Drain pour tales...

Doesn't happen often but these came to mind
Southern Tier Pumpking
Dark Lord
S.A. triple bock

 

Yeah if you don't like fruit beers or sour beers, Enigma probably wasn't for you.

 

Nothing since I really got "into" craft beer. I'm a very cautious buyer.

Way back when I was first trying to get into beer in any form, I bought a 6 of Sam Adams Light. I couldn't drink it at all and had to dump it. It was years before I tried getting into beer again, assuming that "I just must not like beer."

 

Ha! What a joke...

 

Samuel Adams Light? Such a monstrosity exists? (I'm freakin' serious, I've never ever seen this before in Texas... and we get basically all SA)

It is however entirely possible that I haven't bought a "light" beer that my mind puts a blank black box in the area where that beer is on the shelf.

 

Hinterland Maple Bock - I got very little maple, reminded me of a bad version of Voodoo Doughnut.

Hoppin' Frog Sweet Evil - Tastes/smells like a can of Spaghetti O's! Definitely was better when paired with smoked meats.

 

Got stoked last month when I picked up a bottle of Pipeworks Blue Lady, as I love the style and blueberries in anything remotely tart is a no-brainer for me. Opened it up, it smelled like the stinkiest of feet and cheese. Tasted like yogurt mixed with a Berliner Weisse and I just couldn't shake the aroma while I was drinking it. Had a few sips, pitched it, and drank a MoaS instead. Also dumped a Peat Black Hole, but it was known going into it how bad it would likely be.

 

Has anybody here drainpoured a Tactical Nuclear Penguin, or have all of you that had it struggled through a bottle (potentially with several other folks) in order to justify the price tag?

 

I don't know if you know this, but Pipeworks recalled that beer and are offering compensation (a souvenir glass IIRC).

 

Well for the same people dislike Dark Lord, I drain poured 2 cans of Ten Fiddy because of a salty soy sauce flavor.

 

Man, I did not know that at all. No way to prove my purchase, I was just in Chicago for a few days in September and had cracked the bottle at home in Atlanta.

 

It was about 3 weeks ago, I ended up drain pouring Samuel Adams Utopias
Then mere seconds later, I woke up from my nightmare...

 

Very first was Rock Ice Limon, while in Costa Rica before I was really into craft, had to even spit out the sip I had taken

DFH 75 minute (as we'd had too many good IPAs already during an IPA tasting), DFH Tweason, DFH Immort, SN Celebration. Duck Rabbit Rabbid Duck, Barleywine and Hoppy Bunny for infection. Laughing Dog Dogzilla (but I have had a good bottle of this).

 

Just out of curiosity, what didn't you like about that beer?

 

I actually consider lighter saisons to be "entry level" Belgian beers. Maybe start with Hennepin by Ommegang?

 

No tuna (thank God), but I got tons of pea soup. If I had an entire pour, it would have went into the toilet. I wouldn't even want my drain to have to dispose of that.

 

FFF Biggs' 'Stache was my most heartbreaking. A rare miss on this one.

 

I just barely made it through Stone's Belgo Anise IRS. Other than that, the only beer I ever detested enough to actually dump it after several sips was Orkney Skullsplitter. Just absolutely putrid.

 

The only drain pours I can remember are the infected Rabbid Duck that my friend brought me.... I was looking forward to it (I live in NY and don't trade yet) all summer and kept it in the fridge and good lord was it funky. Heartbreaking pour.
I also drained a Monk's Cafe red because I just couldn't take the vinegar but I've got to try a not-found-in-the-back-of-a-store bottle. Same defense for Sam Smiths Russian Imperial Stout. Villee.

 

Mikkeller monks brew with cherries aged in red wine barrels. Bought this to share with a buddy on a recent trip to Los Angeles. We we expecting a nice sour Kreik style beer and mikkeller rarely disappoints. This was one of the rare complete failures. The nose was enough to make you gag while topping the glass. The taste was as far as possible from the description. It was like someone took a the beer, threw in a bag of rotten raisins and prunes and aged it for a year in plain barrel that first soaked with moldy toilet water. Drain pour after two sips.