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We all have different tastes when it comes to beer. I might not like the taste of Heineken, but I realize there are others who appreciate it. However, there are a handful of beers that are universally reviled. They exist solely as a cost-saving measure, and contain no desirable taste whatsoever. Here they are, the 10 worst beers ever. Even the people who drink these beers don't think they're good. Trust me... I've had them all. -By Tom Z
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10 Miller High Life
( May 9, 2012 )
"The champagne of beers" doesn't exactly live up to its name, unless of course the champagne we're talking about is Andre.
#9 Busch
( May 9, 2012 )
I actually find Busch Light to be pretty decent, especially when compared to other beers at the same price point. Unfortunately I can't say the same about regular Busch. An old commercial for this beer showed a fisherman pulling a can out of a stream and drinking it, which is appropriate since it tastes like trout-infested water.
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I've had 7 of them. I remember my sophmore year we lived on Beast Lite. But LynneSin Trivia - the first beer I ever bought (at the ripe old age of 18) was Genny Cream Ale. I almost swore off beer that night!!!
GoneOffShore
(17,342 posts)The Original Miller High Life - First beer I ever had when I was 8 or 9. I was fascinated with the girl on the label. My aunt drank it. I'll still use it for cooking.
Schlitz - Maybe once or twice, but I don't remember when.
The others on the list - gnat's piss.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)and btw some of them taste like sweaty gorilla balls
Lasher
(27,643 posts)Uh, maybe I'll just let it go at that.
GoneOffShore
(17,342 posts)And my abhorrence of any beer that uses "Lite" as a descriptive.
I'm not Cayce Pollard, but possibly related to her.
I went to a function and everyone was standing around drinking miller lite from the aluminum provider. I asked what it was answer, I said thank you and left the function. I hear from behind me "wow he has standards"
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)LynneSin
(95,337 posts)I would definitely had put that one in the top 5
surrealAmerican
(11,366 posts)Unfortunately, one of those was Genny Cream Ale (I, too, was 18 at the time). I wouldn't drink American beer for about a year after that.
Burma Jones
(11,760 posts)Beast being the worst.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)or the Steel Reserve
but I wanna forget all those others....Life is too short to drink bad beer.
Free beer, however, is different. (The small, family owned meat market I went to this weekend has a self serve tap of Natty light running for shoppers. That 3.5 lbs of hamburger I got didn't hurt my sensibilities at the checkout counter as much as it might have without the free beer...)
sakabatou
(42,189 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)Initech
(100,118 posts)Throd
(7,208 posts)Claiming Milwaukee's Best to be bad beer is like claiming Nickelback to be bad rock-n-roll. Of course it is. But it was never trying to be anything more. Nobody is expecting anything fabulous when you can get 24 cans for under 10 bucks.
In the last few years I have had some truly horrible craft brews that made me wish a PBR was around to rinse the awful taste from my mouth. Just because it has a hand drawn label, is made in small batches, and costs a lot more doesn't necessarly make it any better.
Also, why are people who denigrate mass produced beer so well versed in the taste of various types of animal piss?
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Just saying!
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Generic Brad
(14,276 posts)I have never had the Cream Ale.
bluesbassman
(19,383 posts)Back in my ill-spent youth, Brown Derby was the cheapest buzz going. Down side was a powerful headache the next morning.
Throd
(7,208 posts)bluesbassman
(19,383 posts)arbusto_baboso
(7,162 posts)The worst beer EVER is this one: http://professorgoodales.net/archives/8763
Check out the review.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)MiddleFingerMom
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Even shitfaced, it got a sip and an "Oh, yeah!" and a handoff to someone else as I headed for the
door. I'm not the least bit of a beer snob. Drank amazing German beers in-country for 4 years and
came back and was "satisfied" by Miller Lite.
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BEST two American beers I have had were a blueberry pilsner from a microbrewery in Moab, UT (you
couldn't taste the blueberries) and Miller High Life Light (NOT Lite) in bottles. Each so clean and fresh
that they were not merely TASTY, but easily helped me transcend wherever I was physically, mentally
and emotionally at the time.
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I've experimented with a LOT of things, but I think early on I equated beer with a life partner -- why
play the field and grimace often when you already have what (or whom) is perfect for YOU.
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msu2ba
(340 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,099 posts)Back when I was spending 10 hour days in a South Carolina swamp in the summer, it was rather refreshing at the end of the day, as hot, dehydrated as I was. As far as light beers go, I prefer Yuengling Light for a few bucks more.
av8rdave
(10,573 posts)I'm a little disappointed that Coors isn't on the list. It belongs there.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)I am not a beer drinker, but when I do drink it (which is rarely), I prefer Guinness Stout.
MorningGlow
(15,758 posts)It was the first beer I ever had a sip of (I was 6 at the time, I believe--stole my dad's because it smelled good, but of course decided it tasted TERRIBLE). And yet I went on to live a completely normal life, which included four years of severe beer drinking, otherwise known as college.
fishwax
(29,149 posts)I haven't had it in years, but I used to have it pretty regularly and it was a pretty good beer, particularly for the price point. Whenever we needed cheap beer in quantity, our first choice was Lost Lakes Pilsner, and our second was Genesee Cream.
I've had seven of them, too, but most not often. Other than GCA, probably had Icehouse the most, back in college. Definitely not great stuff--haven't suffered it in years
becca da bakkah
(426 posts)Schlitz means...."pussy"! Gives the old ad from years ago, "Move up to Schlitz" a whole new meaning!
Auggie
(31,221 posts)Pabst Blue Ribbon was the butt of all jokes.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,099 posts)My dad has home movies of the party my grandma threw for my first birthday. There are segments of it where I am sitting on my grandma's lap sharing her Miller High Life. Of the rest of the list, I have only had four others. Maybe five. I can't recall whether or not I ever had a Schlitz. It's possible I had it back in my high school or college days.
Kaleva
(36,372 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)"A beer is a beer is a beer is a beer, is a beer is a beer is a beer is a beer"
Tabasco_Dave
(1,259 posts)Kennah
(14,349 posts)Don't think I've ever had Red Dog, Steel Reserve, or Genny Cream Ale. Had all the others.
Kennah
(14,349 posts)It is quite awful, but probably not a top ten worst.
fizzgig
(24,146 posts)the unbearable smells my body produced the next day were enough to keep me from every drinking it again.
high life is the only other one i've had, i'll pick up a six pack every once in a while. it's good for porch drinking on a hot day.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)I thought I had a brain tumor.
Besides Steel Reserve, I've had 4 others.
fizzgig
(24,146 posts)and all of it from one beer. i can't imagine what the next morning feels like after more than that.
Gold Metal Flake
(13,805 posts)JonLP24
(29,322 posts)Rainier Beer & Coors in that order.
Actually Pabst was worse that those 3.
T_i_B
(14,749 posts)I think a list of the most over-rated beers might be more interesting.
Might cause more flame wars though.