Worst beer?

[brigeton]

I haven't read all the posts as there's too many. My worst beer ever was a Lienenkugels summer shandy. I dumped most of it out. Who mixes lemonade with beer?

 

[Ogandydancer]

Three of my favorites are Yuengling, Stella Artois, and Peroni. Haven't yet tried Shiner but may do that soon. As far a nasty beer anything with Budweiser name on it and Miller is absolutely tasteless to me and their Lite gives me indigestion on the first one. We have a local Steak house that has a craft beer called Deep River Wheat which I think is rather good. When I was a kid we visited my Aunt and Uncle in Lexington Park, Md. and I remember lost of people there drank National Bohemian I think they called it Natty Bo for short. To young to have tried it but, heard it was decent.

 

[Gamecock]

Most were considered redneck swill

I did my share of redneck swilling.

 

[vigil617]

Stroh's. Made from real Detroit River water.

Wow, didn't know that! Funny thing is, Stroh's wasn't sold in North Carolina when I was a college guy back in the mid-70s. We thought it was pretty good beer, though, and from time to time we'd make a road trip up to Danville, VA, just across the state line, to pick up a couple of cases. Bottled. I guess it was the novelty of it, but we liked it.

 

[Salty RI]

I never tried Billy Beer but I remember the stores around here were selling it for 4 bucks a case, buy one case and get 2 free, even at that they couldnt get rid of it. [emoji1]

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[Golddollar]

The one that's not in the empty refrigerator.

 

[ordnanceguy]

My college career, in some ways, could be seen as a 4-year longitudindal study of the products of the American Beer Industry, aka the fermentation-industrial complex. Although much of the results of that informal study have mercifully faded into history, there were several beers that to this day are remembered as particularly execrable. That foamy Hall of Shame included Fischers, Ballentine, Dixie, Shiner Bock and Jax. Old Milwaukee stood out, however, as the single worst beer of the bunch.

 

[yeti]

I enjoy a good skunky IPA on occasion, but must admit to being confounded by the "Hop Wars" also. Some of the uber hoppy offerings taste like you just chewed a handful of dried yard debris after you drank a beer.
Don't get me started on bizarro $20 hamburgers. Who likes this stuff?!?

 

[kimporter]

Worst one ever was Iron City,my buddy and I had a band and we would practice at his house and drink all his dads Michelob beer,one Friday his dad came home with 2 cases of it,this was back in 72 and i think he still has both cases,and oddly enough i cant stand Yengling at all,they just started to sell it in ky and I've tried everything sell and it just don't taste good to me,

 

[Gamecock]

Yuengling great on golf course.

I enjoy their Black & Tan.

Otherwise, I never buy it.

 

[oink]

One of the worst I've ever had was Primo Hawaiian Beer. Nasty stuff but you could get into a scrap if a local heard you bad mouth it. I think it's made again but is probably just relabeled PBR as I think that's who owns them now. It has to be an improvement. I haven't had any in years but I drank and lot of draft PBR in the past and enjoyed it. I drank a lot of it canned too but it was supposed to be used for beer boiled shrimp. You gotta watch that kitchen help. Any cold beer taste good in a hot kitchen. There was also Red white and Blue beer that doesn't bring back fond taste memories. I think it was just low grade PBR. I also drank copious amounts of Old Milwaukee Beer in long necks when the store across the street from where I was living had it regularly for 99 cents a six pack. Apparently that's also owned by PBR.

Back in the day I thought Black Label was particularly nasty. Never a big fan of Schlitz either. It always kinda tasted soapy to me.

 

[Beemer-mark]

Any beer that has a twist off cap is a bad beer.

 

[ACORN]

Uh-oh, this thread's sure to bring the beer snobs out of the woodwork. The advent of craft beers has made this crowd even more insufferable.

Agreed any beer described as having a certain "nose" or a hint of "that" isn't for me. If i want a beer i want it to taste like beer.
I went to my cousin's daughter's wedding a couple years ago. I tried one of the yuppie craft micro brews and about gagged. It had a sharp sour taste that tasted like pine needles. Found out it was brewed with grapefruit peel in it. Whoever dreamed this concoction up should be shot.
I'm not a connoisseur but when I had a go to brand it was the original Rolling Rock brewed at the Latrobe Brewery. They brand has been sold to some mega conglomerate and who knows where they make it now. Latrobe Brewery now makes umpteen different brands one of which is Iron City which is much better than when Pittsburgh Brewing made it. IMHO.

 

[TheHobbyist]

A friend one time was cooking with "boxer'' beer; said it was only good for cooking and to never drink it. I thought, whatever, beer is beer, I'll have one......couldn't even finish two sips. That bad.

 

[soFlaNative]

"twist off caps".... good grief, how prophetic was post #133?
Glad to hear Iron City has improved since I had it last.
I actually found Old Mildew tolerable in the stubby bottles only if ice cold.
Otherwise it was good for dropping off a tall bridge after being vigorously shaken.

 

[brigeton]

Any beer that has a twist off cap is a bad beer.

All the beers I like have twist offs, I don't like the millennial craft beers.

 

[The Big D]

More...

...based on others' posts.

Recall Red, White, and Blue beer. Was $3.11, tax included, in my college days. Certainly affordable...and sure did drink a lot of it.

IC (Iron City) Light is very drinkable...for me, at least. IIRC, this was the first Iron City product NOT sold in a STEEL can.

Natural Light (aka: Natty Light) is now the college kids beer of choice. At least it is in College Park. The home of YOUR University of Maryland Terrapins. One of the local beer stores sells it in 20(?) case plastic wrapped 'pallets.' It is also the perfect 'mow the grass, drink 10 of them beer.' YMMV.

Again, as I have noted before, when it comes to beer I am a consumer...not a connoisseur.

Be safe.

 

[pharris]

Working in Atlanta in 1972 we used to get Red White and Blue for less than $4 a case, that was some nasty stuff.
In the summer of 1978 my sister and brother in law asked what I would charge them to help them move from Colorado to Ky. I told them just to fly me out there and I would help. I don't remember the price of the flight but it worked out to 40 cases of Coors. Back then you could not get Coors east of the Mississippi, so we loaded it in the Uhaul first then everything else and headed east. All of the local boys that had been stationed out west had built up Coors to be the best beer ever made and we were all dying to give it a try. In my only foray into bootlegging, I sold that stuff for $1 a can and it was gone in a week. I might have drunk a six pack of it, didn't seem that special to me. and I could buy a case of Bud for the price of a six pack of Coors.

 

[jtcarm]

A bunch of us entered a club in Tijuana once where the cover charge was two drinks, frozen ritas for the ladies and Corona for the men.

I don't know what was in those bottles, but it wasn't Corona.

 

[jtcarm]

When I was in college, in the early nineties, kegs of Milwaukee's Best was the cheapest fix. I never liked Keystone very much. Some of the malt liquor 'beer' type beverages were truly bad - Colt 45 etc. Yes, you can do worse than Bud, or Miller, or Coors, etc.

It's a good thing I don't drink anymore, cause the beer snobs would sure look down on me.

I never stooped to malt liquor, but Hamms was my favorite for a number of years.