Ever had a bad beer?

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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited July 2010
    You know us Bob. Just a bunch of silly, little lushes.
    I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country: Rushmore. Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you.Herman Blume - Rushmore
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  • Ric5811
    Ric5811 Posts: 400
    edited July 2010
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    Beer in England isn't "warm" or even "room temperature", it's just not COLD like we serve it in the US. The ideal temperature for beer is supposedly 50-57F.

    Don't get me wrong, I prefer "ice cold" most of the time too, but calling beer in England "hot" is just silly.

    I was just there in OCT, they serve it cold now, no different than in the States.
    Temp depends on the type of beer, some are 40-45, some are in the 50 range.
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  • muncybob
    muncybob Posts: 3,039
    edited July 2010
    When I lived there, the typical British household had a small fridge(compared to a US household) and refigerated space was at a premium so normally reserved for persihable foods. Most older homes had a pantry which was normally unheated so it was fairly cool and this is where the beer and other beverages would be stored.
    We lived in an English village and the neighbors that we befriended all enjoyed our fridge kept beer and they in turn started doing the same. After all, what can beat a nice cold pint of brew on a warm day. Of course it helped that our first summer there broke record high temps. Factories closed down and so did a lot of schools(rare to find A.C. then).
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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited July 2010
    I can't believe no one mentioned Schlitz? Or Narragansett?
    I refuse to argue with idiots, because people can't tell the DIFFERENCE!
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  • snow
    snow Posts: 4,337
    edited July 2010
    You ever notice when people have a hangover they always say if I hadndt had that last drink, What you dont think the 27 before the last one had anything to do with it huh? :p

    REGARDS SNOW
    Well, I just pulled off the impossible by doing a double-blind comparison all by myself, purely by virtue of the fact that I completely and stupidly forgot what I did last. I guess that getting old does have its advantages after all :D
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  • Nicknice
    Nicknice Posts: 55
    edited July 2010
    Milwaukee's best, aka "The Beast" That stuff is terrible. I would also have to add Steel Reserve, although it is technically a malt Liquor.
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  • Big Dawg
    Big Dawg Posts: 2,005
    edited July 2010
    Norm Apter wrote: »
    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

    Those ARE my two favorites!
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  • Big Dawg
    Big Dawg Posts: 2,005
    edited July 2010
    Worst beer I've ever had was Brown Hound Ale.

    American beers aren't horrible, they just suck.

    I remember drinking an icy cold Stoh's beer when I was about 16 (late 70s), and I'm still waiting to enjoy drinking a beer more.
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited July 2010
    obieone wrote: »
    I can't believe no one mentioned Schlitz? Or Narragansett?

    Hahah, I was going to mention Schitz I mean Schlitz but thought it too obvious. Never heard of Narragansett!

    Funny story about Schlitz. Back in '72 I was in 11th grade. My friends and I had season tickets to the Eagles games for quite a few year. They had a horrible season and that point were like 2 and 11. They were playing Minnesota who had an even worse record. All the Eagles had to do was loose the game and they would have had the first round draft pick the following year. Anyway, me and my three fiends had Parka's and each of us hide a case of 16oz bottles of Schlitz in the stadium.

    It was well below 0 degrees that day and we were freezing our tootsies off. Well before the end of the first quarter the Schlitz had frozen. So here we are each carting around a case of 16 oz bottles which is pretty heavy in a parka with nothing to drink and to make matters worse, the Eagles won thus loosing the first round draft pick.

    We brought the beer home and let it defrost and later that evening went at it. UGH!!! UGH! UGH! You think Schlitz is awful, try it after its been frozen and defrosted. The taste was beyond terrible but that wasn't the worse part. All four of us got sick and next day none of use could leave the house because we had to stay so close to the toilet and had an ice pack on our heads so both ends got it!

    BTW no-one mentioned "Old Milwaukee," awful beer. Watered down skunk wee wee.
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  • Shizelbs
    Shizelbs Posts: 7,433
    edited July 2010
    I refuse to drink Heineken.
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited July 2010
    TOOLFORLIFEFAN wrote: »
    Yep!!! I went to bed with this fine looking lady only to wake up to a very ugly one..

