Your worst beer experience

This is funny because it's either truth in advertising, or it's sarcasm! I'd say the latter.

 

Regarding "bummer" worst beer experience:

I was visiting Daytona Beach a couple years back and I went to a bottle shop and got my first taste of some Cigar City and Terrapin beers. I was on a work trip, so I had a small travel suitcase that I knew I could fit a few bombers and bottles in. When I left the shop after making my purchases, they gave me this 6-pack carrier, but for bombers, and loaded all the CCB stuff into it. I had never seen one before, but didn't think anything of it and went on my way. I got back to the rental car, headed to the hotel, while I was standing in the lobby waiting for the elevator at about 10 pm, the bottom of the bomber "carrier" gave out and all six bombers fell to the floor and exploded SPECTACULARLY. I would have held it from the bottom, but I had another bag full of 12 oz bottles in the other hand (I know, not a great excuse). But yeah, about $75 of beer, gone in an instant. Nothing rare or anything, but it was a bummer. The most amusing part was the janitor who ran over and exclaimed, "DAMN! That smells like liquor and cow shit!" Yeah, I dunno either.

On the upside, when I went back to the bottle shop the next day the owner (despite my own idiocy) hooked me up with a 20% discount on some replacement beers and threw in some leftover beers from a tasting (including a bunch of 330 ml St. Bernardus 12s) and a 1 L Paulaner Stein. So that was awesome and unexpected.

Regarding "gross" worst beer experience:

Around 2004 some freshly-minted 21 year-old friends and I purchased a 30 rack of Budweiser and retreated to one of our mom's house for the night. She had a beer fridge in the basement that had miscellaneous stuff in it, and when we were near the end of the 30 rack I reached into the back of the fridge, popped a Budweiser and gave it a swig. However, as I was drinking it I thought, "weird, this one doesn't have a wide mouth tab like the rest". I'm not sure WHEN Budweiser debuted the wide mouth, but that was probably the worst beer I ever tasted. It pretty much made me puke immediately. It was also a cautionary tale in keeping your beer fridge up-to-date.

 

It had been a rough year...divorce, losing 25 pounds then gaining it back...
But the bright spot was scoring tickets to the Hill Farmstead VIP and Harvest Festival this past fall. I was so psyched to go. And a day and a half before we left? I sneezed. Then sneezed again. I knew what was coming...
The night before I left, I had a full-blown cold. I remember folding laundry for my trip, and as I was folding my HF hoodie, in preparation to wear at the VIP tasting, I sneezed, and blew snot all over the front of my shirt. And then, I will admit. I starting crying.
I went to the doctor and got ant-biotics the next morning, as my friends were waiting in my driveway to leave.
We arrived in Vermont, and stayed with a wonderfully gracious host and hostess, new fellow BA friends. That night, we cracked Fou Foune, Fantasia, Persica, CD3, 4 different Lawsons IPA's...and you guessed it...I couldn't taste a thing. The VIP event was great. I was drunk on 3 different meds. And had Heady on tap, Cantillon Rose de Gambrinus on tap, all the rare HF stuff...
The Harvest fest was incredible. A beautiful fall Vermont day, event run smoothly, food=awesome, beer=spectacular. Met up with a lot of new and old friends. My tastebuds were coming back.
Sunday was spent at Prohibition Pig and the Blackback.
My trip to Vermont was stellar, the people I met and stayed with were amazing, and I would do it again in a heartbeat.
But man, the cold really put a damper on the whole experience.
That pretty much sums it up...

 

Trying to open a 750 ml bottle of Trois Pistoles with a stuck cork, got frustrated and picked up a wine bottle spiral thing to pull it out and slammed the bottle on the counter top once it gave. Totally my fault for pulling out while not resting the bottle on the counter. So so disappointing... Not only did I ruin a beer I was looking forward to enjoying but I had a huge mess of glass and beer... Smelled amazing though.

 

Breaking my Lost Abbey teku in the sink while hand washing it.

 

A hombrewed amber from a bottle that was cleaned too hastily and smelled of pepto bismo, or the pour from a dirty tap at Smart Bar. I've blocked it out what I had, but it was seriously bad funky.

 

East Berlin,1989,in the army. Decided to try the local beer.There was formaldehyde in it. Tasted like biology class.

 

If that's truly your worst drinking experience, you've lived a sheltered life.

 

Hmmm.... probably the first time I tried Duchesse De Bourgogne while I was still new to beer. It was well before I was familiar with sours, and I was expecting something more along the lines of a Belgian Strong (all I was told was that it was good and from Belgium).

Big surprise for my tongue. Needless to say, I've had some as of late and enjoy it.

 

Power hour. Frat house. Natty Ice. I was 20. It was college. Had to prove manliness. Puked on someone's car. Ruined the paint. Passed out in the front lawn. Woke up at 5 am. Still wasted. Walked home with no shoes.


That said, I have no regrets.

 

i did a year of school in Rochester.....thats a year of Genny Creams......amazing i can still drink beer

 

I almost killed a guy in a pool cue accident … will not be going deeper into that but it was bad.

 

Are we talking "worst beer experience" in taste of a beer or beer related incident?

1 for both.

Brewmaster Jack Stray Dog Lager. I've had mass produced with more flavor than this.

Was drinking at The Pour House in Boston. Their beer mugs are massive (22 OZ Drafts). Sucking down Blue Moons. Went back with a girl I worked with back to her place. Stumbled into the wrong room where her roommate was soundly asleep and had just got out of having foot surgery. Startled him so much he goes to stand up. Screaming ensues. Hangover= awful.

 

Easily mine are the first two times I drank a beer. Colt 45 and Country Club malt Liquors. Two more vile "beers" could not be created on purpose.

 

So I stopped a few months ago, and picked up a 4pk of BCBS. It finally had come to Philly and I got me a 4pk!!! I set the beer on the passenger seat and headed off for lunch. I stopped at a convenience store, headed in and picked up some edibles. Headed back out to my truck, opened up the passenger door to put my package in, and... ...and when I did, all 4 bottles fell out of the door and onto parking lot, one of them exploding in the most delicious aroma I have ever experienced. And all I could think was 'if there wasn't so much effing glass on the ground I could get the straw from my bag and drink some'.

Curse you gravity, curse you to Hell!!!

 

NEVER again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I had a Genny Cream Ale-ONCE

 

Not being able to go to the Central Waters 15th anniversary party was definitely a bummer.

 

Playing waterfall with 211...

Never again