Ever had a bad beer?

Erik Tracy
Erik Tracy Posts: 4,673
edited November 2012 in The Clubhouse
So my wife calls me a 'beer snob' cuz when I go to BevMo I'm always coming home with some strange new beer.

Hey - I like variety and want to try new brews.

Sometimes I find a beer that I really like.

Sometimes, the selection is so off the wall or 'special' that it goes on my 'won't buy that ever again' list.

Ever buy one of those?

My favorite brew is a good Porter - one that never lets me down is Fuller's London Porter.

So, I tried a new Porter today - Payback Porter.

Echhhh...tasted liked aged black electrical tape wrapped around a dirty frayed power cord.

Wish they would pay me back for trying their beer...:(

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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited July 2010
    I got a beer once that tasted like a dirty gym sock. I can't for the life of me remember what it was, it was something exotic over at Sunset in Allston.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • mole'
    mole' Posts: 3,160
    edited July 2010
    that is some taste right there.

    BevMo always has some new beers.
    mole'
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  • Vette C6.r
    Vette C6.r Posts: 1,560
    edited July 2010
    "BEER SNOB"

    Too broke to be one of them. :)
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,396
    edited July 2010
    every beer I have ever tried from Great Britian....
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  • snow
    snow Posts: 4,337
    edited July 2010
    Lmao you might be getting paid for something you did in a former life perhaps. I rarely drink, in fact I cant even remember the last time it's been so long, but I do remember buying a beer from New Zealand that was so friggin bitter that I could barely swallow the swill I believe I paid $5.00 for it which at the time was a lot of money and I was determined to drink every drop of it for this reason :p



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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited July 2010
    Anything out of a can.
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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited July 2010
    For whatever reason, I can't stand Heineken or Becks. Maybe it has something to do with the green bottles, but I feel that both taste like skunk sweat.
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  • concealer404
    concealer404 Posts: 7,440
    edited July 2010
    I can't stand wheat beers. Or pilseners.
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  • jflail2
    jflail2 Posts: 2,868
    edited July 2010
    I'm with Zombie on the green bottles. I've NEVER had a green bottled beer that didn't taste like a skunk's rear end.

    I know about beers being light struck and whatnot, but there still seems to be a consistent pattern with those green bottles.
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited July 2010
    In my beer drinking days I came across lots of skunk, sour cheese, and nasty yeast beers.

    My all time favorite is Pilsner Uquell!!! Great beer and the only true Pilsner.

    http://www.pilsnerurquell.com/in
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  • hagmanm2
    hagmanm2 Posts: 205
    edited July 2010
    +1 on beer snobbery! There's nothing wrong with refining one's tastes. ;)

    That being said, if you like porters you should try Foothills People's Porter and Founders Porter. Smuttynose has a very good porter also - very dark, robust and has hints of chocolate and coffee. Cheers!
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  • hagmanm2
    hagmanm2 Posts: 205
    edited July 2010
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    In my beer drinking days I came across lots of skunk, sour cheese, and nasty yeast beers.

    My all time favorite is Pilsner Uquell!!! Great beer and the only true Pilsner.

    http://www.pilsnerurquell.com/in

    +1 on Urquell! (Lagunitas makes a nice Pils too!)
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  • Erik Tracy
    Erik Tracy Posts: 4,673
    edited July 2010
    hagmanm2 wrote: »
    +1 on Urquell! (Lagunitas makes a nice Pils too!)

    Now now....this thread is about *bad* beers! :D

    [although, I would give a nod of approval to both of the Pils above]

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  • cstmar01
    cstmar01 Posts: 4,424
    edited July 2010
    you want a nasty tasting beer. Take miller, bud light, whatever cheap beer you have, and leave it sit in a garage for 2 years, in the heat of the summer and then the cold of the winter and then put it in the fridge for an hour and then drink it.

    Yeah I did that and wanted to barf, most terrible beer in the world, I would rather drink ram's piss.
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  • kevhed72
    kevhed72 Posts: 5,054
    edited July 2010
    Blue Moon...its brewed with oranges supposedly :rolleyes:
    and any Budweiser product....and Old Style, if they even make it any more.
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  • BeRad
    BeRad Posts: 736
    edited July 2010
    I had a terrible beer once.
    It was called Molson Canadian. Tasted like piss.
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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited July 2010
    Nope,, some just better than the rest,, my favorite years ago was Bad Frog.
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited July 2010
    kevhed72 wrote: »
    Blue Moon...its brewed with oranges supposedly :rolleyes:
    and any Budweiser product....and Old Style, if they even make it any more.

