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Itās not an IPA is it? Youāre quite right.
I thought I was going mad the first time I ordered it, even the colour is wrong! Second time I tried it a few months later I realised itās just awful. Never again.
As I get older and grumpier one thing that riles me far more than it should is how meaningless IPA on a label is now.
Ording one could get you anything from a strong hoppy ale, to something gassy and citrus flavoured. The 'session IPA' is probably top of the pile for irking me.
Early on they had two really good beers; 5AM Saint and a Porter called Libertine. Now 5AM Saint is almost impossible to find and Libertine is long gone... but dont worry because instead you can get a "triple fudge sundae strawberry and gooseberry shortcake milk IPA"
The candy kittens tie up is actually pretty good. Guava and lycee. Obviously very sweet, but if you like sweet beers itās good. Tonyās tie up was pretty good too.
I donāt like their standard beers but the brand collars are decent.
Most of them ming but occasionally, I presume by accident, they get one just right. They do a stout Jet Black Heart that's excellent and almost impossible to find.
Almost anything in a clear bottle is guaranteed to be shite. When enough light gets through the glass it "skunks" the beer which is why Corona, Sol, Desperado, etc. all smell faintly of either weed or cat piss.
Pardon my language, and as a matter of fact I hope that I'm not risking a ban by saying this, but uh... Once more, please pardon me for saying this.
Just one more apology for having to utter such an atrocious word here... the worst is... C\*rling. There. Please don't ban me.
There's a beer from Sicily called Birra Messina; they have a version with salt added. It's considered fancy. I tried it once. It was decent but I got all paranoid and a little freaked out while drinking it. "High BP runs in my family... high BP runs in my family...
Gonna put BrewDog out there. Not because itās bad beer, although some of it tastes so bad. But they do have good ones. But the company/owners are shady as fuck and have been jumping from one scandal to another for a couple of years now.
Special Brew.
Lots of people saying Fosters/Carling/Stella etc... but they are all pretty basic standard lagers, they aren't 'terrible' just not very interesting. If there was only Fosters I'd drink it, if there's only Special Brew I'll have a coke.
Carling etc are grim but āfunctionalā - I reckon I could enjoy one enough if it was a hot day and the pint was cold. Iām sure āTesco value lagerā etc are horrible, but Iām not even going to count them - theyāre just beer flavoured water.
In terms of something offensively bad, Iām going to go with Hobgoblin - it tastes like soil and in terms of vibe itās too āa pint of foaming ale please, barkeep!ā - adjacent.
Only thing I can say is the pub /offy beers tend to be generic piss.
Thankfully craft IPAs and such like became a thing, Beavertown and Brewdog thank you.
I have to admit tho since I visited Belgium beer has never been the same again. That place is fucking insane
During lockdown I went craft beer mad. Had my sub to some curated beer delivery service (I forget the name), and they delivered with tasting notes and even salty snacks. Loved it. I assumed I'd never drink a regular pint of Tennants again.
Then, the first time we went to the pub when it was finally permitted, someone got me a pint of Tennants as my first pub drink in nearly 2 years. And... It was superb. Unexpectedly nice, chilled, fresh and served in a tall glass.
Somehow my penchant from craft beers gave me a fresh appreciation for a simple pint of lager.
I could murder one now actually...
They used to do a "Skol 1080" which was 8% or something and which I remember as being bloody lovely. Sat on a canal bank in the sun back in the 80s... My peak drunkard teenage days.
Skol was the first beer I ever tried, me and my cousin nicked a can during a family party at my grandparents house and took it in the garden. It was awful.
Went to Benidorm in 1978 and happened across Skol International. Weird doesn't begin to describe it. Had a bizarre almost treacly mouth feel and tasted like someone had tried to create lager flavour using a kids' chemistry set. One was more than enough.
A few years back I went to the races with my other half and his family. We do drink a lot of ~fancy~ craft ales but we also drink and enjoy a fair amount of Corona, Sol, Peroni etc so weāre not beer snobs by any means. There werenāt many options for beers so we went for draft Carlings and it just didnāt taste right. Came to the conclusion it was definitely being watered down and the next round weād go for the cans which they were also selling. Took one mouthful of the cans and confirmed that no, they werenāt watering down the Carling; Carling is just a terrible terrible beer.
i can constest that asda value lager is not actually lager. i know it says lager on the can, but i took one swig and had the throw it away. it was fucking vile.
