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Gunkie
Trad climber
East Coast US
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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 2, 2012 - 01:33pm PT
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Perhaps a conundrum, but there are some beers that I just don't like. I ran into one beer that I really didn't like a couple of months ago in the Republic of Korea (a.k.a. South Korea)... Cass. I actually had to use a Heineken to wash my mouth out after having some Cass. Hell, Cass makes a warm, skunked can of PBR taste like manna from heaven.
Stay away.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Beautiful place, terrible beer. I'll take a warm Pilsen (from CR) over an ice cold Panama any day.
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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I remember when genetic products were all the rage. They came out with beer in a white can with black letters that said BEER. Was pretty bad.
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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There used to be a "Low Brew Society" with the best under $1.99 a six pack list.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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There will be no further debate, period.
The 'beer' on the left is so far ahead, or behind if you will, that it isn't
funny. I thought this an apt juxtaposition.
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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There were several breweries, now thankfully defunct, in St. Louis when I was growing up there. Falstaff, Griesedick Brothers, and Stag. All were cheap and ensured devastating hangovers. They would achieve the desired effect while drinkng the swill. An analysis came back on Falstaff: "Your horse has dibetes."
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briham89
Big Wall climber
los gatos. ca
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Pbr is good shitty beer....yep that made sense.
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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^^^ yup, made perfect sense.
that two-buck chuck six pack crap trader joes sells.
hurl!
or and "strong" beer from India.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, all... oh my, i think all beer taste bad, ;)
so if you all are mentioning these all, why:
the must taste pretty bad, :O
carry on, :)
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Bill Mc Kirgan
Trad climber
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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^^^ worst of the acquired taste Neebee
Yeh, the Buckhorn is a favorite worst beer ever.
You kinda like it after awhile, and at the time I was drinking it, a buck fifty nine a six pack was unbeatable (early 80s)
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kev
climber
A pile of dirt.
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PBR tastes like a fine wine when compared to Angkor beer in Cambodia.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Brokendown....Greasedick beer...? Nevermind....RJ
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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I have to quibble with Olympia being on the list. This was the first beer I ever had (in the sand dunes at Coronado Beach). Thought it was pretty good and two quarts of Oly became a staple for many years.
The others suck.
There were 40 oz. bottles called Little Brown Jugs that were horrible, but cheap.
Rheingold used to sponsor that famous TV show Archie's Tavern
Rheingold happed to make it on to the 25 beers to avoid at all costs list:
#1 Schaefer
#25 National Bohemian
http://www.collegehappenings.com/college/25-cheap-beers-to-avoid-at-all-costs/
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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RJ-
Yeah, that's the real name of the awful swill. They used to be the radio sponsor for the St. louis Cardinal baseball team in the mid 1950's, and touted by the reknonwed Harry Carey. Blech!! Even my Dad, who drank almost any beer, wouldn't touch the stuff!
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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I am with Zbrown on the oly...The glass quarts were alright as i remember...I worked in a liquor store when i was in high school and remember Colt 45 six packs in 8 oz. can..And i remember the houston astros when they were called the colt 45's...Now if i could remember where i left my keys...?
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Growing up in Saskatoon many many decades ago, the Carling Black Label Stich put up as one of his nominations for WBE (Worst Beer Ever) was actually the best beer available.
I somehow managed to get involved in a six-week road trip to Mexico when I was about twenty-one or twenty-two. Driving straight south from Sask through North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas made me realize how fortunate I was to live in Saskatoon -- both beer-wise and everything-wise -- but when we crossed the border into Mexico the first thing we did was pull into some little roadside tavern so that we could sample some of the amazing Mexican beer we'd heard so much about...
Well, I'm sitting here typing this, so you know I didn't die, but that first taste of Mexican beer opened up whole new vistas of ugly. Tasted like a horse had had first go at it, and then pissed it out before we got it.
No idea what brand it was, but it was the worst swill imaginable. No surprise, I suppose, because this was in 1970, the nadir of American beer history, and it was being served in a tavern in a border town that only American tourists would ever order a beer in.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Budwiser
Bush
Micky's wide mouth malt liqour.
Old Mildew/Millwalkie
Miller
All of these suck dog snot!
