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Here's one man's picks for the 10 worst beers in the world
No PRB? The list is flawed. (St. Petersburg Times)
May 5, 2008 | Permalink
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i like pbr...
Posted by: elchampino | May 5, 2008 7:10:42 AM
Milwaukee's Best? This man is a fool.
Posted by: Kooser | May 5, 2008 7:11:17 AM
I read this yesterday and the list is 100% bullshit. Iron City is one of the nastiest beers on this planet it is not on the list.
Anywho, each to their own but I'll gladly drink The Beast anytime.
Posted by: The Asshole Guy | May 5, 2008 7:13:27 AM
Never had any of those. When I think worst beer I think Bud Lite, since it lowers people's expectations and generally dumbs down the beer palate.
Posted by: SwarthyTroll | May 5, 2008 7:16:25 AM
PRB? Ahh, Mondays
Posted by: A.T.Tappman | May 5, 2008 7:27:08 AM
I detest lite beers in general -- they invariably taste like dishwater.
Posted by: Phranqlin | May 5, 2008 7:27:33 AM
I can't really argue with this list.
Any low-carb/NA beer is crap, so he kind of cheated.
Posted by: Sean, Torrington CT | May 5, 2008 7:31:01 AM
TAG: Dude! I was going to say the same thing. Iron City isn't on that list, and neither is Busch Light. Those two beers are the reason I'm strictly a margarita magpie (and a wine-with-dinner snob).
So the author is a "world beer traveler"? Sure, and I'm Elle McPhereson's more attractive twin. I see a one-way ticket on the Fail Boat in Mr. Redner's future.
Posted by: Soo | May 5, 2008 7:36:03 AM
Swarthy, Bud Ice is much, much worse.
Posted by: A.T.Tappman | May 5, 2008 7:37:43 AM
TAG & Soo; you are so on the money. I grew up on Iron City and its hellspawn IC Light (or Ickey Light). If you are a guy and drink enough of either of those in one sitting your voice will sound like Brenda vaccaro after a three day tequila bender.
Iron City used to crank out this crap at the holidays called "Ole Frosh n Slosh" and it's only selling point was the alomost nekkid women on the can.
Posted by: jupiterjim | May 5, 2008 7:55:27 AM
I'm disappointed that Newcastle Brown Ale and Red Stripe didn't make the list. I gotta go run and get me some Corona for tonight. Cinco-de-Mayo baby! In Chattanooga, they're having a running of the chiuawawas. Damn, I wish I could go to that!
Posted by: twerp | May 5, 2008 7:57:25 AM
When I lived in Florida, you could hardly get a beer darker than Budweiser... so I find it odd that this story originated from the state where good beer goes to die.
However, while there... I did have the opportunity to taste the cruel joke that is Cave Creek Chili Beer. Sick nasty is the only way to describe it.
Posted by: mt2fla | May 5, 2008 8:00:15 AM
(Sorry I accidentally posted this in the "Beer coffin" story. It was meant to go here.)
I find the comment about Pabst totally out of line. It is a fine beer worthy of it's pricing and Blue Ribbon naming. Shame on anyone who relates it to any of the "worst beers" made. Try "Stite Light" if you want to know what nuclear waste water tastes like!
Posted by: Pabst Rules | May 5, 2008 8:11:57 AM
A.T., I accept that there are beers which are worse than Bud Lite, but there is no beer more damaging to beer in general. The cheap sh!t beers are perceived as an inferior product and bought solely because they are cheap. But many people think Bud Lite is a normal beer, not inferior in any way.
Posted by: SwarthyTroll | May 5, 2008 8:14:06 AM
No Black Label? Schmidt's? Rhinelander? Cold Spring?
Posted by: SteveO | May 5, 2008 8:20:04 AM
Oh, I had a six pack (mostly dumped down the drain) of Cave Creek about 10 years ago. It seemed like a flash in the pan bad joke, I can't believe they are still around.
Posted by: SteveO | May 5, 2008 8:22:15 AM
Steve0:
Agreed, that chili beer is an absolute abomination -- quite possibly the worst beer ever bottled. However, I must take issue with calling out Rhinelander. In the late 1990s in Missouri, a CASE of refreshing Rhinelander in bottles was something like $5.25. Yes, the cardboard box they came in was often mildewed, and a couple of the bottles usually came pre-broken, but man oh man, that price was nice.
Posted by: kooser | May 5, 2008 8:31:21 AM
damn, my bad, it's the "worst" beers......I was reading it as the "best." I'm so out of it today and I was wondering why the list listed a bunch of really bad beers as the best..... Anyhey, yeah, since it's the worst and not the best, scratch Newcastle and Red Stripe.
