Posted on 12/18/2021 12:45:21 PM PST by mylife
We generally don’t like to get too negative here. It gives us wrinkles. But when a reliable beer rating site makes a well-informed, style-adjusted list of the worst beers in the world, we’re gonna tune in. Maybe share some of the list. Impartially. Mostly impartially.
Before you call snobbery — OK, it was a poor choice to wear a monocle today — we have to insist we’re not craft beer snobs. (We like complaining about craft beer, too!) Seriously, all beer has its place somewhere in our lives, often at certain fiscally insolvent junctures where an affordable 30-pack is actually a social lifeline. We’re not denying these beers have a place in our hearts, nor trying to suggest that if you don’t buy $15 six-packs of single-hopped Imperial IPA you must hate yourself.
We just like that the beers on this list have a heavy verbal emphasis on greatness, that a lot of the worst beers are self-identified “best,” “premium,” “genuine,” and “ultra.” It reminds us of those moments of urgent personal insecurity. You know the ones, usually preceded by flop sweat or a wardrobe malfunction, and you’re staring into a mirror saying things like “Who’s the champ? You’re the champ!” and “Everything’s gonna be just fine.” Possibly while crying. The desperation psych-up speech. That’s what these beer names are.
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I’ve only had a little beer in my lifetime. Tasted like....well....pee. Not that I’ve had pee, but it was terrible.
Yes, Blatz was just awful. A guy from Wisconsin would bring some back to college after breaks. Undrinkable from a can. If you were desperate and already drunk an ice cold bottle would barely be drinkable.
Ice Cold quarts of LoneStar, 1966. It was good then.
Seems to me that there is some confusion around IPA. Grapefruit taste? I don’t know what your drinking but it aint IPA. IPA is India Pale Ale. It was developed in the later half of the 19th century for the British Army in India. Regular beer couldn’t make it to india in the hold of sialing ships and the heat involved. IPA was developed to fill the beer for a beer that could stand the journey. I would suggest that you try London Pride IPA. I don’t drink pisswater and haven’t drank a Budweiser since ‘64. London Pride IPA is a very good drink. I drink Bateman’s Dark Lord Porter and Guinness. I prefer a bitter over a mild. It might be like Scotch or oysters, a developed or acquired taste.
I was attempting the remember the Thai beer I had in my Westpac days. Thanks for reminding me.
That is, hands down, the very worst beer in the world. The taste is godawful, and the resulting hangover must be what it feels like to take a non-fatal shot to the head.
I was a young-un, but the Chiefs said that it had formaldehyde in it. I have no evidence to support their claims, but I also do not doubt them.
Wasn’t that stuff a malt liquor? I remember buying it when it first came out.
Messed up my stomach but good. Also Pabst Draft. Had me running to the bathroom, and “running” after I got there. Nasty, nasty stuff.
Haw about Black Lable.? Or Maybe Iron City.. And who could ever forget good old OB..! ugh....
I drink Natural Light all the time. Great cost and I like it. What turns me off? ANY kind of IPA and micro-brews.....
I never really knew what formaldehyde tasted like before I hit the PIs and tried San Miguel.
Heineken. That’s some nasty tasting beer.
Meister Brau, now discontinued, was one of the worst beers ever mass produced.
Hoppy IPA beers give men man boobs due to the levels of phytoestrogens.
Mickey’s Big Mouth is awful, just awful.
Natty Bo is awful.
Corona is not a beer, its a “Malt Beverage”. Most of the St Louis beers are too.
(Sugar and Rice used instead of Malt, so not really a “Beer”.)
Schaefer is terrible.
Anyone one of the author’s selection would be the nectar of the gods compared to St. Ides.
Ying Ling.....yuk!
Rauchbier is definitely a rarer taste, but ash flavor isn’t one they normally have. Aecht Schlenkerlas are not a good place to to start drinking those, they’re on the heavier smokier side.
Try their Helles Lager, it has a much lighter flavor because they don’t use the same malts, the minimal smoke flavor is from repitching the yeast from the rauchbiers.
I have to agree. I’ve had one sip of it back in early college, and that was the last time :p
Which is sad, to be honest, because they do have a really cool can design :/
I collected beer labels when I was a kid in the 60s and had a book with the mailing addresses of every brewery in the country. I’d send them a stamped and addressed enevelope asking for beer labels and 9 out of 10 would send back a stack of them.
One particular brand has stuck in my mind all these years, “San Francisco 69”. 69 cents a six pack. And the name, well, still fitting today.
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