Good cheap beer would be Genne, PBR, Olympia.
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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Meister Brau. Forgot about stuff. Wish you hadn't reminded me. Awful.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Worst beer....Coors, Coors, Coors, Rocky Mountain water and nothing else.
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TRo
climber
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Had a "beer" in Bhutan--Druk 11,000 I believe it was called. Tasted a bit like a yak urine sample--the only beer I've ever dumped out. In comparison, the PBR's smuggled in from Tibet tasted good...that one time. Sorry no pics
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covelocos
Trad climber
Nor Cal
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wouldn't know...
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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+1 TGT. Curs light.
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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These guys made a generic beer called Beer Beer back in the 80s.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Ghost,
remember the beer in the bar in Desperado?
Dispenses with a belching sound, and then there is the Cheech Marin response to the patrons' question; "We piss in it (,and that's not all,...")
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The Juice
Social climber
Valley
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PBR is misery in a can along with all cheap canned beers. I know because ive choked down thousands.. Those cheap beers dont use any real hops they use a chemical to make a hop like taste. In Bishop you can get 5$ twelve packs of Olympia at the Grociery outlet. After about nine of those on an empty stomach the miseries of freezing and suffering through a Bishop Winter vanish and im ready to go highballing. Worst beer i ever had though was an Alaskan beer called Silvergulch. It was actually undrinkable...
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Bullshit. Hops are cheap. They grow TONS of hops here in Idaho.
They range, like all things, from meager to the sublime.
There are SEVERAL actual undrinkable brews, though, I'll concede that.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Locker and TGT have it locked up!!!!
THE VERY WORST~!!!!!
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Maybe that's WHY we grow Tons? Hmmmmm?
Crops that pay are awesome.
There are quite a few craft brewers about, as well. Look out, Oregon!
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this just in
climber
north fork
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Steel Reserve, Colt 45, King Cobra.
Bud light, coors, and all those aren't beers, just beer flavored water.
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The Larry
climber
Moab, UT
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I love shitty beer. Just add a little spicy V8
I remember drinking this stuff in Junior High
Shitty beer is good for highlining
and good motivation for topping out
Just don't spill it
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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We used to brew our own and had to bust out a batch before it's time. A quart bottle would fizz for about 10 minutes leaving around 1/3 bottle of the worst tasting sheeit you could imagine.
It was cheap though.
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Todd Eastman
climber
Bellingham, WA
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Natty Bo (National Bohemian) from Baltimore was flavored like the harbor and was a local favorite. Iron City from Pittsburgh and Schmits from eastern PA also had great regional followings.
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Delhi Dog
climber
Good Question...
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Come to India-the land of bad bad beer.
Karma Beer
Godfather Beer
Knockout
Hayward 5000
to name a few.
Funny too as IPA's were originally brewed for this place.
Kingfisher is relatively good compared to those above (and it's fairly shite beer).
cheers
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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Natty Ice?!
AFAIK this stuff is drunk exclusively by engineering students. To kill brain cells.
Then there was Zima. Clear non-beer beer. The Crystal Pepsi of the beer world.
And finally you got Bud. I don't think you can even call that stuff beer... it's brewed with rice so it must be watery sake. Right? Really watery sake.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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my first impression of twin arrows brown ale was that the new guy must have left something out of the recipe, surely they wouldn't knowingly release such a thing except by accident. motherroad is the new brewery in town so i felt bad on their behalf.
now i see on their website they recommend it paired with beef stew, the two tastes have now been conflated in my memory. current theory is the new guy spilled beef stew into the batch ... yeah that would pretty much explain it
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Fletcher
Trad climber
Fumbling towards stone
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Ha! Carling's Black Label! My dad would go through a case of that stuff on a weekend pretty much by himself. It was in bottles though. But I don't think he was drinking it for the taste.
I don't think I've had a can of Bud or similar US Beer that appears on ads at large sporting events in 20 plus years. But back in the day... way back... someone once dared me to drink a can of bud warm. I did just to win, but that shite was nasty. No wonder they promote chillin' the heck out of it. Numbs your taste buds or something like that. The same probably applies to many other canned beers and beyond.