Posted by: twerp | May 5, 2008 8:41:24 AM
Put down Natural (Nasty) Light as the worst beer--well, second worst to that non-alcoholic crap. If I drink nasty beer, I at least want the buzz that goes along with it.
Posted by: twerp | May 5, 2008 8:44:03 AM
OMG--Sean--you and I actually agree on something! It's a Monday miracle!!
Posted by: troschne | May 5, 2008 8:45:34 AM
Old Milwaukee isn't called "Old Swill" for no reason.
Posted by: skip | May 5, 2008 8:45:56 AM
HOW CAN YOU MAKE SUCH A LIST WITH OUT TASTING EVERY BEER THAT IS PRODUCED?
Posted by: ULTRA | May 5, 2008 8:48:53 AM
At best this a 10 worst from a Florida perspective.
Posted by: Lou Ford Prefect | May 5, 2008 9:25:07 AM
PBR is decent beer. It at the very least can be said to have a flavor. Thats because they're going on an older recipe.
this can't be said for other American pilsners. After a decade of prohibition people were used to drinking near-beer which tasted like piss water. All of a sudden the industry was allowed to continue but the brewers were now dealing with a country acclimated to shitty beer.
and thus the american pils was born.
Its just over the last decade that i've started seeing more and more microbrews and smaller brew companies beers being available in restaurants and pubs. Consequently the big companies are fighting back with their own premium recipes.
PBR might not be top shelf, but if you can name 10 american pils, then you've already got a list that doesn't need to have PBR included.
Posted by: boynamedsue | May 5, 2008 9:26:43 AM
Bah. This list is about as useful as nipples on a bull. Everyone knows that the best beers hail from Germany and Belgium :o)
Posted by: CryMeAriver | May 5, 2008 9:32:53 AM
You can't have a list of "10 Worst Beers in the World" and include nine from the States. It shows a lack of imagination and smacks more of "10 Worst Beers I can get from the Publix Market in St. Pete."
I can tell you there's a Latvian ice beer, a canned brown ale from Japan, and a monstrosity in a 40 called "Panther Honey Dark Malt Liquor" that could certainly dislodge some of the beers on this list.
Posted by: E | May 5, 2008 9:44:46 AM
tits on a boar hog is more accurate
Posted by: cowboy | May 5, 2008 9:45:21 AM
I know a groinocologsi who uses a Busch Lite to see.
Posted by: A.V. | May 5, 2008 9:57:42 AM
"Thats because they're going on an older recipe."
Is it older, or newer?
I know it's definitely different, because the PBR I had as a teenager was horrid. And now, I love the stuff.
Oddly though it tastes exactly like Old Style and Olympia. I'm convinced it's all the same and packaged according to its destination from wherever all of those are brewed (San Antonio, I think?).
As cheap beers go, I'm not sure any are as good as PBR. If this current recipe of PBR had existed when I was in college, I'd probably have gone through my 2nd or 3rd liver by now.
Posted by: chiarams | May 5, 2008 10:12:38 AM
Two words: Schlitz Dark. Easily the worst beer ever, but not easy to find.
Posted by: Eric | May 5, 2008 10:27:11 AM
I'm not much of a beer enthusiast and there are plenty of micro brews that are out and out disgusting...but I'm surprised no one has mentioned Stroh's or Old Douche yet?
Posted by: Cherie | May 5, 2008 11:02:10 AM
Olympia is made in the same brewery as Pabst, and may indeed just be a rebranding of the same recipe.
Posted by: boynamedsue | May 5, 2008 11:04:33 AM
anyone evey buy been at the Commissary? white can black writing?? says BEER U.S. Quality. thats horrible beer 3.6% tastes like aluminum and urine.. Dont ask..
we used to be able to get a six pack for a dollar and sell them at poker games in the barracks for 50cents each to really drunk warrant officers and OCS students
Posted by: chris n cali | May 5, 2008 11:10:11 AM
mmmmmmmmmmm- beer !
Posted by: homer simpson | May 5, 2008 11:53:23 AM
Drinking Lite Beer is like making love in a canoe..Fuckin Near Water....
Posted by: GG | May 5, 2008 11:56:16 AM
any worst beer list that doesn't include bud, isn't worth reading. Budwieser should be poured back into the horse.
Posted by: big dave | May 5, 2008 12:08:15 PM
My personal worst...
Milwaukee's Best *Light* (yes, they thought the regular was too heavy) - AKA 'Beast Light'
Coors Light - AKA 'Kerr's Light'
Old Milwaukee - AKA 'Old Swill'
Point - from Stevens Point, WI. No need to shorten it.
