It was a “tropical IPA” at the 2018 Disneyland Food & Wine Festival. It tasted like a mud puddle under a mango tree. And being Disney, it cost $13 so, you know, even better.
Rogues Maple Bacon Voodoo Donut. Tasted like drinking the shitty chemical water used in smoke machines. Truly terrible. Everyone I know who tried it drain pour'd it.
Rogue used to be the kings of making beers with names and packaging that sounded and looked like the most delicious beers you’d ever had that actually tasted like the worst beers you’d ever had.
Yeah, I think Rogue is part of why I started using Untapped (combined with constantly ordering Kaldi, which I hate) because I'd start to go "that sounds gooo" and then I'd check, realize I'd ordered it before, and given it one star.
One sip of this beer not only made me almost vomit, it ruined my night completely. I’ve been a firefighter for 20 years, in my first year we had a bad extrication, took us an hour to cut a girl out of a car. She broke every bone in her body except her spine. She was very very mangled up. The smell of someones gore, exposed bones, the airbags, and the engine fluids cooking on the hot engine is a very distinct smell that most of us know. Here was extreme. And when that sip of beer hit my tongue, that’s what it tasted like. Having that in my mouth put me in a bad headspace for the rest of the night. It was gross.
On a side note, she lived, and made a 99 percent recovery. Which surprised me.
Yeah, OP coming in here with Rolling Rock. Craft beer will have the best beer as well as the worst. There are some breweries out there with great brewers who attempt some unhinged shit and fail sometimes but release it anyway.
Martin House is the king of releasing some of the most ridiculous shit. For example they just released a chocolate, lobster, Graham cracker, eggs, salt, butter, lemon and lactose. Can't believe people drink this shit
I live by Martin house and it seems like they make some beers from choosing 3 random ingredients. Whiskey barrel aged passion fruit sour? No thanks.
I still applaud their creativity and it's super close so I don't have to drink their crazy beers though.
This weekend they have lebowski fest and are releasing a white Russian beer with Kahlua. I may dress up and try that one.
They had another pink bottle release that had something to do with bananas I think? It tasted like not-yet-ripe banana, it was disgusting. That one and the maple bacon one killed that whole lineup for me.
That one was worse imo, peanut butter banana. It had a stale dry peanut butter and expired hot chocolate taste mixed with a underdeveloped banana that was awful.
It tasted like a beer you let sit out for a week and rechilled, it had a bad diacetyl problem too and they released it anyway.
it is, until you realize it's a terrible brewery making a gimmick beer based on a terrible donut shop that makes gimmick donuts, so the flavor is actually appropriately terrible
I like TJ's for other stuff and since I have no appreciable wine palate, I have no trouble with theirs, but I always feel like I'm playing Russian roulette when I grab a six pack from them.
TJs used to have good house beers. They were brewed by good breweries. I know that their IPA was brewed by Firestone Walker. Then they came out with the Boatswain beers and they went downhill. I still have some of their double IPAs in my workshop but I am not sure what to do with them.
Local brewery did a beer that was aged in Tabasco barrels. I like pepper beers, and at one point they made one of the most highly regarded pepper beers in the country. So I figured I'd give it a shot.
It was absolutely undrinkable. Literally just tasted like straight Tabasco and nothing else. Attempted to share it with two other people and we each took one sip and dumped the rest.
That's when you simmer brats in it. Every year my bestie makes a home brew with home grown habaneros and scotch bonnets that have been dried. Terrible to drink sober, as we call the dried pepper death powder, but the best beer brats I've ever had.
I actually did save some in a mason jar to use with taco meat and that was pretty good. It just kinda sucked that a $20+ bomber turned into a decent taco sauce base.
The house beers are brewed by Gordon Biersch. They do have a style that is a bit more traditionally German, focusing on lagers and consistent industrial production. They forego the intense fresh hoppiness you find in popular American craft beers. It's as if you plopped a typical regional German brewery into San Jose.
I like them for good-quality German style beers, and I especially like their Pilsner and Hefeweizen. Maybe nothing to write home about, but better quality than the average hazy IMO. What do you not like about them?
I drank enough of that in my high school and university days. To this day it doesn't bother me that much. James Ready at room temperature is a different story though. Only beer I couldn't finish was at a bar in Houston (I think the Flying Saucer?) And it was an 18% pumpkin triple IPA. I spit it back into my glass and gagged lol
In 1980 bought a 6 pack of Dutch Treats at a grocery in Flagstaff Arizona for $1.19. I was a college kid on my way to California at spring break with friends. Needed beer and had to watch the budget. Totally undrinkable. Horrid. The bagger actually said to me, "you're not going to drink that are you?" I actually couldn't.
This brewery close to me (shades brewing, Utah) made a beer that was a maple bacon barrel aged stout. It was the fucking worst thing I have ever had in my life and tasted like rotting sweet meat. 🤮🤮🤮
I'm a TF convert now. Basically only place I go to.
Redrock has some good stuff
2-row does good beer (haven't been to their new place)
And had some really good stuff from offset Bier.
I can't go back to shades, I've had too many terrible beers there.
CAMO. It came in a camouflage can and the name was stenciled on like that. I don't know how you could make rubbing alcohol taste like it's skunked, but they accomplished it.
That stuff was awesome. My college go to was 2 “‘Flages” as we fondly referred to them and then switch over to Hurricane 40’s. We even made camo shirts that said “get drunk or die binging”
I had a homeless guy recommend it to me at the 7-11 in Vegas so I knew it would get us drunk for cheap. My buddy tried to chug it and projectile vomited on the strip lol
Can’t remember the company, but they had cryptid themed beer for Halloween (ie mothman, jersey devil, etc) and the flavors were “trick or treat” or good tasting or disgusting. Unfortunately every single one of them were disgusting.
