The world's worst beer?

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What is the world's worst beer?

Budweiser (US)
39
15%
Carlton Crown Lager (Aust)
21
8%
Carlton Cold (Aust)
52
21%
Foster's (Aust)
24
9%
Hahn Ice (Aust)
22
9%
Beez Neez (Aust)
7
3%
Kokanee Glacier Beer (Canada)
0
No votes
Haywards 5000 (India)
1
0%
Geelong Pale Ale, Schonbrauhaus, Sparkling Ale or Bitter (Aust)
4
2%
Miller Genuine Draft (US)
10
4%
Amstel Lager (Holland)
5
2%
Boar's Rock Premium Lager (Aust)
1
0%
Victoria Bitter (Aust)
67
26%
 
Total votes: 253

Wimmig
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Post by Wimmig »

I don't understand why the consistant addition of Matilda Bay's "Beez Neez" always features with O & G. You can't compare a beer with addtional pale honey to straight "typical" beers.

If you must, taste it in line-up to the other half dozen honey beers then draw a conclusion, but simply because you believe it makes your stomach turn does not justify it's inclusion.

Just a thought 8)
Beerpig

Post by Beerpig »

At the risk of offending more experienced paletes.

I purchased half a dozen Little Creatures Pale Ale over the weekend. It would seem from the taste that the name is accurate & several little creatures were killed & fermented to make this forgetable drop. I have four of these left & will give it another go.

Very malty & not to my liking at all

Luckily at the same time I purchased half a dozen Grolsch swing tops which were thoroughly enjoyable with the bonus of recycling these bottles for my brewing

Even though the fish weren't biting, the sunshine was warm & the beer cold

Cheers
Lebowski
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Post by Lebowski »

I liked the little creatures pale ale but its a bit expensive for my tastes :P

Also on the beez neez beer, how do they keep the honey taste without it all just fermenting out? None of my beers with honey have had the taste of honey noticeable.
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Post by Oliver »

Wimmig wrote:I don't understand why the consistant addition of Matilda Bay's "Beez Neez" always features with O & G. You can't compare a beer with addtional pale honey to straight "typical" beers.
If you must, taste it in line-up to the other half dozen honey beers then draw a conclusion, but simply because you believe it makes your stomach turn does not justify it's inclusion.
I can guarantee you that we still wouldn't like it :D (And I think that if a beer makes my stomach turn that's a definite indication for inclusion on the world's worst beer list.)

We don't rate beers based on the type of beers they are. We rate them on whether we like the taste. There's no science to it :D

Oliver
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gregb
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Post by gregb »

How the 'kin'hell has Tooheys Pils managed to escape attention?

That stuff is so bad I tipped three quaters of a schooner of it down the sink.

It is so bad that I am using a budwieser to wash the taste out of my mouth.

Be Warned, Be Afraid, be very afraid.

And finally in closing, I've got one spare to give away, if any one feels like a change from a nice glass of battery acid and sand.

Cheers,

Greg.
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Post by Guest »

Well 17 odd votes for VB.

I found this website http://tuoppi.oulu.fi/kbs/beer/kbsbeer.htm

Under the top beer, look for a rating of 7.30 and you find Vic Bitter. Some of the comments such as these are priceless.
Can you think of anything better. Getting a slab of the ultimate
golden nectar
Going to a mate's going arount to a mate's joint, wait....kch aaaaah
the sound
of the Valley. Get out the pretzils, watch the footy or cricket and
piss on all
day and night.

Jeff, you're right bloke, Victoria is the best state, none of it is
coz of you champ,
just that big nosed cig smoking foul mouthed rich prick. My mate
Johnno at CUB.

Three Cheers for the ultimate beer. VB
Or this
Well I'm 16 and therefore an underaged drinker,
but when it comes to drinking at a party or at home 'the
best cold beer is Vic'. All of these people that think
Tooheys is better is only because there most propably
perminatly drunk and it costs about $10 less than the
old VB. In closing, I'd like to say that VB RULES so don't
knock it!
Thanx.
And then this GEM
VB has won the world's best beer time and time again. I personally
love the shit, and I'll have words with anyone who thinks otherwise.
C'mon Aussie
And it just goes on and on.

Bugger it, I am off to buy a slab of VB :roll:
Dogger Dan
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Post by Dogger Dan »

Where do I get the "Shit"

Trade off a slab of Bud Lite WITH the sleeve of golf balls and the meat coupys for some of the good stuff that clown is selling.