    I call that a bad beer...

    No. that is called "beer goggles". One of the finest inventions of man. After beer, of course. :D
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited July 2010
    Shizelbs wrote: »
    I refuse to drink Heineken.

    I'm with you there Bro 100%. Skunk piss with some extra chemicals to promote a nasty hangover.
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  • concealer404
    concealer404 Posts: 7,440
    edited August 2010
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  • cstmar01
    cstmar01 Posts: 4,424
    edited August 2010
    worst beer is the one that I end up throwing up at the end of the night...

    and Ben I love the pic haahhahahahhaha
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  • EFanning
    EFanning Posts: 60
    edited August 2010
    GMiller wrote: »
    Sam Adams Cherry Wheat- tastes like Ludens cough drops.
    Koch's- cheap **** bear from NY State. Choked it down in college.

    In college, I saw two bottles of Sam Adams Cherry Wheat sit in a beer fridge for five months. Even when desperate, no one drank them.

    I too choked down warm Koch's Golden Anniversary in my younger years. It's bad.

    Today, I am a beer snob. What I look for at a bar or party is: Sam Adams Boston Lager or Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. Both get heavy distribution in the U.S. Both are great anytime beers. Those beers have basically saved my adult beer-drinking years from the likes of LaBatt's and Yeungling.

    I have a long list of other beers I buy, but I'll leave that for another day.
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  • bigstereo
    bigstereo Posts: 77
    edited August 2010
    EFanning wrote: »
    What I look for at a bar or party is: Sam Adams Boston Lager or Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. Both get heavy distribution in the U.S. Both are great anytime beers. Those beers have basically saved my adult beer-drinking years from the likes of LaBatt's and Yeungling.

    After drinking Blue exclusively for the last thirteen years, I made the switch to Yuengling Lager a few months ago. :D

    Cheers
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  • On3s&Z3r0s
    On3s&Z3r0s Posts: 1,013
    edited August 2010
    Was at a summer BBQ just a couple of weeks ago and a "friend" offered to grab me a beer. I was engaged in a conversation so I didn't look close at the bottle: Pyramid Apricot Ale. That stuff is just godawful. My wife wouldn't drink it either.

    Anyone who's watched a few episodes of Zane Lamprey's Three Sheets drunken travel show knows what a pinky-up cocktail is. Now I can say I've tasted a pinky-up beer. Just so wrong.
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  • rayslifecycle
    rayslifecycle Posts: 511
    edited August 2010
    zombie boy 2000 wrote: »
    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.

    +10000000
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  • superjunior
    superjunior Posts: 1,632
    edited August 2010
    don't think I saw olympia added to this list, or oly as we called it. that was the pee water when I lived in seattle. other horrid beers - old milwalkie, papst blue ribbon, shlits (yes, i spelled it right ;)) old english, genessee, bush, coors, and natural lite..yuck
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  • On3s&Z3r0s
    On3s&Z3r0s Posts: 1,013
    edited August 2010
    superjunior wrote: »
    don't think I saw olympia added to this list, or oly as we called it. that was the pee water when I lived in seattle. other horrid beers - old milwalkie, papst blue ribbon, shlits (yes, i spelled it right ;)) old english, genessee, bush, coors, and natural lite..yuck

    Mmmm... Oly Gold brings back fond memories of my youth. That may have been the first beer I ever tasted, and I do remember it being pretty terrible.

    Not all fizzy yellow beer is bad though. Bud, Coors, PBR... I'll drink any of those when I need to sober up for the drive home. :cool:
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  • chumlie
    chumlie Posts: 8,658
    edited November 2012
    Shizelbs wrote: »
    I refuse to drink Heineken.
    And Stroh's.
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  • scottyboy76
    scottyboy76 Posts: 2,905
    edited November 2012
    Chum waits 2 years to throw strohs in, i love it.
    humpty dumpty was pushed
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited November 2012
    Carling Black Label was pretty untasty, IIRC.
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