Pretty much agreed on all of the above. I used to actually drink High Life, since a lot of people who seem to enjoy the better beers like this one as a cheap beer, but I soon discovered that Old Style and PBR are probably my two favorite American-style adjunct lagers (or whatever you want to call them.) and High Life or MGD I’m just not a fan of.
My all-time most hated beer is Busch Light. Even at keggers in college, before I really began too explore beer and discover what I liked, I just could not drink a cupful of that stuff. I also have memories of Milwaukee’s Best (“the Beast”) being particularly craptacular, too.
I’ve been avoiding bad beer since college, and even then we’d always manage to scrape enough together to get a twelve pack of Henry Weinhards or some Mickey’s Big Mouth, we had some dignity and taste, after all.
I have to wonder where you people are buying your Corona: it’s not a good beer, but it’s not truly horrible, especially on a hot day; Red Stripe is a fair shade worse, but it’ll do you fine if you’ve been diving all day and it’s the only thing within 10 miles of the boat. I can even drink Budweiser under duress, but can’t handle Coors or Miller-- I just can’t get down more than a couple swigs before i decide maybe I’ll just have a soda, or some water, damn the party.
My submission/digression: if you’re not familiar with a chelada, you take a mexican lawn mower beer (I prefer Pacifico for this), add in some tabasco, salt, lime juice, spicy V-8 or what-not, serve on the rocks in a pint glass-- basically similar to a bloody mary, but lighter and more effervescent. Sound gross? You should try it, it’s really pretty okay, and great on a hot morning! But then…
A couple months ago in a budget supermarket I ran across a display case of Budweiser-Clamato Chelada beer in king cans, both Lite and full-flavored. I had to buy a couple, of course. It was possibly one of the worst things ever. Undrinkable. One and 7/8 of a can went down the sink with a splash of regret and extreme prejudice.
Though worse that that even I think was Milwaukee’s Best. We used to call it The Beast because it totally tore you a new one the next day. But I gotta tell you, cheap! We used to fill the bathtub in our dorm suite with ice and dump a shitload of Beast in there and have very good parties.
I gave up beer a long time ago because it’s fattening. I don’t miss it, especially that stuff! :eek:
Milwaukee’s Best first became available in my area when I was in high school. We called it “potato beer”, because … well, it seemed to have a potato-like taste. Nasty stuff.
I wonder how many of the classic nasty old-man beers of the 1980s – Hamm’s, Piel’s and Champale were among the worst of the lot – are still around. There’s also the classic worse-than-warm-Genny Upstate New York bilgewaters: Utica Club and Koch’s.
I was hooked on micheladas this past summer. I start with Tecate, Pacifico, or Modelo, use the spicy Clamato, and Valentino as my hot sauce. Refreshing and satisfying stuff - I could drink pitchers of it.
Forgive my beer ignorance, but I’ve heard the term “skunked” or “skunkiness” in this thread in regards to bad beer. What does that mean?
I like beer, but don’t drink a WHOLE lot because the ones I like seem to cost more than others. Mmmm, Guinness, Southwicks, a couple of the Sam Adams beers. So I ony know what I like, not a lot about beer in general.
A little know fact, imported beer has to be run through a nuclear reactor as coolant and then strained through an old sock before it can be sold in the US. I think it’s called pasteurization, not sure.
I’m not a huge fan of today’s Miller beer. Not that it ranks as the worst but back in the 70’s it had a yeast bread taste to it that was delicious. They changed it to something with no distinction to it at all. They should bring it back as Miller Bright or some such marketing gimmickry.
Although I quit drinking a long time ago, I drank almost all the beers mentioned here in the 80’s. I actually liked Gennessee Pale Ale. Old Milwaulkee and Milwaulkee’s Best were bad, but drinkable because they were cheap. I liked Hamm’s, Olympia, Ranier and couldn’t tell Budweiser from Busch. Meisterbrau was awful, but it was cheap, and not as bad as Carling’s Black Label and Buckhorn. Coors lightwas too watery for me. Every Corona I drank was skunky. Sclitz Malt Liquor was awful: bitter, heavy and over-hopped. Keystone is cheap beer with a cheap beer taste.
I’d have to nominate some old school upstate NY beers:
Genessee Cream Ale or beer. Drank waay too many of them. Wow, they’d make you pay in every way the next day.
Schmidt’s- I think we can blame Pittsburgh for this if I remember right. Awful taste, awful hangover.
Matts- malt flavored with an acrid paint thinner edge. Made many of my friends sick numerous times. Their claim to fame was their early introduction of the beer ball. The brewery has completely rehabilitated itsself with it’s wonderful line of Saranac beers. One of my favorite breweries now.
I’m going to have to put in another vote for Corona. AFAICT, it is only consumed by complete and total douches. In my bar-hopping days, I would, as a rule, never carry on a conversation with somebody who was drinking a Corona. I found that, more likely than not, he would end up being an ass.
