monty Python’s Holy [del]Gr[/del]ail and think “Hey, that’s a novel idea!” Buy the bottle if you must, but **don’t** drink it. I would have _gladly_ traded it for a Natty Ice. Dude, where have you seen this? I thought they only sold this in the gift shop at Doune Castle (Scotland). First and last time I ever saw it. And yes, it tastes like piss. My friend bought it because she thought the bottle was funny, and she wanted to take it back with her to the US. Of course she had to get rid of the actual beer before she went back, because she wasn’t 21. She made us all take a swig. Yech. It should have been treated like the piss it was and poured down the toliet. ---
**Author:** ![St.Urho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@St.Urho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Urho)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/54 "2005-12-04T04:44:25Z")
> [@Birdmonster](#): > > Coors’s entire ad campaign is based on hot twins (yawn) and the fact that their beer is COLD. REALLY COLD. So, apparently, they have refrigerators. . Well, they also advertise their “Rocky Mountain water!” For those of you that haven’t been there, it’s from Clear Creek in Golden. It’s probably the nastiest body of water I’ve ever seen! Coors has also been cited several times for water pollution. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/55 "2005-12-04T06:09:35Z")
The most terrible beer I’ve ever tasted is **Josef Hoffbauer**. It sells for less than five bucks per 12 pack, is nearly colorless (but, sadly, not flavorless) and couldn’t get a man suffering from hydrocephaly drunk. My old roommate and his jock friends used to fill up an entire shopping cart with Hoffbauer, or as my other roomie and I called it: Josef Barf-an-hour, and drink it all in one night. The funny thing is that it came packaged in three or four different colors. There was Hoffbauer Regular, Light, Special Reserve and maybe one more. They all tasted exactly. The. Fucking. Same. Same beer, just different color boxes and cans. Worst shit ever because even I wouldn’t drink it, and I’ll drink just about anything. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/56 "2005-12-04T06:13:44Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > Coors Lite is my favorite beer. I hate the taste of beer, and Coors Lite is as close to water as I can find. That’s because in the American heartland, all you can find is sucky beer that survived prohibition. 18 million variants on some idiot’s idea of what a proper Czech Pilsner Lager should taste like 😛 ---
**Author:** ![ombre3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/da6949/32.png) [@ombre3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ombre3)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/57 "2005-12-04T06:37:04Z")
Anyone remember, say 30 years ago, when Coors was considered a super elite beer? Even made a movie about it. Something about trucking with Burt Reynolds. Anyway, back then I was told that Coors was special among American beers because it was not pasteurized and therefore had to be and always was kept refrigerated. Thereby the reason for only a local market--------in Texas I think or someplace pretty close to Texas. If that was ever the case-----it is no longer true today with Coors beer now nationwide. See Coors sitting out in ambient temps just like all the other beers. Coors and Coors light taste about like Miller Lite or Bud Light to me.—no big deal. Did it ever really taste special?—back when it was considered to be special. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/58 "2005-12-04T07:16:41Z")
We’re on page 2 and not one mention of the worst beer ever to grace the inside of a cylinder? Geez. It should be a felony to serve **MGD** to anything besides inmates and lab animals. ---
**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/59 "2005-12-04T16:23:37Z")
> [@Ass For A Hat](#): > > Same price, less farting. That would be a good enough marketing strategy in most college communities. I have always believed that “Life is too short to drink bad beer.” That’s why my lapses are all the more embarassing. Please believe the warnings about the cranberry lambic! I have never had a lambic before, and I understand that they are an acquired taste. (Perhaps acquired immediately after burning one’s tongue with hot coffee.) But even if this is an ususual breed, this combination is a waste of both lambic and cranberries. Finding fault with the bargain brews is like shooting fish in a barrel (probably becauses that’s what they taste like). It’s the nationally available brands that deserve our scorn. Coors. Carling. Rheingold. What was I thinking? Any Miller product. Curiously, I never had much of a problem with Rolling Rock. I think that there are two issues here; the starting product, and what you get after it has “aged”. Freshness really is an issue, and some of these brands just don’t last well at all. ---
**Author:** ![black\_rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/60 "2005-12-04T16:42:48Z")
> [@Barrels](#): > > Try a Schlitz… Double Yuck!!! And I know about these things, I used to bartend at a Wisconsin VFW, home of nasty beer. > [@Kid\_A](#): > > Schlitz Malt Liquor. While in LA in May on vacation, a friend and I saw a tall can for $1.09. And bought two of them to celebrate my birthday. > > I’m pretty sure it’s unavailable in Canada. Now I understand why, I’m glad customs wouldn’t allow this crap across the border. Heresy! I put down many an $8 case (bottles) of Schlitz during my freshman (and only) year at Ohio University. Hell, you could get em for a buck a pop at the Union, the best bar in the world. And the Blue Bull, unlike a lot of other malt liquor, actually tastes like _beer_. My nomination: Honey Brown. A dumb beer for dumb jocks. Ugh. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810.md?page=4)