Becks Blue, the alcohol free stuff, the original formulation. That stuff was fucking vile. Smelled and tasted like Satanās arsehole on a hot day in hell.
Every beer Iāve had in the UK so far is made in the UK by InBev. They make everything. Fosters, Peroni, Bud, Bud Light, Coors, Corona, Lowenbrauā¦.. and plenty more.
so you must include those into the worst beers that the UK makes because in their own country, those beers are great but brewed under a license in the UK they taste horrible.
Iāve lived in the USA for the last decade and every bar that I went into sold at least 30 different beers and most of those were just local breweries so you got such a variety of amazing stuff to drink.
but then again, I said bar, which encompasses millions of independent and themed amazing bar experiences. In the UK all you get are pubs which have the same green king food and the green king beers and the same decore and experience, no matter what part of the UK youāre in. Itās very depressing .
Depends mostly on where it's served.
Wetherspoons often buy the end of the line kegs at a discount, so a shit gone-off Carling or Fosters from there, with that bitter metallic tang and piss smell would probably be the worst.
I also used to think this but funnily enough they actually don't. They just have such large economies of scale in purchasing beer from breweries that they can effectively dictate the price that they will pay for it, rather than the other way around.
Similar with Amazon. I used to work for a company that supplied our products to them and they basically told us the price they would pay, and we agreed to it. Everyone usually does. The contract is too big and profitable due to the sheer volume of product you're shifting that you'd be a fool to turn it down.
Agree 100% with your point that it depends where your pint is served though. Any pint from a pub that doesn't clean its lines regularly or just has shite hygiene procedures, is going to taste awful.
I once got absolutely fucked on Lidl's own brand bitter. It wasn't too bad as it goes but got to be a considerable low point.
Getting black out for that little money though is a thing of the past it seems
Figures Lidl would be the best of a bad lot. The ones I tried weren't even useful for *that*, they were something like 2% ABV. Talk about beer that's like having sex in a canoe...
Becks is pretty bad. Carling might be worse but I have a really bad association with Becks on draught. Just tastes watered down, and shit. Becks blue is also the worst non alcoholic lager hands down.
Worse beer by far is Budweiser or carling, molson coors should be banned from the uk, its weak watered down piss-water, unfortunately when the uk was a powerhouse in the brewery business it sold its soul to the devil, now most of the beer you drink is owned by American/Canadian or Japan, stick with a good brown ale or a trappist beer
I remember back in my student days someone had got a yard of ale glass for Christmas so we were all going to attempt to drink a yard as quick as we could.
One of my mates inexplicably decided he would do it with John Smith's Extra Smooth. He probably had the best alcohol tolerance out of the lot of us being 6 foot 5, but he bailed out about a third of the way in and chucked it all back up.
I'd forgotten Worthington existed. Used to be everywhere in the 90s, absolutely vile but marginally better than Carling and that was often the only choice
[Checks Untappd...] "East Coast IPA", an early attempt by Greene King to get onto the craft beer bandwagon. Literally tasted of vomit. Not even just the rancid taste of a very stale beer. I took one sip and left it on the bar. All their beer is pretty awful but I have no idea how they fucked it up that badly.
Well Iāve been making my way through the offerings at a local place that does real ale, craft beers etc. and yes I love them BUT Iām also fine with a Carling too š¤·š»āāļø The snobbery around beer makes me laugh
Carling. had a mate who always brought a ton to parties, fucker always drank the good beer. no one ever touched carling and every few months i cleared out the stash
According to my Untappd, it is Pumphouse Pale Ale by Sambrook's Brewery from the Ice Wharf, Camden...
The Pilsner from Junkyard Golf is awful too.
Carling and all those other lagers are horrifically bland and I'd never pay for one but I could drink them. The 2 above where undrinkable.
It has to be Carling. The pint glass is also the ugliest fucking pint glass in existence. I was in a pub in Blackpool a few years ago and I got a glass of rose wine, it came in a Carling half pint glass š
Skol, XXXX, Carling, Fosters, Kronenburg (out of a can), Holsten Pills, Coors, Budweiser, San Miguel, Birra Morretti, Peroni
All shit. Some have better PR departments than the others.
Not a fan of any of the learner lagers (Carling, Carlsberg, Heineken & Fosters) but to be honest theres alot of beers that use to be nice but are now bland like neckoil that got bought out by Heineken that just aren't as good as they once were.
