So over the years I've ended up with some bad bottles of beer that I know have a greater than 50% chance of being bad (some are 100%), but can't bear to part with until I've opened and tasted it even though I know it will be bad. I can't be the only one. Would anyone be up for a Bad Beer Tasting? (Preferably at an establishment with good beer to wash the taste out of our mouths.) My contribution would be Alpines Chez Monieux that earned this BA review: Pours a dark cherry red with a pretty pink quilt. Smells...Fucking stinks. Jesus anal farts, diacetyl, feet, popcorn, rotten corn and a bit of pinot. This is one, if not the, most offensive smelling beers I've come across. Just a fucking abomination of a nose. So scared to taste it... Tastes real bad. Metal and fetid mushrooms and rotten sox rubbed on fungus infected ball sacks. Fucking nasty. Hella dry and thin with hi carb. I'm repulsed.
It's a respectful "pass" from me, but I would nevertheless be very interested in reading the (quite possibly literal) post mortem. Just be sure to tell your families that you love them beforehand...
Man I don't know what you guys are talking about. If I lived in Portland and didn't have two little ones, I'd be down. One man's trash is another man's treasure.
I'm always hoping that the bottle will miraculously be a good one. And frankly, I like to try anything once just to see.
So very true. I remember a couple of years ago getting to try the Budweiser Clamato Chelada, expecting a life altering experience. Some of the reviews on BA are flat out hilarious, and I was expecting to have the opportunity to draft a similar review. Yet when I tried it, much to my shock and surprise, it really wasn't half bad. It wasn't great, but it didn't put me in mind of regurgitated vomit (as one reviewer described it). My BA review was a cumulative 3.1, which is by far and away the highest score I've ever given an AB product. Frankly, it would be my recommendation that AB add tomato and clam juice to every beer they make. IMHO, it could do no harm, and would likely dramatically improve the drinkability of everything they make.
I still have a bottle of '15 BCBW, as well as a bottle from the very first Rogue maple bacon beer bottling like five years ago or whatever.
I have a Dons seafood lager from 1980's. The first restaurant from the Landrys chain, it was brewed by Abita in Louisana
I've actually heard that the Bacon Maple Bar beer isn't bad if you sit on it for a year or two. I tried it fresh and wound up torturing my drain with it, however.
wow that review is on point, it brought me flash backs i tried to block out. only beer i've ever had that i actually gagged from the nose and taste. it's bad i can't believe it was released.
