The World's Worst Beers [Top 50 List]

RateBeer.com ^ | 5/20/2006 | Staff

[ozaukeemom]

I tried Michelob Ultra one time. Horrible stuff!

[F.J. Mitchell]

I see Busch Natural lite made the list, my favorite but plain ol' Busch lite is just as good in my opinion. Both have the taste I like and just enough alcohol content to satisfy whatever it is in me that makes a certain amount of alcohol essential.

I've tried the NA brews and they just don't satisfy my taste buds.

[Chuzzlewit]

yep I remember Schlitz.. gawd awful..Hamms, hated it.. Busch, hated it.

Billy Beer.. that was rank.

[bwteim]

"I think it was 90% nostalgia that made it taste so good."

There's a lot to be said for that - the right setting and the right mood smooth out a lot of corners;)

[saganite]

Didnt see schlitz in there anywhere and a worst beer list without shitz isn't credible.

Also, why are they including a non alcoholic beer for low alcohol content? Seems kind of like including a bycicle in a list of the worst 50 cars and saying it's because it's underpowered.

[capt. norm]

We should have started this thread later in the day. [drooling like Pavlov's dog, for a brew]

"Beer Time" hasn't arrived in my time zone yet (unless you're fishing), its only 11:00 AM.

My wife is the "sheriff of brew" in this house, so it's gotta be later for me, but it's not too early to go shopping for some and that can, sometimes, be half the fun.

[Legion]

Ummm... does anyone know what the heck Bootie Light (#45) is supposed to be??

[Caveman Lawyer]

Check this site out for a vintage Hamm's audio spot (the mp3 is about halfway down the page). It's not advertising the beer so much as it is the wisdom of marketing the beer to young people. Here's the description of the ad from the website:

A brassy, upbeat number from the elusive Hamms Beer industrial show of 1965, titled "Hamms 65 Bursting With Freshness!" This track was written by veteran industrial composer Lloyd Norlin who, before passing away a couple of years back, brought the corporate world a slew of great shows for companies like Pepsi, Ford and Marshall Fields department stores, to name a few that have turned up on record. There can be no misconceptions about the message to this song, which clearly amounts to something like, "Let's sell the kids lots of alcohol!" And what better way for a hardened Hamms salesman to celebrate his company's centennial? This LP was pressed on nice blue vinyl, and could be easily mistaken for a generic promo record if you didn't look at the track list on the back cover. Find it and then celebrate with a beer!

[Chuzzlewit]

sorry if it's been mentioned.

how about Goebels Beer ? I seem to recall that was pretty bad.

[The KG9 Kid]

Not a drinker anymore, but here's my lists in no particular order:

Worst

Schaefer Light
Schlitz
Moretti (Italian)
Michelob Dark
Foster's (Australian)
Ngoma (Togo, Africa)
Budweiser
Henry Weinhardt's (Any kind)
Coor's Light
Killian's Red

Best

Red Tail Ale (Mendocino Brewing Co., USA)<--- World Favorite
Guinness Stout (Ireland)
Harp (Ireland)
Palm Triple/Dobbel(Belgian/Dutch)
Sam Adams (USA)
Samuel Smith's Pale Ale (UK)
Asahi Ichiban (Japan)
Newcastle Brown Ale (UK)

[MaryFromMichigan]

My wife is the "sheriff of brew" in this house...

In our house, it's the "the beer police."
:)

[Chuzzlewit]

http://www.futurliner.com/images/goebel.jpg

[toddlintown]

I haven't homebrewed for the last five years. I've been writing about beer instead. I drink craft beer, homebrew, mainstream beer and imports. I don't, however, go around like fanatical beer geeks who think that those who don't exclusively drink what THEY consider to be good beer, are stupid.

These "ten best" or "ten worst" postings are always fun, but one has to consider why 85% of American beer drinkers prefer a Coors, Miller, or A-B product over a craft beer. Your typical fanatical craft beer drinker will expound on the conspiratorial efforts of mainstream brewers to produce tasteless beers, while accusing the 85% of beer drinkers as being "sheeple" who blindly succumb to advertising. (They're smarter than us, too).

I hate elitists. For them, go ahead -- drink what ever beer you want, but that doesn't mean that you're right.

Can't decide if I should pop an Arrogant Bastard or a Coor's Light today.

[cll]

"Hope this facilitates your learning more about the South"

Too funny. Real, but funny.

[Richard Kimball]

I can't believe Keystone Light isn't on the list.

[TexanToTheCore]

Orbit beer..

was the absolute worst. Kool-aid beer. You couldn't even get drunk on it.

Horrifying swill.

[delacoert]

Strohs.

I drank more than my fair share of Strohs as a teenager in Owensboro, KY.

My dad drank Carling Black Label and I managed to secret a "sip or two" ;) when I was kid.

[humblegunner]

Nice tag line!

[Enterprise]

Don't forget Buckhorn! (It HAS been a while since I've seen it though.)

[Kenny Bunk]

Well, Griesedick sure wasn't Ortlieb's.

In Ortlieb's defense, it wasn't uniformly bad, since product consistency wasn't a strong suit at their ancient family brewery in Philly. In fact, I once suggested a tag line for them, No Two Bottles Alike. or Surprise! It's Ortlieb's"

Their brown bottles were the old deposit-reusable jobs, and were battered and scratched beyond belief, probably dating from WWI. Often, one could see strange objects floating by inside them ... before they were opened. In a feeble and primitive attempt at vertical marketing, they also owned a chain of the foulest tap-rooms this side of Clark Field.

Rolling Rock or somebody bought them out, probably at the request of the Department of Health.