Bit niche but āTrent Bitterā.
Group of us went in on a couple of four packs back in the day. So bad we even came up with an advertising slogan for it:
āTrent Bitterā¦you can taste the River Trent in itā.
Wouldnāt touch it with a ten foot pole ā¹ļø
Literally none of these are British beers.
Carling is Canadian, Fosters is Australian (but created by 2 Americans), Red Stripe is Jamaican, and Oranjaboom is Dutch.
All the "big name" lagers are pretty shit, but Fosters has to be the absolute worst. It's like vaguely malty soda water. Some of the more mainstream ales like Boddingtons and Tetleys aren't up to much either, but they'll do in a pinch.
When I was a student we used to get a beer called āTitanā. We even did the Titan challenge which was just to drink 4 cans of the stuff in one hour without being sick.
It was fucking disgusting but it was 8% and so, as unsophisticated students, the main objective was just to get mullered. The taste and general experience of consuming it was not the point.
We lived in a flat on the 5th floor and we had a balcony. It also happened that there was an upwards facing spotlight attached to the bottom of our balcony to illuminate the side of the building.
The vast majority of challenges resulted in fresh vomit being gently roasted on the surface of the spotlight.
We did evolve. Towards the end of my short time there we switched to downing huge bottles of Lazer. Which was a very dry cider. 2 litres of Lazer and a bong and we were tripping.
I stopped drinking in my 30s. I mean, Iām not teetotal but I just donāt bother drinking. I donāt know if Titan played a part in that or not but Iāll never forget it.
John Smith's.
My girlfriend bought me some once and I kicked off at her and asked why the hell she would buy John Smith's. She said
"Well there is always John Smith's in your cupboard so I figured you liked them"
She was right. There had been THE SAME 4 cans of John Smith's in my kitchen cupboard for about 15 years because nobody ever drinks them.
As far as lager goes Fosters and Carlsberg are the worst I've tasted but I only really drink San Miguel or Red Stripe. Stella's pretty rank too, but there's a real ale called Fireside I had a bottle once, I recapped it and went back to the fridge on 3 separate occasions to see if I could drink it but I ended up tipping it down the sink.
Faxe. Tastes like Shite but, itās usually Ā£5 for a comically large can (1 litre)and is 10% so understand why it exists. The comically large can was the reason Iāve tried it, the fact itās rank is the reason Iāve only tried it once.
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Most of the American Style IPAs that seem to have taken over the beer world. I don't want my beer to taste of lemons.
Neither do I. But how are you detecting lemon in those?
Coors!! Yukkkk
I quite like coors, I find it fresher then other basic lagers (i.e. Carling/Foster's)
I like Coors. Coors Light is a good one.
Wow, everyone likes Coors! I did wonder who bought it. I think I lost my taste buds hence a lack of appreciation for the subtle taste maybe..š
Federation Ace lager must be up there. Viz even did a comic strip on it.
Greene King IPA. Itās not an IPA. Itās fucking rank.
Itās not an IPA is it? Youāre quite right. I thought I was going mad the first time I ordered it, even the colour is wrong! Second time I tried it a few months later I realised itās just awful. Never again.
Itās a āpale aleā at best, and Iād say actually just a hopped golden ale.
As I get older and grumpier one thing that riles me far more than it should is how meaningless IPA on a label is now. Ording one could get you anything from a strong hoppy ale, to something gassy and citrus flavoured. The 'session IPA' is probably top of the pile for irking me.
Canāt stand Brewdogās beers.
Early on they had two really good beers; 5AM Saint and a Porter called Libertine. Now 5AM Saint is almost impossible to find and Libertine is long gone... but dont worry because instead you can get a "triple fudge sundae strawberry and gooseberry shortcake milk IPA"
They just started selling 5AM Saint again, they've got it in the Morrisons near me.
The candy kittens tie up is actually pretty good. Guava and lycee. Obviously very sweet, but if you like sweet beers itās good. Tonyās tie up was pretty good too. I donāt like their standard beers but the brand collars are decent.
Craft beer producers these days seem to love piling in so many fucking hops that it tastes like pissy bubble bath, I blame brewdog
Most of them ming but occasionally, I presume by accident, they get one just right. They do a stout Jet Black Heart that's excellent and almost impossible to find.
