I like to try a lot of different craft beers and will sometimes take crazy chances. last night I picked up a six of something called Wild Blue Bluberry Lager. I’m not usually big on fuity beers but once in a while I don’t mind it, and it promised an 8% ABV , so what the hell.
Terrible mistake. First of all (although it says so nowhere on the label or the packaging), internet research (namely beeradvocate) revealed it to be a stealth Anheuser-Busch product. Secondly, it tastes like blueberry Nyquil. Just nasty. Virtually undrinkable.
Still, it’s not the worst beer I’ve ever tried. The absolute bottom of the barrel for me would have to be Steel Reserve. Just vile, unhoy stuff.
What’s the most revolting piss beer you’ve ever poured down your face?
Yes that’s the worst beer I ever had. Wild Blue Blueberry Lager tastes like blueberries soaked in battery acid, with a cornbeer pisswater finish. After I drank the first one I drank the others only to continue bitching about how awful it was. I used to drink Steel Reserve back in the day, but if I had to pick between it and the Blueberry Lager I would pick water.
I have heard nothing but horrible things about Cave Creek Chili Beer, and I will just take their word for it.
Probably the worst I ever drank, back in my ‘broke student’ days, was Red, White and Blue. An employee at a liquor store that specialized in imported beers told me that Red, White and Blue was literally Pabst Blue Ribbon that was substandard. Not good enough to be Pabst Blue Ribbon and people still drink it?:eek:
Drummond Brothers, 1982. Was grilling out with two friends. All of us were serious beer drinkers, all of us were broke. The local market had an endcap display of this swill for 99cents/six pack. Picked up one.
The next morning we all had headache/hangovers. I’ve never gotten a headache before or since. It had no taste, which would have been OK, but the aftereffects…
One of the forfeits at a fundraiser was to drink an unrefrigerated bottle of Chang that had been retrieved from the sea floor after the tsunami. The worst bit was that it was Chang.
I’ll add Hong Kong-brewed San Miguel (Sun Lig = Life Power = instant hangover) and Carlsberg (Gah Si Bat = the noise you make as you spit it out). In China I had Hans which was pretty vile, and Blue Sword (?) which was worse.
One I’ve never worked up enough gumption (or enough beer-need) to try: Budweiser Chelada: a blend of freakin’ Budweiser beer and clamato juice! Seriously, I couldn’t work up the nerve to drink either of these on their own, let alone mixed!:eek:
They had the Brazilian beer Brahma on offer at the supermarket the other day, so I bought a four-pack. It’s virtually undrinkable (admittedly I did drink a couple just to make sure). It’s like brown fizzy water with just a hint of beery taste. I rarely like Latin American beers, but this stuff has knocked Sol off the Worst Beer perch, for me.
I feel rather lucky to have avoided some of those abominations. The worst beer I have ever drunk was ‘Christmas Beer’ (I forget the brand name, if the brewers were bold enough to actually put their name on it) which sounds quite tame by comparison.
I’d have said Arrogant Bastard Ale. Until I tried budweiser chelada. Absolutely godawful. I learned to tolerate the cheapies back in the day: Natty light, the Beast, Lone Star etc. Even finished off that bottle of AB ale. But I just can’t even choke down that chelada. Vile, hateful drink.
I had a friend from Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania who was proud of the fact that Yuengling is the oldest brewery in America. So on a trip to Penn, we bought a case for each of us. He was the only one who could drink the stuff. It honestly tasted like they were still selling beer from the first batch made in 1829. Four cases of beer went to waste. And I can tolerate Keystone, that’s how bad this stuff was.
That ad alone is enough for me not to drink it. There seems to be a trend in both beer and wine over the last few years to be clever. Too often it tries too hard, and comes across inane and 20something childish. (and if their target demographic is the 20something crowd it’s all good)
I drink mostly ‘craft’ beers. And I am fully aware that marketing is necessary to move product. But I’d be happier if they’d ratchet down the shtick and let the beer do the talking.
