What's the worst beer you've had?

the beer revolu

I never thought I'd be able to easily define the worst beer I've tasted. It's not easy to define one's favourite beer - I have several favourites - and I've tasted quite a few pretty awful beers.
Last night, however, I had a beer that simply has to jump out as being the worst beer I've ever tasted...................:

Brewmeister Hopped to The Gates of Hell.
Jaysas it is truly horrible. No hop aroma, no taste that I'd describe as hops, plenty of nasty bitterness and a good dose of TCP taste (and, yes, I do like Islay whiskys). Pored it down the toilet - I didn't want to upset my sink. I feel a bit bad for my toilet now:(

So what's your worst beer.
Let's be honest the vast majority of mainstream lagers are just bland not horrible!

The Drunken Destrier

I don't think I've ever tasted any really awful beers, but I reckon it's Blue Moon. I can easily go through any bland, empty macro lager with a reasonable amount of enjoyment, if it's cold and if I'm eating food. But Blue Moon is one of the few beers I really struggled to get down me.

Others of note would be Fruli, and Rodenbach Grand Cru. The former barely qualifies as a beer, the latter was a sour, vinegary mess, and no amount of 'acquired taste' talk could force me to enjoy it.

the beer revolu

I love Rodenbach Grand Cru.
LOVE it:D:D:D
Can't say I enjoyed my first bottle, though.

Sarky

Sent a friend to the off-license with €20 and orders to buy beer.

They came back with a crate of Oranjeboom. The hangover hit me before I was halfway through the first bottle. I didn't open a second. Vile muck.

irish_goat

From what I remember, the only 2 beers I've never finished were Beer Lao and
Unertl Weisse.

Of the macros, I think Miller is pretty undrinkable, I could stomach a Budweiser or Coors Light but I always remember Miller being offensively bad. I think I'll die happy not knowing if I can actually drink a full one.

I am pie

I had an Indian beer served on a trans atlantic London to NY Air India flight which was completely undrinkable. I can't remember the name but it made battery acid seem appealing.

CardBordWindow

Had a pint of Brooklyn Lager when I was in New York. Could barely finish it, but did out of principle. Got a real taste of soap off of it. Nearly like someone had put a squirt of Fairy into it!

Ipso

I remember during college there was a beer called Kelly's Lager on the go, brewed in Louth I think. Rough stuff.

Colonel Sanders

I nearly vomited the one and only time I tried drink Corona. One of the lads left a few in my fridge one evening we were having a few bottles in my house & told me to help myself

This was long before I turned to craft beers but one mouthful was enough. I drank awful crap in college but Corona is the only beer I've actually had to spit out

Staff Infection

Bishops Finger. Bought a few based purely on the name so I could say "was on the bishops finger last night, in bits now though". Sadly it was just terrible. The bottles stank when I opened them (I now suspect they had been in the sun or something and gone off).

happyoutscan

Easily bottles of Miller. Draft is fine but the smell, taste, texture of miller bottles is disturbingly foul.

Heroditas

Ignoring the likes of Miller, Coors Lite etc... The worst I've had in a long while was Stinger Nettle Ale.
Awful.
Poured 2/3 of it down the sink.

Littlehorny

Two beers spring to mind, firstly Carling awful stuff and secondly Old Speckled Hen, a mate of mine loves so its all about taste but jaysus I had to take a second sip just to make sure my mind hadn't tricked me the first time!

brick tamland

I find it hard to believe corona/miller is the worst anyone's had, sure there's barely a taste off corona

Worst I can think of is Santa Clause beer or whatever its called, the 24% one, too strong for me, not drinkable

The Drunken Destrier

Oh god I take it back. Canterbury Jack, Spitfire, Bishops Finger. Even fresh out of the box in Lidl, they are skunked and undrinkable.

irish_goat

brick tamland wrote: »

Worst I can think of is Santa Clause beer or whatever its called, the 24% one, too strong for me, not drinkable

Samichlaus, though only weighing in at 14%. :P

Colonel Sanders

brick tamland wrote: »

I find it hard to believe corona/miller is the worst anyone's had

Well believe it!

As stated I nearly vomited when I drank it (some time in 2007). All the rubbish I drank in college never made me want to be sick

mrsoundie

It is simple, Harp! Battery acid.

GLaDOS

Littlehorny wrote: »

Two beers spring to mind, firstly Carling awful stuff and secondly Old Speckled Hen, a mate of mine loves so its all about taste but jaysus I had to take a second sip just to make sure my mind hadn't tricked me the first time!

One of the first ales I got into, still enjoy a bottle of it when the fancy takes me. To each his own though.