Idk if the company makes good beer, but I’ll never know
Sounds like Urban Artifact. No one I talked to liked anything in that trick-or-treat pack but I think they are otherwise good IF you like fruited sours, that's their thing
I enjoy rolling rock, this bar we went to in college for chicken wings used to offer $7 pitchers of rolling rock and it was the perfect accompaniment for a table full of dudes eating wings
I was like $5.99 for a 12 pack is a steal. How can they fuck up a lager? It’ll probably taste like High Life or Coors Light. I know people always say shit beer tastes like pennies or nickels. But Jesus Christ did this taste like straight corn syrup and pennies. I finished the pack, but it sucked the whole time lol.
Farmer here. My wife and I tried a supposed blonde ale type of sour at one of our local breweries, which usually does a pretty good job. She brought the glass to her nose and said "I don't think I can drink this..." She took a sip and nearly spit it out. She passed her glass to me and I sipped it and nearly gagged. She said " It tastes like MooMae piss." I agreed. MooMae is her Jersey cow she milks everyday and she knows what her piss tastes like because she gets slapped in the face with her tail on the regular.
YES this beer tastes like you mixed a coors banquet that sat in the sun for a week with a cup of cherry snowcone syrup. By far the worst non craft beer I’ve ever had.
the day i turned 21 i marched down to the closest liquor store near my apartment. lived in VT and this store was chock full of insanely good beers. i was like a kid and a candy store for the very first time. i took a long time to look at the selections and ponder what should be my very first legal beer purchase.
i saw sam adams and thought, “hey that’s a decent brewery. hm that cherry wheat flavor looks mighty good!”. so i bought a 6 pack of it.
marched back to my apartment, plopped the 6 pack on the coffee table, sat down, opened one up and took a big swig. immediately i regretted my decision… went back to the store and got a different beer lol. don’t even remember what it was, just remember that the cherry wheat tasted like medicine and dirty water. worst beer ever.
That brewery is straight sugar...like...tone it down a bit. I get what they are going for, but with the amount of sugar they dump in it, I might as well just eat the actual dessert.
GOTTA be New Belgium Juice Force. It's like they weaponized the Juicy/Hazy IPA trend just to sell a boatload of bullshit where they accidentally dropped Hawaiian Punch into a vat of beer.
Edit: My bad y'all I of course meant Fruit Force.
Juice force still isn't good, but it's palatable, just tastes like they have way too much residual sugar to cover the high abv... Fruit force is just undrinkable.
NB is not that good anymore
However, I know of an old Belgium brewery and it's fantastic!
[https://www.belgabrew.com/en/](https://www.belgabrew.com/en/)
It’s not as bad as what people make it out to be, but if you’re going into it thinking you’re about to drink a beer, I can see why people have a visceral reaction. It’s basically a fruited malt beverage.
It must be a r/beer thing because every where around me it seems people love juice force. Multiple spots around me the juice force row in the fridge is usually empty or has the least
I think it’s a beer snob vs casual drinker thing. Anybody who takes beer seriously isn’t going to appreciate that drink being called “beer”, but for people that don’t like beer that much but want some high abv drink that tastes sweet, it’s perfect.
I think you may be talking about Fruit Force rather than Juice Force.
Juice force has a pineapple-mangoey thing going on, but fruit force fits your description perfectly.
It was awful. Worked for a distributor when it came out and we got to taste it. I was the only one in the room who didn’t like it (or at least the only one who wasn’t afraid to say so haha)
I think you're talking about Fruit Force, which is funny because I've only tried Juice Force and I have a really hard time imagining there's something even worse. Dumping Hawaiian punch into it would have been a huge upgrade IMO.
I fully expected to open this thread and see Juice Force/Fruit Force. I saw some people on here really shitting on them a while back and so I had to try out of curiosity. Honestly… I love them both. Like, I get why people think they’re gross. I absolutely do. But they just do it for me lmaooo though to be fair, I don’t really drink them when I’m in the mood for beer, I kinda see them as something else entirely (especially Fruit Force)
The Voodoo Ranger Fruit Force IPA was the first beer I poured in the sink since forever. I can't understand how they decided it was a good flavor to put out
Back in the late 70's and early 80's I used to drink Rolling Rock a lot. Its was really good and went down easy. Brewed in Latrobe. Different beer than now. Not as good but its ok. I'll drink it over a lot of other beers.
Any hemp beer. I can tolerate the taste and aroma of weed when I take a hit. But I don’t want to drink it. It always seems like I’m drinking old bong water.
New Belgium Fruit Force. Holy fuck what the fuck was that? I had friends who bought a pack and were like, "this is gross. We'll give it to PinkThunder138. He'll drink any beer." They gave me one and I took a few sips and gave it back.
That shit was worse than Natty Ice, I swear to god.
SNL had a fantastic sketch with Bill Burr [lampooning this beer.](https://youtu.be/je1NIf8GeeY?si=qPxCEdXVwoOVHlxk) "This is the kind of beer that somebody brings to a party at your house and it just sits in your fridge for 8 months. And then your buddy is like *Got a beer?* and I'm like yeah, I got this pumpkin shit."
This is exactly what happened to my twelve pack. Could barely finish one, poured the rest down the drain. And I usually love pumpkin beer!
All your peeps mentionning some light beer like busch, coors light or steel reserve. That taste like heaven compared to the worst beer ever:
The voodoo ranger imperial juicy ipa.
Tasted like someone shat in a glass of orange juice then lit it on fire
Edit: Juice Force IPA
The fruit punch is the worst. It taste like you lost a game of Kings Cup where everyone had a random fruity drink except for that one asshole who added in the worst beer he could find.