Rhinelander - aka 'Swinelander'
Hamm's Light - the bear on the label is cute, the beer inside is nasty.
Olympia - aka 'Oly', or 'Why Bother?'
Kokanee - pronounced 'Koh-kanee'
Fosters - Australian for 'Ewww'
Posted by: SkyGrrl | May 5, 2008 12:13:03 PM
What about "Burgie", the quintessential old man beer. My grandpa used to drink that assault on the senses...and he used to pick it up at the local mart next to the generic soda. Yeah, he bought that too.
Posted by: KF | May 5, 2008 12:18:46 PM
Does anyone remember Generic Beer ?
http://www.domainnamepotential.com/images/generic-beer-cans.jpg
Based on name alone it belongs on the list.
I want to say this was my first sip of beer but it very well could have been Old Milwaukee.
When it came to beer my pops was a big spender.
Posted by: Angry Driver | May 5, 2008 1:29:57 PM
I have a six pack of Billy Beer, unopened, I just can't bring myself to consume Georgia swamp water.
Posted by: Rock Marine | May 5, 2008 1:43:01 PM
I am not certain anyone opened their Billy Beers. Well, not anyone who lived to tell about it, anyway.
Posted by: Sigh | May 5, 2008 3:00:43 PM
Blatz gets my vote. A friend's dad used to buy whatever was the cheapest, so we'd drink that and Black Label (which actually was worse but someone already mentioned it.) We had a saying at his house, "get blitzed on Blatz."
I prefer the micro brews but usually economize with PBR types (or worse). But if someone else is paying for it, I'll drink any brand.
Posted by: T Grum | May 5, 2008 3:05:49 PM
TAG, I thought of Iron City as well when I clicked on the comments section too. Iron City might have been a good beer if they filtered the rust out of the water before brewing it. As it is, you could probably pick up a bottle of it with a magnet.
Posted by: MadScientistMatt | May 5, 2008 4:02:42 PM
"Olympia is made in the same brewery as Pabst, and may indeed just be a rebranding of the same recipe."
If we could get Olympia in Philly I'd happily do a blind taste test. I've had Old Style and PBR in the same sitting and if you can tell the difference, you're a better soul than I am.
As for worst beers-
Schlitz is horrible - if you wondered what PBR used to taste like before their current recipe, drink a Schlitz.
American - This is Iron City's "cheap" beer - undrinkable.
Stroh's - Fire brewed my ass. Just gives you horrible shits.
Beast Lite is pretty terrible, which is odd, because I always found Beast to be generally decent.
Meister Brau, Koch's Golden Anniversary, Naragannsett (sp), Natty Boh, Matt's, Utica Club, the list of rustbelt cities with cheap beers is endless.
I can't bring myself to put down my hometown brew - Gennesee, no matter how terrible the Cream Ale is.
Posted by: chiarams | May 5, 2008 4:22:57 PM
chiarams,
Thanks! I was stunned no one mentioned Genny 'til you. :)
Posted by: outofsalt | May 5, 2008 4:42:21 PM
PBR is my favorite MACRO beer. MMMMM
Posted by: yucca | May 5, 2008 4:53:32 PM
While everyone has a "they left my favorite horrible beer off this list story", mine has something to do with PBR. I had just arrived at a college party and opened the fridge. They had PBR and Golden Anniversary Beer. Having previously had PBR, I went for the Golden Anniversary Beer. Perhaps it had gone bad, but it was the worst cheap beer I've ever had. At least PBR is drinkable, and there aren't many other beers that can be had in NYC for $2.
Gennesee Red is my favorite beer that comes in large packs of cans for cheap.
Posted by: Chris S. | May 5, 2008 11:34:45 PM
I think the worst beer I've ever consumed is Hudepohl from Cincinnati. It was okay to boil hot dogs in, but little else. I was told, upon consuming my first glass, that it wasn't available outside a 150-mile radius of Cincy. (I thought at that very moment, "Thank goodness!")
Posted by: Jeff | May 6, 2008 6:39:52 AM
PBR me ASAP.
Here in Florida, schlitz commands a price premium -- more per sixer than Bud at the Publix. I guess the secret's out -- Schlitz don't give you the Schlitz, but too much PBR and your Pabst will hurt. That's a promise.
Posted by: Glenn | May 6, 2008 4:57:13 PM
Fair enough Swarthy, can't argue with you there.
Now that I think about it, where's Grainbelt and Glick?!
Posted by: A.T.Tappman | May 8, 2008 7:15:24 AM
