Back in the UK in the early 90s what you could drink in a brewery owned pub was much more restricted than it is now. This was especially noticeable with wine. Whereas one may go into a typical pub and find maybe 20 or 30 wines available with maybe half a dozen of them by the glass, back then it was not the case. You might get 3 - sweet white, dry white, red. Our local brewery was the worst offender. We would often take part in the pub quiz and the prize was 6 bottles of wine. The White was called "chandoray" and the red I can't remember, but again it was a misleading name to disguise the fact what the wine actually was. No two bottles would ever taste the same it was obvious that the brewery was just buying any old cheap crap they could get their hands on and rebottling it. We are not wine snobs but these wines were truly disgusting no matter what you mixed them with to hide the horrible taste . We were quite successful at the pub quiz and we're winning quite a bit of this dreadful stuff, most of which ended up being poured away.

Other memorable bad drinks....Fernet Branca, neat Campari and a Sorghum Wine a friend brought back from China.