Worst/Crappiest beer you've ever had

[ISUChippewa]

Agreed, I don't even consider lite beers, beer! I try to show up (when I have money) to parties with something nice like a nice Samuel Adams Brown Ale and I get made fun of (called old man). Then when I offer people sips they say it's disgusting and how lite beer is better. They just don't understand that is how beer is ACTUALLY suppose to taste and they just haven't acquired the taste yet. Something is wrong with my generation!

Amen and mad props to you fellow beer snob! Before I tried really good microbrews Miller Lite and Bud were adequate, but I would never touch one again unless I'm at sort sort of kegger, which with me being 35 is unlikely at this point. With that being said, both those beers are good for what they are, which is mass-market consumption.

I think Meisterbrau was pretty nasty stuff. I've never liked Heineken either.

 

[CyinCo]

Funny you say that. Its brewed by the same company-Minhas, that I started this thread with. So in close to 30 years I bet its still as terrible as you remember, and if you tried a Minhas it would be just as bad!

Welcome to Minhas Craft Brewery

Did they also used to make Huber Bock?

 

[CylentButDeadly]

I wouldn't say that there's a beer that I would consider completely intolerable, but if there's one that I had to classify as less drinkable than others, I would go with Clear Creek Ice. I bought a 4-pack at Dahl's and brought it tailgating and it was okay until you got to the end and there was a filmy material floating around.

Other than that, I can tolerate and enjoy almost any beer provided it's cold.

 

[SwirlingFloater]

I've had some bad brews in my life and typically don't mind them all that much. Last night I brought a case of beer down to my friend's house for a crappy beer night. I picked it up in Wisconsin and it was agreed that it is the most gawd awful beer we've ever, ever tasted. It was Minhas Light and it is keeping the bathroom in business today.

Welcome to Minhas Craft Brewery

Wisconsin Club.

I was going to vote for Wisconsin Club as well. After clicking on the link in the OP, I realized the Minhas and Wisconsin Club are all in the same family of beers along with Rhinelander, another old doozy from my college days.

That brewing company has to be the master of brewing crappy beer!!!!!

 

[CYlent Bob]

I've had many bad beers, mostly because I couldn't pass up a "getting close to its expiration date" buy for years. The worst beer that I've ever had on a consistent basis has to be Dubuque Star. Back in the mid 80's, there was a gas station on Hickman in NW Des Moines (Plemones Conoco, next to George the Chili King) that we used to joke would sell beer to 11 year old kids. A couple buddies and I used to show up with a truck, buy a WHOLE ****load of that crap for about $3.75 a CASE of longnecks, and take it back to Winterset to sell to other underage drinkers for a significant markup. Sometimes you would get a bottle that wasn't too bad, but the majority of the time you needed to grit your teeth together when you drank it.....so that you could strain out all the unfiltered grain chunks. Good times.

When I got to ISU, I remember buying Red White & Blue at the Keg Shop for as low as $3 a case, but I also saw some dusty cases of Dubuque Star there my Sophomore year selling for about a buck fifty a case. Damn, that's only $0.30 more for the beer than you're paying for the bottle deposit. The worst part of seeing that beer for sale that time: I think the Dubuque Star brewery went out of business my FRESHMAN year.

Dude, compared to Dubuque Star, the crappy Schaffer, Strohs and Hamms were Shiner freakin' Bock in comparison.

 

[brianhos]

Small: Sierra Nevada Pale Ale.

Large: Bud light.

 

[Cloned]

For a year or two in the late 90's Hy Vee had their own brand of beer called Hy Vee Regal and Regal Light. I don't really know who the original bottler was. It was horrid but I believe we could get a 30 pack for $9.99.

 

[bellzisu]

Fat Tire..... I had Fat Tire in Colorado Springs in 2000 and I really enjoyed it the couple times I had it.

I bought 24oz once it got to Iowa, and it didn't taste anything like it did when I last had it. Don't know if it is a result of lowering the alcohol content or what.