And from my gang of Asia expat pals, one was know to always yell this when someone mention Singha (Thailand): "Ick, that sh#t is formaldehyde!". :-)
Eric
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mountainlion
Trad climber
California
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There is a beer called Wiedimans and it's slogan is"the brew that grew" $5 for 24 bottles back in 1990 my first beer.
I always thought that the worst beer was waking up from a hard night of decadence at Jtree (running out of beer and booze) waking up to find a bunch of "wounded soldiers" that some pussy cracked and then didnt finish
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Kenygl
Trad climber
Salt Lake City
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Some beer I had in france, they aren't known for their beer, and yes Pabst, that sh#t was rank.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Natural Ice....Tucker Tech will take issue with that.
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Collecting feedback on this one.
It's like Sputnik, but from Colorado.
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Without a doubt (and I like cheap beer Dixie, PBR) Billy Beer was the worst.
Brewed by Pearl (I think it was their bilge water).
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MisterE
Social climber
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You guys obviously have not tasted the worst malt-based beverage ever. I present to you Four Loko
I dare you to finish one of the watermelon variety, or any of the others and report back that you have tasted worse.
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Worst beer expert....
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Zima.
The folks who distributed that crap would send a hot gal out to the bar I was working at to hustle that crap. She'd sit on the boss' lap and rub her t**s in his face, and leave with a massive order for more Zima.
I get to work one day and find cases of real BEER stacked in the hallway ( instead of in the fridge, where beer belongs ) getting warm because the fridge is stacked full of f*#king Zima.
I still hate that crap.
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OPG4711
Trad climber
SLT & Washington
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Nothing "premium" about this swill. We used to sell it for $2.99/12 pack at the liquor store I used to work at. Even broke assed college students avoided it!
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Sep 11, 2012 - 11:22am PT
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This is mine, but I'd have to give a close 2nd to one mentioned above - Buckhorn - (pronounce boookhorn, the fine French import!)
Bought Jax on a geology field trip to New Mexico in 1978, we pulled into Farmington and the question was, do we want quality, or do we want quantity? Jax won out.
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Sep 11, 2012 - 11:43am PT
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Jax Beer! There used to be price wars in New Orleans between the two (now defunct) breweries.
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MisterE
Social climber
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Bump for battle of the beers with the "Cheap Beer Thread".
The parallels should be interesting, in any case...
Tucker drinks Natty Light, not Natty Ice.
I have personally witnessed the delivery and consumption of the stronger one to him.
The question, as I remember it, was:
"Robert, why am I so Fuked up?"
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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Shout out for Milwaukee's Best, or did someone already nominate that?
Used to call it Milwaukee's Worst, with good reason. Was damn cheap though!
Close second might be Old Chub. Kinda like Coors mixed with molasses and paint thinner.
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MisterE
Social climber
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Close second might be Old Chub. Kinda like Coors mixed with molasses and paint thinner.
That is damn funny, crunch!
Seriously. I like Rainier Ale, but this one time in drink camp?
It was honestly the only two-day hangover I have ever had.
4 - 40's of Mickeys did way less damage than 10 RA tall-boys.
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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1978 or so - got roped into driving a girl from Camarillo to Hanford under the pretense of getting some.
Gimme a break, I was 17 and a runaway with a car.
Got her to Hanford - met her 4 brothers and her dad - all were farmboy BIG and all breathed through their mouths.
Didn't get any - but drank a lot of this crappy beer called Great American Beer. I remember that a case was something like 6 bucks and they gave you 2 bucks towards another if you brought the empties back the same day.
Which in Hanford, was not a problem!
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Ricky...Did you stop in Mendocino for some Bino...?
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Loomis
climber
Svět
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If we all lived in Czech republic, this thread would not exist.
But, even there, this one comes to mind...
and they ripped it off from the original...
Made in Ceska republika
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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^^^^No - but I did give a ride to a big momma hippie chick thumbing just south of Carmel who led me to some totally hippie commune farm near Bodega Bay.
I thought the idea of free sex and expanding your mind was cool until I found out that "macrobiotic" meant you ate nothing but brown rice for every meal.
I left after a week.
