The Worlds Worst Beer returns

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: BUTCH1
Schlitz wasn't all that bad, we drank a lot of it in the '70's, now old bohemian, that was
just plain nasty, followed closely by black label. I had a can of BL once with something
settled on the bottom, like some kind of beer sludge..ewwww

When I was in high school Schlitz was the beer to drink, Bud and PBR were 'neck beers in those days.

 

[KMFJD]

Originally posted by: kage69

Where did he have that finger?

Yeah, that was the immediate response from my house mates and me after taking swigs of that most vile concoction. Henceforth it was always referred to as "Bishop's Ass."

The worst beer i ever tasted has to be Black Label.....and i also hate Guinness with a passion...

:Q Seriously? I think it's a travesty that you mentioned Guiness in a thread about bad beers.

But, I guess I need to keep a little perspective; people up here think I'm nuts as I don't care for lobster at all. To each his own. Just, keep that to yourself should you ever visit Ireland or select areas of Boston. Thems fightin words!!

I've told plenty of real Irish people about my disgust for Guinness , it hardly raised an eyebrow

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: CorCentral
I guess all that like Budwieser are just robots? I am your MASTER! :laugh:
I'm surprised at how people that like Budwieser, are afraid to admit it!

I'll make a poll, for the numbnut Senior here!

Be sure to include Celine Dion and Brittney Spears, you who have no mind of your own. :roll:

 

[alchemize]

one of my Dad's staples back in the day. The nastiest crap he drank I think was Ballatine.

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: alchemize
one of my Dad's staples back in the day. The nastiest crap he drank I think was Ballatine.

Oh, man, yeah. That brings back my personal "nasty swill at an early age" memory.

My Dad would consume about two six packs of beer a year, always in the summertime, generally just one after mowing the grass. It would be Ballantine, in those steel cans before the advent of aluminum ones, when it was still a party trick to crush one (My Dad showed me how.)

Anyway, the fierce SMELL coming off that Ale (fierce is an understatement) kept me far, far away from wanting even a taste. Decades later, I can still experience that smell in my mind.

 

[SearchMaster]

I don't mind Schlitz, I don't mind Blatz. I don't buy them, but I can tolerate them.

The worst beer I've ever had was a French beer called Fischer. It tastes like pennies.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: CorCentral
Well, most everyone here states Budweiser as being the crappy beer, but it's the best seller in the world.

How is this possible?

Are 3/4+ of the World Dumbasses?

Yes.

Actually, no. For what it is, an inexpensive mass-produced bland weak American pale lager, Budweiser is actually decent beer.

I just looked it up on ratebeer.com, and the best comment I saw about it was "Not worth the hatred, not worth the time." Sums it up right there for me.

And I STRONGLY disagree. Bud has some sort of chemical sweetness to it that makes me want to puke. Amongst "mass-produced bland weak American pale lagers" Bud is hands down one of the WORST.

Edit: And, to add insult to fucking injury, Bud cost MORE than a whole range of much better tasting weak American pale lagers.

Vic, the joke is on YOU. Bud isn't even that cheap. You drink that swill by paying for their stupid commercials. You lose.

Whoa there, Perky, calm down. I didn't say I like Bud and I certainly don't drink it. So I don't even know what it costs quite frankly.
If you must know, I'm a microbrew snob. My preferred "cheap" beers run about $7 a 6-pack, usually some Oregon microbrew ale like Full Sail Amber or Deschutes Mirror Pond Pale. That's the low-end casual drinkin' beers for my tastes.
This is my beer store BTW

But I've also done a bit of homebrewing as well. And learned quite a bit about brewing in general. And bland and weak and not to my taste as Budweiser is, I can at least recognize that it is a finely-crafted beer for what it is (notice how I emphasize that once again).
A-B makes a pale lager, probably the most difficult of all beers to brew, and they make like a million bottles of it a day, every day, and every single one of them tastes exactly the same. So crappy taste or not, that is an amazing feat.
And believe it or not again, Budweiser's recipe dates back to a time when people thought that beers like that were actually good. So there you go.
I predict that, in the coming years, the beer snob preferences will circle back around from ales to lagers again. In fact, the reason why most microbrews are ales is because up until recently the microbreweries couldn't afford to mass-produce lagers with consistent quality.

 

[marvdmartian]

Meh......if you haven't been out of the country, and visited some 3rd world nation where refrigeration is worth as much as gold (thus the idea of keeping beer cold, a-la old style Coors, to keep it fresh, is NOT going to happen), and they don't pasteurize the beer either, which then forces them to get more "inventive" in how they keep beer fresh............

Mombasa, Kenya (Africa), late 1982, 5-day port visit while I served on the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier, my buddies and I decide to crash in a hotel room overnight in town, and do some drinking while we're at it. Only way to buy booze is at a liquor store, so we head around the corner, pool our limited resources, and spend ~$25 to buy a case of (if I remember right) Tusker Lager. Not pasteurized, not refrigerated, no-o-o-o-o.......that would be too expensive! Instead, they keep their beer from spoiling by adding FORMELDEHYDE!!! :shocked:

Yeah.......sure wish we'd bothered asking about that BEFORE we'd bought that beer! Being hardcore drinking sailors, we finished the case, but there sure as hell wasn't any fight over who didn't get a beer and who did! Just try to imagine opening the nastiest beer you've ever had, then adding a nice squirt of your favorite hand dishwashing liquid soap to it, just before you drink it! YUMMY!!!! :disgust:

Oh yeah, and as far as domestics go, I actually bought 2 cases of Oly once upon a time, on sale for $5/case. Yeah!!! :roll:

 

[quikah]

So, lots of people have chimed in saying how bad Schlitz is, but has anyone tried the new version? Is it actually different?

 

[Injury]

They owe it all to Super Troopers.

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: quikah
So, lots of people have chimed in saying how bad Schlitz is, but has anyone tried the new version? Is it actually different?

The new version? I actually drank Schlitz and Schaefer about a week ago. My friend went on a beer run with the designated driver and decided to be an asshole. The Schlitz was bearable. The Schaefer did not go down well at all.

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: Vic
Whoa there, Perky, calm down. I didn't say I like Bud and I certainly don't drink it. So I don't even know what it costs quite frankly.

If you must know, I'm a microbrew snob.

And bland and weak and not to my taste as Budweiser is, I can at least recognize that it is a finely-crafted beer for what it is . . .

No, Vic, no. It ISN'T.

It really, really isn't.

 

[grrl]

I thought it was going to be Red, White and Blue.

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: grrl
I thought it was going to be Red, White and Blue.

Or even worse, Billy Beer.

 

[CallMeJoe]

The secret to the consistency of Anheuser-Busch pale ales (and the nastiness of the taste) is due to Adolphus Busch's decision to cut costs by using RICE as a filler grain. They now tout rice as "costing more than barley in some markets" to smear some lipstick on the pig. FWIW, I've been on a tour of the brewery in St. Louis, and the frothy yellow fluid flowing across the Clydesdales' stable floor was hard to distinguish from what they put in the cans.