Last night me and my buddies were going over this and names like Goebbels, Schaeffer, Piels, Old Milwaukee and Colt .45 came up. What’s the worst beer YOU ever had . . . and what did it taste like?
Miller Lite.
I recently came back from the US, and the conference centre I was holed up in for two weeks had a very limited range of beers. The gang of Brits I was with had to make do with $5 pitchers of Miller Lite (I was not paying $4.50 for a pint of piss-poor Guinness).
I swear that beer was pure water. Not a bubble in sight, not a hint of alcohol. On one night five of us drank three and a half pitchers each. I didn’t feel drunk. I felt fine the next day, too (8am start). Vile stuff.
Runners-up: the late, unlamented alcohol-free beer Kaliber, and the kept-under-the-counter-to-discourage-the-aggressive-alcoholics-9%abv Tennents Super.
(Yes, I know there’s nothing clever about knocking back three and a half pitchers, but it’s not something I normally do)
Sense my experience of beer is limited to what I was able to have in Belgium –
Hoegaarden – absolutely vile stuff.
The worst beer I’ve had from a pump was Greene King IPA. The ads say it’s “designed for drinking”. I disagree.
The worst beer I’ve ever had out of a bottle or can would be one of those ridiculous ice beers. I think it must have been Fosters Ice. It tasted of less than water.
I’ve only tasted Kaliber once. It resembled extremely weak chicory coffee more than it did any kind of beer.
Stroh’s. By a long shot.
I must have strange tastes. I really like Hoegaarden, and Greene King isn’t the worst bitter I’ve had by a long shot.
Satan beer. I don’t know where it’s from but it is vile stuff. The 14% alcohol content is what makes it undrinkable. Way too strong.
One of my friends picked up a six-pack of ‘Beer’ it had no name , it was just a white can that had ‘Beer’ in black writing. He claimed he picked it up at the base commisary, I don’t know if its joke or not, but it was the nastiest crap I’ve ever tasted by far.
mattk, What is the worst bitter you’ve ever had?
Tansu - I’ve had some really bad pints of John Smith’s, Bass, Worthingtons and Tetley’s. Apparently they’re better the further north you go, but I’m not convinced one bit. Flowers isn’t that hot either. The best I’ve ever had was when I went to the Olympia beer festival this year with me dad - there were some smashing pints there…
You’re right about Tetley’s. It doesn’t travel at all well, and I make a point of avoiding it when I’m in the South. I’ve had some good Bass in the South-West, though.
Bad beer is often just kept badly.
guinness, guinness, without a doubt.
it tastes like the piss of a horse with an expresso addiction.
i do like those little balls that come in the cans, though, and even though it is disgusting, it is the beer with the coolest way of defoaming itself
Do homebrew mistakes count?
Three years ago an IPA went bad. I couldn’t even use it to kill slugs.
Worst ever? Guiness stout. Vile, bitter shit. Couldn’t even drink it with pretzels. Urp.
–Tim
Special Export. I never had nightmares about a beer before I drank this vile piss.
I’ll probly get pelted but, SAm Adams. it is so bitter I can’t stand it. I took two sips, because I couldn’t beleive that it could have tastes THAT bad on the first sip.
We did “Bad Beer Parties”.
We purchased the worst beer we could find, and proceeded to have a big old party. And some of the nastiest hangovers possible.
The generic “Beer” (Black and white can) was one of the worst. Along with Miller Light and Pabst Blue Ribbon. The generic…I don’t even think it could be described. I shudder to think of it.
(Homer, love, you’re asking for trouble. Just in case you didn’t already know.)
Mine is a tossup: either warm Milwaukee’s Best Lite, or Cruzcampo. Cruzcampo, for the uninitiated (and they are fortunate) is a Spanish lager; Spain is probably the only nation in the world that could beat America in a bad beer contest. Evil stuff.
Jeepers, where to start?
Worst of show: any malt liquor, particularly Colt .45 or Carlsberg Elephant.
Lagers, I’d have to say Iron City, PBR, Stroh’s or any of several brands that came in 1-liter bottles that you’d find in corner shops in France.
Surely there is a special circle of hell reserved for the makers of Coors Lite, but it has so little taste that it’s not too obnoxious…
Hamms tastes to me like the ass end of a skunk.
But that’s just my opinion.