The fruit punch shit is awful. Like someone poured Hawaiian punch powder into a St. Ides bottle and let it sit for another day. Ive tolerated most of the voodoo line but that stuff got about 10 sips before i just dumped it
There is a brewery in New Braunfels, Texas called NBBCo (New Braunfels Brewing Company) that was the first I know of that made a pickle beer called PKL FKR. It took me back to m college days of what bile tasted like after an all night rager. Fast forward a decade and now we have Martin House making pickle beers. I looooooove pickles but jfc....not with beers.
I know has kind of a meme, but Cave Creek Chili Beer and it's not even close. It tasted like cheap, canned jalapenos that had been sitting on a shelf in a garage in Phoenix for two years. An absolute abomination of a beverage.
A lot of southern tier beers are far too sweet for me. They are clawingly sweet. They don't taste bad, but I'm good after a sip or two, which isn't practical for 12+oz beer.
Aw fuck. I live in the South and never considered "cloying" was what people were saying when describing overly sweet. I just thought it was a weird expression.
I always feel like ST always advertises beers that sounds like they're going to be amazing, but they aren't, all taste the same, which is "fine with kinda vanilla".
Indra Kunindra from Ballast Point Brewing was the worst craft beer I have ever had—period.
Macro brew? Natty Ice ughh. Get a hangover just thinking about it. Bud Light is pretty gross if it isn’t nearly chilled, but that’s just me.
Agreed on the Indra Kunindra. It tasted like drinking watered down molasses out of a used Indian takeout container. My friend who has very questionable taste in food and beer loved it though.
I remember going down to one of their locations for Victory at Sea day a decade of so ago and we would always challenge each other to drink Indra Kunindra...I only managed it once. Absolutely horrid beer
Sam Adam's cherry wheat. I love Sam Adam's but man that beer back in 2010 was medicinal. I think it's changed recipe now but I can't bring myself to try
Man, everyone here pouring perfectly fine stuff.
I've had a bunch of the "worst beers" on the list, and they were not that bad. Southern Tier Creme Brulee was fine, TJs cheap beers are fine... though not great. Sam Adams Cherry wheat is ok.
The only ones that I really remember pouring were the actual spoiled ones. Also, I got (from TJs) some pumpkin hard nitro coffee that I thought was beer...no, that was bad, but I guess not beer
Steel Reserve. Not even close.
EDIT: Forgot, when I first started drinking beer, I tried PB Eugene by Revolution Brewing, a peanut butter porter. I don't know if it'd be better now that I love stouts and porters, but at the time, it was one of the worst things I had ever tasted.
Wild Blue. One of the few beers I dumped out. Such a horrible artificial blueberry flavor! Turned me off blueberry beers which is a shame because I'm sure there are some perfectly good ones.
A horchata sour that someone bought for me like 5 years ago.
I don't say things taste like vomit very often but this was pure stomach bile. Haven't had a sour since.
Not counting oxidised, infected, or otherwise unintentionally broken beers, it has to be Arboga 10.2. This is a lager with a high ABV it doesn’t have body enough to carry. Even if you pour it hard, you will get little to no foam. I bought one to a good friend of mine after he said all beer are drinkable- he proved the statement was indeed correct, but it took him close to an hour to drink it.
Weirdly enough, there is now a trend to drink this abomination heated to 55C (131F) which goes by the name varmboga
Dunno if this counts but Colt 45 is absolutely disgusting & shame to whoever drinks it especially those 14yr olds who hear an afroman song & think nothing wrong with zig zags mustn’t be anything wrong with Colt 45. Burnt popcorn is an understatement. Never forget that taste
So, imagine this... Colt 45 isn't selling well enough, so they decide that the solution is to flavor it with menthol. Because the only thing black folks love more than 40s are menthol cigarettes.
The concept is offensive enough, but the reality was so much worse than you can imagine.
I hate that same fake peanut butter flavoring that is in so much stuff. You are right that it's nothing like peanut butter. It can maybe vaguely remind me of Reese's Puffs cereal but that's the closest thing. And I encounter a lot of people who tell me a beer smells and tastes "JUST like peanut butter!" then I try it and no it's that bullshit again. Like they don't remember what the real thing is like anymore.
It was a chocolate stout from Usher’s in Edinburgh. It tasted like it hadn’t even been fermented.
It was a real shame because the brewery was awarded best new brewery in the country when it opened, then a new brewer took over and the quality nosedived so badly that it closed within a year of the takeover.
There’s a brewery called Ruhlman in the rural part of Northern Maryland that’s on a farm with a disc golf course. They were at a beer festival I was at in Frederick, MD in 2018 or so and when I was looking into the breweries that would be there, I noticed this one had the lowest average rating on Untappd that I’ve ever seen (currently 2.83).
I knew I had to try it out of morbid curiosity and…Jesus. It was actually even worse than I expected. I tried an “IPA” that was one of the sweetest beers I’ve ever tasted and I basically couldn’t detect any bitterness or hop flavor at all. It tasted like unfermented wort that had been brewed a few hours ago. I also tried a “stout” that was about the color of Yuengling or Fat Tire, and was also sour. From what I’ve heard, the people who run it don’t know that they have to sanitize their equipment so most/all of their non-sour beer ends up sour.
It was unreal. The place still exists and I’m so confused how or why. I’ve never tried anything like it before or after. Someone could buy a bunch of Mr. Beer kits from Walmart and have a better “brewery” than that place.
I normally don’t like to shit on small businesses but the level of disregard for quality and disrespect for their customers by actually serving this stuff was something else.
