Highly acclaimed brews that underwhelmed you?

Dogfish Head Bitches Brew. Me and a buddy have been wanting to try this beer for close to 4 years when I found it at one of my local bottle shops. It was expensive $14.99 a bottle but I knew I may never see it again so I picked up two bottles. Had the first one last night and was completely underwhelmed. It really tasted like a watered down stout to me, I could barely taste any honey, and this beer just lacked a full body. It was decent but for the price I can think of a lot of better beers that I would rather enjoy. I think I will be aging my other bottle for at least a year.

I will be avoid dogfish head brews until further notice seeing as that none of the beers I have had from them have wowed me yet.

 

The "Highly Acclaimed" KBS.

Good beer, but did not blow me away as anticipated.

 

darkness and darklord.

 

KBS- It bugs me but i just don't like it
Hopslam- The problem for me is it seems so..pineapple-y...i don't like pineapple.

Regarding all the people mentioning Dark Lord. I had last years a day after the event and didn't like it, i'm not sure if i was expecting something else and just wasn't in the mood for all the port/figginess of that beer. Anyways I just tried a 2011 and I was blown away and now i have the yearning for more, which is dangerous.

 

Thought these were supposed to be "Highly Acclaimed" beers?

 

It always amuses me when someone states "Well, Beer B shouldn't be ranked #x." So, somehow your palate is more important than the general consensus of beer fans?

 

Pretty much any Stone beer, besides the chocolate mint

 

Westy 12... drain pour

 

None. They're delicious all the time. It's beer. It's amazing.

 

I don't know if it's highly acclaimed, but Sexual Chocolate was disappointing. There are plenty of standard off-the-shelf RIS that destroy it.

 

Since when was Old Rasputin super hyped?

 

Enjoy By 05.17.13

 

I'm getting some nugget nectar in a trade today and now I'm worried!

 

Wehenstephaner did that to me. It was good, but not the best hefe. I found Franziskaner and Tucher even better.

 

Hopslam was just plain bad this year, sold all of mine except one six pack and I only drank two of those. Something was just off with this years batch, it wasn't even a decent beer. Lagunita's Sucks was a much better beer, Stone I generally don't love but all of the Enjoy By beers have been amazing so far. In the future I won't waste the time and energy on Hopslam, Suck's and Nugget Nectar are much cheaper, easier to find and as of this year way better.

 

FFF dreadnaught. Could have been a skunked one though...

 

underwhelmed? really? I thought you loved it

 

Nugget Nectar for sure.

I enjoyed it, absolutely. But a top 50 beer? No way in the world.

 

Salvator Doppel Bock, La Fin du Monde...