Craziest beer you've ever had

[SmiZ]

I had a party a couple weeks ago, and a friend of mine brought a 12 pack of Utica Club, a fine pilsner.
(only available in some parts of NY)
Tasted like a moldy cheese wrapper.
:disgust:

 

[StageLeft]

Worst beer I ever set my mouth upon was Labatt Black Ice, that stuff is like pig-swill. I was at a party and everyone who had as little as 3 beer of it felt sick, and anyone who had much more were vomitting.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Even as an inveterate beer swiller (er, I mean Connoisseur), I would have to say the most intense beer I have ever tasted is Sam Adams Triple Bock, which I believe is the strongest beer ever made, at something like 13% alcohol. It is like sweetened soy sauce.

There are many wild high-gravity Belgian beers as well, and those are pretty extreme too.

 

[AndrewR]

Tee_Edwards: You need to go to Europe and try Budvar, a Czech beer made in the namesake town of our good 'ol American swill, Budweiser. It's over 14% alcohol, but it tastes really damn good . I had two with dinner and was plastered -- for about $1.50/bottle (back in 1993)!! Awesome.

The strangest beer I've ever had was Gueze, from Belgium (have to check on the exact name). In any event, it's a bottle conditioned beer which uses natural fermentation. They basically sit the open casks of wort (if I recall my beer lore correctly) in an attic which is open to the air. Field debris floats in and settles in the beer, providing the yeast necessary for fermentation. It's bottled and ferments in the bottle (it has a champagne cork). It was very different, but I did like it. It was somewhat reminiscent of drinking a field of grass and herbs.

 

[Thorn]

Once I bought some beer from a guy with a buzz hair cut that lived in Cleveland Ohio... The beer tasted like a mix between coffee and Shlitz. Bad experience.

 

[CoolTechie]

Me and my friend bought 40s of Le Find Du Monde in Montreal last year.. OMFG.. my friend blacked out and I was all done.. off of one forty..

Le Find Du Monde = The end of the world in french.. strong serious sh!t

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

AndrewR:

I have had many a Budvar in my day (as well as the other prevalent native Czech beer, which I think was Starenpramen). When I lived in Prague in college (in 1989), Budvar was 5 cents a bottle! Tasty stuff, and much more drinkable than that crazy Triple Bock. I do not recall it having particularly high alcohol, though, and as a pilsner it was definitely a low-gravity beer.

EDIT: According to the Guinness Book, Triple Bock is the strongest commercially-available beer on earth, at 18% alcohol - I guess I sold it short!

 

[BDawg]

Craziest Beer? Rogue Dead Guy Ale...

Favorite? Blackened Voodoo Lager

 

[CinderElmo]

TEE I guess I can throw my bottle of Samiclaus (Swiss Winter Brew) out the door...as it was formerly the strongest beer clocking in at 15% ABV. It tastes like NOTHING else. It was US$14 for a 4-pack!

Try it and decide if it was worth the price.

My all time fave is Watney's Cream Stout.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Elmo:

The highest-alcohol beer I have ever really enjoyed (that Triple Bock is too much even for me, and I am not a big Belgian lover) is probably Thomas Hardy Ale (a barleywine), for special occasions. Also, the wonderful Lagunitas brewery out of Marin Cty, CA sometimes makes a very high-alcohol (I think it is 8-9%) IPA called Maximus that is bitchen'.

 

[Farbio]

tee, the triplebock is actually about 20% alcohol - i have tried to find it, but have not been able to find it in the southeast.
cool techie - i can't believe you found some 40s of le fin du monde, its some good stuff, just a lil expensive, and 9% alcohol

 

[apoppin]

Back in the 70s, Carlsberg Special Brew. Only available in Europe. Strong. I don't know anyone who could drink a six pack without getting drunk and puking. It is what Elephant Malt is now compared to Coors lite.

The craziest thing is that it tasted really good.

 

[ChiaBrit]

Ahh since moving to LA from the UK I have missed good beers.
Two in particular

Tanglefoot Ale

A fine smooth ale that will give you the warm and fuzzies after 2-3 pints.
After that its the dark and passed outs.

Dogs Bollocks

Brewed by Wych Breweries. Cloudy and warm like all good British
beers the taste grows on you.

I now return you to your Coors Lite and Bud's.

