First time I tried one of those (from the holiday pack, of course; I think it was the first year they made it but I could be wrong) it was awful.
Tried one from another holiday pack a couple of years later, and it was GOOD. I don’t know what they changed, but it worked.
I saw a bottle of Mad Dog 20/20 in the orange bottle for 99¢. I figured “meh, a dollar, even if it’s bad it’s just a dollar” Oh how naive I was then. It smelled like orange-drink scented fingernail polish remover. It actually tasted like rubbing alcohol and paint thinner. I got through maybe a third of a 12 oz bottle before blinding pounding headaches started. I left the remains on the side of an offramp, I figured I made some bum’s day
I guess for an actual beer related product, that’d be Wild Blue blueberry lager. It smells like blueberry, tastes like someone dripped battery acid off their anus into each and every bottle. Then added artificial blueberry flavoring similar to what you’d find in a snowcone. At a staggering 8% ABV guaranteed to get you fucked up. I drank the whole six pack because it was almost $9 and by god I’m not going to waste money like that.
Samuel Adam’s Cranberry Lambic is indeed vile. I love lambics too, but bouv’s description is accurate.
Steel Reserve. Like thick sweet piss.
ETA - y’know, it wasn’t actually Steel Reserve. What the fuck was that called??
Ah, found it ! Camo.
Joe
I don’t know if I’d describe it as vomit, but I agree with you that the Sam Adams cranberry lambic isn’t particularly good. (I would say it’s easily their worst beer.)
Yeah, that logic has got me into tons of terrible beer. Most recent was some pumpkin ale. Figured, I like pumpkin spice and I like beer so it was a sure shot. Poured it in a glass, and it smelled great but when I tasted it, I got nothing but flat and syrupy pumpkin juice.
It’s for people who don’t like the taste of beer - they just like to piss!
Hrmm. Perhaps a Danish beer called Faxe. 10% alcohol and tastes like ass in a can.
It gets you good and ripped though.
I actually like Faxe, once in a while. Maybe slightly different - the variety we see up here is only 8%.
I can admit that it is not pleasant above a certain temperature, though. It’s nice around seven degrees Celsius - once it reaches fourteen degrees or so it has a sort of cloying, off-putting taste.
Not for drinking in series, for sure!
Currently,
New Glarus - Spotted Cow
Smithwick’s
Chimay Grand Reserve if it’s a special occasion
The Grape Joose is bad, but they have worse.
Faxe is the name of the brewery. They do several beers.
To be honest, the most commonly seen one in Sweden is quite nice. Swedish beers amazingly poor. Take the worst mainstream US beer and make it shitter. That’ll get you the best Swedish mainstream beer. Pripps Blå is an insult to the very concept of life.
The Limonade hasn’t made an appearance at our house, I forgot about the Watermelon.
Take off brand jolly ranchers - not the real ones, the ones you find in the dollar store spelled Jollie Ranchars - soak them in old Budweiser and gym socks. Add all the chemistry that makes Red Bull taste great…sell it to teenagers to drink behind the football stands.
The guys who game here every other Friday night have been on a journey to find the worst malt beverage they can (bad wines and other forms of “who the hell would drink that” have made guest appearances. Including Clamato. The green apple Evil Eye was not popular either.
It started because I was daring to make fun of Michelob Tuscan Orange Grapefruit.
I don’t drink beer - I can’t stand the taste of hops and I’m gluten intolerant (malt beverages have gluten in them). But I’ve had a few sips of these - some of them have been the stuff of nightmares.
Why was I one of the unlucky few who had the misfortune to taste this swill?
It was for sale at the corner store and a friend of mine thought it would be hilarious to get it for his menthol smoking friend. I don’t think you can make a worst tasting beer if you seeped Newports in Old Milwaukee.
P.S. It apparently had a blue cast.
The worst was the ‘Dry Beer’ that was big about 25 years ago. And a total ripoff too. We got about three pulls on the tap before it went wet.
Just must’ve been your day in the barrel. Seems so cynical and racist to combine menthol and malt liquor. Does it come in a gift pack with a KFC gift certificate and a subscription to Grape Soda Quarterly?
Also, what the shit were you thinking, drinking menthol beer? It’s… unimaginably foul-sounding.
Joe
Is it me or have we had a lot of these threads lately?
The first big one I remember was Cheap Beer.
It’s where I first heard of Beer 30, a beer I still have not tried($10 get you a 30 pack).
Fosters Lager, looks like beer, solds as beer, is in a beer can or stubbie but tastes like shite. Aussies laugh when we see it being drunk over seas.
Huh. I thought it was a pretty standard lambic. The lambics I can’t stand are the overly sweetened lindemens ones that can’t be distinguished from a wine cooler. Unfortunately, that’s almost all the lambics they sell in the states. It’s very hard to find a good lambic, that’s why I appreciated the cranberry lambic.
I think we talked about this in the other thread, and I certainly prefer stuff like Cantillion, Hanssens, and 3 Fonteinen, but Sam Adams lambic doesn’t even taste like a lambic to me. At least the last time I had it, it didn’t have the tell-tale funk and acidity of a good lambic. There’s just something really odd about it.
I really want to try a real lambic, though I do enjoy Lindemans as well. I just have no idea where to find one where I live.
It’s $14.99 at the gas station across the road from where I live. I might eventually buy it just out of morbid curiosity.