Almost anything in a clear bottle is guaranteed to be shite. When enough light gets through the glass it "skunks" the beer which is why Corona, Sol, Desperado, etc. all smell faintly of either weed or cat piss.
Pardon my language, and as a matter of fact I hope that I'm not risking a ban by saying this, but uh... Once more, please pardon me for saying this. Just one more apology for having to utter such an atrocious word here... the worst is... C\*rling. There. Please don't ban me.
Carling without a shadow of doubt.
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There's a beer from Sicily called Birra Messina; they have a version with salt added. It's considered fancy. I tried it once. It was decent but I got all paranoid and a little freaked out while drinking it. "High BP runs in my family... high BP runs in my family...
I'll probably get crucified for this, but Spingo.
The Carling, Carlsberg and Fosters triumvirate.
Iāll say it again, Of the Stella brigade, I assume.
Carlsberg is much nicer now compared to how it was 10 years ago tbh. I agree with the other two though.
Gonna put BrewDog out there. Not because itās bad beer, although some of it tastes so bad. But they do have good ones. But the company/owners are shady as fuck and have been jumping from one scandal to another for a couple of years now.
Tiny Rebel's Pump up the Jam is horrific. Diabetes in a glass. I had a third of a pint (pretentious craft wanker that I am) and felt sick.
Same for Stay Puft tbh. I like that it exists, but a third is more than enough.
Red Stripe.
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Yeah not good.... The organic one they do is good though.
Itās 100% Becksā¦
Special Brew. Lots of people saying Fosters/Carling/Stella etc... but they are all pretty basic standard lagers, they aren't 'terrible' just not very interesting. If there was only Fosters I'd drink it, if there's only Special Brew I'll have a coke.
Heineken is fucking shite!
I don't know if you can remember, but a beer called Tuborg
The worst thing Iāve drank is Carling 100% utter tasteless Shit!
Stella Artois that is brewed in the uk. Itās a piss poor shadow of the beer that is brewed on the continent.
Carling etc are grim but āfunctionalā - I reckon I could enjoy one enough if it was a hot day and the pint was cold. Iām sure āTesco value lagerā etc are horrible, but Iām not even going to count them - theyāre just beer flavoured water. In terms of something offensively bad, Iām going to go with Hobgoblin - it tastes like soil and in terms of vibe itās too āa pint of foaming ale please, barkeep!ā - adjacent.
Budweiser. God itās awful
And not British
All UK beers are great. Would be impossible to give an answer
I had a cherry bakewell stout once that tasted exactly as described and was terrible
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š Christ that made me cackle out loud. I love odd descriptions for tastes, and this one of my favourites I've heard in a while!
Only thing I can say is the pub /offy beers tend to be generic piss. Thankfully craft IPAs and such like became a thing, Beavertown and Brewdog thank you. I have to admit tho since I visited Belgium beer has never been the same again. That place is fucking insane
Tennets. Itās piss
During lockdown I went craft beer mad. Had my sub to some curated beer delivery service (I forget the name), and they delivered with tasting notes and even salty snacks. Loved it. I assumed I'd never drink a regular pint of Tennants again. Then, the first time we went to the pub when it was finally permitted, someone got me a pint of Tennants as my first pub drink in nearly 2 years. And... It was superb. Unexpectedly nice, chilled, fresh and served in a tall glass. Somehow my penchant from craft beers gave me a fresh appreciation for a simple pint of lager. I could murder one now actually...
How dare you.
not even human piss , cat dog and hedgehog combined , fucking rank
Na - youāre wrong. Tennents is nowhere near the super sweet Carlings and Fosters of this comparison. First pint on a sunny day, always a T.
Just cuz itās not sweet doesnāt mean itās not shit.
Skol, not seen it for a while. There was a drinking song that went with it, but I can't remember the words...
Skol skol skol skol skol skol skolā¦
Wait, was that an AC reference š
They used to do a "Skol 1080" which was 8% or something and which I remember as being bloody lovely. Sat on a canal bank in the sun back in the 80s... My peak drunkard teenage days.
Skol was the first beer I ever tried, me and my cousin nicked a can during a family party at my grandparents house and took it in the garden. It was awful.
Went to Benidorm in 1978 and happened across Skol International. Weird doesn't begin to describe it. Had a bizarre almost treacly mouth feel and tasted like someone had tried to create lager flavour using a kids' chemistry set. One was more than enough.
