Foo - What's the worst beer?

I tend to lump beer into three categories: Fine (Edit:Of superior quality), OK, and Terrible

Terrible has three subsets, and they are not all cheap gas station beers. There is terrible - burns my stomach (Sam Adams/Yuengling). There is terrible - way overpriced (Heineken/Some African Malt Liquor I Don't Remember). Then there is terrible - Dag Nasty.

My all-time Dag Nastiest beer used to Stella Artois, but it turned out I just got a bad can of it off a street vendor in Budapest. It has quickly been moved to the fine category for beers to have with dinner.

My new all-time Dag Nastiest is Old Peculier. It was like drinking a beer from some sweaty guy's ass crack. I haven't been brave enough to try it again it was so bad. So I have no way of knowing if I got a bad bottle (see Stella above). But that is my vote.

I like Old Peculier, and would kill for a good south african beer
(castle or windhoek lager).

Terrible? most american beers.

Marty

i'm with you there, marty... i can't believe the effluent that passes for beer much of the time south of the border. nasty, nasty stuff.

Sam Adams is probably the worst beer I've ever had. In all fairness to Sam Adams it was early on in my beer drinking days and my tastes have changed. I haven't been willing to try it again tho. Guinness is the best. It's really the only beer I look forward to drinking. If not Guinness, I don't care, but it's usually PBR or some area micro brew.

Edit: Kokanee was my favorite beer in college.

I tend to lump beer into three categories: Fine, OK, and Terrible
I stopped reading there and didn't read any replies. If you think the best beer is "fine" or "ok", then what's the point of starting a beer thread?

3 Stoogies. Pure nasty.

Flat and warm.

I stopped reading there and didn't read any replies. If you think the best beer is "fine" or "ok", then what's the point of starting a beer thread?

I didn't mean fine as "How's your day? Fine", I meant fine as in "of superior quality." (For me, Chimay Rouge)

OK (and I do mean just OK), is the stuff you drink when it's the only one available (For me, Bud bottles).

Heineken or Amstel Gold. They're Belgian, right? Thoroughly awful.

Dos Equis

tecate... god damn mexico beer

best beer: anything from mcausland. they sponsored my cyclo-cross team with 28 cases of beer this fall. good season.

Red, White & Blue

Old Milwaukie

Canadian Beer.. tastes like skunk pizz

... anything under $15.00 a case

Heineken

How do you know what pizz taste like :p

stacey... can't handle the alcohol level in canadian beer, i take it?

Heineken

How do you know what pizz taste like :p


Oh dem golden showers, er... slippers

stacey... can't handle the alcohol level in canadian beer, i take it?
:roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:

Yeah, right :rolleyes: You're talking to someone who drinks Guinness at room temperature.

Heineken or Amstel Gold. They're Belgian, right? Thoroughly awful.


They are Dutch and horrible!

Good beers are Super Bok from Portugal and San Miguel from Spain!

Hoegaarden.

All beer is nasty.

I Hate the taste of beer. I agree with ya Jamie!

Anything that isn't scotch or rye.

:roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:

Yeah, right :rolleyes: You're talking to someone who drinks Guinness at room temperature.

Guinness has less alcohol than pretty much every Canadian beer, only 4.0%. See for yourself...

http://www.realbeer.com/edu/health/calories.php

Most cdn beer has 5 (weak) to 7ish...:)

There are "bad" tasting beers because of strong, offensive taste. That can be the result of storage and shipping problems. Every English beer I had in London was far better than they taste in Houston.

But, what truly offends me are the beers with no taste or flavor at all. Miller Lite is certainly a pathetic excuse for beer. I'm sure that if the USA had any sort of standard for what can be called a "beer", Miller Lite would fail to qualify.

All mass marketed American beers are nasty..With no taste.. I recall Detroit Red Wings games vs. Toronto Maple Leafs..The two fans would face off and threaten the Wings fans with a good dosing of US beer...Take that..There are good American mini brew beers.
Belgium overall has the best selection of beer for any one country..Doubt they have even one bad beer.

