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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ANY IPA is, by definition, a bad beer. A very bad beer.
The richer, the darker, the smoother the better.
Also Hamms, “from the land of sky-blue water.” And there was an Arizona brew called Dutch Treat, which everyone called Dutch Threat. However, I don’t think these are brewed anymore.
True, very true. Is a Pissed Ale, right?
They killed Mabel.
A frosty San Miguel on a hot summer day in Olongapo was one of the best beers I ever tasted. The one with the lump in it, though, was the worst.
they still make Hamm’s and it’s good.
“Do they still make Altes or Falstaff? They were the MD 20/20 of beers long before this list arrived!”
Don’t forget Sterling.
Probably the worst beer I ever sampled was a ‘smoked’ beer when I was stationed in Germany.
Going down? Tasted great! Two seconds later? It was as if I had licked a dirty ashtray! Can’t even imagine developing a taste for that. Yuck!
https://www.schlenkerla.de/rauchbier/geschichtee.html
Amazingly, they didn’t include Schaefer. I drank a Schaefer when already drunk back in 1989, and I could still tell how awful it was!
Silly Germans, brew da beer, smoke da brisket..
Milwaukee’s Best is Milwaukee’s....Best. Also it’s cheap.
AGREED!
For the common good of mankind, it is no longer made but the worst beer I ever had was Billy Beer. I’m game sampling any beer and giving it a good chance. The only beer that I could finish was Billy Beer. There are no descriptions that remotely communicates how awful it was.
Agreed
I would drink Milwaukee's Best over Corona anyday.
(Last seen in 1971 in Denver)
I aint payng $15 for a bottle of any damn beer!
Generally. Bud and Miller are pretty bad, and where some good beers go to die. The Henry Weinhards line comes to mind.
We used the get almost as much on the bottle deposit in Mexico as on the full skunked beer!
Boy, does that bring back some memories! I also sometimes went into the local Main Street watering hole with my dad when we drove into town. He would have a draft beer and Shorty would pour me shotglasses of 7-Up from one of those small green bottles. Sometimes he would slip me a Snickers from a box behind the bar. Good times!
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