# What is the worst animal beer? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** beer\ **Created:** [January 27, 2021, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-animal-beer/931640 "2021-01-27T20:34:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-animal-beer/931640/81 "2021-01-30T17:27:24Z")
Ballast Point has a nice aquarium of sea life brews featuring Manta Rays, Sculpin, Big Eye (tuna), Wahoo, Big Mouth Bass, Dorado, Grunion and Marlin. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-animal-beer/931640/82 "2021-01-30T19:42:51Z")
Maybe. It reminds me of that ancient SNL skit parodying the Smuckers ads, “with a name like Smuckers, it has to be good.” The parody featured Chevy Chase zestfully making assorted proclamations like, “With a name like painful rectal itch, it has to be good!” ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-animal-beer/931640/83 "2021-01-30T19:45:52Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Ballast Point has a nice aquarium of sea life brews featuring Manta Rays, Sculpin, Big Eye (tuna), Wahoo, Big Mouth Bass, Dorado, Grunion and Marlin. That remind me…Bell’s Two Hearted Ale. [![](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0067/6030/0609/products/bells-two-hearted-ale-4pack-cans_1600x.jpg) ](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0067/6030/0609/products/bells-two-hearted-ale-4pack-cans_1600x.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![leswax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@leswax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leswax)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-animal-beer/931640/84 "2021-01-30T20:08:23Z")
I’ll nominate Lionshead Pilsner. When I was in college circa 2004 they still had returnable bottles, which would bring the case price down to around $13. Best part of the beer were the rebus puzzles printed on the underside of the cap. Seems like it’s still around. > **[Lion Brewery, Inc. | Lionshead](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_Brewery,_Inc.#Lionshead)** > > Lionshead beer was introduced in 1983. It has since become the flagship brand for the brewery, and has been expanded to include craft brew offerings. It is primarily available in Pennsylvania, with limited distribution in other states. Lionshead bottle caps display rebus puzzles originally created by the Falstaff Brewing Corporation. The top of the Lionshead cap has a gold lion's paw on a maroon background and the words "claw off" on it. In the early 2000s, bottles had "The Best Head in As of 2... ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-animal-beer/931640/85 "2021-01-30T22:25:49Z")
“Our product has a name so disgusting you can’t even say it on TV. Ask for it by name!” ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-animal-beer/931640/86 "2021-01-31T07:14:55Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > Thai beer seems to be entirely composed of animal beers > > [https://www.google.com/search?source=univ&tbm=isch&q=thai+beer+labels&client=firefox-b-1-d&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjB5t3cgL3uAhXjNX0KHe3RC7cQjJkEegQIAxAB&biw=1269&bih=982](https://www.google.com/search?source=univ&tbm=isch&q=thai+beer+labels&client=firefox-b-1-d&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjB5t3cgL3uAhXjNX0KHe3RC7cQjJkEegQIAxAB&biw=1269&bih=982) > > Including Leo beer, which confusingly features not a lion but a jaguar (or maybe that’s a tiger, not sure). Leo is pisswater, but it’s cheap pisswater, so it’s popular. A lot of local drinkers like Chang, which is Thai for “elephant.” I find it pretty awful myself. It started out high octane, something like 8% alcohol, and a bar I used to frequent in the Nana Plaza red-light center called, really, The Cathouse had a four-hour happy hour from 4-8pm that featured all-you-can-drink Chang for something like 10 bucks American, maybe a little less. And let me tell you, come 8pm, it was NOT a pretty sight. They quietly reduced the alcohol content after awhile. My favorite remains Singh beer, which is Thai for “lion.” Boon Rawd Brewery, its maker, has for years had to battle unfounded rumors that it contains formaldehyde. The best I can figure, some drinkers down 30 bottles, then wake up with a raging hangover, so decide the rumors must be true. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-animal-beer/931640/87 "2021-01-31T07:25:21Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > My favorite remains Singh beer, which is Thai for “lion.” Side note: The beer is spelled Singha, but the “A” at the end is silent, so I keep forgetting it’s there. Also, looking at the link in **squeegee’s** post, I see Tiger beer is incorrectly named a Thai beer. It’s out of Singapore (although under license by Heineken). (And I believe that’s a leopard on the Leo label.) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-animal-beer/931640/88 "2021-01-31T15:53:53Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > “Our product has a name so disgusting you can’t even say it on TV. Ask for it by name!” I have always maintained that we could be spared a lot of lousy TV commercials if the FTC or whoever had one additional very simple rule: Whatever the product is, they have to show somebody using it as intended. If it’s a car they need to drive it, not just walk around the showroom floor while the camera ogles the babe ogling the car. If it’s food they need to eat it, not just show folks laughing and smiling around a table with forks poised near faces. And if it’s hemorrhoid cream … See how well my idea would work! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-animal-beer/931640/89 "2021-01-31T20:22:43Z")
Crudely drawn?!? That’s art by [Ralph Steadman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Steadman), perhaps best known for his collaboration with Hunter S. Thompson. It was Steadman who (at Thompson’s instigation) was going to paint “Fuck the Pope” on the side of a yacht until his shaking of the can of spray paint attracted unwanted attention. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-animal-beer/931640.md?page=4)