We have to bring our own beer because frankly your American beer is like making love in a canoe... It's fu*king close to water.

hmmm, I need to make my post longer ey

So there was a brewers convention, and the president of Budweiser stopped at the bar and asked for a Bud Light. Then the president of Coors came by and asked for a Coors Light. And soon enough, along came the president of Miller, who ordered a Miller Lite.

After a few minutes the president of Guiness came along and asked for a Coca Cola. Recovering from their shock, one of the other three said, "Why'd ya do that?"

And the president of Guiness said, "If you weren't going to drink beer, I decided I wasn't going to either."

Yeah, right :rolleyes: You're talking to someone who drinks Guinness at room temperature.
proves my point... guiness is a low-alcohol beer [3.8%] or something...

There are "bad" tasting beers because of strong, offensive taste. That can be the result of storage and shipping problems. Every English beer I had in London was far better than they taste in Houston.


There was as nasty rumour about 15 years ago that Australian beer barrelled for pubs in the Australian Outback was laced with arsenic to preserve its taste and longevity (!!!?). Might explain a few things with Croc Dundee and his peers...

there's a local beer here in quebec called la maudite [the damned] that has quite a following. it has a ridiculously high alcohol content -- 8% -- and i just can't handle the taste. othger folks seem to like it, though.

proves my point... guiness is a low-alcohol beer [3.8%] or something...

Ya know what... BFD! In MY opinion Canadian beer tastes skunky. My opinion, GTF over it. It's nothing about alcohol content, and all about flavor.


If you need to compensate for a certian "lacking", you should probably look to Enzite.

Ya know what... BFD! In MY opinion Canadian beer tastes skunky. My opinion, GTF over it. It's nothing about alcohol content, and all about flavor.


If you need to compensate for a certian "lacking", you should probably look to Enzite.

Careful with that AOLese, Raiyn will be on your case... err slab... err carton... errr sixpack x 4... err all over you.

Just take care, huh? He's enough to drive you to drink. Just ask Merton! :D

Careful with that AOLese, Raiyn will be on your case... err slab... err carton... errr sixpack x 4... err all over you.

Just take care, huh? He's enough to drive you to drink. Just ask Merton! :D


AOLese? :) Cripes, I don't believe I even typed that! Our postman is even under a death threat if he even thinks of putting one of thosr discs in out postbox.

mayhaps I should have just said "Big ****in deal" instead. ;)

Most American beers do not deserve the name "beer." They start off being pretty tasteless, then they are served so cold that they are absolutely tasteless. But the one that beats them all for tastelessness is Michelob Ultra.
But what can you expect in a country which serves coffee before dessert, thus masking the taste of the dessert. :)

There's so many micro brews to choose from now, that no one needs to drink pabst or black label etc anymore. American draft beer is the worst yet.

Whenever corn or rice enters the recipe of beer, the quality suffers. It's horrid that so many breweries try to save money by using cheaper grains instead of all malted barley. Then consumers get used to the taste of it and when presented with an all malt barley brew they think it tastes bad. Hence the couple of Sam Adams is bad posts. SA (lager, I'm assuming) is a decent brew and has won several awards. I like the stock ale they make too.
There was a reason the Germans instituted the reinheitsgebot, to keep cheap ingredients out of beer. It's ironic that the large breweries in the US were actually started by German brewers. The beers they originally produced were probably pretty good, but after prohibition they altered the original recipes and started using the cheap ingredients.

I take offense to this thread :D . My beer of choice is Old Mil or Pabst. It tastes the best to me. Everyone has their tastes though. I like a good porter too. In fact, anything that is labeled beer I will drink and not have a problem with it. I am originally from Milwaukee so I think it's in my blood. My grandfather used to drink warm Old Mil. I know a couple of you shuddered at that visual :) .