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Its a big stretch to call Zima, four loko, & the mighty C.L.I.T. Beer at all!
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Oh, but Michelob's commercials are SO good.
NOT!
(and let's not begin to talk of their grasp of gramar)
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Gunkie
Trad climber
East Coast US
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 7, 2013 - 11:35am PT
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Interesting that this thread just popped back up. Last night my wife and I went to dinner with another couple, which goes directly against my anti-social tendencies. Anyway, we went to a BYOB joint and the other guy insisted on bringing the beer. Ugh, he is known to be a beer snob to the point of paying a lot of money for what I would consider really crappy beer (ya know, flavored beer).
We sit down at this nice little Italian place and I order up white clam and linguine. Can you imagine a worse beer than the beer pictured below to go with a great Italian dinner? I felt like hitting him in the head with a big rock.
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Bill Mc Kirgan
Trad climber
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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^^^ DEMENTED not fermented
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Coolcarl
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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This stuff from Dhaka, Bangladesh. There is no quality control with it, so the good ones taste like water. Also the can looks almost like fosters, which is just great.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Remember Billy Beer?
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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This is the WORST beer that I've ever tasted. And it was warm.
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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My vote for the Worst. Beer. Ever. goes to Miller Genuine Draft aka MGD:
I once brought a case of this swill onto the wall, and it was almost undrinkable! It is also way too fizzy to drink warm. The astonishing thing is that it is marketed - and bought! - as a premium beer up here in the Great White North. People pay extra for it in bars!
Here are the two best cheap swills, bar none:
Ya just gotta love The Beast!
And of course, the El Cap Bridge beer rats' swill of choice:
King Cobra is great stuff!
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bergbryce
Mountain climber
California
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Falls City, brewed in Louisville. http://www.fallscitybeer.com/
Falls City was better known as Feel $hitty.
Sterling was from a small brewery in that same area but Sterling wasn't bad.
Really any ice brewed beer can go onto the list but taste was always overshadowed by the impressive buzz you got from 4 of them.
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Jeff Gorris
climber
Not from, Portlandia
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[url="http://firstwefeast.com/drink/watch-rachael-ray-get-really-excited-about-rogues-voodoo-donut-maple-bacon-ale-video/"] Rogue voodoo donut maple-bacon ale[/url]
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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There is a lot of bad beer out there.
I'm nominating Balboa and Panama. .60 a can, tastes like crap, and you can't catch a buzz off of them.
The better discussion is the best beer one.
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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Brew 102
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Gunkie
Trad climber
East Coast US
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 13, 2013 - 02:21pm PT
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Bought a 12-pack of Labatt Blue in cans and I am now experiencing buyer's remorse. That $6.99 USD is gone forever. Terrible beer.
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AlanDoak
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Aug 13, 2013 - 03:16pm PT
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TwistedCrank
climber
Bungwater Hollow, Ida-ho
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Aug 13, 2013 - 03:39pm PT
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Shitz or Dog Style. I grew up on that stuff. It damn well better be bad, if you're going to drink it in you pajamas. Eating a sandwich. At work.
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Aug 13, 2013 - 03:40pm PT
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Any beer sold in Utaaahhhhr.
Still only 3.2%
Poor devils still have to make a run to Evanston to get Real Beer just as we had to Back In The Bad Ole Days. And then make the 90 miles back in the middle of the night without the driver drinking any of the good stuff?
yeah….get real.
At least it's all freeway now.
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clode
Trad climber
portland, or
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Aug 13, 2013 - 03:45pm PT
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Generic (not genetic) BEER did taste pretty bad. Don't know if they still make it. What do you expect from Olympia Brewing? BUT, the picture puzzle caps helped to make the beer go down!
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Aug 13, 2013 - 03:50pm PT
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This didn't taste bad, in fact it was quite good, but a half hour later it was instant pounding headache,
Wasn't just me or a matter of volume either. We split the bottle.
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Aug 14, 2013 - 03:35am PT
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Hey the labatt blue's, or da labatt bluer as the frenchies say aren't too bad up here at least. It's Canada's pilsner!
