Worst beer you've tried

+1 to Blushing Monk and +1 to Rogue (stop with the gimmicks). If I want alcoholic juice, Id by a cider. If I want bacon or donuts or whatever, Ill go to Dunkin Donuts. Both were horrid.

Also, as someone who lived across the street from Sam Adams (Jamaica Plain MA shout-out!) I cant diss them as they always had beer for there neighbors for free and there summer beer is a main factor in my transition to 'good/craft/micro' beer. Did notice a lot of people had aged there SA as well, ummmm drink your beer, and when YOU age it, YOU have no right to be mad at the brewer. Go see there new facility as they have growler pours and a new amazing barrel program.

 

Not even close: Magic Hat #9.

It was so bad, that I have yet to muster up the nerve to try any Magic Hat brews.

Runner up baddy: Bell's Oarsman Ale.


Best beer ever: Founders Harvest Ale.
Runner up: Pliny the Elder

 

Weird. I thought it was too malty and not very hoppy. And I'm a hophead. Sounds like you got a bad bottle.

 

I have been drinking craft beer for about 10 years now and just last night I had my first drain pour.....New Belgium Cocoa Mole. I like chile beers but it had a nasty artificial cinnamon chocolate taste. I can't believe I poured out a beer because usually i will drink it even if I don't like it so much, but this one was terrible.

 

I just tried one of those the other night, I was seriously debating if I needed to come back in here and change my answer.

 

Just today I popped a Modus Vivendi by Wild Beer Co. I couldn't take more than a few sips. I am done trying to make wilds happen for me. It has a solid rating on here, but I just don't dig the wilds.

 

Most recently Sixpoint Beast Mode and I'm a big fan of there other stuff, but it sucks. People are going to kill me for this one but I drain poured half a bottle of Cantillon Four Foune.

 

Weyerbacher Last Chance was easily the worst IPA I've ever had.

 

Round Guys The Berliner was atrocious. Ironically, the same day I tried this I had one of my other very few brews I thoroughly did not enjoy: Bell's Venus.

 

I've had a few different batches of berliners from Round Guys; some were decent and others were basically stomach bile, cheese, and sweaty socks....ouch. The good ones are good but when things go wrong, wow...look out.

 

Can't recall if I've already posted in this thread but two of the absolute worst beer experiences of recent memory - neither could be called "craft," I suppose:

In the Australian outback, NT draft.
In St. Thomas, a bottle of red stripe.

NT takes the cake but both tasted like someone peed on some cardboard, wrung it out into a bottle, then left it in the sun for 3 months. Then served it to me. F'n horrendous.

 

Shipyard Pale Ale. I bought a 6 pack of it and brought it to a cook out...I took about 3 sips of it and dumped the rest. I thought it was absolutely repugnant, so I spent the rest of the night drinking other people's Coronas other
cliché summer beers

 

Hammerheart Thor's Porter. Pour at a tasting Friday night made me wonder if people were putting their butts out in the growler. Six in our group, six puckered faces.

 

He Said Porter from 21st Amendment.
Tasted like old green olives and rubber gloves.
Dry heaved my way through it.

 

A small list: Nogne O Dark Horizon 3 - Sickly sweet and a booze bomb with no carbonation.
Wild Blue - A big blueberry beer from Bud? Of course it was vile
Salt of the Earth - I love funky sours, but this was just straight up gym socks. Nothing else.
Weyerbacher Reserva - the '10 version could have been good, but the rotten fruit flavor was too much combined with the extreme sourness (easily the most sour thing I've ever drank).
Most holiday spiced beers for me (SA Fat Jack, Frosted Frog Christmas, etc). Over spice it and I can't drink it.

I'm just not a fan of super sweet beers. The Southern Tier 'desert' beers are in the undrinkable category for me unless they've been aged to oblivion. Same goes for Big Luscious, etc.

 

Overall? Not a craft brew but ballantine made me literally start crying immediately. It was so bad I thought I drank poison.

Other than that? Allagash Curieux which I know I'm going to catch a lot of flak for but the yeast they use does not do it for me. Its not even remotely as bad a reaction as I had to ballantine, but its not something I'll be seeking out in the near future.

 

I'm with you on the #9. I know a guy that likes to bring crap beer over, drink my home brew and leave said crap beer at my house as some sort of trade for my home brew. I gave him shit about it so he brings Magic Hat #9. I think it was worse than some of the other stuff he used to bring.

I also agree on the Blushing Monk. Thankfully my wife (who doesn't like beer by the way) liked it or it would have been a drain pour.

 

Cheese and sweaty socks... exactly right. I see their other Berliner Weisse's are more positively rated but honestly, after tasting this, they should have just taken the loss and made a new batch. Makes me very hesitant to ever try something from them again.

 

Amsterdam Spring Bock......just couldn't choke it down.

 

Recently, it would have to be Mikkeller 1000 ibu. Just way too much for me.