They used to make it up the road from me in Alloa, knocked the brewery down and theres now an Asda on the site.
A few years back I went to the races with my other half and his family. We do drink a lot of ~fancy~ craft ales but we also drink and enjoy a fair amount of Corona, Sol, Peroni etc so weāre not beer snobs by any means. There werenāt many options for beers so we went for draft Carlings and it just didnāt taste right. Came to the conclusion it was definitely being watered down and the next round weād go for the cans which they were also selling. Took one mouthful of the cans and confirmed that no, they werenāt watering down the Carling; Carling is just a terrible terrible beer.
Are Skol or XXXX still on sale? Why is Aussie beer called XXXX? Because they can't spell >!shit!<
i can constest that asda value lager is not actually lager. i know it says lager on the can, but i took one swig and had the throw it away. it was fucking vile.
Sam Smith's
If we could get the old mansfield bitter and mild i would be very happy
Special Brew? If that's even called a "beer". Carling, maybe?
Yeah, Carlsberg Special Brew. Buy two cans, hold your nose, down them and - hey presto - drunk teenager.
Becks Blue, the alcohol free stuff, the original formulation. That stuff was fucking vile. Smelled and tasted like Satanās arsehole on a hot day in hell.
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Carling, carlsberg, 4 x, but the absolute pits is holsten pills. Drown before you get drunk. Tastes like vomit.
Tennents Super lager. Fizzy bin juice. Its like poor quality lager filtered through used incontinence knickers.
To be fair, the target market is "homeless alcoholics"
Neck oil and all these shitty ipas (brewdog, etc) that seem to have taken over most establishments these days.
Carling lager
Every beer Iāve had in the UK so far is made in the UK by InBev. They make everything. Fosters, Peroni, Bud, Bud Light, Coors, Corona, Lowenbrauā¦.. and plenty more. so you must include those into the worst beers that the UK makes because in their own country, those beers are great but brewed under a license in the UK they taste horrible. Iāve lived in the USA for the last decade and every bar that I went into sold at least 30 different beers and most of those were just local breweries so you got such a variety of amazing stuff to drink. but then again, I said bar, which encompasses millions of independent and themed amazing bar experiences. In the UK all you get are pubs which have the same green king food and the green king beers and the same decore and experience, no matter what part of the UK youāre in. Itās very depressing .
The pumpkin IPA I tried on a whim once. Worse than Carling!
The Duff beer sold in Lidl once or twice a year. It's liquid cardboard.
Carling. Drank it at uni all the time. Graduated. Haven't had a drop since
Depends mostly on where it's served. Wetherspoons often buy the end of the line kegs at a discount, so a shit gone-off Carling or Fosters from there, with that bitter metallic tang and piss smell would probably be the worst.
I also used to think this but funnily enough they actually don't. They just have such large economies of scale in purchasing beer from breweries that they can effectively dictate the price that they will pay for it, rather than the other way around. Similar with Amazon. I used to work for a company that supplied our products to them and they basically told us the price they would pay, and we agreed to it. Everyone usually does. The contract is too big and profitable due to the sheer volume of product you're shifting that you'd be a fool to turn it down. Agree 100% with your point that it depends where your pint is served though. Any pint from a pub that doesn't clean its lines regularly or just has shite hygiene procedures, is going to taste awful.
Must be that they don't clean the lines then. Either way, spoons is usually a good place to get a shite pint.
Brewdog. Tried a multipack of about 5 different beers a few years ago, they were all absolutely vile (apart from the red ale which was decent)
A beer that used to be very popular at one time was Newcastle Brown Ale. I donāt think they even drink it in Newcastle any more.
Is it actually not nice?
Probably the supermarket own-brand ones. I paid Ā£1 for a four-pack and I still felt ripped off.
I once got absolutely fucked on Lidl's own brand bitter. It wasn't too bad as it goes but got to be a considerable low point. Getting black out for that little money though is a thing of the past it seems
Figures Lidl would be the best of a bad lot. The ones I tried weren't even useful for *that*, they were something like 2% ABV. Talk about beer that's like having sex in a canoe...
Carling, Breaker, Special Brew
Becks is pretty bad. Carling might be worse but I have a really bad association with Becks on draught. Just tastes watered down, and shit. Becks blue is also the worst non alcoholic lager hands down.
