Does anyone remember Carlin Black Label Beer? Now there was an all time terrible beer, but I don't think it's still on the market. Thank God!
Still around;
CARLING BLACK LABEL
Brewed in Canada since 1926 using a slow fermentation process and top-quality ingredients, CARLING BLACK LABEL is a light, clean-tasting blond lager with a subtle hint of hops.
CARLING BLACK LABEL is an easy-drinking quality beer that needs no more introduction.
Its distinctive black label gives it a mysterious, sensual and somewhat rebellious air.
To satisfy the full spectrum of consumer tastes, the CARLING BLACK LABEL family now includes Black Label, Black Light and Black Dry which are complemented by a selection of beers with a higher alcohol content (from 5.9% to 10%) available in economical 1.18-litre bottles. http://www.molson.com/brands/molsoncanada/molsonbrands.php#8
When I was in high school (early 80's) we gave my friends brother $25 to buy us beer. He came back with 10 cases of warm Black Label. We were thrilled.
I remember the commercial from 1965 or so.
It rates a 1.7, FAR too good to be on this list, which runs from 0.88 to 1.19.
Carling's Black Label used to be pretty good. So was Lucky Lager. My dad used to drink them. Lucky Lager used to have those puzzles inside the cap.
I just happen to have a Red & Black can of Carling Black Label beer in my hand right as I'm reading this. I am one of those who like its taste.
As for the others on this "bottom 50" list, I've unfortunately had several of them, and without exception, they are truly poor.
By the way, I enjoy Genny Cream on occasion - but it is more a "niche" taste that is worth trying sometime, not a beer to tout as an all around "good beer".
"Does anyone remember Carlin Black Label Beer?"
I drink scotch and one time at an O'Club somewhere in Alabama I asked for a [Johnny Walker] Black Label on the rocks. The barkeep looks at me funny and asks me "Whuat?". I told her, "Black Label on the rocks, please". She goes to the back for a couple of minutes and comes back with a can of beer which she pours over ice in a glass. The beer: Carlin Black Label.
That's how I learned that in the south you don't drink scotch, you drink whiskey.
That was pretty bad. For really bad beer go to Greece.
That would be Carling Black Label. Yeah, I remember it, along with Piels, Blatz, Schmidts, Dixie etc, ect.. but at that time I wouldn't have known a good beer from a bad beer.
You sure it wasn't Carling Black Label? It was really nasty!
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.