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.
(Excerpt) Read more at vinepair.com ...
For special occasions: Anchor Steam. For a daily drink: Coors Light. My least favorite: Michelob by Anheuser Busch.
That is a great list of the worse beers. All from Budweiser and Millers.
You bought the wrong IPA.
Effin beer snobs, all beer is good, not great, but good.
VR/Pat
I didn’t like the taste of Coors either. However I just turned 18 in 78 and they were illegal here. My dad gave me my “first” beer and it was a Coors. Aircrews from bases east of the Mississippi were really popular when others found out they were headed west especially on trips to Colorado.
I drank Oly’s during my entire naval career.
Got a pic here of me in Hawaii in a jungle hat wearing a leigh, sipping an Oly!
I have never bought an IPA. It was IPA lovers telling me how great their favorite IPA was and they’d give me one and It was Grapefruit all the way down.
Maybe they can’t smell asparagus in pee, either.
I remember many of them.
I agree, there are plenty of IPA beers that taste like grapefruit and I don’t like them either.
Since most IPA beers are regional. I can’t help you.
I brewed my own beer like a lot of friends did, but my aim was to develop “beer syrup” just like they deliver “coca cola syrup” to restaurants and then just add soda water.
It almost worked. I ended up with lots of beer syrup but the process evaporated all the alcohol. I was stuck with gallons of beer syrup trying to figure out what to do with it. So I added it to crappy tasting beer and, voila!, it turned crappy tasting beer into ‘pretty good beer’. It turned good beer into ‘great beer’.
For about 5 years I drank the crappiest beer I could find, and also used the powder as a crafty Christmas present which made the recipients into home brewers just by mixing beer with the powder.
I did the math to see if this would be a viable business model, no deal. It doesn’t scale. But it’s a fun hobby.
Wiedemann actually made me throw up after two swallows. I couldn’t drink for the rest of the night.
Spotted Cow from New Glarus is one of the best beers around.
Best of all is Founders’ Breakfast Stout, but that’s another story.
It was biere 33 outside the gate or Jax on base at Danang. I knew where the term “Pick your poison” originated with those choices..
He must have never lived in Germany.
Sing it...
National Bohemian,National Bohemian
Wet Bo, Cold Bo,
Delicious beer the way beer should be tasted
It’s everything a great beer should be
National Bo, National Bo
Yuck
Sing it...
National Bohemian,National Bohemian
Wet Bo, Cold Bo,
Delicious beer the way beer should be tasted
It’s everything a great beer should be
National Bo, National Bo
Yuck
Sing it...
National Bohemian,National Bohemian
Wet Bo, Cold Bo,
Delicious beer the way beer should be tasted
It’s everything a great beer should be
National Bo, National Bo
Yuck
Quilmes from Argentina, Kaiser from Brazil, ANY American lite beer. Worst!
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