Bad Beer Appreciation thread

[sammyg2]

last year for the holidays I received two six packs of Spaten Optimator from one of my vendors.
I choked down about half of one bottle, then posted the rest as free to a good home in the pelican classifieds.
No takers, I ended up pouring it down the drain. Bitter, nasty stuff.

And don't give me that sophisticated pallet crap, that just means you like things that suck because they are expensive or they make you look cool

[ckissick]

Originally posted by gr8fl4porsche
There is a very popular bar in St. Louis called 'Tin Can'.

They serve every kind of canned beer you would like to forget. Most are about $1.

Come on down if you want to lay your hands on an ice cold Olympia - Red White & Blue - Black Label - Stag - you get the idea.

What is it about MO and canned beer? My first time east of the Mississippi, (for a job) I flew into MO, and went north to a small town along the Missouri River. At dinner, I asked the waitress what kind of beer they had. With great enthusiam and a southern accent, she answered, "Well, we have Coors and Bud, in CANS!" Like that was a good thing. That and the 30-weight gravy on the biscuits were my introduction to midwest cuisine.

[AFJuvat]

Originally posted by sammyg2
last year for the holidays I received two six packs of Spaten Optimator from one of my vendors.
I choked down about half of one bottle, then posted the rest as free to a good home in the pelican classifieds.
No takers, I ended up pouring it down the drain. Bitter, nasty stuff.

And don't give me that sophisticated pallet crap, that just means you like things that suck because they are expensive or they make you look cool

Under the German brewing laws, any beer name ending in -ator is a double bock. Minimum of 7% and up to 18% alcohol by volume.

You are correct, it is a very acquired taste.

AFJ

[deathpunk dan]

yeah double bock stuff is rough if you aren't ready for it.

A bandmate brought a 6 pack of STROH'S LITE to practice last night. WTF.

[svandamme]

Heiniken, aka Heinicrap


that stuff tastes like piss and gives you a hangover headache before you get really drunk...

[ronin]

Originally posted by svandamme
that stuff tastes like piss and gives you a hangover headache before you get really drunk...

wuss

Schmidt Sportpack

[svandamme]

Originally posted by ronin
wuss

Schmidt Sportpack

dude.. i'm Belgian
i drink heavy beer at the rate most people drink pils

[ronin]

I'm German. don't even get me started

[svandamme]

anyhoo, if you ever wanna test yer skills...
Duvel... 10 of em , one hour...
whoever get's the most of em down ...wins

unless he has to be carried off by an ambulance... like this guy :

http://www.dumpalink.com/media/1128933813

i've done 13 , but not in one hour though... i needed 2 , and was able to get home on my own power.

[Jims5543]

I used to model railroad a lot when I was in my mid to late teens. A good friend of my fathers (at the time a local Sherrif) took me under his wing as a mentor of sorts and was/is a model railroader. He got me involved in it.

We had this whole down town set up with a brewery. The name on the Brewery and on the rail cars was Blatz Beer.

One of our co-railroaders found out it was a real brewery and you could order a case of it from a local berr dist.

It was god awful no one finished the first can.

[VaSteve]

When I was just graduating college in NC in 1995, I picked up a 6 pack of something at the supermarket. I think it came in a blue bottle - or had a blue label - or blue in the name, but I don't think it was blue moon. Anyhow, I drank a half of one, it was awful. Tasted like a hot dog with mustard in a bottle!!

I gave one to a buddy who would eat or drink anything. He couldn't drink it. I opened one last one as a challenge to myself. Nope. Even making no money I wasn't catching a buzz off that stuff. I left the 3 remianing in fridge with my roommate when I moved out. Wonder if he ever drank it?

Anyone (dtw?) know what this crap might have been?

I have a history of ordering stuff I don't like more than once. Will I ever learn?


Apparently my story hasn't changed much since this last came up:

ok what is your worst beer?

[campbellcj]

We used to get Schaefer and/or Meisterbrau in mass quantities for giant frat parties...an 18+ kegger at my Pacific Beach apartment one time for example (a LONG time ago, LOL)...IMO at that time it was basically the same nasty swill as Bud, but a helluvalot cheaper by the truckload.

Stijn - not sure if I've tried Duvel but I like the Chimay Premier. I also actually have a 1994 Belgian lambic (Champagne bottle size) in storage downstairs; not sure if it's still good but supposedly it 'improves with age' in the bottle.

[nostatic]

no mention of Mickey's Big Mouth? Or too busy hurling?

[slodave]

Originally posted by svandamme
Heiniken, aka Heinicrap


that stuff tastes like piss and gives you a hangover headache before you get really drunk...

WOW!!! I totally agree! 'Nough said.

Dave

[svandamme]

Originally posted by campbellcj


Stijn - not sure if I've tried Duvel but I like the Chimay Premier. I also actually have a 1994 Belgian lambic (Champagne bottle size) in storage downstairs; not sure if it's still good but supposedly it 'improves with age' in the bottle.

Duvel doesn't compare to Chimay , different class of beer

both good though

my bet on the Lambic... it's probably undrinkable by now...i'm sure they stop imrproving after 8 years

[dtw]

Originally posted by VaSteve

Anyone (dtw?) know what this crap might have been?

I got nothin', mate.

Every once in a while I brew a really awful batch of beer. Usually I try something experimental and the beer just goes off. It's really, really, really bad and its always the same. There's too much time and money in it to just throw it out though...I just save it until some friends are around and we've already had several of the good bottles...then I sneak in the skunkbrau. Works like a charm...

[campbellcj]

Thanks Stijn, I guess I'd better open that Lambic (kinda forgot about it) and see what goodness or nastiness awaits

This thread reminds me that I have not brewed up a batch of my own in quite some time. Since it has "cooled off" to So. Calif. "Winter" temperatures, and I am off work next week, it seems like a good time to do so.

[cashflyer]

Originally posted by svandamme
...i'm sure they stop imrproving after 8 years

Could that mean my 19 year old Coors is bad?

I have an unopened bottle of Coors Winterfest from 1986 - the first year it was marketed. (Prior to 1986, "winterfest" was brewed strictly for the Coors family and their employees.) It has been continually refrigerated. It's 20 next winter!!

[Joe Bob]

Absolutely the worst.....

[SLO-BOB]

Originally posted by Kurt V
This is the cheapest and worst tasting beer I ever drank:

OMG!! That is the very first beer I've ever had and it was also going to be my pic for the worst! My grandfather used to run up to the MO border and fill the back of his pick-up full of that cheap crap. I remember it was half the price of PBR. My cousin and I would sneak a few cans (we were 12 & 14) and we wondered what on earth adults saw in that crap. Naturally we thought all beer tasted the same. I din't drink beer ever again....for three years anyway.

Just to put things in perspective-I'm from Milwaukee. I know *****ty beer. Falstaff and Schaeffer were two cheap biggys when I would go up nort'. Now it's rolling rock as cheapo water beer. For some reason it's not so cheap anymore. Supply and demand I 'spose. If I want a cheap beer I'll usually have a Corona. Started as a cheap beer, but then got popular. Mmmmm-watery.