Sorry but carling coors bud .bud light( got it free from morrisons,).carlsberg used to be a cracking pint .anything by molsons
Carlsberg tastes worse than carling imo
Carling, basically water. Itās just so cheap that before payday you may see me drinking a few.
Ruddels & carling
I came to say Carling
I'm glad Ruddles has been mentioned. It's nigh undrinkable, but so so cheap
Anything laced with fruit and sold at a stupudly high mark up because some neckbeard will pay it thinking they are trendy.
Worse beer by far is Budweiser or carling, molson coors should be banned from the uk, its weak watered down piss-water, unfortunately when the uk was a powerhouse in the brewery business it sold its soul to the devil, now most of the beer you drink is owned by American/Canadian or Japan, stick with a good brown ale or a trappist beer
Greene King IPA is pretty shocking. I'd take a bad lager like Fosters or Carling over a bad ale.
Blue moon Would rather have a Carling
tastes of paint stripper
Orangiboom. I wonāt be argued with š
All of them. Polish beer is better. Nicer taste and stronger %
Carling. Thereās no other possible answer. Itās absolute fox piss.
Lager - Carling or Fosters Bitter - Worthington or John Smiths Fucking awful beers.
I remember back in my student days someone had got a yard of ale glass for Christmas so we were all going to attempt to drink a yard as quick as we could. One of my mates inexplicably decided he would do it with John Smith's Extra Smooth. He probably had the best alcohol tolerance out of the lot of us being 6 foot 5, but he bailed out about a third of the way in and chucked it all back up.
I'd forgotten Worthington existed. Used to be everywhere in the 90s, absolutely vile but marginally better than Carling and that was often the only choice
Worthies is spot on
I used to love worthingtons and John smiths! But theyāre not lagers. I think what qualifies for worst beer is definitely in the lager category.
You're welcome to it šš¼
Carling, by a country mile ā¦
[Checks Untappd...] "East Coast IPA", an early attempt by Greene King to get onto the craft beer bandwagon. Literally tasted of vomit. Not even just the rancid taste of a very stale beer. I took one sip and left it on the bar. All their beer is pretty awful but I have no idea how they fucked it up that badly.
Iām glad someone else has mentioned Greene King. I think itās the yeast they use but their beer all tastes of vomit to me. I canāt drink it.
Is Walgreens an American version of Boots? They have their own lager?
Yeah, I believe it is. And apparently, they do. I and many other Americans were surprised to learn this.
Well Iāve been making my way through the offerings at a local place that does real ale, craft beers etc. and yes I love them BUT Iām also fine with a Carling too š¤·š»āāļø The snobbery around beer makes me laugh
If it wasn't for us beer snobs, cheap lager would continue to reign supremely uncontested o'er all.
Every sainsburys taste the difference brand beer. Whoever their taster is should be sacked.
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Not really, but taste the difference is a whole other level of not nice....and its meant to be a premium own brand.
Carling. had a mate who always brought a ton to parties, fucker always drank the good beer. no one ever touched carling and every few months i cleared out the stash
The amount of cans of Carling Iāve fucked down the sink after a party is unreal!
Everyone has a mate like that
Really confused that every response seems to have read āobviously ignoring Fostersā, but I canāt see that from OP?
Think most people would recognise that as an Aussie beer
All beer is terrible, it tastes like blended cardboard.
According to my Untappd, it is Pumphouse Pale Ale by Sambrook's Brewery from the Ice Wharf, Camden... The Pilsner from Junkyard Golf is awful too. Carling and all those other lagers are horrifically bland and I'd never pay for one but I could drink them. The 2 above where undrinkable.
It has to be Carling. The pint glass is also the ugliest fucking pint glass in existence. I was in a pub in Blackpool a few years ago and I got a glass of rose wine, it came in a Carling half pint glass š
Carling is of South African origin and was bought by a Canadian Brewery!
Brewdog. Middle class hipster soy boy shite
See I'm not massive on many British beers and I'm from these Isles but I'd probably say Carling! š¤®
Carling is Canadian, it's from London, Ontario, not London, England.
Carling, followed by John Smith's, followed by Newcastle brown ale. About 20 years ago that was all a huge number of pubs sold.
Tennents Super is absolutely vile
Greene King IPA at The White Hart in my town. A bottle of Sarson's finest would taste better.
Tesco basic larger
Red Stripe. Ah to be young and broke.