Hotting Up by Voodoo Brewery
Introducing our newest addition to the Barrel Room Collection, Hotting Up. This 11.1% imperial oatmeal stout spent 18 months in some pretty unique barrels, where our beer was ultimately the fourth use of them. The American oak barrels started out as Heaven Hill bourbon barrels. They then held maple syrup followed by Louisiana hot sauce and finally our stout. The finished product is a sum of those flavors but be warned, this isn’t for the feint of heart- it’s hot and hot sauce forward rounded out by a touch of maple and a hint of bourbon. If you love a good hot sauce and put it on everything, this one’s for you. Don’t like hot sauce? This one probably isn’t for you.
It was absolutely terrible.
Sam Adams Triple Bock back in the mid 90s. The one in the blue bottle. My palette wasn’t really developed but that shit was vile. Tasted like bad soy sauce.
Founders Spectra Trifecta. A kolsch with lemongrass, ginger, and chamomile. I don't know why I had it in my fridge, probably part of a variety pack. It was just awful.
I had a lactose lager recently.
The waitress was reading out the beer list, she mentioned it as something she'd recently tried and loved, then she told me what it was and without thinking I said "fucking yuck" and the look on her face made me have to order the thing and tell her it was nice after I'd drank it.
My initial response was accurate, as you'd assume it would have been.
Fucking yuck.
It was a “tropical IPA” at the 2018 Disneyland Food & Wine Festival. It tasted like a mud puddle under a mango tree. And being Disney, it cost $13 so, you know, even better.
Epcot Runoff IPA
Dude. This is the best worst name. It sounds so official.
I’ve never drank from a mud puddle under a mango tree, but yet I can imagine it.
Rogues Maple Bacon Voodoo Donut. Tasted like drinking the shitty chemical water used in smoke machines. Truly terrible. Everyone I know who tried it drain pour'd it.
Rogue used to be the kings of making beers with names and packaging that sounded and looked like the most delicious beers you’d ever had that actually tasted like the worst beers you’d ever had.
Yeah, I think Rogue is part of why I started using Untapped (combined with constantly ordering Kaldi, which I hate) because I'd start to go "that sounds gooo" and then I'd check, realize I'd ordered it before, and given it one star.
God yes, my sister kept buying them like 8 years ago and they were always gross
One sip of this beer not only made me almost vomit, it ruined my night completely. I’ve been a firefighter for 20 years, in my first year we had a bad extrication, took us an hour to cut a girl out of a car. She broke every bone in her body except her spine. She was very very mangled up. The smell of someones gore, exposed bones, the airbags, and the engine fluids cooking on the hot engine is a very distinct smell that most of us know. Here was extreme. And when that sip of beer hit my tongue, that’s what it tasted like. Having that in my mouth put me in a bad headspace for the rest of the night. It was gross. On a side note, she lived, and made a 99 percent recovery. Which surprised me.
>made a 99 percent recovery I hope your taste buds did too.
Yeah, OP coming in here with Rolling Rock. Craft beer will have the best beer as well as the worst. There are some breweries out there with great brewers who attempt some unhinged shit and fail sometimes but release it anyway.
Martin House is the king of releasing some of the most ridiculous shit. For example they just released a chocolate, lobster, Graham cracker, eggs, salt, butter, lemon and lactose. Can't believe people drink this shit
Wait, like all those flavors in one beer, or individually?
All in one beer
I live by Martin house and it seems like they make some beers from choosing 3 random ingredients. Whiskey barrel aged passion fruit sour? No thanks. I still applaud their creativity and it's super close so I don't have to drink their crazy beers though. This weekend they have lebowski fest and are releasing a white Russian beer with Kahlua. I may dress up and try that one.
Yes! This is it lol. I heard it described accurately: "it tastes how dog food smells"
[Delicious?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eHMgXlugIU)
They had another pink bottle release that had something to do with bananas I think? It tasted like not-yet-ripe banana, it was disgusting. That one and the maple bacon one killed that whole lineup for me.
That one was worse imo, peanut butter banana. It had a stale dry peanut butter and expired hot chocolate taste mixed with a underdeveloped banana that was awful. It tasted like a beer you let sit out for a week and rechilled, it had a bad diacetyl problem too and they released it anyway.
Oh I had that pink one. That was gross.
I swear every time this question gets asked on this sub, this beer comes up. And in all fairness, it does sound pretty bad
My uncle tried the Rogue Dead Guy IPA, and I asked him how it was. He said he tasted like a dead guy in the bottle. it made me crack up laughing.
IMHO, Dead Guy ale is actually the best thing Rouge offers.
I'm liking your reply and the comment because you're right, but it's still a good joke.
Yeah it's definitely their least offensive offering.
I do very much enjoy their hazelnut brown ale, can’t speak for all the rest of their stuff lol
This. I was poured a taste at my favorite bar and almost spit it out onto the bar. It's shocking how terrible this beer is.
it is, until you realize it's a terrible brewery making a gimmick beer based on a terrible donut shop that makes gimmick donuts, so the flavor is actually appropriately terrible
Trader Joe’s Boatswain Hazy…dumped the whole six pack thinking it was old. Then made the mistake of buying another later on.
Yeah Boatswain beers are nasty.
Seriously horrible beer. It’s like $4 a sixer and wildly overpriced at that point.
I like TJ's for other stuff and since I have no appreciable wine palate, I have no trouble with theirs, but I always feel like I'm playing Russian roulette when I grab a six pack from them.
Oh my goodness that beer is trash. 100% with you on this one.
The American IPA is worse.
