# Nastiest Beer **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** beer\ **Created:** [February 20, 2009, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nastiest-beer/486742 "2009-02-20T17:39:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![stanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@stanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stanger)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nastiest-beer/486742/41 "2009-02-20T23:50:22Z")
I am no expert, but I find Lone Star palatable. It’s pretty light, but it’s a step up from water. Hell of a lot better than Pearl. You could leave Pearl in a refrigerator at a frat house and not worry about any of it going missing. But if you’re constipated, and need a good cleaning out, a couple of Pearls will do the trick for you in short order. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nastiest-beer/486742/42 "2009-02-20T23:53:02Z")
Just got back from a resort in Mexico where all they served was **Corona** (all inclusive). It is awful, awful beer that seems to taste entirely of witches brew. I drank A LOT of mixed drinks instead. ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nastiest-beer/486742/43 "2009-02-21T00:16:29Z")
> [@bup](#): > > **Goebbel’s** was terrible. And had a horrible name, now that I think about it. That’s quite a moment in marketing there. Can I get a bottle of Hitler to go with it? Worst stuff I ever had: Old Style. I remember the commercials with Dennis Farina as a cop (which he was at one time) on stakeout to catch evildoers attempting to steal Old Style from Chicago. I’d have been helping them load the damn truck. Just nasty, cheap beer, the kind that gives you a headache at the first sip. Nameless brand on tap at the bars in Champaign IL during summer - they had nickel beer nights sometimes (late 1980s-early 1990s). Slogan should have been “Bring a buck, get f’d up”. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nastiest-beer/486742/44 "2009-02-21T00:24:21Z")
In my younger days, my friends and I were not particular about what we drank. The cheaper the better. I’ve been through many beers already mentioned in this thread, but nothing, and I mean NOTHING, was worse than a beer called Stegmaier. It was only sold in loose cases, no 6-packs. It was $4.99 a _case_ back in the early-mid 80s. Our local beer store only kept it warm, it wouldn’t waste cooler space on it, so we always had to plan ahead. It was vile. It was sold in squat, brown bottles, often dented, and occasionally with an upside-down label. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nastiest-beer/486742/45 "2009-02-21T00:28:51Z")
Never mind ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nastiest-beer/486742/46 "2009-02-21T00:33:31Z")
> [@drm](#): > > Just got back from a resort in Mexico where all they served was **Corona** (all inclusive). It is awful, awful beer that seems to taste entirely of witches brew. **I drank A LOT of mixed drinks instead.** How much did the drinks cost? That may have been the plan. ---
**Author:** ![MTRG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@MTRG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTRG)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nastiest-beer/486742/47 "2009-02-21T00:46:28Z")
[http://lost.wikia.com/wiki/DHARMA\_Beer](http://lost.wikia.com/wiki/DHARMA_Beer) Iron City is better than Dharma Beer! ---
**Author:** ![slime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@slime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slime)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nastiest-beer/486742/48 "2009-02-21T00:58:40Z")
When I lived in Phoenix there was a bar that had about 50 specialty/import beers. I was able to at least finish all of them except for Maui Lager. After a couple sips I had to order a glass of bourbon to get the taste out of my mouth. The bartender said it was the only time he had ever seen anyone order staight bourbon to wash down a beer. ---
**Author:** ![MadPansy64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@MadPansy64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPansy64)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nastiest-beer/486742/49 "2009-02-21T01:00:06Z")
Beira Peroni. Thirty years later, **Giant Freakin Marine** still shudders at the memory, and has been known to drink Pearl.😉 Me? Probably Coors. Rocky Mountain Piss Water, and I’m a fourth generation Colorado native. That shit be _nasty_. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nastiest-beer/486742/50 "2009-02-21T01:18:41Z")
