Your least favourite beer

FTA69 · 05-04-2014 10:49am

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

The beer in Spain is crap so my taste in beer has gotten worse since arriving. I'd genuinely drink any auld ****e at this stage. Never liked lager 'till I moved here and now I have no choice to drink and have had to acquire a taste for it.

Heineken is really awful beer though as is Bud. I'd still drink them though!

Warm canas of pissy San Miguel. I swear to God I managed to drink 30 of them one day and the next morning I felt like someone dropped a sh*te in my mouth.

Legs.Eleven · 05-04-2014 10:53am

FTA69 wrote: »

Warm canas of pissy San Miguel. I swear to God I managed to drink 30 of them one day and the next morning I felt like someone dropped a sh*te in my mouth.

Oh San Miguel is considered the better of the beers here. Try the local beer here in Madrid called Mahou. Like drinking a delicious glass of chemicals. I remember having my first one when I got here and wanting to move home immediately realising that's what I'd be forced to drink if I stayed. 4 and a half years later, I can't taste the horribleness anymore. Count yourselves lucky you have some choice over there no matter how shit it might be.

WesternZulu · 05-04-2014 11:32am

Miller and Bud are by far and away the worst.

Miller has some sort of indescribable unpleasant after taste to it, whereas Bud tastes like a chemically induced frothy mess!

Wouldn't be gone at all on Carling/Tennants/Bulmers/Strongbow (or any form of cider really) but even those are better than the two above.

Rothko · 05-04-2014 11:36am

ThirdMan wrote: »

There's a real nasty trend on Boards right now, and perhaps in broader society, whereby anyone that expresses a deep interest in something is labelled a hipster. Don't get me wrong, hipsters do exist. You'll know them by their asymmetrical haircuts and emaciated bodies. But please allow people to dig beneath the surface and try something new, whether it's food & drink, music, cinema or whatever. We're not all hipsters. I'm certainly not a hipster. I'm an average guy from the Midlands that looks and sounds like an average guy from the Midlands. I just don't like **** beer. I also live on fcuk all money, so I'd rather spend €6.50 on a beer that tastes nice than waste €4.50 on one that doesn't.

No, they don't.

I agree with everything else you say though.

LaVail · 05-04-2014 11:37am

The non alcohol ones....yeah I'm not mad about those.

Dramatik · 05-04-2014 11:41am

This stuff:

Keiserdome, absolute muck! It's one of those beers that has a deceptively nice looking can and coaxes you into thinking it's a quality product but it's the polar opposite.

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Personally I like the weiss beers but they only seem to sell eirdinger or paulander in most places and I'd actually prefer to drink heiniken over them.

super_furry · 05-04-2014 11:46am

Fosters Twist - http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/fosters-twist/60536/

I should have known it was bad when I was given a box because; "you'll drink any old piss". Even then, I couldn't stomach a bottle and threw it all out. It was like someone had mixed Fairy Liquid and the mankiest, cheapest beer imaginable.

MadYaker · 05-04-2014 11:50am

That Molson Canadian stuff. So watery.

Richard Hillman · 05-04-2014 11:52am

I really dont like Harp. I can drink pretty much anything else bar Harp.

anncoates · 05-04-2014 11:59am

Molson (?). The stuff in cans is horrible.

Harp and Tennants is rotten too.

FTA69 · 05-04-2014 12:01pm

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

Oh San Miguel is considered the better of the beers here. Try the local beer here in Madrid called Mahou. Like drinking a delicious glass of chemicals. I remember having my first one when I got here and wanting to move home immediately realising that's what I'd be forced to drink if I stayed. 4 and a half years later, I can't taste the horribleness anymore. Count yourselves lucky you have some choice over there no matter how shit it might be.

Screw that, I live in England where the choice is absolutely limitless. I was surprised at the Basques though, for a people who take food so seriously their variety in beer etc is rubbish. Maybe they're more wine-orientated?

SamAK · 05-04-2014 12:02pm

CORONA

And I think Bud (on tap or in a bottle) isn't really as awful as people make out. Each to their own I guess.

I know we're on about beer here, but I think Bulmers deserves a special mention for being 80% water and 20% cider. Ugh.

sadie06 · 05-04-2014 12:16pm

Fosters…..absolutely vile to the point of being undrinkable.

Bud. Rotten.

ArnoldJRimmer · 05-04-2014 12:29pm

Dunnes Stores German Lager. Not sure if they still sell it. What I imagine mercury tastes like

Chang: Awful stuff, they don't call it the changover for nothing

Smithwicks. This is just down to the number of bad pints I've had of it over the years. And the farts are worse than when you drink Guinness

MonstaMash · 05-04-2014 12:59pm

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

The beer in Spain is crap so my taste in beer has gotten worse since arriving. I'd genuinely drink any auld ****e at this stage. Never liked lager 'till I moved here and now I have no choice to drink and have had to acquire a taste for it.

I find the Basque beers like ZerB Pale Ale & Pagoa Stout/Red Ale very drinkable IMHO

Legs.Eleven · 05-04-2014 1:03pm

FTA69 wrote: »

Screw that, I live in England where the choice is absolutely limitless. I was surprised at the Basques though, for a people who take food so seriously their variety in beer etc is rubbish. Maybe they're more wine-orientated?

Wine would be their area of expertise here alright. People don't really drink beer on nights out here anyway, they drink spirits.

Edit: Yeah, the choice of ales and bitters was one of the best things about living there. I used to drink Tetleys, as far as I remember.

