I usually have an open mind when it comes to trying out alcoholic beverages of the canned variety, but today I tried something on a dare that I really shouldn’t have-grape-flavored Tilt. I mean, I’ve everything from Billy Beer to Clamato Bud, so how bad could a grape flavored malt beverage possibly be?
I’ve only had a third of a can, but I think it is actually giving me an earache, and I’ve had to retype this three times.
Colt Cool. Mentholated Colt 45.
It went down and came right back up. It was the nastiest crap I ever let pass my lips.
Any Lite Beer. It ain’t beer.
But you got to skip the cigarette, right? So it’s healthy…
If only there had been some kind of warning that a GRAPE FLAVORED MALT BEVERAGE might just possibly be a sub-standard product…
The worst thing you’ve had is a lite beer?? These waters are a little deep for you, dude-best you hop over to the kiddie pool.
I’ve said before that Iron City is the only beer I’ve ever had where the lite is better than the regular - but they both suck.
Guess I just watch our for my mental health. What possessed you to drink that swill?
Convincing a friend to try haggis-it was a trade off.
Edited to add-If I “watched out for my mental health”, I wouldn’t be where I am today, now would I?
I think the worst beer-like substance I’ve ever had the displeasure to ingest would have to be Zima.
ETA: Czarcasm, I’d take haggis over lite beer any time. Unless it’s canned haggis. That stuff is awful.
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I couldn’t resist. I had to fix the spelling error in the thread title, even though this isn’t one of my forums. It was driving me crazy.
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The “injest” was for effect, but that’s o.k.
If you haven’t judged a home-brew competition, you haven’t tasted shit “beer.” I was once forced to write on a judging sheet that “I regret to inform you that your yak has developed a kidney condition.”
Thanks for the laugh.
Beer.
Thou art banned from Valhalla.
American-style light beer is pretty banal, but I have no problem drinking it out of politeness without being a dick about it. (By which I mean expressing anything apart from “Hey, beer! Thanks!” by word, deed, or subtle facial expression.) I can think of plenty of run-of-the-mill beers that don’t compare well mass market light beers, too. Hell, I’d choose a Coors Light over O’Keefe’s Extra Old Stock any day, if those were my choices. Hell, whenever I get sushi I order a Kirin, and I don’t think I would be able to distinguish it from any American light lager in a blind test.
When it comes to my regular purchasing habits, though - I am a total beer snob: I rarely stray from either British or Belgian ales or local microbrews - and I can honestly say that the worst beer I’ve ever tasted comes from my very favourite local microbrewery. I will happily drink almost anything that they produce; although their IPA is way too hoppy even for an IPA and is in my opinion a lousy beer, I won’t cry if my wife brings it home by accident. However, for some inexplicable reason, every year they trot out their Lions Winter Ale. Every year, I get a “mixer” case that includes 2 of these thinking that maybe they’re not as bad as I remember them, because it is generally pretty well-regarded. Every year, it goes down the sink just as if it is corked wine. It is the most vile brew I have ever tasted. It tastes exactly like someone made a mash of old socks and tried to cover up their mistake by adding an absurd amount of vanilla extract that has somehow gone rancid. (To me, anyway. I don’t understand how people can comment on this travesty as though it were remotely in the same category as beer.) It doesn’t go down the sink because I’m dissatisfied with its mouthfeel, it goes down the sink because I always have the impression that if I finish it I will *vomit. *
I remember drinking some beer called Grizzly back in the 80’s. It tasted like a skunk died in the bottle.
I remember that crap. Canadian beer was big back in the early-to-mid 80’s, and Grizzly was even cheaper than Moosehead.
Czarcasm, have you tried McMenamins’ pumpkin ale?
It tastes like pumpkin.
I have no idea if they still make it every year…it’s been years since I’ve tasted it.
Absolutely bloody awful.
They still make it every year.
The bastards.