Yes, really. It was not only the vilest beer I ever drank, it was the vilest beverage of any kind.
Strangely enough it was at the Great British Beer Festival. I tried an ale that was black as stout (and had a very high alcohol content). A bloke that saw what I was buying almost got an orgasm when he described all the fruity tastes I was going to experience. He looked somewhat disappointed when I took a swig and said “This my friend is molasses that someone has poured vodka in”. It was truly horrible, sweet as hell and reeking of alcohol.
Ha! Stay away from my meads then. I brew Braggots that are super high alcohol, with a load of honey to keep it sweet. It is like the port wine of mead. You either love it or hate it though.
A friend makes a Raisin-Sherry mead that is like that. Keeps getting better and better with age, too. The 19 year old bottle we opened a few years ago was heavenly.
It wasn’t a barleywine was it? I like barleywine but I have noticed that in terms of personal preference it’s pretty much a “love it/hate it” style of beer.
Yeah we have one that’s going on 9 years and it is smoooooooth…
Man, I had this beer with a whole jalapeno inside its clear bottle. At first it tasted like those nasty-assed canned wax beans I had once when I was a kid, but vaguely carbonated. After I swallowed, the distinct throat burning of post-vurp bile leftover showed up and I poured the rest of the six-pack out.
One of the very few beers of any kind where I could not finish even one bottle.
Why in the world did you pick up a whole six-pack?
Now we know that we must keep our civil face on when we accept a truly horrible brew when visiting, but beer is like the type of person you like to wake up next to in the morning.
All very personal.
However, here in Sydney there used to be a beer called Resch’s…a uniquely strange thing
loved by many, many people and despised by a far greater number.
On sighting an ambulance in full flight with beacons flashing and siren blaring my immediate
thought is, " Oops! Someone has had a Resch’s!".
Back when I had roommates I opened up a bottle of Wild Blue that was in the pantry for a while. It’s a fruit beer by Budweiser, though there’s no obvious branding to indicate it. It tastes like blueberries - purified, super-sweet artificial blueberry essence. I took a couple of sips before pouring it out. Then I realized why it was untouched so long - it was too shitty even for my college alco-energy drink guzzling roommates.
I don’t drink. I don’t like the taste of beer, but Guinness tasted more like watered-down beer to me.
That should help clear up any confusion.
I hate Clamato juice and tomato juice. I have already been banned from Canadian Valhalla because the idea of a caesar (beer and Clam here, eh) makes me want to puke. The smell alone…ugh.
However, I am not one to speak of beer. The idea of these fruity beers intrigues me, because I like my booze fruity, and I am happy for this new ‘beer with lime!’ craze because I don’t have to be the weird person without a beer.
And because someone mentioned Four Loko upthread, I’ll mention the time I had a prepackaged Rockstar with Vodka*. I actually became more tired. If alcohol and caffeine can’t keep me going, whatever will I do?
Do you guys have these in the States? The popular energy drinks like Rockstar and Full Throttle have branded versions with vodka you can buy at the liquor store. Perfect for the lazy bastards who doesn’t even want to have to mix the two themselves.
Fermented horse milk. The Mongolians I used to work with drank it. They fooled me into taking a swig (before I knew what it was) by calling it “Mongolian beer”. Hey, what the hell did I know; I can’t read Mongolian.
Tastes…well, exactly like you’d expect fermented horse milk to taste. Rancid, foul, and wrong on just about every level. My reflexive response wasn’t to gag, but to wonder if I ought to call poison control.
Finished off the rest of the bottle, though, once they told me what in the seven hells I’d just imbibed. I wasn’t sure whether they were putting me on, and you really didn’t want to insult some of 'em…
One of my biggest annoyances here is when someone posts, “X number of posts and no one has mentioned Y??”
That being said…ahem…
113 posts and no one has mentioned Tequiza?? Man, that is some nasty-ass swill. I’ve had beers that I didn’t like to much, but still managed to get through, because, dammit, I paid for it. The one time I tried Tequiza, however, I could not get past a couple of ounces before giving up on it. It was so absolutely foul. It didn’t taste like beer, or tequila, or lime, at all. I’m not sure what the hell it tasted like. “Swill” is the best way I can describe it.
Japanese happoushu (literally “carbonated alcohol”) and dai-san no biiru (third beer) are vile, vile “beverages”.
They invented happoushu as a cheap, low-tax “alternative” to beer. When the government wised up and raised the taxes on these “drinks”, the brewers came up with and “alternative-to-the-alternative”, the third beer.
Ever tried Framboise Lambic Ale? Delicious raspberry taste and cool color.
Barley wine is just a collective name for strong ales, it’s no beer style in itself, so I suppose you could call it that.
Its seems like yesterday; a dorm party where everyone puts a 6 pack into a huge cooler and by the nights end, people drink whats left.
Yes, that was my first (and last) Amstel ( ‘Bulimia in a Bottle’ evidently being too long to print). Can you Really lose weight drinking Amstel Light? Why yes… Yes you can… 
Back when I used to brew beer, this type of beer was one I got asked for a lot. I had a pretty good following too. One time, however, a batch was ready but I had no more peppers. I asked my wife to please pick up some at the market that day. My wife came home with a brown bag of different plumper peppers, which wouldn’t fit down the neck of the bottles, so I cut them into quarters and capped that case. And later that week, I gave out most of them for free as was my custom. I held on to 6 just to try the batch.
1 week after capping, it was a spicy lager; cold, it was like eating buffalo wings & drinking cold beer.
2 weeks after capping, it was a really spicy lager; it was like eating the single hottest wings you’ve ever had in your life and trying to dowse the flames in beer.
3 weeks after capping, it was like trying to hide from a SAC Napalm Run by diving inside a dixie cup of beer.
4 weeks after capping, I was afraid the glass would melt, so I poured the rest out. (Weeds still don’t grow in that part of the yard.)
You know, none of my friends ever complained, but no one ever asked for a free bottle of beer after that…
One of the best broths I’ve ever had was a chili spiced beer made by a friend of mine in Edinburgh. He does not go by the name C*** the Brewer for nothing.
I just remember when I spent a week in Columbus OH. My colleagues and I spent a couple of days exploring the town, drinking Columbus Pale Ale from a local microbrewery and took a liking to it. On Friday we were asked if we wanted to go out and have something to drink with some people from the company we visited, so there we sat drinking CPA by the pitcher (everybody but one person who preferred something else) when it turned out that one of them was quitting his job so we had a toast for him. At that point it turned out that all pitchers of pale ale were empty so we had to fill our glasses with the something else: Bud Light. :eek:
The Beer Judge Certification Program disagrees with you.
So does RateBeer.
Michael Jackson, who I’d certainly consider a definitive source, is a bit fuzzy on whether Barleywine is a well-defined style, but absolutely does not consider it a “collective name for strong ales.”