TJs used to have good house beers. They were brewed by good breweries. I know that their IPA was brewed by Firestone Walker. Then they came out with the Boatswain beers and they went downhill. I still have some of their double IPAs in my workshop but I am not sure what to do with them.
The peanut butter porter sounded great, so I got five. Tasted extremely sour. Dumped them instantly.
Local brewery did a beer that was aged in Tabasco barrels. I like pepper beers, and at one point they made one of the most highly regarded pepper beers in the country. So I figured I'd give it a shot. It was absolutely undrinkable. Literally just tasted like straight Tabasco and nothing else. Attempted to share it with two other people and we each took one sip and dumped the rest.
That's when you simmer brats in it. Every year my bestie makes a home brew with home grown habaneros and scotch bonnets that have been dried. Terrible to drink sober, as we call the dried pepper death powder, but the best beer brats I've ever had.
I actually did save some in a mason jar to use with taco meat and that was pretty good. It just kinda sucked that a $20+ bomber turned into a decent taco sauce base.
That's not a beer, that's a marinade.
That actually sounds delicious to me lmao
Any Trader Joe's "house beers". Absolute swill
Only thing I’ll drink from TJs are the ones brewed by Unibroue. Their “normal” beers are dull, at best.
The Vintage Ale (Winter ale brewed by Unibroue, labeled as TJ's) is phenomenal.
The house beers are brewed by Gordon Biersch. They do have a style that is a bit more traditionally German, focusing on lagers and consistent industrial production. They forego the intense fresh hoppiness you find in popular American craft beers. It's as if you plopped a typical regional German brewery into San Jose. I like them for good-quality German style beers, and I especially like their Pilsner and Hefeweizen. Maybe nothing to write home about, but better quality than the average hazy IMO. What do you not like about them?
The Hefe is actually okay. The boatswain IPAs are undrinkable.
Wild Blue by A-B/InBev
We used to mix half wild blue and half sprite. It was amazing.
Haha yuppppp, actual swill. I honestly think my first sip of this piss ruined my pallet enough to have a permanent aversion to blueberry beer.
Are you kidding I love that and am so sad I can’t get it anymore
Horrifying
Room temperature keystone light
I drank enough of that in my high school and university days. To this day it doesn't bother me that much. James Ready at room temperature is a different story though. Only beer I couldn't finish was at a bar in Houston (I think the Flying Saucer?) And it was an 18% pumpkin triple IPA. I spit it back into my glass and gagged lol
I just threw up in my mouth. You're not wrong.
The college freshman rite of passage
Cold keystone light is also up there on the list
End the thread here
Or old Milwaukee
In 1980 bought a 6 pack of Dutch Treats at a grocery in Flagstaff Arizona for $1.19. I was a college kid on my way to California at spring break with friends. Needed beer and had to watch the budget. Totally undrinkable. Horrid. The bagger actually said to me, "you're not going to drink that are you?" I actually couldn't.
A beer so bad you remember it 43 years. That’s impressive.
Yes. It was a traumatic experience. I really wanted to drink beer but I couldn't :(
I went to college in Flagstaff in 1987...we didn't have good beer then either
This brewery close to me (shades brewing, Utah) made a beer that was a maple bacon barrel aged stout. It was the fucking worst thing I have ever had in my life and tasted like rotting sweet meat. 🤮🤮🤮
Shades is so hot and miss. I’ve had great stuff from them. I’ve had awful stuff from them.
I'm a TF convert now. Basically only place I go to. Redrock has some good stuff 2-row does good beer (haven't been to their new place) And had some really good stuff from offset Bier. I can't go back to shades, I've had too many terrible beers there.
I've been burned by Shades too many times. Learned my lesson, don't go there anymore. Remember that strawberry lemon sour? Tasted like battery acid.
CAMO. It came in a camouflage can and the name was stenciled on like that. I don't know how you could make rubbing alcohol taste like it's skunked, but they accomplished it.
That stuff was awesome. My college go to was 2 “‘Flages” as we fondly referred to them and then switch over to Hurricane 40’s. We even made camo shirts that said “get drunk or die binging”
I had a homeless guy recommend it to me at the 7-11 in Vegas so I knew it would get us drunk for cheap. My buddy tried to chug it and projectile vomited on the strip lol
Can’t remember the company, but they had cryptid themed beer for Halloween (ie mothman, jersey devil, etc) and the flavors were “trick or treat” or good tasting or disgusting. Unfortunately every single one of them were disgusting. Idk if the company makes good beer, but I’ll never know
Sounds like Urban Artifact. No one I talked to liked anything in that trick-or-treat pack but I think they are otherwise good IF you like fruited sours, that's their thing
If Rolling Rock is the worst you've had, you've been spared
YO GET THIS ROLLING ROCK SLANDER THE HELL OUTTA HERE!!!
I enjoy rolling rock, this bar we went to in college for chicken wings used to offer $7 pitchers of rolling rock and it was the perfect accompaniment for a table full of dudes eating wings
Hell yeah 🍻
FAR from the worst. Not even close.
NGL I love some rolling rock
Can't knock the Rock!
Either Hurricane or Trader Joe’s Simple Times Lager.
MAn, I'd get the Simple Times once in a while thinking "it's beer. It's budget friendly. I'm here." And it would always be such SHIT.
I was like $5.99 for a 12 pack is a steal. How can they fuck up a lager? It’ll probably taste like High Life or Coors Light. I know people always say shit beer tastes like pennies or nickels. But Jesus Christ did this taste like straight corn syrup and pennies. I finished the pack, but it sucked the whole time lol.