Worst I've had is Wychwood's Ginger Beard, only beer I've poured down the sink. That said, I think it was more the style than the quality of the beer.

Daveysil15

the beer revolu wrote: »

I never thought I'd be able to easily define the worst beer I've tasted. It's not easy to define one's favourite beer - I have several favourites - and I've tasted quite a few pretty awful beers.
Last night, however, I had a beer that simply has to jump out as being the worst beer I've ever tasted...................:

Brewmeister Hopped to The Gates of Hell.
Jaysas it is truly horrible. No hop aroma, no taste that I'd describe as hops, plenty of nasty bitterness and a good dose of TCP taste (and, yes, I do like Islay whiskys). Pored it down the toilet - I didn't want to upset my sink. I feel a bit bad for my toilet now:(

So what's your worst beer.
Let's be honest the vast majority of mainstream lagers are just bland not horrible!

I disagree. I've yet to taste a drink more horrible than Budweiser.

"Bud"


"weis"


"..."

GalwayKiefer

I can't think of the name of it but it comes in 1ltr cans in Dunnes and (possibly) Lidl. Bought it for the size novelty more than anything but I and my mate I was drinking with both had our stomachs in bits from it.

irish_goat

GalwayKiefer wrote: »

I can't think of the name of it but it comes in 1ltr cans in Dunnes and (possibly) Lidl. Bought it for the size novelty more than anything but I and my mate I was drinking with both had our stomachs in bits from it.

Knifey Spoony

Probably Banana Bread Beer. Had it when I saw just starting to try different types of beer and it kind of put me off trying anything wildly different from what I was drinking at the time. It remains the olny beer that I have poured down the sink.

Their was a Metalman Ginger beer that also stands out as being really bad. I remember the taste of it lingering in my mouth for a good while after.

Desperadoes, absolutely toxic stuff altogether. Corona/molson Canadian/st. Bernard lager are all vile.

Heroditas

Knifey Spoony wrote: »

Their was a Metalman Ginger beer that also stands out as being really bad. I remember the taste of it lingering in my mouth for a good while after.

Oh thank God, it wasn't just me then!
Tried that at the Craft Beer Festival last year and thought it was awful as well.
Not really a true ginger beer but a beer flavoured with ginger. Not nice at all. Had a weird lingering taste as you mentioned.

irish_goat

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Desperadoes

Forgot about that stuff. Got offered a small glass in a pub as part of a promotion. The promo girls came round again 10 mins later to hand out the bottles as the pub was dead and no one took one off them.

I wasn't a massive fan of the Metalman Ginger beer but it turned out to be popular enough in the pub, we sold enough to warrant reordering it anyway.

GalwayKiefer

Kaiserdom that's the one, thanks irish_goat. As bad and all as some beer's I've had have been I don't think I've ever poured one down the sink.

Koptain Liverpool

Jesus some of you are awful pussies.
How the hell would a bottle of corona or miller make you almost get sick
Unless it was warm and had been sitting out??

I don't like them but if cold then they're better than nothing (and don't really taste of anything)

Worst beer I've had recently is grolsch. It was just horrible but it didn't make me sick or anything.....

Dietsquirt

Budweiser

Colonel Sanders

Koptain Liverpool wrote: »

How the hell would a bottle of corona or miller make you almost get sick

That would be the disgusting taste

JohnFalstaff

Like Garfield and the lasagna, I've never met a beer I didn't like.

Ipso

If you don't like Corona try a dirty corona, just add tabasco.

Sephiroth_dude

There was/is a beer in a lidl/aldi,a little green 250ml bottle,12 bottles in the pack,tasted like metal,can't remember the name of it now.

Herb Powell

Honestly, a Dungarvan Copper Coast ale. Only had one bottle, and it was a real challenge to finish it. It just made me feel really sick, horrible taste off it.

I love their porter and Helvick gold ale though.

deadybai

tennents larger was by far. bought qa 6 pack for 6 euro to watch wrestlemania and could only drink 2 cans. Dirty stuff

drumswan

Colonel Sanders wrote: »

That would be the disgusting taste

Corona doesnt have a taste...

ciaran76

Not in any particular order but these 3 stand out for me.

Asahi Super Dry
Desperados
Michelob Pale Ale


The beer I am afraid of is Cantillon Gueuze. I had 1 glass of it before and couldn't finish it.
It was way too sour.

The reason I didnt say it was the worst is because a few years ago I would have said any beer with lots of hops were terrible but that changed in time as my palate changed.

keano_afc

Never really had a bad craft beer. I'd have to say Miller as well, foul tasting stuff. Havent drank Budweiser since I was a teenager so thankfully I've forgotten what it tastes like.