ChiaBrit

 

[vi edit]

Wierdest beer I ever had was a couple months ago up in Minneapolis. I ate at a microbrew/bar called the Brewstation. I ordered the "taster sampler" that had about 9 3oz. glasses of various microbrews. It had pilsners, wheats, lagers, and stouts.

The strangest one was a stout called the CoalMiner. It was black as can be, and had a wierd taste that made my mouth tingle. It was strange, but good. I would be able to drink a small glass of it, but it wasn't one that you could sit around all evening and drink.

 

[tinneric]

Just polished off a case of Dead Guy Ale from Rogue breweries

Favorite is HopJack for Widmer

 

[Wolfman35]

I usta Manage a "Bar" (Actually a strip club in St Louis) and the Absolute WORST beer we ever got was called "Bad Frog Beer" It was had a Lemon flavor and the citric acid turned it Flat as a rock. Needless to say they are long out of business.(Thankfully) Another interesting point is that we actually sold some of this garbage at $5 a bottle. Guys will pay anything for beer when it includes naked women. A close second worst has to be the remake of Lemp beer a few years ago. Lemp was the original brewery in St Louis (before Busch put em under in the late 1920's) The remake tasted like it was from original stock. (Tasted like it had dirt in it)

 

[burnedout]

EKU 28 when I was in Germany. 28 percent alcohol........ kick a$$.

Rauchbier or smoked beer. Great when served in the wooden mugs.

The beer brewed at the monestary near Wildflicken, Germany is good. The monks test it by pouring some on a large wooden chair. Then they don a leather apron and sit on the chair. If the chair sticks when they stand up, it's ready.

 

[loup garou]

Corsendonk: Ale brewed by monks in Belgium. When I graduated from highschool, my friend's mother gave us a magnum of the stuff for our graduation party. I drank the whole thing 5 hours before the party started and passed out, missing the party entirely. Now, I pick up a bottle whenever I go to Cooter Brown's, a local beer bar that has just about every beer on the planet.

 

[AndrewR]

Tee_Edwards: Interesting. I had mine in Bratislava, and it clearly said 14% (well, it was the little degree symbol, no idea how to do that on here ). Maybe there's more than one? I did have a pretty high tolerance at the time, and it kicked my @ss. I remember that definitely.

The only problem with Czech beers is that it's nearly impossible to drink them fresh in the U.S. They tend to spoil before they arrive on our shelves. Pilsner Urquell and Staropramen in particular can really be skunky. Blech.

I've seen the triple bock before but have never tried it. Farbio, depending on where you are in the Southeast, they had it in Nashville (the one place I remember specifically was across the corner from the Vanderbilt Medical Center, behind the Pancake Pantry -- not sure if the proximity of the hospital is related...).

Speaking of Nashville, if any beer snobs...er, drinkers want to taste some of the finest beer in the country and happen to be there, go to West End Avenue, just down the street from Vanderbilt, and try the beer at Blackstone Restaurant. The brewmaster there has won half a dozen medals at the Great American Beer festival (including at least two gold -- probably more now since I left over two years ago) and makes some FANTASTIC beers. I've been to my fair share of brewpubs and tried many, many beers (over 500 at last count), and Blackstone's beers always were some of the best. The summer hefeweizen was spectacular.

It's Le Fin du Monde, just to be accurate.

Belgian beers are awesome. It's amazing that such a small country can have well over 400 different beers. Sounds like a good place to live.

 

[denali]

Olde Frothingslosh so light, the foam's on the bottom.

 

[Entity]

I'll second (or third) the nomination for Budvar.

Rob

 

[Marty]

I had budvar as well. Another uncommon beer I've had is Xing Tao (sp?), which originates in Japan, who learned it from Germany I believe. Another good one is John Smith Bitter, available only in England. Also had some Hofbraeu at the hofbraeuhaus. Great food, great beer. As you might imagine, I had quite a time at my high school's Europe trip. Damn I want to go back.

Marty

 

[jonnyGURU]

Now you see... Crazy and bad are two different things!

Craziest beer: Dave's Cave Creek Chili Beer

Worst: Foster's (Canadian Brew version of the Aussie fav)

 

[loup garou]

Haha, Marty, I went to the Hofbraeuhaus on my HS's European trip too. Brought back one of those huge mugs (not the steins, those were crazy expensive). My meal consisted of the sausage sampler plate and 2 liters of beer. Now that's what I call a well-balanced meal.

 

[AndrewR]

Marty: Are you referring to Tsing Tao? That one is Chinese. Goes great with Chinese food, curiously enough.