What's the worst beer that you've ever had?

Such descriptive calamity man, I'm sorry you had such a shitty soy saucy experience.

 

Recently, DFH higher math. Absolute garbage, and $10 a bottle back in sep 15.

 

There was a brewery that was one of the pioneers of the Pastry stout craze back in 2015 out here on the west coast called Brew Rebellion, and to this day I've never had a nastier set of beers ever put in bottles, each one was a thing watery mess of a sweet beer, with the strangest carbonation like they used a soda stream on it. They are defunct now but I will always hail them as the worst beers ever concocted (which is probably why I can drink anything else everyone hates and claim its not bad.) Once you've had the worst beer on the planet, everything else feels like a craft beer oasis by comparison hahaha

 

this is more a reflection on me than the brewery, but once in my wayward youth I was drinking some Steel Reserve in a 40. For some reason probably related to drinking steel reserve 40s I decided to add some cheap vodka to the bottle. Now as I'm sure you all expected that concoction was some absolute vile paint stripper grade shit. But being a broke drunk (hence the 211 40s) I knew I had to salvage it. My solution was to add some squirt (the grapefruit soda) to the mix. Needless to say this did not work and in fact produced the most vile substance I have ever ingested.

TL;DR Steel Reserve mixed with cheap vodka and squirt

 

The Veil - Hornswaggler Oreo and Salted Caramel

Horrible experience with BA Ten Fidy

It’s worth giving a good can a try, if you can get yourself to do it.

 

The two most vile beers I've had are Boulevard Funky Pumpkin, a pumpkin and vinegar medley, and New Belgium The Hemperor HPA, which is pre-skunked beer. The amazing things is they hadn't gone bad, they apparently tasted as intended by the brewer. Boulevard later came out with Funkier Pumpkin, which I didn't try because there was no way they could have made it more vile. I heard that some taprooms could not get the Hemperor skunk out of their lines, so had to replace them.

 

A beer called Alf and Alf. It was half cream ale and half I can’t remember. I do recall how terrible it was. Not spoiled or anything like that, but actually packaged and sold. It was also $6 a case which should have immediately caused concern. But when your young and on a budget it seemed like a great idea. It was not.

 

Wiedemann. Back when I went to IU-Bloomington (early '80s), we made a road trip to Cincinnati and picked up 3 cases of Wiedemann stubby bottles.

$2.99/case.

A house full of guys crapped purple for a week.

Honorable mention: Three Floyd's Tiberian Inquisitor. Tasted like nail polish. I drank maybe 8 oz of the bomber, then dumped it. It was literally undrinkable.

 

White Aphro by Empire Brewing is the worst beer I have ever had. A witbier brewed with lavender. While I do enjoy the scent of real lavender, this beer was terrible. It actually tastes like soap. It was an immediate drain pour.

 

Twisted Pine "Ghost Face Killah".

Not even because it's begging for a lawsuit from a hip hop legend, but because it's blend of 6 different stroke-inducing peppers (yes, including the "ghost pepper") was so painfully hot that 2 sips wrecked my tongue for 24 hours.

0 beer flavor, pure pepper heat pain.

I still shudder when I think back....

 

all I can say in my defense is that it wasn't my first steel reserve 40 of the night

 

I had a "bad line" experience once, that I initially thought was infected beer, but have since been advised it was just "off-tasting", probably caused by dirty lines. I was having a nice supper with friends and my first beer tasted more and more metallic - and for some reason, I was stupid enough to finish it. In order to get the taste out of my mouth, I subsequently tried a different beer, water, pop, mixed drinks, shots, food, and milk. Nothing got the taste out of my mouth except time - finally cleared up after about 24 hours. I won't name the brewery or beer, because I doubt it's their fault.

 

Creature Times by Modern Times and Creature Comforts. I was excited about a smoked collab between two such highly reputable breweries as MT and CC. But after opening the can, I could only take two small sips before dumping. To me, the combination of tartness, smoke, and noticeable pepper heat was just awful. I have no idea how enough people liked this beer for it to wind up with a 3.74 BA rating.

Oh, and how could I forget this gem. Veseliy Monakh by Rogan Brewery (Kharkiv, Ukraine). Euro strong lager is already a difficult style (Untappd rating of 2.7 for this beer is way too high). But once, I had it spoiled, after it probably sat in the sun for days. Boozy undrinkable tar, I couldn't even swallow a sip.

 

Wiedemann certainly comes to mind as a low quality beer that I drank in college, and yet I have fond memories of it and also of Milwaukee’s Best. (If that’s literally Milwaukee’s best then that’s pretty sad.)

 

Very stale Labatt’s Blue on draft at a dive bar in Erie, PA.

 

1,700 plus reviews... I had to go back and look, but it doesn't bring back any good memories... Anheuser Busch Wild Blue... It got a composite score of 1.55 from me... Yuck...