    Funny you should say that. On my Birthday (I don't drink anymore) my son who is truly a snob of beer snobs got a 23 oz ice cold glass of Blue Moon and I took a swig, well a couple and I thought it was very good. It had a very nice aftertaste and was a good eatin beer.

    I got a few of orangutan piss beers for you oldtimers that really sucked;

    Ballantine Ale- 4 quarts for $1, stunk out loud! Tasted like the above.

    Ortlieb's Beer- take one packet of Fleschman's dried yeast and pour it in your mouth haaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!

    Out of Pittsburgh- Iron City beer . . . UGH! Just the thought of it gives me a hangover.
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    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited July 2010
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    Funny you should say that. On my Birthday (I don't drink anymore) my son who is truly a snob of beer snobs got a 23 oz ice cold glass of Blue Moon and I took a swig, well a couple and I thought it was very good. It had a very nice aftertaste and was a good eatin beer.
    Honey Moon(Blue Moon Seasonal) is even better IMO.
    BeRad wrote: »
    I had a terrible beer once.
    It was called Molson Canadian. Tasted like piss.
    How do you know what piss tastes like? :D
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  • Erik Tracy
    Erik Tracy Posts: 4,673
    edited July 2010
    I was at a "Tilted Kilt" in St Louis - quite the selection....of beer....tried a "Shock Top" - having no idea what that was.

    Turned out it was a Belgian "White" from Anheuser-Busch.....not so good.

    Too fruity.....

    Man law: "Don't Fruit the Beer"! :D:)

    The day the Bavarian Purity Law for beer was repealed, I shed a tear in sadness.....

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  • Norm Apter
    Norm Apter Posts: 1,036
    edited July 2010
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    every beer I have ever tried from Great Britian....

    you're kidding, right?

    Bass Ale?
    New Castle Brown Ale?....two of my favorites.

    And since you said Great Britain (not England), that would include Guiness?

    Different strokes I suppose
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,396
    edited July 2010
    you got me on that one... I was thinking of the warm/hot beer thing. Can't stand beer that way.
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  • markmarc
    markmarc Posts: 2,309
    edited July 2010
    The worst I can remember was Tuborg Gold from 1980. It was so bad we used it as target practice with a .22.

    Right now I've become a fan of Blue Moon as well. Of course Fat Tire and Sam Adams is always on my favorite list.
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  • Polkitup2
    Polkitup2 Posts: 1,622
    edited July 2010
    A few years back I had a jalapeno beer from Crazy Ed's brewery in Arizona and it gave me instand heart burn.
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited July 2010
    I'll go one better on the Iron City condemnation........Hop'nGator !!:eek:

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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited July 2010
    markmarc wrote: »
    The worst I can remember was Tuborg Gold from 1980. It was so bad we used it as target practice with a .22.

    Right now I've become a fan of Blue Moon as well. Of course Fat Tire and Sam Adams is always on my favorite list.

    UGH!!!! How could I forget that awful beer!?! The after taste was like you drank some Maalox!!! Horrible, horrible beer.
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  • MillerLiteScott
    MillerLiteScott Posts: 2,561
    edited July 2010
    Tuborg Gold

    I remember that from my beer can collecting days.

    For the record I stick with the mass produced lite beer. The only fancy beer I like is a Blue Moon in the winter with dinner or in front of a fire.

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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited July 2010
    I was going to defend Tuborg and their Elephant beer.........then I remembered........it's Carlsberg's !:eek:;) That stuff will put you on your butt if you're not careful!:D
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  • jephdood
    jephdood Posts: 1,671
    edited July 2010
    Horrible beers:

    Miller 64
    Bud Lite
    Miller Lite
    Natural Ice
    Hamm's
    Rainier
    Olympia
    Kokanee

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  • hagmanm2
    hagmanm2 Posts: 205
    edited July 2010
    haha, I completely got off topic and went straight for good beers. Harpoon is my least favorite microbrewery. has anyone ever tried a smoked beer? Now that takes some getting used to! yyyuck!
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