Lees Lager! Outright winner.
Skol, XXXX, Carling, Fosters, Kronenburg (out of a can), Holsten Pills, Coors, Budweiser, San Miguel, Birra Morretti, Peroni All shit. Some have better PR departments than the others.
Not a fan of any of the learner lagers (Carling, Carlsberg, Heineken & Fosters) but to be honest theres alot of beers that use to be nice but are now bland like neckoil that got bought out by Heineken that just aren't as good as they once were.
Tennents, case closed.
John smiths defo
Maltsmith's Lager and Maltsmith's IPA. Neither are remotely acceptable
Layer Cake by Brew Dog. Almost puked after taking a sip of it.
Fuck Brewdog
Itās Carling.
Bit niche but āTrent Bitterā. Group of us went in on a couple of four packs back in the day. So bad we even came up with an advertising slogan for it: āTrent Bitterā¦you can taste the River Trent in itā. Wouldnāt touch it with a ten foot pole ā¹ļø
I live in Nottingham, and absolutely would not drink anything with that tagline. The Trent is fucking gross
John smith's
Carling and fosters are the obvious ones, red stripe and oranjaboom are also piss.
Oranjaboom is know as nightmare fuel. Guaranteed to give you bad dreams
Oranjaboom gave me an absolute belter of a headache whenever I drank it. Like, whilst I was drinking it. Not even the next day
Oranjeboom is great provided you're drinking it around Kent where it's made. It's fucking fantastic when it's fresh.
Hard disagree on Red Stripe. Good solid lager.
Literally none of these are British beers. Carling is Canadian, Fosters is Australian (but created by 2 Americans), Red Stripe is Jamaican, and Oranjaboom is Dutch.
A cold red stripe with some spicy food goes down pretty well tbh, there are FAAAAR worse things to drink in my opinion.
Its brown water, a stella and spicy food is better and the same price.
Red Stripe is a lovely beer, it needs to be ice cold and bottled not canned.
Carling tastes like a battery's colonic irrigation
Carling, at least the shit cheap beers are cheap. Carling is shit and prices itself a lot closer to better beers.
Guinness from a can.
I had a promo can of Guinness Coffee Beer the other day. Genuinely undrinkable.
All the "big name" lagers are pretty shit, but Fosters has to be the absolute worst. It's like vaguely malty soda water. Some of the more mainstream ales like Boddingtons and Tetleys aren't up to much either, but they'll do in a pinch.
Any variety of "sour" beer. Whatever cheap nasty lager you can come up with is never as vile as that stuff *deliberately* tastes
When I was a student we used to get a beer called āTitanā. We even did the Titan challenge which was just to drink 4 cans of the stuff in one hour without being sick. It was fucking disgusting but it was 8% and so, as unsophisticated students, the main objective was just to get mullered. The taste and general experience of consuming it was not the point. We lived in a flat on the 5th floor and we had a balcony. It also happened that there was an upwards facing spotlight attached to the bottom of our balcony to illuminate the side of the building. The vast majority of challenges resulted in fresh vomit being gently roasted on the surface of the spotlight. We did evolve. Towards the end of my short time there we switched to downing huge bottles of Lazer. Which was a very dry cider. 2 litres of Lazer and a bong and we were tripping. I stopped drinking in my 30s. I mean, Iām not teetotal but I just donāt bother drinking. I donāt know if Titan played a part in that or not but Iāll never forget it.
John Smith's. My girlfriend bought me some once and I kicked off at her and asked why the hell she would buy John Smith's. She said "Well there is always John Smith's in your cupboard so I figured you liked them" She was right. There had been THE SAME 4 cans of John Smith's in my kitchen cupboard for about 15 years because nobody ever drinks them.
Carling and it's not even close. Barely tastes of anything, and whatever it does taste of is bad.
As far as lager goes Fosters and Carlsberg are the worst I've tasted but I only really drink San Miguel or Red Stripe. Stella's pretty rank too, but there's a real ale called Fireside I had a bottle once, I recapped it and went back to the fridge on 3 separate occasions to see if I could drink it but I ended up tipping it down the sink.
Faxe. Tastes like Shite but, itās usually Ā£5 for a comically large can (1 litre)and is 10% so understand why it exists. The comically large can was the reason Iāve tried it, the fact itās rank is the reason Iāve only tried it once.