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
I tried Michelob Ultra one time. Horrible stuff!
yep I remember Schlitz.. gawd awful..Hamms, hated it.. Busch, hated it.
Billy Beer.. that was rank.
"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;)
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.
"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.
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!
sorry if it's been mentioned.
how about Goebels Beer ? I seem to recall that was pretty bad.
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)
"Hope this facilitates your learning more about the South"
Too funny. Real, but funny.
I can't believe Keystone Light isn't on the list.
Orbit beer..
was the absolute worst. Kool-aid beer. You couldn't even get drunk on it.
Horrifying swill.
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.
Nice tag line!
Don't forget Buckhorn! (It HAS been a while since I've seen it though.)
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.
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