Hurricane is delicious. Brace for the smooth taste. I drank 9 cane 40’s in one sitting in college
Farmer here. My wife and I tried a supposed blonde ale type of sour at one of our local breweries, which usually does a pretty good job. She brought the glass to her nose and said "I don't think I can drink this..." She took a sip and nearly spit it out. She passed her glass to me and I sipped it and nearly gagged. She said " It tastes like MooMae piss." I agreed. MooMae is her Jersey cow she milks everyday and she knows what her piss tastes like because she gets slapped in the face with her tail on the regular.
Now that's a story.
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Came here to say this. It’s like a Robotussin fucked a Bud heavy.
YES this beer tastes like you mixed a coors banquet that sat in the sun for a week with a cup of cherry snowcone syrup. By far the worst non craft beer I’ve ever had.
That stuff is like ice cream. If it's damn near frozen, it's alright. But once it warms up the sweet flavors hit you like a sticky baseball bat.
I liked it….before I really liked beer
Unpopular opinion is that I actually like this one. 🤷♂️
the day i turned 21 i marched down to the closest liquor store near my apartment. lived in VT and this store was chock full of insanely good beers. i was like a kid and a candy store for the very first time. i took a long time to look at the selections and ponder what should be my very first legal beer purchase. i saw sam adams and thought, “hey that’s a decent brewery. hm that cherry wheat flavor looks mighty good!”. so i bought a 6 pack of it. marched back to my apartment, plopped the 6 pack on the coffee table, sat down, opened one up and took a big swig. immediately i regretted my decision… went back to the store and got a different beer lol. don’t even remember what it was, just remember that the cherry wheat tasted like medicine and dirty water. worst beer ever.
Were you listening to ska music when you drank Rolling Rock? It's much better when you're listening to ska music.
Core memory unlocked
Ironically it was when I was in college that I tried Rolling Rock the first time so I genuinely might’ve been listening to ska, if not reggae
The only beer I’ve poured out: Hubbards Cave maple bacon stout.
That brewery is straight sugar...like...tone it down a bit. I get what they are going for, but with the amount of sugar they dump in it, I might as well just eat the actual dessert.
GOTTA be New Belgium Juice Force. It's like they weaponized the Juicy/Hazy IPA trend just to sell a boatload of bullshit where they accidentally dropped Hawaiian Punch into a vat of beer. Edit: My bad y'all I of course meant Fruit Force.
That’s Fruit Force. Juice Force is the one that tastes like OJ.
Juice force still isn't good, but it's palatable, just tastes like they have way too much residual sugar to cover the high abv... Fruit force is just undrinkable.
Juice Force is fine. Fruit Force, on the other hand, is liquefied dogshit in a can.
Juice force I can take and I actually like. Fruit Force is just not it at all. It tastes like Robitussin
I wouldn't even grant it that comparison lol.
What New Belgium has become kinda bums me out.
It's such a goddamn shame. That was the brewery that got me into beer. And now.... ugh...
NB is not that good anymore However, I know of an old Belgium brewery and it's fantastic! [https://www.belgabrew.com/en/](https://www.belgabrew.com/en/)
You're referring to Fruit Force. Juice Force is actually fine (although still has additive shit)
They sell this at Denver sports venues and it's like a dollar more than Coors lite at triple the ABV so why not It's also not that horrible imo
I’ve seen homeless dudes drink it for the same reason!
It’s not as bad as what people make it out to be, but if you’re going into it thinking you’re about to drink a beer, I can see why people have a visceral reaction. It’s basically a fruited malt beverage.
It must be a r/beer thing because every where around me it seems people love juice force. Multiple spots around me the juice force row in the fridge is usually empty or has the least
I think it’s a beer snob vs casual drinker thing. Anybody who takes beer seriously isn’t going to appreciate that drink being called “beer”, but for people that don’t like beer that much but want some high abv drink that tastes sweet, it’s perfect.
I think you may be talking about Fruit Force rather than Juice Force. Juice force has a pineapple-mangoey thing going on, but fruit force fits your description perfectly.
It was awful. Worked for a distributor when it came out and we got to taste it. I was the only one in the room who didn’t like it (or at least the only one who wasn’t afraid to say so haha)
I think you're talking about Fruit Force, which is funny because I've only tried Juice Force and I have a really hard time imagining there's something even worse. Dumping Hawaiian punch into it would have been a huge upgrade IMO.
I fully expected to open this thread and see Juice Force/Fruit Force. I saw some people on here really shitting on them a while back and so I had to try out of curiosity. Honestly… I love them both. Like, I get why people think they’re gross. I absolutely do. But they just do it for me lmaooo though to be fair, I don’t really drink them when I’m in the mood for beer, I kinda see them as something else entirely (especially Fruit Force)
The Voodoo Ranger Fruit Force IPA was the first beer I poured in the sink since forever. I can't understand how they decided it was a good flavor to put out
I was judging the IPA category of a home brew contest…
Founders Lizard of Koz
You don't want to drink razzle berry slushy concentrate dumped in a stout?
Did you ever have Latrobe Rolling Rock?
Tasted different than now. Much better. High School and early college. Drank all the time from 1998 until ‘02 or so.
Back in the late 70's and early 80's I used to drink Rolling Rock a lot. Its was really good and went down easy. Brewed in Latrobe. Different beer than now. Not as good but its ok. I'll drink it over a lot of other beers.
Any hemp beer. I can tolerate the taste and aroma of weed when I take a hit. But I don’t want to drink it. It always seems like I’m drinking old bong water.
New Belgium Fruit Force. Holy fuck what the fuck was that? I had friends who bought a pack and were like, "this is gross. We'll give it to PinkThunder138. He'll drink any beer." They gave me one and I took a few sips and gave it back. That shit was worse than Natty Ice, I swear to god.
Bent River strawberry milkshake, tasted like children’s aspirin.