Worst beer, eh? I'd have to go with either Utica Club, or Schaeffers. While i was in school in New Orleans Schaeffers would often be on sale for a little over $2/case, and this was only about 9 years ago.

Schaeffers, the beer to drink when you're out drinkin' beer.

I used to say my favorite beer is "Cold and Free". But now that I can afford to purchase beer I won't drink the US domestic crap (Bud, Miller, PBR) or any beer with the word "lite". I literally spit Michelob Ultra out when I attempted my first swig... That has to be the worst!

Sometimes American beer tastes good to me--like after a long, hard bike ride in the sweltering heat of a Virginia summer. Ya want something ice-cold and that goes down like water. Hey, lots of people like white bread.

Sam Adams is probably the worst beer I've ever had. In all fairness to Sam Adams it was early on in my beer drinking days and my tastes have changed. I haven't been willing to try it again tho. Guinness is the best. It's really the only beer I look forward to drinking. If not Guinness, I don't care, but it's usually PBR or some area micro brew.

Edit: Kokanee was my favorite beer in college.


I don't like Sam Adams because yesterday, a Sam Adams truck wouldn't let me get over so I could turn left, so I had to muscle in, and it chased me and honked. :( They suck!

Then again, I hate all beer... it all tastes nasty to me.

Koffee

Whenever corn or rice enters the recipe of beer, the quality suffers. It's horrid that so many breweries try to save money by using cheaper grains instead of all malted barley. Then consumers get used to the taste of it and when presented with an all malt barley brew they think it tastes bad. Hence the couple of Sam Adams is bad posts. SA (lager, I'm assuming) is a decent brew and has won several awards. I like the stock ale they make too.
There was a reason the Germans instituted the reinheitsgebot, to keep cheap ingredients out of beer. It's ironic that the large breweries in the US were actually started by German brewers. The beers they originally produced were probably pretty good, but after prohibition they altered the original recipes and started using the cheap ingredients.

I think a downgrade probably occured after beer became bottalable.
In the old days beer had to be drunken fresh, after bottling, they could mass produce much more of it, with cheap ingredients to increase the now corporate profits probably.

I think a downgrade probably occured after beer became bottalable.
In the old days beer had to be drunken fresh, after bottling, they could mass produce much more of it, with cheap ingredients to increase the now corporate profits probably.

All these theories and nobody came up with the obvious that they were just trying to improve the taste! :p

I think a downgrade probably occured after beer became bottalable.
In the old days beer had to be drunken fresh, after bottling, they could mass produce much more of it, with cheap ingredients to increase the now corporate profits probably.

Actually, I was partially incorrect, corn & rice addition started in the mid 1800's. The amount increased dramatically however after prohibition & during wartime as supplies of barley became scare. The trend continued though after supply returned no doubt to keep the profit margin higher.

A pretty good article on the topic:

http://home.earthlink.net/~ggghostie/stinks.html

When I was younger we could get Valley Forge Beer in 3 quart bottle bags for a buck. It was some nasty, but it had the alcohol in it we needed to attain the buzz we wanted.

Other than that, Heinikin and Bud stick out as losers IMO.

I had a friend in college who used to make his own beer--in a plastic garbage can. I gotta tell, you had to be totally plastered on something else before you could even look at the stuff.

Anything that's super cheap or has a slick multi-million dollar ad campaign probably sucks. I have been diggin' the newest Guinness ads, tho. "Brilliant!" LOL

This stuff's good, too:

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I was at a party last Friday night that had a keg of Sierra Nevada and then a back up keg of PBR. I like whiskey more than beer so I had been sipping it straight all night (Jack was all they had). Late in the night I had some PBR. A friend of mine noticed this and asked, "Why'd you switch? No more Jack?" and my answer was, "I needed a glass of water and this is all I could find."

Can't remember the name of this stuff. It was beer brewed with hemp seed. It tasted like bong beer.