I will say there is much worse. We had 2 kegs of Iron City (not IC Light) at a tailgate at PSU one time. On sale for $22 each.
No one was at the tailgate all day long. They were all in the porta-john lines. It was like there was something evil living in the kegs.
Being kids w/ no alternatives we just kept drinking it of course. I think my bowels burn to this day from that experience.
When I was ...much younger ;) a friends dad, a total alky got us each a case for christmas. We each opened an Iron city, had a swallow and tossed it.
Even his dad refused to drink it after he tried it.
“I will say there is much worse.”
Ballantine....that had to be a mistake by the brewer.