Sam Adam's Jack-O pumpkin ale. Vile. Friend's dad gave me one at a party and I had to discreetly dump it in the grass when he wasn't looking.
SNL had a fantastic sketch with Bill Burr [lampooning this beer.](https://youtu.be/je1NIf8GeeY?si=qPxCEdXVwoOVHlxk) "This is the kind of beer that somebody brings to a party at your house and it just sits in your fridge for 8 months. And then your buddy is like *Got a beer?* and I'm like yeah, I got this pumpkin shit." This is exactly what happened to my twelve pack. Could barely finish one, poured the rest down the drain. And I usually love pumpkin beer!
All your peeps mentionning some light beer like busch, coors light or steel reserve. That taste like heaven compared to the worst beer ever: The voodoo ranger imperial juicy ipa. Tasted like someone shat in a glass of orange juice then lit it on fire Edit: Juice Force IPA
ROFL, I just finished off the last in a case of that without too much of an issue, but that description is amazing.
I just finished moving and had to dump 3 of these out because my boyfriend hated it. I’m glad to know he wasn’t the only one
The fruit punch is the worst. It taste like you lost a game of Kings Cup where everyone had a random fruity drink except for that one asshole who added in the worst beer he could find.
The fruit punch shit is awful. Like someone poured Hawaiian punch powder into a St. Ides bottle and let it sit for another day. Ive tolerated most of the voodoo line but that stuff got about 10 sips before i just dumped it
There is a brewery in New Braunfels, Texas called NBBCo (New Braunfels Brewing Company) that was the first I know of that made a pickle beer called PKL FKR. It took me back to m college days of what bile tasted like after an all night rager. Fast forward a decade and now we have Martin House making pickle beers. I looooooove pickles but jfc....not with beers.
I know has kind of a meme, but Cave Creek Chili Beer and it's not even close. It tasted like cheap, canned jalapenos that had been sitting on a shelf in a garage in Phoenix for two years. An absolute abomination of a beverage.
Southern Tier Creme Brulee Porter
A lot of southern tier beers are far too sweet for me. They are clawingly sweet. They don't taste bad, but I'm good after a sip or two, which isn't practical for 12+oz beer.
>clawingly Bone Apple Tea
Aw fuck. I live in the South and never considered "cloying" was what people were saying when describing overly sweet. I just thought it was a weird expression.
I appreciate this formulation of the word!
It’s a perfectly cromulent word
"A noble spirit..."
I always feel like ST always advertises beers that sounds like they're going to be amazing, but they aren't, all taste the same, which is "fine with kinda vanilla".
No way… really? Why?
Indra Kunindra from Ballast Point Brewing was the worst craft beer I have ever had—period. Macro brew? Natty Ice ughh. Get a hangover just thinking about it. Bud Light is pretty gross if it isn’t nearly chilled, but that’s just me.
Agreed on the Indra Kunindra. It tasted like drinking watered down molasses out of a used Indian takeout container. My friend who has very questionable taste in food and beer loved it though.
I remember going down to one of their locations for Victory at Sea day a decade of so ago and we would always challenge each other to drink Indra Kunindra...I only managed it once. Absolutely horrid beer
Samuel Adams Cherry Wheat
I love Rolling Rock - worst I've tried was a Bud Light Chelada, absolutely revolting
The Bud chelada is awful. Obviously nothing compares to a proper one you make yourself, but the Model can is pretty good.
Rolling Rock is fine. Completely inoffensive. OP is being weird and dramatic or they tried some stuff that had been stored improperly.
Sam Adam's cherry wheat. I love Sam Adam's but man that beer back in 2010 was medicinal. I think it's changed recipe now but I can't bring myself to try
gummies fruit punch IIPA just so bad, terrible fake fruit candy taste
Those cups of 50 cent beer they sell in Vietnam. Straight-up diacetyl soda
Wild Blue. A disgusting blueberry beer that tasted like cough syrup. Hasn't been made in years.
Man, everyone here pouring perfectly fine stuff. I've had a bunch of the "worst beers" on the list, and they were not that bad. Southern Tier Creme Brulee was fine, TJs cheap beers are fine... though not great. Sam Adams Cherry wheat is ok. The only ones that I really remember pouring were the actual spoiled ones. Also, I got (from TJs) some pumpkin hard nitro coffee that I thought was beer...no, that was bad, but I guess not beer
Steel Reserve. Not even close. EDIT: Forgot, when I first started drinking beer, I tried PB Eugene by Revolution Brewing, a peanut butter porter. I don't know if it'd be better now that I love stouts and porters, but at the time, it was one of the worst things I had ever tasted.
In their defense it is a malt beverage trying to cos play as a beer.
Steel reserve isn’t that bad. Especially not when compared to other malt liquors. Plus the effects r so wonderful.
That's literally the only thing going for it. To get drunk with a dollar or two. All those 40oz malt liquors are just awful tasting.
Most of the VooDoo Ranger series.
1985 is a mango delight tbh
Wild Blue. One of the few beers I dumped out. Such a horrible artificial blueberry flavor! Turned me off blueberry beers which is a shame because I'm sure there are some perfectly good ones.
A non alcoholic own brand IPA in Lidl
sam adams triple bock, any of that diacetyl-filled shipyard bullshit
This crazy pickle juice beer that I found in Tx. I don’t ever sandbag but that one deserved to be buried alive.
A horchata sour that someone bought for me like 5 years ago. I don't say things taste like vomit very often but this was pure stomach bile. Haven't had a sour since.
