Tell me about your worst scoring beer.

First beer after a break with my first child, dipped my fingers into the fermentor and the pale ale tasted liked bandaid.

 

I once got a chocolate bag from a pretty staff girl at a grocery store for free, and I thought it would be great in a chocolate stout, but I don´t know what was in that bag, beer tasted awful, I felt bad for the good malt I trashed with that ingredient. All to the drain.

 

I never entered a comp with a beer that I didn't think was good. My comp results have been 30-40. My lowest scored were beers that FedExed and my highest results were beers that I hand delivered. Maybe a coincidence, but maybe not.

I have a worst mead story, where I entered a beverage that I knew to be awful. However, this is a beer forum, so I'll just leave it at that.

 

My best beer (numerically)...a 41 at 1st round AHA was also my worst...22 at 2nd round AHA...I quit entering beers. I know that sour changed some over the 2 months between the comps but I haven't entered a beer since. : )

 

me, too : )

 

I've only gotten one beer rated by judges, and it did ok. I've got two low points in the fridge right now, though. An Old Chub clone that mashed a little high and finished a little sweet, and a coffee milk stout that never carbed. They're both drinkable, even enjoyable, but there's definitely no point in entering them in a contest.

 

Ugh! How frustrating.

 

I wonder how much R and D goes into some of the bigger guys trying to make their beer stable for cross country transportation. Maybe they mail it to a guy in Maine and then to a guy in Cali before mailing it back to home base to taste it.

 

I haven't made anything terrible that I sent out, but I have had a couple of mishaps. I skunked an Abbey Ale unintentionally, left my fermenting closet open for a couple of days while away. The beer itself was overly bland and the skunking was the only flavor that seemed to exist at all. Tried drinking it but it tasted like drinking a year old Stella and I threw it out.

 

Not.

 

A 27 for a BIAB IPA. It was my first IPA and thought it got what it deserved. It was average and a good first effort. I welcomed the feedback and critique. Even if its bad, the constructive criticism is always helpful to confirm your observations or shed light on new ones.

 

My lowest scored beer was a 29 on an IPA. It was summer and this batch aged strangely. Two bottles side by side could be great or an obviously faded IPA. By the description the judges got a bottle that had faded some. My worst batch was a remake of one of my best beers. For some reason 05 threw off a sour type smell and some taste. It slowly aged out. At 2 months it was drinkable but not overly enjoyable. At 4 months it was not bad. At 6 months with only a very few left it is actually pretty good.

 

Hello there, I think I know you! I was just talking to an assistant brewer and homebrewer last weekend who told me he had tried a chai tea beer and it was the worst of both worlds!

I have had several really really bad beers. Thinking the worst was the pineapple beer. It morphed into a rule that held strong for many years to never put fruit in a beer ever again. It was sour and pineappley and just horrid.

2nd worst was Medea (yes, it deserved that name), a blonde ale with Jasmine, lavendar, and vanilla. We entered it in the worst beer contest and of two entries it was 2nd. SO, it didn't even win that. IN the end we brewed up the blonde again, and then started adding some of the medea to the blonde until we could taste the herbs and then stopped. It ended up drinkeable only through dilution. So, it didn't end up a drain pour like the pineapple-well, actually a large portion of it was disposed of after we were finished adding it to the unadulturated blonde ale. (the new blonde ale retained the name medea-for clarity, or obfuscation-your choice, lol, we took it to some friends, and warned the heck out of them what it was, most didn't like it, one guy really did, and he took the 2nd bottle home with him-I was gobsmacked).

 

oh i should go upstairs and find the score sheet and tell you what the score on medea was, I'm thinking it was in the 20's.

 

That's punk as fuck.