> [@Valgard](#): > > [QUOTE=Originally Posted by bup] > > Goebbel’s was terrible. And had a horrible name, now that I think about it. That’s quite a moment in marketing there. Can I get a bottle of Hitler to go with it? [/QUOTE] It was actually **Goebel** , the NTPTSIBTPTPONOI\* brand of Stroh Brewing. (U of Michigan alum here, and consumer of much cheap - and not-cheap - beer during those years.) Just as bad was Wiedemann, sold only in 24-bottle flats. We called it Waterman or Peedemann. \*Not Too Proud To Sell It But Too Proud To Put Our Name On It ---
**Author:** ![statij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@statij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/statij)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nastiest-beer/486742/51 "2009-02-21T01:24:06Z")
I consider myself a bit of a connoisseur of really cheap, nasty beer. My dad’s favorite beer was Olympia (with salt) so I learned early from the best. I spent many a summer drinking and enjoying Shaeffer warm from the trunk of a car. I’ve enjoyed Schmitt, Hamms, Balantine, Buckhorn, and many others I’ll never remember. But I met my match when a friend and I picked up a twelver of the beer that sounds like it makes you feel: **Blatz**. Good god, it was bad. We could barely finish it. But we did. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nastiest-beer/486742/52 "2009-02-21T02:09:35Z")
Is Zima disqualified, or does it win the thread? My brother threw a blasphemy party one year, and among my nefarious contributions was a six-pack of Zima (I think I labeled it “The Saliva of Christ” or something). Have you ever smelled the water in a vase that has had flowers in it too long? Zima tasted like that smells, plus sugar. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![not\_alice](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_alice/32/7283_2.png) [@not\_alice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_alice)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nastiest-beer/486742/53 "2009-02-21T02:10:45Z")
> [@Jolly\_Roger](#): > > Its friday. In anticipation of having a good fun weekend, some of the guys and I were tyalking about beer…and comparing worst beer stories. > > Its different from place to place. Some guys mentioned beers I’d never heard of. But I know the ones I’ve had that tasted like it came from the ass of a dead mule. Thats saying something, for me at least. I frequently settle for budweiser, which while prominent in the US isn’t spectacular. (though I do prefer guiness after my trip to ireland last year) > > The worst, suckiest beer I can recall tasting was **Red White and Blue.** I have not seen it since college in Baltimore in the 80’s. But man, it was vile. Tasted like it was brewed in the radiator of a rusted out Gremlin in a junkyard. My roommate recoiled in horror when he saw it, as he had experiences drinking it in the past. We got a 12 pack of it for free and ended up dumping 10 of them into the sewer. Where presumably it was made. > > A runner up has to be **Black Label.** Again, I haven’t seen it for sale since the late 80s but it was horrible. Tasted like gasoline. I’m sure I could get 30 mpg if I used it for fuel. At a BYOB party in 1988 a friend of mine traded our 6 pack of Heineken for a 12 pack of this noxious liquid to some girls. Sucker. We almost beat him up for that. However we were all too sick from it to do it. > > \*\* > Schaefer\*\* also deserves my hatred. My late uncle loved the stuff though. He’d always serve it when I was on leave visiting. He’d get upset if I got my own beer so my cousin and I would chike it down to make him happy. I didn’t know the still sold that stuff. > [@joebuck20](#): > > Like Filling Pages, I’m a sucker for cheap beer: PBR, Miller High Life, Schlitz, Old Style. I drink them all. > But the one makes me gag is Natty Light. I drank plenty of this shit in college and always paid dearly for it in the dorm bathrooms after a long night of partying. But, again, when you’re 20-years-old you’d drink gasoline if you thought it’d give you a buzz. Haven’t touched the stuff in years. Sounds like both of you and I were running around the same circles back then in Charm City. In the mid 70’s, Natty Boh had a jingle that played incessantly about 15 times every Orioles game on the radio : \*National beer, National beer, You’ll like the taste of National beer. It’s from the Land of Pleasant Living We bring you National beer. \* I got a hard lesson in truth in advertising upon relying that as a reason to go to Baltimore to college. I was surely the first in my class to land in the emergency room drunk, and I was very underage - drinking age still 18 at the time too. Drank a National beer every inning when the jingle came on, at the game itself, and I was halfway to the hospital already. They were waiting for me at the infirmary the next day - the brand new young nurse in charge told me herself. I was her first case. Wonder what ever happened to her, her kindness was wasted on the young, but that was a long time ago now. