Stella, for some reason - I know that it’s actually quite a good beer and that lots of people really like it, but I’d even rather drink Kaliber (see post somewhere above)
I have to vote for Stella, not the Belgian beer but the local Egyptian variety. Written on the lable: “What does not kill us makes us stronger”. Yup that was true.
Really it was just home brew with a lable on it. It had a huge amount of variation between bottles/batches. I always rated bottles between one and ten. If it was less that a four you sent it back. Ocasionally bottles would be flat and undrinkable.
Oh, and I forgot to mention the sediment in the bottom.
Despite all of this it was cheap and the weather was always hot so I’ve drunk a lode of this shit. There was a “export” version which was twice as expensive but I was always too much of a skinflint to try it.
While some of the best beer I’ve ever had was in Germany, I also had the experience of finding one of the worst beers there as well: Licher. had an after-taste like it was brewed with used fuel filters for body.
course, it was also the cheapest beer you could find, most bars sold it for just over one mark for .5 litres.
Worst beer of all time? Red, White and Blue. If someone handed you a glass without telling you what it was, you wouldn’t have identified it as beer. Mercifully, I don’t think they make it anymore.
All time worst - Ballentine’s. My brother and I bought a case for $4 about 7 years ago. It made Olympia (Dad’s fave, BTW) taste like Guinness Stout.
I’ve never had Brew 102, which used to be made in LA, but I hear it was really bad.
Dumb Ox said:
I used to drink that stuff in college. For exactly the reason you think–it was cheap.
My vote would be for Miller Lite–sometimes their commercials are funny, but the beer itself sucks canal water…or, rather, tasteslike canal water.
I tried Guinness Extra Stout once. It tasted a great deal like liquified charcoal.
Also…it wasn’t really beer, but let me mention Grape Malt Duck–grape-flavored malt liquor. There was an apple version which wasn’t so bad, but the grape stuff only college students would drink. (Though it made a nice change from Red, White and Blue beer.)
Most US beers are awful, my special “favorite” would be Pearl Lite
I have found a few here in Japan that are even worse- Suntory Malts and the horrendus Beer Water. The name says it all.
Another to hate: VB (Victoria Bitter), an Australian beer so loaded with chemicals your hangover makes decapitation a pleasant alternative.
Anything Lite. What the hell is the point. It’s beer! It’s not supposed to be less filling.
Monthy Python said it best (OK, they were referring to American Beer in general):
“It’s like making love in a canoe. It’s fucking close to water.”
DoctorJ spake:
My thoughts exactly. I don’t know if they’ve changed the formula since I tried it about 15 years ago, but Coldfire’s reference to donkey urine reminded me of what it used to smell like. gak
Not sure how to spell it, but it was forced upon me by some locals in Milwaukee. Blatz. Tasted like it had been left open overnight, and I was told the advertising slogan was something like: “Only $1 a can!”. 
Worst local (NZ) beer… toss up between the country’s most popular: Lion Red, which tastes (to me at least) like Mattk’s description of Vic Bitter, or Carlton Stripe, who’s slogan is “Tastes best when you’ve earned it!”. I’ve obviously never earned one.
Yes, Licher in Germany is crap. But the worst mass-marketed German beer (of which most can be surprisingly bad) is definitely Öttinger. It’s very cheap and can be found anywhere, but if you ever spend time in Germany, do yourself a favor and shell out the extra 10-20 cents a bottle for something better.
I’m afraid there are even worse NZ beers than old Lion Red. (And I believe Carlton Stripe is an Aussie concoction).
Loaded Hog Wheat Beer - A headless, gaseous, tasteless liquid, not even remotely redeemed by having a cartoon pig on the label.
Tui East India Pale Ale - Just like the name says, ‘pale ale’.
There are a number of ‘local’ brews available which all seem to be the same gnats’ water sold under a different region’s name, that aren’t even worth mentioning.
But the worst beer I’ve ever had, was made by some half-arsed attempt at a micro-brewery called Mike’s or something. Not so much a beer as a pint of brown shit with dish-washing liquid on top.
(Ok the shit analogy is a guess, but trust me, the dish-washing liquid is bang on)
I think I’ve actually pummelled my tastebuds into submission to the point where even really bad beer tastes all right to me.
But I’m with everyone who questioned the point of light beer. What is the point? Less calories means less alcohol, and in my view that completely defeats the purpose of drinking beer. I mean, I love the taste of beer now, but it was a taste I had to acquire, and if there were no alcohol payoff I wouldn’t have bothered. In that event I would now be buying a case of Mountain Dew every Friday night.
I’ve thankfully forgotten the name of the beer. All I know is that it smelled like skunk. I thought I was hallucinating until another friend gagged. shudder
Tequiza
Lone Star
Pabst Genuine Draft-GaK!!
Steel Reserve(it’ll give you a great buzz, but midway through the 40, it’ll give you “Hangover mouth”)
Wiedemeyer
I’ll second Kaliber
Uhh, that’s it for now.
-Sam
And would our well-respected Fille d’Élan care to explain just how she knows what a SKUNK smells like??
Hi Mustapha – nice to see another Kiwi around the SDMB.
Odd aside: I did a bit of a double take from your profile and webpage… I have a cuz who’s a freelancer and used to live in Stratford. Weird, no?
Shudder Yep, I’m sure there are, but Lion Red makes me swell up like a puffer fish – really not a selling point as far as I’m concerned. :eek:
What I don’t get is that it’s our biggest selling beer. We make some excellent beer here (Montheiths, Speights, Macs, etc) and people want to drink this noxious witch’s brew?!
Have these people got no taste?
Busch Lite has to be number one on my all-time worst list, although Milwaukee’s Best and American Budweiser definitely rank up there with the rest of 'em. Generally, all American macrobrews suck sweaty monkey testicles. French beer, on the whole, blows, too. Stick with the wine, my friends.
But the all-time worst idea, which I mentioned in another thread, was this beer I just had in Moscow. It was a Russian beer flavored with almonds and basil. I shan’t say more.
The worst for me is a toss-up between the 2 nastiest beers I’ve tasted:
Natural Ice
Milwaukee’s Best.
I had a can of Beast once and I spit it out. Nasty stuff.
Jman