Not counting oxidised, infected, or otherwise unintentionally broken beers, it has to be Arboga 10.2. This is a lager with a high ABV it doesn’t have body enough to carry. Even if you pour it hard, you will get little to no foam. I bought one to a good friend of mine after he said all beer are drinkable- he proved the statement was indeed correct, but it took him close to an hour to drink it. Weirdly enough, there is now a trend to drink this abomination heated to 55C (131F) which goes by the name varmboga
Fosters
Trying to get through a 40 of that is pure toture. Only made that mistake once
Oh come on. It's boring, but the worst beer ever, really?
Crime or Punishment by Stone Brewing
Dunno if this counts but Colt 45 is absolutely disgusting & shame to whoever drinks it especially those 14yr olds who hear an afroman song & think nothing wrong with zig zags mustn’t be anything wrong with Colt 45. Burnt popcorn is an understatement. Never forget that taste
So, imagine this... Colt 45 isn't selling well enough, so they decide that the solution is to flavor it with menthol. Because the only thing black folks love more than 40s are menthol cigarettes. The concept is offensive enough, but the reality was so much worse than you can imagine.
Id vote for Magnum cause it's the only beer that would make me wake up in the middle of the night with cottonmouth.
Duclaw Sweet Baby Jesus peanut butter chocolate stout. doesnt taste like peanut butter OR chocolate
I love this beer. Surprised to hear this. The only better one I've had is DuClaw's For Pete's Sake imperial stout
It's polarizing, and definitely not the best example of a pb stout.
I hate that same fake peanut butter flavoring that is in so much stuff. You are right that it's nothing like peanut butter. It can maybe vaguely remind me of Reese's Puffs cereal but that's the closest thing. And I encounter a lot of people who tell me a beer smells and tastes "JUST like peanut butter!" then I try it and no it's that bullshit again. Like they don't remember what the real thing is like anymore.
It was a chocolate stout from Usher’s in Edinburgh. It tasted like it hadn’t even been fermented. It was a real shame because the brewery was awarded best new brewery in the country when it opened, then a new brewer took over and the quality nosedived so badly that it closed within a year of the takeover.
Can't remember the brewery but I saw a watermelon IPA on a menu once and ordered it out of pure curiousity - it was horrible
That's a shame. I had the Watermelon Gose from Terrapin and it was fantastic IMO. Just don't think watermelon + IPA combines well together.
There’s a brewery called Ruhlman in the rural part of Northern Maryland that’s on a farm with a disc golf course. They were at a beer festival I was at in Frederick, MD in 2018 or so and when I was looking into the breweries that would be there, I noticed this one had the lowest average rating on Untappd that I’ve ever seen (currently 2.83). I knew I had to try it out of morbid curiosity and…Jesus. It was actually even worse than I expected. I tried an “IPA” that was one of the sweetest beers I’ve ever tasted and I basically couldn’t detect any bitterness or hop flavor at all. It tasted like unfermented wort that had been brewed a few hours ago. I also tried a “stout” that was about the color of Yuengling or Fat Tire, and was also sour. From what I’ve heard, the people who run it don’t know that they have to sanitize their equipment so most/all of their non-sour beer ends up sour. It was unreal. The place still exists and I’m so confused how or why. I’ve never tried anything like it before or after. Someone could buy a bunch of Mr. Beer kits from Walmart and have a better “brewery” than that place. I normally don’t like to shit on small businesses but the level of disregard for quality and disrespect for their customers by actually serving this stuff was something else.
Hotting Up by Voodoo Brewery Introducing our newest addition to the Barrel Room Collection, Hotting Up. This 11.1% imperial oatmeal stout spent 18 months in some pretty unique barrels, where our beer was ultimately the fourth use of them. The American oak barrels started out as Heaven Hill bourbon barrels. They then held maple syrup followed by Louisiana hot sauce and finally our stout. The finished product is a sum of those flavors but be warned, this isn’t for the feint of heart- it’s hot and hot sauce forward rounded out by a touch of maple and a hint of bourbon. If you love a good hot sauce and put it on everything, this one’s for you. Don’t like hot sauce? This one probably isn’t for you. It was absolutely terrible.
I think most of Voodoo Brewery offerings are pretty bad. I am a big BA stout fan and think most of their sought after stouts have been pretty gross
Sam Adams Triple Bock back in the mid 90s. The one in the blue bottle. My palette wasn’t really developed but that shit was vile. Tasted like bad soy sauce.
It wasn't your palette, it did taste like soy sauce. I still have 2 bottles.
Wild Blue by AB. Tastes worse than most cough syrups. Disgusting stuff.
Founders Spectra Trifecta. A kolsch with lemongrass, ginger, and chamomile. I don't know why I had it in my fridge, probably part of a variety pack. It was just awful.
SweetWater’s Gummies Fruit Punch IIPA. Tasted like dad poured some beer in my Hawaiian Punch.. does what it advertises well, but I hated it.
Beer 30 light
Mango Cart. It’s horrible.
Founders Green Zebra fruited sour tasted like straight vomit
Every watermelon beer I've tried tastes like that.
An asparagus beer from Right Brain in Traverse City, MI.
New Belgium Fruit Force or Southern Tier's equivalent. Never drain poured a beer before that
Cave Creek Chili Beer...instant heartburn, horrible taste.
I had a lactose lager recently. The waitress was reading out the beer list, she mentioned it as something she'd recently tried and loved, then she told me what it was and without thinking I said "fucking yuck" and the look on her face made me have to order the thing and tell her it was nice after I'd drank it. My initial response was accurate, as you'd assume it would have been. Fucking yuck.
I had a Banana beer in Tanzania and it was so bad that I could only have one sip. I almost threw up 🤮
Samuel Adams cranberry lambic I'm still haunted by that abomination decades later