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nastiest-beer/486742/54 "2009-02-21T02:26:17Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > I’m really tempted to find a bar with Corona both on tap and in the bottle, order one each, and do a side-by-side tasting to determine if the stuff gets skunked because of the clear bottles, or if that’s actually a **desired characteristic** built into the beer. Now that you mention it, I don’t think I’ve ever seen Corona on tap. > [@Shark\_Sandwich](#): > > Oh, and about Corona, I was in Mexico about 10 years ago, and the Coronas I got there were in a short, stubby, brown, barrel-like bottle. Not the clear, tall ones you see here. I don’t remember the beer being as bad as it is now. I remember driving across the border to get Carta Blanca in short stubby brown bottles years ago. The thing I remember most was that the bottom of the bottle had a depression that fit the cap, so you could use the bottom of one bottle to twist off the top of another. That was so impressive I had to open all of the bottles that day. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nastiest-beer/486742/55 "2009-02-21T02:32:39Z")
I can drink really cheap beer and enjoy the hell out of it if it’s cold enough and the day is really hot. I consider stuff like Blatz and Hudepohl\* as ballpark beers. They’re perfect for sitting in the sun during a double-header. Of course a decent beer would taste great too but I think there is a small but vital niche for unpretentious crap. So I’m not a beer snob, okay? There is only one beer I ever tried but couldn’t finish the bottle even to be polite: Blue Moon. I don’t care much for flavored beers, e.g pumpkin ales, etc. They’re okay but taste too tarted up for me. A lemon slice with a wheat beer is delightful so citrus accents aren’t out of the question. But the murky, sweetish Blue Moon orange/coriander dreck is jarringly unpleasant. It tastes like a rotted soft drink. Brrrrrrr. The ballpark cry of my youth: “Hudy! Getcher HUDY here! Let me get to ya before the sun does!” ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nastiest-beer/486742/56 "2009-02-21T02:32:51Z")
O’Keefe’s [Old Vienna](http://www.stubby.ca/bottles-view.php?id=197) lager beer. We weren’t terribly discriminating back when I was 18, but after trying a case of Old Vienna, my friends and I agreed we’d never drink this swill again. We weren’t exactly sure how anybody else could either. I don’t know if they make it any more, but if they don’t, I wouldn’t be surprised. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nastiest-beer/486742/57 "2009-02-21T02:37:19Z")
> [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > The thing I remember most was that the bottom of the bottle had a depression that fit the cap, so you could use the bottom of one bottle to twist off the top of another. That seems to be a characteristic of Mexican stubbies. I remember drinking cases of Tres Equis in that kind of bottle during my sailing days. Another nominee that only Alaskans will know about: **Meister Brau**. The first attempt to brew in The Great Land, back in the late 70s. Total moose-piss. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nastiest-beer/486742/58 "2009-02-21T02:38:38Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > How much did the drinks cost? That may have been the plan. It was all inclusive so nada. My suspicion is that Corona has a contract with the resort. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nastiest-beer/486742/59 "2009-02-21T04:48:31Z")
Red Stripe. No contest. I’ve been to Jamaica twice, and had to put up with this swill. Thank Og for rum. ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nastiest-beer/486742/60 "2009-02-21T05:21:02Z")
Motts applejuice fermented with Fleiscmenns yeast. I figured it was so easy, how could I not try it? I just popped the top, threw in the yeast and added the airlock. After all, the stuff was pastuerized. I have yet to find a use for carbonated apple vinegar. Yea, try and get grosser than that! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nastiest-beer/486742.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nastiest-beer/486742.md?page=4)