Worst looking beers

A 2 year old Delium Noel... floaties so big you can chew them. Yeast separated out? I dont know.

 

I had a De Dolle Stille Nacht that looked like a damned lava lamp of yeast. Tasted killer though.

 

Gravy?

 

Their Wipeout IPA is a great beer but you roll the dice when you find it on tap. Looks like a hefe sometimes.....

 

People with ugly looking Belgian Ales... They are refermented in the bottle. You need to pour carefully to leave sediment behind.

And to people saying Jai Alai is ugly, it only sometimes has floaties. It's actually an amazing looking IPA when it doesn't have them (which is most of the time.) It has a very nice head of foam and leaves tons of lacing on the glass.

 

Chelada. Sam Adams Triple Bock.

 

That shit looks terrible! I totally agree that appearance is over rated, but what the fuck is that??

My nomination was gonna be a saison I had on draft at Martin House brewery, but if this^^^^ is that person's finished product, that's nasty.. Real Ale Imperial Red Ale looked kinda like that, and it was actually disgusting..

Heady isn't all that ugly compared to some of the beers in this thread, and makes up for it so much in the rest of the beer's characteristics.

 

The top pic is Heady. Bottom is just some guy's homebrew in primary. Posted them together to show the distinct similarity.

 

Brasserie Du Rocs Triple Imperiale. That ain't yeast in there. It looks like the brewer died of tuberculosis just as he was capping the bottle.

 

Damn, that's a lot of crap in heady. I don't remember it looking quite that bad.. I thought that you were posting a pic of someone's finished product. The first few days are always ugly lol.

 

Peeber. While it's still in the damn can!

 

Yes. Also, allow the beer to sit undisturbed for a while, and then avoid agitating the sediment that has dropped before and during pour. So many folks turn their bottles/cans all around to read them, admire them, and show them off before pouring, which just mixes it all up.

 

That's what the final pour of Elysian Night Owl looks like and, unlike other beers that have mad sediment at the bottom, it actually tastes like a completely different beer than in the first pour.

 

Flying Fish Exit series double IPA........Looks like Bud when poured.

Enjoy

 

Double Crooked Tree wins for me. Yep, tons of floaties in that murky liquid.

 

Well your problem is you bought a beer from magic hat.....

 

Yeah I first had heady right after it took a car ride back from the alchemist and me dropping the can (oops ) and have had it multiple times since then and never had that degree of floaties! I mean, it was hazy as shit and had some sediment floating around but nothing close to that!

 

It wasn't just hazy. It was an opaque yellow of yeast. Berliners usually have a nice haze to them. Nothing exceptional clear or ultra hazy. This looked like the dregs were being pulled from the keg. Like I said though, it didn't taste it at all. Great little beer

 

Nice pic! That's about as good as I've seen Lunch assuming a bit of chill haze there. Some of the first batches to hit MA were like swamp water/opaque - I don't see that as a bad thing. Some of the best beers I've had were the ugliest - fresh Heady, the first batch of Lotus Eater, etc. Not to be that guy, but I think the early Lunch/eerily Pliny-ish beer was ugly as hell and easily the best thing I've had from them (or most other East Coast breweries) - I enjoyed that stuff a lot, even though it wasn't super cheap. Do What's Right.

I've had a couple of bottles of Troubadour Magma that looked like they had goldfish food flakes in them, even after a careful pour.

 

No offense, but i think this is user error here. These beers are unfiltered and heavily dry hopped. If not handled properly, they will pour poorly. Chill them thoroughly to drop out any sediment then decant 90%. The last little bit will have sediment. These beers are not brewed poorly.

I think what needs to be realized is that brewing, especially at the craft artisan level, is not a perfect science. A lot of these pics here, except for the crazy one offs with all kinds of ingredients, are simply bad bottles or bad pours from the bottom or last dregs of the tank. Just because you had one bottle, of which type makes up <1% of all bottles, that was full of sediment does not mean that beer normally looks like that.

In short, yeah it would suck to get a bad bottle or pour but that's the risk you take when indulging in an imperfect art. Want the promise of clear beer every time? Bud light will deliver.