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The World's Worst Beers [Top 50 List]
RateBeer.com ^ | 5/20/2006 | Staff

Posted on 05/20/2006 7:41:54 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Below is a list of worst beers in the world as rated by the thousands of beer enthusiasts at RateBeer.com. Dare to try them? We don't advise it. We provide this list in the name of beer education. We aren't picking on the fat kid as much as we're making a few big brewers accountable for their products that are more about beer hype and marketing than substance. If you're interested in how good real beer can be, we can certainly help you out! Try a link or two in the right hand column.

Rank Beer Brewer Score Ratings Style

1 Busch NA Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. 0.88 74 Low Alcohol

2 Steelback Tango Steelback Brewery 0.93 39 Pale Lager

3 Black Label 11-11 Malt Liquor Miller Brewing Company (SABMiller) 0.93 16 Malt Liquor

4 Sleeman Clear Sleeman Brewing & Malting Co. 0.95 78 Pale Lager

5 Steelback Silver Steelback Brewery 0.95 30 Pale Lager

6 Michelob Ultra Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. 0.98 558 Pale Lager

7 ODouls Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. 0.98 228 Low Alcohol

8 B-40 Bull Max Sleeman Brewing & Malting Co. 0.98 21 Malt Liquor

9 Coors Non-Alcoholic Coors Brewing Company (MolsonCoors) 0.99 59 Low Alcohol

10 Olde English 800 3.2 Miller Brewing Company (SABMiller) 0.99 17 Malt Liquor

11 Pabst NA Miller Brewing Company (SABMiller) 1 21 Low Alcohol

12 PC 2.5 g Low Carb Brick Brewing Company 1.03 13 Pale Lager

13 Natural Light Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. 1.05 601 Pale Lager

14 Tuborg T-Beer Carlsberg Brewery 1.05 37 Pale Lager

15 Steelback Link Steelback Brewery 1.05 23 Pale Lager

16 Jacob Best Ice Miller Brewing Company (SABMiller) 1.05 22 Pale Lager

17 Natural Ice Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. 1.06 417 Pale Lager

18 Camo Silver Ice High Gravity Lager City Brewery (Melanie Brewing Co) 1.06 51 Malt Liquor

19 Gluek Stite Light Gluek Brewing Company 1.06 34 Pale Lager

20 Miller Sharps Miller Brewing Company (SABMiller) 1.07 100 Low Alcohol

21 Camo Genuine Ale City Brewery (Melanie Brewing Co) 1.07 32 Malt Liquor

22 Coors Aspen Edge Coors Brewing Company (MolsonCoors) 1.09 164 Pale Lager

23 Diamond White Cider Matthew Clark Cider 1.09 26 Cider

24 Molson Ex Light Molson Breweries (MolsonCoors) 1.09 14 Pale Lager

25 Hurricane Ice Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. 1.09 10 Malt Liquor

26 Hurricane High Gravity Lager Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. 1.1 57 Malt Liquor

27 Labatt Sterling Labatt Breweries (InBev) 1.1 48 Pale Lager

28 Milwaukees Best Miller Brewing Company (SABMiller) 1.11 497 Pale Lager

29 Tuborg T-Beer Citrus Carlsberg Brewery 1.13 25 Fruit Beer

30 General Generic Beer Miller Brewing Company (SABMiller) 1.13 13 Pale Lager

31 Outback Chilli Beer Outback Brewery Pty Ltd 1.13 11 Spice/Herb/Vegetable

32 Busch Ice Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. 1.14 54 Pale Lager

33 Molson Kick Molson Breweries (MolsonCoors) 1.14 47 Spice/Herb/Vegetable

34 Blue Ice Beer San Miguel Brewery (Hong Kong) 1.14 18 European Strong Lager

35 Cave Creek Chili Beer Black Mountain Brewing Co. 1.15 319 Spice/Herb/Vegetable

36 Tuborg Super Light Carlsberg Brewery 1.15 27 Low Alcohol

37 Tooheys Blue Bitter Tooheys (Lion Nathan Co.) 1.15 26 Low Alcohol

38 Pabst Ice Miller Brewing Company (SABMiller) 1.15 25 Pale Lager

39 Fosters Light Fosters Brewing (CUB) 1.15 14 Low Alcohol

40 Hek Original Lager Blonde Beer (Blue label) Brasserie Bowes 1.15 11 Pale Lager

41 Old Milwaukee Ice Miller Brewing Company (SABMiller) 1.16 66 Pale Lager

42 Fosters Ice Fosters Brewing (CUB) 1.16 37 Pale Lager

43 Lucky Lager Force 10 Labatt Breweries (InBev) 1.16 13 Malt Liquor

44 Zhujiang 10° Zhujiang Brewery (InBev) 1.16 13 Pale Lager

45 Bootie Light City Brewery (Melanie Brewing Co) 1.17 18 Pale Lager

46 Schlitz Red Bull Miller Brewing Company (SABMiller) 1.18 68 Malt Liquor

47 Archa Thai Beverages 1.18 10 Pale Lager

48 Bud Light Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. 1.19 1173 Pale Lager

49 Matt Accel Matt Brewing Company 1.19 28 Pale Lager

50 Genesee NA High Falls Brewing Company 1.19 12 Low Alcohol


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To: MizSterious
" For those who never heard of Olde Frothingslosh..."

That would be me. I feel oddly repulsed from and drawn to it at the same time.

101 posted on 05/20/2006 8:22:12 AM PDT by GregoTX (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: DJ Taylor
Does anyone remember Carlin Black Label Beer?

I remember it well.

When we would get a rare stand-down in 'Nam, we would sometimes get a pallet of beer out of Danang.

It was invariably Carling Black Label.

The orange on the cans was rust by the time we got 'em.