 

[cycloneML]

tie Pearl or Blatz. When i was in college my dad would buy Blatz cause none of us would touch it

first swig I ever had was blatz. boy did it tickle the throat.

 

[CyinCo]

Fat Tire..... I had Fat Tire in Colorado Springs in 2000 and I really enjoyed it the couple times I had it.

I bought 24oz once it got to Iowa, and it didn't taste anything like it did when I last had it. Don't know if it is a result of lowering the alcohol content or what.

They don't lower the alchohol for Iowa. Is 5.3 ABV in CO or IA.

 

[brianhos]

Fat Tire..... I had Fat Tire in Colorado Springs in 2000 and I really enjoyed it the couple times I had it.

I bought 24oz once it got to Iowa, and it didn't taste anything like it did when I last had it. Don't know if it is a result of lowering the alcohol content or what.

I think the bottled stuff tastes just like the stuff you get in Colorado.

 

[bellzisu]

I think the bottled stuff tastes just like the stuff you get in Colorado.

Something seemed off... Maybe my taste buds changed since I first had it. I just remember liking it, and now I can't stand it.

My other two beers I hate I can't stand is Bud or Bud Light Chelada and also Busch Light or regular Busch Beer.

 

[mr89ia]

I've had some bad brews in my life and typically don't mind them all that much. Last night I brought a case of beer down to my friend's house for a crappy beer night. I picked it up in Wisconsin and it was agreed that it is the most gawd awful beer we've ever, ever tasted. It was Minhas Light and it is keeping the bathroom in business today.

Welcome to Minhas Craft Brewery

this is a fact... you must be familiar with beer from up here. also fatcat tastes like rusty water that may have some alcohol in it.

 

[mr89ia]

For a year or two in the late 90's Hy Vee had their own brand of beer called Hy Vee Regal and Regal Light. I don't really know who the original bottler was. It was horrid but I believe we could get a 30 pack for $9.99.

dude we drink keystone all the time. its 12.99 for a 30 rack, ill bet inflation adjusted that stones maybe cheaper...

 

[JP4CY]

I have yet to have to kahones to buy beer from Aldi but I'm assuming its wretched.

 

[jumbopackage]

Camo was pretty bad.
Beer 30 is rough.
Sunset Wheat is pretty terrible, too, though I don't get too worked up about flavored beers, since they are really more mixed drinks than they are beer.

I've never had a Gluek, but I hear consistently terrible things about all the beers from them.

I know there are a lot of people who dislike certain beer styles for one reason or another, but I think it takes more than just disliking a style to make a beer truly bad. It has to be a really bad example of it's intended style of beer.

All that being said, the worst beer I think I've ever had is probably a toss up between every beer that Olde Main brewed when they started up. I don't know what the deal was, but they were all just awful. I gave up on them (after trying them all) and just drank Heineken.

Now, they've fixed whatever it was, and brew some damn good beer now, but it was pretty awful.

 

[bellzisu]

dude we drink keystone all the time. its 12.99 for a 30 rack, ill bet inflation adjusted that stones maybe cheaper...

When Osco Drug was open in Ames, you could buy a 30 pack of stones for $9.99. That was 2001 and 2002 if I remember right.

 

[leroycyclone]

Worst beer is Tusk

 

[bellzisu]

I've heard that they bought those tanks used and they were never properly cleaned out. Someone told me they came from north of Ames and they might have thought that Granite City might have owned them, I dunno, someone on here might know. I also thought it was really bad at first and actually don't care for it now.



When I was in school in 2000 and 2001 you could get a dirty 30 of High Life on special at Osco for 7.88.

I remember that because my roomie bought it all the time and bragged his beer was cheaper.

 

[JBone84]

Small: Sierra Nevada Pale Ale.

Large: Bud light.

Nice call on the Sierra Nevada Pale Ale.

My choice is a situational mishap - bought a flat of Corona cans my freshman year of college on fire sale at the keg shop. It was not a good idea...