Let’s try that again (HAMP)…
Old Millwater or Genny Cream Ale. They do bring me back though. They were the first beers I ever had, and I only got them when we were haying. After spending a day trying to stack bales that weigh more than you do faster than the kicker can throw them at you, anything liquid is a slice of heaven.
Any and all IPAs. Oh god they’re horrible. 
Hamms(sp?). Three guys coming home from a rugby game, we stop for a six pack for the road and for some reason got Hamms. We threw them all out the window. We were in the middle of Kansas so that meant a hundred miles with no beer. That’s right, three rugby players with almost a hunded miles to go would rather throw them out than drink them.
Another vote for Corona. I am still laughing at the such a crappy beer became such a fad based only on marketing and certainly not on taste.
I also cannot stand Bud Light.
Granville Island Brewery is my favourite local microbrewery. They can do no wrong.
Except for their “Lions Winter Ale,” which is actually undrinkable. Worse than merely mediocre (like Molson’s or Bud) this beer is extravagantly horrible. It’s not just that it’s not a festbock, as you might expect from the presentation - they’ve gone for a Christmas theme by adding subtle notes of (bitter) chocolate, and a horrible vanilla that tastes like a whore’s perfume. It has a horrible, cloying, lingering taste. To attempt to drink this is like falling into an open sewer.
Every time I’ve ended up with one of these, thinking “It can’t be as bad as I remember it,” or “Maybe it’s alright a a fourth beer,” it’s gone down the sink, just like all the others. (And I can drink Coors Light, when mandated by politeness.)
Goebbel’s was terrible. And had a horrible name, now that I think about it.
Remember ICE beers? They gave me a headache before they gave me a buzz.
There’s a Scottish beer that’s made with spruce (and another from seaweed). It tastes great.
I think this is an urban legend. Mexicans certainly don’t drink Corona with a slice of lime, from what I’ve heard. It’s purely a marketing device for a Western market, AFAIK.
I have many fond memories regarding and caused by Lucky lager but certainly not the taste. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Lager
Especially since most homebrewers tend to overhop them.
As a historical homebrewer, I’ve had more than my share of nasty beer. Guys, the stuff that people made from ingredients they were only using because it was a famine…let’s not re-create that, ok? Just because empty pea pods can be fermented doesn’t mean pea pods should be fermented.
Do malt liquors or Euro-style beers count, too?
Ever had that EKU stuff? Tastes like it should be used to de-chrome bumpers and strip finish off furniture - and is like 14% alcohol or something…
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.
I’m dating myself here, but I remember as a kid in the mid 70’s that supermarkets went through a “generic” phase (at least at the military commissary). They didn’t have store brands of foods, they had a generic brand. And when I say generic, I mean just that. It was like the Dharma food on Lost: white box or can with black lettering, ingredients on the side. Macaroni and Cheese Dinner. Cut Green Beans. Corn Puffed Cereal. And yes, just “Beer.” This was before the lite beer craze, so all there wasn’t any of that.
My Dad’s a cheap beer connoisseur, so he bought some. He didn’t finish the six pack.
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 recently tried one of Rubicon’s brews (either the IPA or Red) at the Celebrator Best of the West Beerfest on Sunday. It was the only beer I poured out all evening. Just terrible.
I remember when I was like, 18, and we’d go to the beach for a bonfire, because that was pretty much the only comfortable way for 18-year-olds to get drunk. Even then, I remember trying some Rolling Rock and thinking, “man, I may be 18, but this stuff is piss.”
Seriously. Some friends brought that to my NYE party and were really excited about it (like someone had brought Yuengling to California). I took a swig and was very WTFed by their enthusiasm.
I object to the fruit. Not because it’s not manly (I’m perfectly comfortable sucking down Scorpion Bowls) but I figure that is a beer needs any preparation beyond opening and pouring in a glass, you should probably just start with a better beer in the first place. Ferret Herder- Corona’s also available in cans, though they’re very hard to find (I’ve seen it once, not counting in The Big Lebowski).
Get.
OUT.
:points:
Samuel Adam’s Triple Bock - tastes like burnt maple syrup mixed with crap. For a party my friend and I each bough a bottle at $4 a piece along with a case of cheep beer, after a swig we both spit it out into the sinks and proceeded to make sure every one else tried the beer 1 guy puked because he wanted to prove what a man he was and drank about half a bottle. Once we were out we decided to buy more for the late comers after the 5th liquor store we realized the entire town was out of that crap. At the time I was living in Golden, Co and Coors Light cost about the same as water.
I know a guy that absolutely loves Hamm’s. You could have driven past his house on your way through Kansas and thrown them in his yard. 
Do they still make Stag? Man, that was some nasty stuff. I remember a friend of mine in college buying a case of that stuff for something like five or six dollars, and that included the deposit on the returnable bottles!
When I saw the thread title, Carling Black Label was what I thought of. When I was a teenager, around 16, my Mom used to give our dog a little beer (not CBL) now and then. She bought some Black Label, and I was having a can, and it was nasty. I poured it in the dog’s bowl, and she wouldn’t drink it either. How bad is it when desperate teenagers and dogs won’t drink your beer?
That picture is the single most hilarious thing I’ve seen today.
They also make bad beer in Germany. My former duty station was near a monastery in Bavaria. The monks made and sold their own beer…Ettaler. We used to serve it at the NATO community Club Bar, hell, it was on tap.
And it was nasty. But I think most of us non-germans didn’t notice at first because we were into the “Its german beer made by monks, it HAS to be good!” thing. Until we realized…it had a taste that was dull but stayed in your mouth hours after you drank it. It also tasted like it was laced with bug spray. It also gave you a raging hangover. I’m talking a hangover so bad you want to sever your own brain stem to make it go away!
…and it gave you the shits somethin’ awful. I thought I was going to actually take off like a rocket one morning after drinking it.
Pretty bad. Dogs will lick their testicles. Dogs will lick another dog’s ass. But they won’t drink Black Label.
Or perhaps they lick the asses of other dogs to get rid of the taste?
I’d nominate Lone Star or Pearl. I’ve never had either that didn’t taste bad and somewhat skunky. I know Texas brewers can do better than these two.
OTH, I’ve never had a Corona that was anywhere near skunky. Maybe I’ve just been lucky. To me, Corona is a better version of Miller High Life, both “meh” beers that go well with a meal. They don’t taste like much, so they don’t interfere with the flavors of the food.