You guys are holding out aren't you, keeping poor Dogger in the dark :wink:

Get a thirst building a fire you know

Dogger
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peterd
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Post by peterd »

I suspect this thread relates only to mainstream or near mainstream beers. If not, I suggest that I have the clear winner of this award. The fact it hasn't been mentioned can only, I suspect, be attributed to the fact that few of you have had the extreme misfortune to taste it.
As much as I don't like to be disparaging of the brewing efforts of others ("hello pot, this is kettle"), I bring to your attention to an offering from the Sunshine Coast Brewery entitled "Ginger Splice". This is not a ginger beer, rather a beer that purports to have some ginger in it. It may well do, but the ginger taste is overwhelmed by what I believe to be pineapple, and another has described as "bubblegum". Difficult to say really, because I wasn't prepared to have a second sip!
In fairness to the brewer, I suspect he is trying to appeal to a market of other than beer drinkers, but it is being sold as beer, so it comes under the gun.
If you find it hard to get, don't worry: this is for the best. But if your curiousity is piqued (and remember what it did to the cat), and you are in the vicinity of the Gold Coast (as winter approaches, almost all Victorians are either here, or wished they were :-) ), it can be purchased at the Parkwood tavern for $2 per schooner. In fact, they gave me one, and I say without shame that I can no longer claim to have never finished a free beer! I guess you can also get it at the Brewery at the Sunshine Coast, but you WILL have a problem if the brewer is in the vivinity when you first taste this beer!
You have been warned!
peterd

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Dogger Dan
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Post by Dogger Dan »

And Moosehead was recognized as a leading beer,

I did love this one comment, must agree with it

"They didn't get this from the head end of the moose. "

Dogger
"Listening to someone who brews their own beer is like listening to a religous fanatic talk about the day he saw the light" Ross Murray, Montreal Gazette
peterd
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Post by peterd »

> "They didn't get this from the head end of the moose. "
Oh, that is GOOD (the comment I mean, not the beer)
peterd

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(with apologies to Satchel Paige)
Dogger Dan
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Post by Dogger Dan »

Trust me,

You want nothing from the South End of a Northern bound Moose

Dogger
"Listening to someone who brews their own beer is like listening to a religous fanatic talk about the day he saw the light" Ross Murray, Montreal Gazette
r.magnay
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Post by r.magnay »

I've got a mate who refers to VB as 'venereal bacteria' and I reckon he is pretty close to the mark!
Ross
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Post by the Baron »

I know there is a luke-warm temperature, but I reckon any beer that cannot be drunk luke-cold is shit, (ruins my day)
This is the writ of the Baron, thou art truly blessed.
J D Kipper
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or, at least; Australias worst beer!

Post by J D Kipper »

I've ben following the survey with interest'

How come Sothwarck and West End didn't get a guernsey?

Sleeper
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Post by NTRabbit »

I happen to like Beez Neez :?

West End Draught should be on that list, but my vote goes to VB
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Post by normell »

Lebowski wrote:Also on the beez neez beer, how do they keep the honey taste without it all just fermenting out? None of my beers with honey have had the taste of honey noticeable.
I did a ESB 15Lt wort kit, with half a kilo of orange blossom honey put in secondary, very noticeable honey aftertaste.
But this thread is all about individual, personal taste buds.
Tried a Geelong Brewing Co. Sparkling Ale, and it's, in my opinion far worse that VB, Southwark or Tooheys, could only manage two mouthfulls, then had too tip down the sink.
And if I have to drink non my homebrew, Cascade premium or Crownies for me, but they are MY TASTE BUDS.

Normell
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Beer Krout
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Post by Beer Krout »

I'd have to agree with the Geelong Bitter being the worst.

We had a work social club doo on a boat up the yarra. The trip included all the beer you could drink.
Instead of normal Carlton Draught on tap. They had this Geelong Bitter which was atrocious and you couldn't go anywhere else. Put a serious dint in our beer drinking for the night.
Was even forced to buy a Boags bottle out of the fridge to wash the evil-eppervescent-compost-water down with.

BK.
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Post by Oliver »

Yep, it's truly bad.

http://www.homebrewandbeer.com/reviewsf ... kling.html

Don't say you weren't warned.

(As we say in one of our reviews, it's strange how this is 5.8%, as Cooper's Sparkling Ale is, and the Pale Ale is 4.5%, as (surprise surprise), Cooper's Pale Ale is.)

Oliver
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Beez Neez conundrum

Post by undercover1 »

Honey, as we all know, is the concentrated vomit of insects, and as such is right up there with anything our Japanese cousins eat in the disgusting stakes.Nothwithstanding, I have brewed several beers and ciders including honey in various amounts, with pleasing results. The (complex) sugars brew out into alcohol, and the upfront honey taste moves back into the brew, and meshes well with the malt flavours.

What puzzles me about the (pseudo-microbrewed, very expensive) Beez Neez is- why does it taste like it has had artificial honey flavouring added post-fermentation?


Salut!
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Post by Beer Krout »

Personally.
The Black Ban Bitter at Bell's Hotel (South Melbourne) is, as well as a good alliteration, a much better honey style beer than Beez Neez.

Beez Neez is better out of the bottle than out of the tap.
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