Legs.Eleven · 05-04-2014 1:05pm

MonstaMash wrote: »

I find the Basque beers like ZerB Pale Ale & Pagoa Stout/Red Ale very drinkable IMHO

I don't live there, unfortunately.

Not saying there's no good Spanish beer in existence but when you go to a bar here, you ask for a beer (you don't have any choice at all in most places) and they give you the standard, local stuff, which is always terrible. At least in Ireland you have some choice.

FTA69 · 05-04-2014 1:07pm

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

Wine would be their area of expertise here alright. People don't really drink beer on nights out here anyway, they drink spirits.

I heard that but when I was in Gasteiz beer was definitely the drink of choice it seemed. They were drinking that kalimotxo sh*t as well but that wasn't for me. I remember the three of us buying caxi (? 600mls of beer) and just drinking them ourselves. Something which drew a few funny looks I might add.

MonstaMash · 05-04-2014 1:10pm

FTA69 wrote: »

I heard that but when I was in Gasteiz beer was definitely the drink of choice it seemed. They were drinking that kalimotxo sh*t as well but that wasn't for me. I remember the three of us buying caxi (? 600mls of beer) and just drinking them ourselves. Something which drew a few funny looks I might add.

Not 'The Kitsch Pop Bar' in Gastiez per chance?

Some great beers there all right

FTA69 · 05-04-2014 1:12pm

MonstaMash wrote: »

Not 'The Kitsch Pop Bar' in Gastiez per chance?

Some great beers there all right

I mostly socialised in the Abertzale bars on the Kutxi where a cana was about €1.50. I also ended up in some squat in the centre of town where there was a punk concert on behalf of political prisoners. I could barely see with the blanket of hash smoke in half of these places, it was worse than Amsterdam. Super craic though.

Links234 · 05-04-2014 1:29pm

osarusan wrote: »

There are smaller breweries which produce a more expensive product, like Taisetsu Ji, Hitachino Nest, YonaYona ale, and one quite good one from Karuizawa, but like most other places, the big companies have the majority of the market.

The big labels are definitely not great, but damn some of the smaller breweries are amazing. I'm glad I can actually get Hitachino Nest in Ireland, because some of their stuff is amazing. Love the Amber Ale, it's just gorgeously malty, but had the XH recently and that was terrific

arybvtcw0eolkf · 05-04-2014 1:32pm

Most European beers are pretty decent.

Although I won't drink (be ripped off) 'craft beers', its a publicans attempt to rip us off with overly inflated prices on beers which aren't good enough to make it big.

Other than that it's got to be Millers ~ its absolute gick.

FTA69 · 05-04-2014 1:37pm

Julien Loud Sportsman wrote: »

Although I won't drink (be ripped off) 'craft beers', its a publicans attempt to rip us off with overly inflated prices on beers which aren't good enough to make it big.

By that logic Tesco Value sausage is better than chorizo made from hand-reared pigs. The reason microbreweries and food producers are more expensive is because they can't mass produce on the same scale as the big brands. It has nothing to do with quality.

Links234 · 05-04-2014 1:44pm

What do you mean that fancy restaurant is good? sure if it was any good, it'd be as big as McDonalds or burger king, innit? :pac:

dermabrasion · 05-04-2014 1:50pm

My heart sinks when away for a weekend....one that I was really looking forward to, kids are in bed, wife says 'go and have a jar'...I pull up to the hotel bar, really looking forward to a nice pint and a bit of headspace...and there they are. The same lines of oul piss. you find every mediocre pub in the country: Bud, Coors, Coors Lite, Carlsberg, Heineken, 2 Guinness taps, and Smithwicks. Maybe Peroni or Stella for the exotics. I hold my breath, and peer over into the fridge..hoping hoping...but alas, its the same muck they sell on tap, with the addition of smirnoff ice.

Ann Landers · 05-04-2014 2:06pm

All of them. Beer is rank. So is wine, actually. And no, I've not tried all the beers and winds but I've tried enough to know I hate them.

Links234 · 05-04-2014 2:08pm

dermabrasion wrote: »

My heart sinks when away for a weekend....one that I was really looking forward to, kids are in bed, wife says 'go and have a jar'...I pull up to the hotel bar, really looking forward to a nice pint and a bit of headspace...and there they are. The same lines of oul piss. you find every mediocre pub in the country: Bud, Coors, Coors Lite, Carlsberg, Heineken, 2 Guinness taps, and Smithwicks. Maybe Peroni or Stella for the exotics. I hold my breath, and peer over into the fridge..hoping hoping...but alas, its the same muck they sell on tap, with the addition of smirnoff ice.

It's in those trying times I pray they can make a good cocktail

PropJoe10 · 05-04-2014 2:10pm

Galahad. Pure evil in a can.

smileyj1987 · 05-04-2014 2:14pm

Tuborg on draft or out of can / bottle is pure rotten .

arybvtcw0eolkf · 05-04-2014 2:16pm

FTA69 wrote: »

By that logic Tesco Value sausage is better than chorizo made from hand-reared pigs. The reason microbreweries and food producers are more expensive is because they can't mass produce on the same scale as the big brands. It has nothing to do with quality.

You've worked in bars & clubs just like me so you should know that publicans are buying their craft beers cheaper than the Carlsbergs, Heineken, Buds etc.. Often they're given free barrels as a 'thank you' for selling their product ~ which the publican puts on tap in the bar and further rips the customer off.

Publicans make a tidy little profit on the hipster's acquired taste for craft beers.

You're NOT getting a better product supplied to at a higher cost to the publican, you're getting an inferior product supplied cheaper and sold at inflated costs.

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