Cienciano

I'm not a fan of the old fashioned beer. That sanciclaus and thomas hardy stuff isn't for me. As "normal" beers you find in most pubs, I think Fosters is fairly manky. All the others are inoffensive.

keano_afc wrote: »

Never really had a bad craft beer. I'd have to say Miller as well, foul tasting stuff. Havent drank Budweiser since I was a teenager so thankfully I've forgotten what it tastes like.

Bud is definitely not horrible tasting. It's bland. Take your bog standard "premium lager" and fill a pint glass a quarter the way up. Fill the rest with water. That's what bud tastes like.

um7y1h83ge06nx

In fairness I don't think I've ever hated something to the point that I couldn't finish it.

I really dislike bland, watered down style of beer. Budweiser, Coors Light etc. are all horrible for me, wouldn't buy them but wouldn't say no if they were free.

I had La Chouffe once and didn't really enjoy although it has gotten good reviews:

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/321/1836

the beer revolu

Some very delicate palates here:P:P
The vast majority of the beers mentioned here I could drink one or even two of them to be polite if offered one in someone's house!
I don't mind Corona too much.
I seem to remember drinking bottles of Miller years ago - bit sweet iirc.
Quite like La Chouffe but I think it went to sh1t a couple of years ago.
Used to drink the Fosters back in the day by the can.
Seem to remember quite liking Kaiserdom.
I actually think Bud is the most recognisable macro lager - not unpleasant.
I like Brooklyn Lager.
Metalman Ginger was drinkable imo.


I'll stop there. I don't think anyone has mentioned a beer that I couldn't bring myself to drink, though I mightn't take much pleasure from many of them.
I don't like bananas so probably the banana bread beer wouldn't make its way down my gullet and I see desperados as an beer flavoured alcopop - awful stuff.

I'm looking for some really awful beer - not bland/boring/uninteresting/goes against your craft beer sensibilities beers.
Something that if you were at a party (without your own stash) and there was nothing else to drink and despite possibly causing slight offence/being ridiculed as a hipster beer snob you just couldn't bring yourself to drink.

BTW has anyone here tasted Hopped To The Gates of Hell?

circadian

drumswan wrote: »

Corona doesnt have a taste...

It smells like sweat so I'm guessing it tastes like it.

Can't believe someone doesn't like Beer Lao! I loved it. Some of the cheap beer in China was horredous.
I'm not a fan of fruity beers so I find Hoegarten tough to drink.

Budweiser is pretty poor stuff too.

Lux23

Santa Cruz, awful muck and wasn't that enamoured with any kind of ale really.

blueshed

made a homebrew a few weeks back and it got infected so tasted like vinegar. not many beers I wouldn't finish but had a can of Kilkenny ale and poured half it down the sink.

of the mainstream beers it would be Carlsberg, the taste and smell puts me off.

thetl

For me it has to be Greene king Ipa had a pint in London and couldn't finish it, I was in tescos and saw the Greene king export in bottles and though I would give the export a go to see was it any better still couldn't stomach it , I don't know is it a bad beer or is it just me

Zaph

Just spotted this thread, I'm surprised it took so long for Desperadoes to be mentioned. It's truly vile stuff. Steinlager is equally vile, I poured the bottle down the sink after a single swig. I asked a Kiwi mate about it and he said that he didn't know anyone back home who drank it because it's so bad. He also said the hangovers you got from it were atrocious, but thankfully I didn't get that far.

Ravelleman

Lux23 wrote: »

wasn't that enamoured with any kind of ale really.

It's a very broad term though. There are so many to choose from. Keep trying.

the beer revolu

Ravelleman wrote: »

It's a very broad term though. There are so many to choose from. Keep trying.

I had a friend who was adamant that he didn't like ale or dark beers (despite regularly drinking guinness). I recently found him drinking and enjoying a black IPA!! Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is his go to beer now.

the beer revolu

Lux23 wrote: »

and wasn't that enamoured with any kind of ale really.

I had a friend who was adamant that he didn't like ale or dark beers (despite regularly drinking guinness). I recently found him drinking and enjoying a black IPA!! Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is his go to beer now.

No offence meant but I find when people declare they don't like ale (not an uncommon declaration) they usually don't have a clue what ale is and what they actually mean is they tried Smithwick's years ago and didn't like it and maybe tried a bland English bitter and didn't like that either.

a clanger

" no such thing as a bad one only better ones" ...I was once told. although warm Millar/Bud/Coors all belong to a category of pish that includes our politicians banks and Meath footballers ( getting my abuse in early) . dominion ale (VA) and Sam Adams Boston ale are always welcome on my beermat as a bit of balance