These are gross:
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Aug 16, 2013 - 12:13pm PT
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Had most of those mentioned above, back in my dirtbag days (you never know, those days could be in my future...but for the grace of dog:-), but I'm still gonna stick with these babys, do you want quality or do you want quantity?
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mstearns
climber
CA
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Aug 16, 2013 - 01:19pm PT
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Didn't stop me, but it wasn't good.
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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Aug 16, 2013 - 02:14pm PT
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Any beer sold in Utaaahhhhr.
Still only 3.2%
Poor devils still have to make a run to Evanston to get Real Beer just as we had to Back In The Bad Ole Days. And then make the 90 miles back in the middle of the night without the driver drinking any of the good stuff?
yeah….get real.
At least it's all freeway now High Traverse
Ehh. Most of the 3.2 microbrews in Utah from Wasatch, Squatters, Uinta, Bohemian, etc are much better than the swill people are mentioning here. And then there is EPic, which doesn't make any 3.2 beer, including various 10%ABV+ imperial styles and has won various awards.
We're not quite as much a beer backwater as we used to be.
The worst beer I think I've had is Cave Creek Chili beer.
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msiddens
Trad climber
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Aug 16, 2013 - 02:20pm PT
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Bud Light Lime. Sorry Munge
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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Aug 16, 2013 - 04:10pm PT
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Damn, at one party or another I think I've had 18 of those 25 beers to avoid.
I've got a special beef with Coors Light though, as some fool drinks it on his commute home and my property is one of the areas he cleans out the car before he gets home, I accumulate at least a six of empties a week. Once in awhile he seems determined to reform his ways, and in what I imagine can only be revulsion he lobs a bag of cans that still contain one or two full Coors Light tallboys. I don't care, it all goes in the recycle bin when I clean up.
To apprehend the varmint I think I need to spend a few evenings sitting in a low lawn chair near the road with a wrist rocket and a bag of marbles, but sadly, or perhaps providentially, life is to busy these days for that kind of entertainment.
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Aug 16, 2013 - 05:34pm PT
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Leaving malt liquor and flavored concoctions off the list...
Blatz.
Hands down, THE worst beer I've ever tried to drink. And I've tried many hundreds.
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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Aug 16, 2013 - 07:11pm PT
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When Walt, Duane, and I spent our summer in Chamonix, we constantly worked at finding the highest alcohol per dollar. This first consisted of cheaper wine, all the way down to the big tank at the grocery store where you could fill up any container for about a buck per liter. The dollar was insanely strong back then, interest rates and inflation were sky high in the states during around the end of Reagan's first term. That meant that at 10 francs per dollar, you could live high on the hog for 3 bucks per day.
We had all walked by the local butcher shop, which was cool because it had hanging legs of all manner of hoofed animals, and not chilled, either. I guess you went in there and just pointed to that horse hind quarter and he buzz sawed it off for you.
They had this beer there in the window...the only beverage sold there. I now know that it was Chimay, the Belgian Trappist Ale, which has been brewed for centuries by opening vats of wort and letting whatever wild yeast that fell from the sky ferment the ale. It is vile and despicable, and even found in the states now.
We found that only two of the suckers would bring even us close to vomit status. It was officially the Olde English of Europe. You can find it at a good liquor store, and I think that it still has a real cork similar to a champagne bottle.
I have some blisteringly funny Walt show accounts from that summer, but the Chimay sent him off into another universe even by Walt standards.
Walt and I would fill up old plastic one liter mild jugs with the vile cheap wine from the grocery store tank and take it with us. I remember him getting super torched and shocked a bunch of Poles or other eastern Euro's. This was before the iron curtain fell, and Walt would tell them the craziest stuff about democracy to twist their heads. I had to kind of hide, lest fists fly. I rescued him from a couple of good ass beatings that summer...
Chimay. It tastes like somebody boiled stinky old running shoes and dirty socks, but it was so strong that I anoint it the LSD of the alcohol clan.
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10b4me
Ice climber
Wishes-He-Was-In-Arizona
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Aug 16, 2013 - 10:17pm PT
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Had some Dales Pale Ale the other night. Some of the worst ale that I've had.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Aug 17, 2013 - 01:31am PT
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pft, suuuure you don't like it
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