The World's Worst Beers [Top 50 List]

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

[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

[Mr. Mojo]

Schlitz: The preferred brew of the greatest of all the New Orleans' pianists.

[ansel12]

I just read a great collection of 260 posts about cheap beer ,although Shiner and Dixie beer weren't mentioned.




As I saw this huge list of lousy beers, I started remembering how many of them helped get me laid, man talk about cheap dates.

[ketelone]

hahahah

[ketelone]

Aaayyy... Shiner's alright (If youre talking about the one made in, and approved by the citizens of, Shiner, TX)

[Revelation 911]

relieved to see rolling rock or MGD not make the list

But having cut my teeth on utica club, pabst blue ribbon, matts splits and carling black label -this list reads like a list of fine wines

[sully777]

What...no Meister Brau? I can tell you from experience, the tagline is truth in advertising: Meister Brau gives you much more than you ever asked for. The flatulence alone takes off wallpaper.

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[sully777]

I'm not a beer snob. I'll drink any cold one. It's just a plain fact that some beers should have a warning label: Nasty grog. Don't mix with onion-based foods or Doritos. The world will be better, nicer smelling place.

[ozaukeemom]

Thought you could add your opinions!

[oldsalt]

My beer is Rheingold the dry beer

Think of Rheingold whenever you buy beer

It's not bitter or sweet

It's a grand tasting treat

so won't you buy Rheingold beer

...or something like that.They had the Miss Rheingold contest every year and were the NY Mets first TV sponsor.

[mylife]

Hell its rusted the can!

[mylife]

Tastes like "backwash" from the first sip on

[mylife]

Hey Mabel!

[359Henrie]

What,no Iron City Beer?

[mylife]

Oh yeah Meister brau, that stuff was swill

[mylife]

Shiner is excellent!

Shiner bock and the heffeweisen

[ansel12]

I was a teenager when I crashed a wet t-shirt contest with Shiner in kegs, if the beer were a dark beer or anything other than "American" I would have thought it was gross.

Could that have been the case 30 or so years ago?

[mylife]

I couldnt say

Ive only had the stuff in the past 15 years.
I can say that We had out of state visitors come here to TX and I iced down a case of shiner bock for them as I feel its one of texas's finest offerings

[jonrick46]

I did a little googling and interesting enough, Miller Brewing merged with South African Breweries and is now called SABMiller. SABMiller is actually headquartered in London, England. Philip Morris Companies, Inc changed its name to Altria Group, Inc (to hide its tobacco stigma) and owns 36% interest in SABMiller.

Pabst Brewing Company, headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, specializes in brewing brands that are no longer brewed by the original brewers. Olympia was first brewed by the Olympia Brewing Company in Tumwater, Washington. Pabst took over production, using the original formula, in 1983. It is characterized by low bitterness, light malt flavor, and moderate alcohol. Its light flavor is the result of the us of rice and corn with the barley malt. Their Olympia beer product, classified as an American Macro Lager took the silver medal in the 2005 Great American Beer Festival.

Pabst owns no brewery; instead, it pays other brewers, such as SABMiller and Lion Brewery, to brew the beers, while it retains ownership of the brands (Pabst Blue Ribbon, Pearl, Lone Star, Old Milwaukee, Old Style, Schlitz, and Colt 45) and markets the products. The Pabst Brewing Company is owned by the Kalmanovitz Charitable Trust.

[Allegra]

(Hey, humblegunner, how did you do that on Post 207??)

[Allegra]

I just love looterguy, he's a beer lovers icon.

Looterguy is someone who definitely has his priorities straight during a natural disaster.