Worst beer?

[500SNW]

Funny thing about this topic is that a lot of people are talking about experiences from decades ago. One observation I've made over many, many years is that some beers which might have been good tasting in the 60's, 70's or 80's...just don't taste the same today. "Reissue" beers are even less like their historical counterparts. IMHO, most mass produced beers have gone downhill taste and quality-wise over the last couple of decades.

 

[max]

The Hamm's name is now owned by Miller Brewing and they still make it in Milwaukee. Around here, a 30 pack is about $12. I have a friend in South Dakota that likes it and I take him a pack every year when I hunt with him.

Do they still make Hamm's?

 

[joeintexas]

Lone Star was the beer of choice as a youth, not because of taste but because of price, really cheap. I think Falstaff was pretty brutal after it sat for a few months on the shelf. Always liked Hamms, the beer refreshing. While in the service, truth be told, if you could get it open we drank it.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Those "worse" beers have their place. Down here we refer to them as "fishing" beers-i.e. to be drank in great quantity ice cold for hydration purposes The 2 main requirements are cheap and alcoholic. Schaefers light and keystone were two that fit the bill. Busch was another. Don't do it so much anymore as they will put the weight on you. Even Abita has joined the ranks with a fishing beer called "The Boot" available only in Louisiana-it's take is "a lighter beer that doesn't fill you up" which is just a nice way of saying that you can drink the snot out of it unlike the other beers where two and you're bloated up and done. Coors light is another good fishing beer but it is a bit pricier than the others mentioned.
Trick to making bad beer drinkable is to get it really COLD. Back when I was in college the dorms all had CO2 fire extinguishers. Anyone with a rudimentary understanding of the physics of expanding gasses knows what happens when you unload one of those suckers onto a case of beer Got to the point that they had to recharge all of them every Monday after a home game.

 

[moosedog]

For me, it's about 99% of these amateurs with their flowery micro brews at $5-$6 a pop. I must have tasted a hundred of these and only really liked one, Hump Bock. Which of course they quit making.
You can keep your millennial "Uncle Al's Licorice Lager" and " Tiger Milk Ale" etc.

 

[Drm50]

POC was worst and all the Western beer from Peal to Coors. I
drank Rolling Rock since before I was legal. It has changed hands
and ain't what it use to be. I remember when Ohio had 3.2%
beer for 18 to 21 year olds. All the brands were terrible, that stuff
was head ache beer. We would just cross the River to WVA were
they use to have strict liquor laws. But it was like the Wild West
then, gambling & booze & other things were easy to find. Since
it was illegal they never checked ID. If you could get your 25
cents on the bar they would hand you a beer. Then the do gooders ruined it all in late 60s.

 

[NYlakesider]

Hedricks beer, located in Albany NY has to be in the running for a worst beer award.

I'm not aware of when exactly it happened but it was taken over by the big well known political machine that ran Albany.

You were a bar, you HAD to have Hedricks on tap and have plenty in bottles available. That was a unwritten rule to get a tavern license or to keep it. Of course all stores in the area sold it also.

I never cared for it and only drank it when it was the only thing available. It was a bit cheaper than other brands, best bet do to the amount sold in the city/ county.

Back then the drinking age was 18 and if looking older could get served at younger ages. Even thought to me and many others it was not a good beer it did have one endearing thing in its favor. For some reason the hangovers were much shorter/easier or not at all if you over did it with that beer.

 

[OFT II]

Any beer made in New Orleans (Jax & Dixie). I recently tried a bottle of Sol and decided that I didn't want another, even if it was free.

 

[Kurusu]

Any beer is better than no beer at all.

Don

Here is a wine Country. That don't apply.

And... local beer is not bad at all.

 

[Marshwheeling]

There is not much to choose among American lagers, you are pretty much drinking the label. Sooo, jus to pick one, let's say Coors Light.

Consumer Reports once gave Old Milwaukee its top rating for the category. I could not say anything to dispute that. One of the guys I used to go dirt biking with in South Dakota favored Old Milwaukee for this very reason. There wre some pretty hilaious arguments between him and a guy from Colorado Springs, who favored Tecate.

 

[sheepdawg]

Coors Light. The stuff comes out of every faucet at my house, cold and hot. Why even call it beer?

 

[bulletslap]

I can't drink Corona.

I would give a hunnert dollars for a case of Jax !

 

[Old Arkansawyer]

Rice beer and most micro brew craft beers. Had a navy chief I worked for in 70 who said he only liked three kinds of beer, "canned, bottled or
draft."

 

[Toyman]

My grandfather drank BERGEMIESTER beer. The day I turned 18 he gave me one and it almost cured me of ever drinking again.

Some others that make my list: FOX DELUXE, POTOSI (WISCONSIN)
DUBUQUE STAR

 

[yeti]

I remember some Schaefer Beer that a friend bought for .99 a six-pack in the mid 1980's.
It made me gag, and was so bad even my frugal friend could not drink it.

+1 on Schaefer. That stuff was cheap, but tasted nasty.

Sterling beer has got to be my runner up in the no thanks category.
We used to get waxed cardboard cases of heavily scared up returnable long neck bottles.
Cheeeeap drinking IF you managed to return the bottles. Always felt terrible the next day though.
Two of them would give me a pounding headache!

 

[keith44spl]

This,

.

 

[The Big D]

PBR pounders...

...are my 'go to' beers. Love 'em...and 2 bucks per in my favorite beerroom. My friends are beer connoisseurs and mock my choice. In said beerroom there are 30 craft beers always on tap. Most of those taste like swill to me.

They must have more cultivated palates. But I digress...

All time WORST beer remains Schaefer. No question.

Be safe.

 

[16thVACav]

Any of you remember Big Cat Malt Liquor or Iron City? From my college days.

 

[DOUBLESHOT]

Back in my youth out of the great city of Philadelphia there was Schmidt's beer,
the worst beer to me there ever was!
My father in law used to have Milwaukee's Best,,, that was an award winner as well!

Back in my younger days local LE would say that if there is Schmidts then there will be a fight. I do remember buying a case of Ortlieb's beer once, another Philly brew. I couldn't make it drinkable even by mixing it with Budweiser. I took it to the local volunteer Fire Company (that i belonged to) and put it in the bar refridgerator with a sign that it was free. After about three months an old geezer said he would gladly take it. My son and I currently have PBR in the fridge.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Going with Dixie 45.
It used to be made down in the French Quarter with water pumped direct from the Mississippi.
That way, You got extra minerals.
Hold on- you get stuff you don't really want!
My second choice is Filipino Ditch Water - San Miguel.
It's sctually got more flavor than Dixie 45.