Carling Black Label or O'keefe might have been the other choice.

My dad drank Carling Black Label, an old school father's beer if there ever was one. I used to sneak them occasionally when in high school and tolerated the taste just because it was cool to be drinking beer at that age. Years later after I had moved out and gotten married, he'd always offer one whenever we went over to visit. I used to do the worst farts from that stuff.

When he passed away a few years ago, one of my brothers slipped one in the casket for him just before they closed it up for the last time.

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We visiting Australia a few years ago, we were quite surprised how lowly regarded Foster's is. They have their own horse piss beers in Oz, but Foster's was regarded as the bottom of the heap. They also have a lot of good beers there, but what we term in our part of the world as "craft beers", the Aussies refer to as "boutique beers".

LOL! Now that is cool. Hope somebody remembers to do that for me. :-)

I'm an IPA fan and this was undrinkable.

Almost everything with fruit in it. A notable exception: Lattitude Brewing's Blood Orange IPA, which is damn good.

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This phenomenon seems to be true all over the world. When I first moved to the US, I was surprised to see how poorly Budweiser and Rolling Rock were viewed here, as I was used to them being premium beers alongside stuff like Fosters back in the UK. Conversely, Heineken and Amstel (and even Harp!) were seen as premium beers in the US but pretty much ignored back home. Likewise Bass Ale, mentioned earlier in this thread.

Even now when I go home it's surprising to see Coors Light so popular over there (even my Dad, who is more of a bitter/stout drinker, will order Coors Light when he's here).

Apparently Labatt 50 made a list of best "retro beers" in some magazine in the UK. I was shocked.

Great way to describe that stuff.

Had an uncle who drank that. We still kid to this day that it was his choice of beer because he knew the kids would never take any of it.... or anyone for that matter.

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Red Stripe still comes in stubbies if you can find it, I buy it on occasion for the nostalgia of the bottle (not that I was old enough to drink when they were popular) and to remember a trip to Jamaica where we drank a bunch of the.

Ben

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Nuff said

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I can pretty much drink most any beers and like IPA's unlike quite a few on here. But, sour ones are not my thing (tastes spoiled/foul to me).

The worst has to be a Tonka Brewery (Minnetonka, MN as in the city where the lake that Prince mentions to purify oneself in those waters and also referred to in that Charlie Murphy basketball story). Forget the exact brew type but it was on sale with a 4 pack of pint cans for $5. Personally always like to try out something new (and it is a local beer to me)...but it was horrible. Over carbonated and I couldn't even finish 1 can. The taste while I never tried actual piss water but imagine that is what it'd might be like though. It took multiple efforts to even swallow one swig of the beer (it was that carbonated). Ended up pouring it all down the drain...even then it was so carbonated the suds took forever to settle down enough to go down the drain (think nasty foamy seawater that won't go away).

Red Stripe is brewed in the US in the old Rolling Rock facility in Latrobe, PA

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Besides Pepsi I enjoy Coffee and Beer. However, do not ever mix beer and coffee

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There are also good beers gone bad.
For years I thought Grolsch was a horrible beer. It just smelled and tasted bad to me. Then when I started homebrewing I read about lightstruck beer. Light gives beer the characteristic skunky taste and since Grolsch comes in green bottles is more susceptible to being lightstruck than beers that come in brown bottles. If you can find Grolsch that isn't light struck it really isn't a bad lager. For some reason green bottles have become associated with premium beers so vendors choose them even though they do not protect their contents as well as brown bottles.

I've actually always liked Grolsch and also never minded Heineken. Two good beers from Holland. My wife just loves the Belgium wheat beers, especially the cloudy ones. I've never been too keen on them.

Lived on the Delaware border for a year and this was by FAR the best thing from Dogfish Head. Everything else was highly overrated. Stick to Victory, Troegs, and Southern Tier oddities out there at a much better price.

Belikin wasn't that bad. Now El Presidente from Nicaragua, that was foul.

The beer in Cuba is surprisingly good, just like the rum and the cigars. I'm not just saying this to piss windywave off, but I really like the Cristal and rank it as good as anything I've had in the Caribbean or south of the Texas border.

I used to live close to a grolsch factory in holland. Did the tour many times and like the beer a lot. It's easy to find on tap in holland and way better than Heineken, which can be skunky.

As a brewer, i so appreciate what Dogfish does...pushing limits of ingredients, techniques, etc. But I agree it's so overrated, and they seem better at marketing than brewing. And overpriced as a result...$14 for a 22oz of most of their offerings is crazy.

You're nuts. That Kona Pipeline is awesome.

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A neighbor gave me a smoked beer once. I can't recall the name of it. It was the most terrible thing I've ever tasted.

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I agree on the shandy. They are all terrible. So artificial and sweet tasting. I think shandys are gateways beers for high school girls who normally drink wine coolers.

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Fulton war and peace is the ultimate coffee beer.

Surly coffee bender is awesome

Big woods brewing morning wood is pretty good too.

All local to me, nationally distributed coffee beers not so good.

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Carling IPA, Blech!