Nastiest crap I ever drank.

'Course, the fact they were hot may have contributed to the taste, but they were so bad, that after I returned to the world, that jingle, "Hey Mable, Black Label; Carling Black Label Beer!", would make my stomach lurch.

We once caught some fish out of one of the little waterways and boiled the fish in a steel pot with the beer.

Maggots gagged.

Buzzards burped.

Terrible stuff.

102 posted on 05/20/2006 8:22:52 AM PDT by OldSmaj (I received my koran from CAIR. I desecrate it daily, in the privacy and comfort of my own toilet.)
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To: MizSterious

Was that the beer with the fat naked lady on the can?


103 posted on 05/20/2006 8:23:00 AM PDT by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
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To: Allegra

That was non-alcohol I believe!!!


104 posted on 05/20/2006 8:23:13 AM PDT by lonedawg (why does that rag on your head say holiday inn?)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Drank many a Hamms with ice in nam. Firing down before the ice melted was a treat. Has anyone mentioned Billy Beer? Still have some empty cans stashed somewhere. Fitting can art would have been ole Billy peeing on some alleyway wall. :-)


105 posted on 05/20/2006 8:23:48 AM PDT by vietvet67
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To: MizSterious
Old Frothingslosh

Are you talking about the "Pale Stale Ale" that is so light, the foam is on the bottom?

106 posted on 05/20/2006 8:25:46 AM PDT by capt. norm (W.C. Fields: "Hollywood is the gold cap on a tooth that should have been pulled out years ago.")
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To: Izzy Dunne
Mabel - Black Label.

I remember the commercial from 1965 or so.

That and my father saying:
"Mabel - get off the table. -- The two-bits is for beer."

107 posted on 05/20/2006 8:26:22 AM PDT by dread78645 (Evolution. A doomed theory since 1859.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
I'm shocked... Weidemens (sp?) didn't make the cut of really bad beers? When I was in college, only bought it in the longneck bottles, and by the case. As I recall, it was about $6.00 a case, and that included the $3.00 deposit on the bottles. And we'd hoard the empty cases for the "lean times" when we were broke. Then we'd load up the cars, and head over to the liquor store and "cash in" the empties, at a rate of 2 to 1...

We had to drink it out of the bottles. Once we tried drinking it out of glasses, but it smelled so bad that we just couldn't.

Mark

108 posted on 05/20/2006 8:27:09 AM PDT by MarkL (When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

109 posted on 05/20/2006 8:27:26 AM PDT by cowboyway (My heroes have always been cowboys.)
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To: andyandval

I used to refer to the after effect as the next day Genessee Rocket (explitive for poop).

Seemed like that follow on in the morning was a toilet filler. I don't know today's low use of water can take a hard night of Genny.


110 posted on 05/20/2006 8:27:51 AM PDT by techworker
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To: lastchance

See #58--one of the cans.


111 posted on 05/20/2006 8:29:07 AM PDT by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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To: capt. norm

That's the one!


112 posted on 05/20/2006 8:30:00 AM PDT by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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To: Chuzzlewit
I guess I'm still sort of snobby when it comes to beer. But I'll bet I could pass a blind taste test between Bud and my personal favorite, Samuel Smith's Taddy Porter.

Mark

113 posted on 05/20/2006 8:30:04 AM PDT by MarkL (When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
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To: Baynative

They sell cheap stuff that frat boys and hobos can get drunk off of.


114 posted on 05/20/2006 8:30:26 AM PDT by ketelone
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
"We provide this list in the name of beer education. We aren't picking on the fat kid as much as we're making a few big brewers accountable for their products that are more about beer hype and marketing than substance. quot;

Crap.
They ARE picking on the big, very successful American brewers.
This list has more to do with politics than the quality of beer.
I know too much abot what good beer is, to take advise on what constitutes good beer fromn some agenda driven site.
115 posted on 05/20/2006 8:31:35 AM PDT by Jameison
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To: tlb

"the decision was made that the extra expense of installing gas-fired kettles at all the Miller plants simply was not justifiable. An old marketing postion long enjoyed by Stroh alone was abandoned in favor of being able to offer the brand to the public at reduced cost."

What spin. In beer-talk, reduced cost is called "popular-priced." In the real world, it's called "cheap."

Pabst did the same thing with Old Style. Used to be "krausend," putting a little new beer into a almost totally fermented batch of OS. It scrubs the beer a bit and adds some carbonation. Miller skips this process and has also made OS a cheap beer.

Pabst has no breweries. It's nothing more than a business that contracts out their beers, a "virtual" brewer.


116 posted on 05/20/2006 8:31:39 AM PDT by toddlintown
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To: Mr. Mojo

Mmmmm...Hacker-Pschorr. One of my favorites along with Spaten and my all-time best beer from central Germany, Licher.

My all time worst would probably be Grolsch. Took one taste and knew instantly that it would be the last.


117 posted on 05/20/2006 8:31:41 AM PDT by Nasher (Hey 'Bama: 2for1 trade. We get Sen. Sessions, you get Dewhiner and Voinorich. Deal or no deal?)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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118 posted on 05/20/2006 8:31:42 AM PDT by don-o
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To: bert

Hahah man, I know theres some rolling rock fans out there... but Ive never seen them completely consumed in any gathering.


119 posted on 05/20/2006 8:32:08 AM PDT by ketelone
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Years ago (1960's) I worked for a guy (Toss Storz) whose father owned Storz Breweries. Never tried one myself, but everyone I knew gave it about a 5 or 6.


120 posted on 05/20/2006 8:32:38 AM PDT by capt. norm (W.C. Fields: "Hollywood is the gold cap on a tooth that should have been pulled out years ago.")
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