Probably Heineken, worst beer in the world.

Definitely one of the most overrated

I was at a dinner with a client on Zhoushan Island, near Ningbo, China. He was very proud to present his favorite drink. It began with a very warm glass of a local white wine. They then proceeded to slowly pour some sort of raw scrambled egg into the wine. The egg started to poach/cook but never quite got there. It became cloudy and lumpy. I knew it was going to be horrible but did not want to insult my host and gave it a try. Wish I hadn't!!

I have some "Bitter Pepper Liquor" from Russia that is pretty horrific. Also Cashew Fenny from India is really bad.

It probably is. We got a holiday pack of Knob Creek, it had a bottle of bourbon and two 50 mL samples. The maple one was undrinkable. I assumed they aged the bourbon in maple, but that wasn't it at all. It smelled and tasted like they took regular bourbon and added the artificial flavors used in Mrs. Butterworth's syrup - fake maple and butter flavor.

I knew what it was as soon as I saw your post. Liquid Bliss is pretty amazing. I drink a lot of stouts and porters.


As for the worst drink, I had some Chinese rice wine at a restaurant in Paris and it made me cry. I choked some and then I cried some more.

Chinese Baijiu, especially the cheap type served at Chinese banquets.

Wow, sounds really horrible

Founders Bolt Cutter: so bad could not even finish the glass.

In my youth we had to suffer Watneys Red Barrel or Whitbread Trophy in the student bar at Uni. No wonder it never made any money !

Always improved by the addition of tomato juice :D

Worst Beer Narragansett close second Heineken

True backwoods Moonshine runs the full spectrum. had some that was smooth and mellow like a nice sipping whisky, some reminded me of paint thinner and didn't dare drink it!
An employee gave me a bottle of "Southern Comfort Pepper" for Christmas. Vile stuff! can't figure out what it's good for? RT

Cement Mixer!! Take a shot of Baileys, hold in mouth, a shot of lemon juice on top, shake your head and try to swallow that! UGH!!

A simple, innocent Budweiser early one morning right after eating a convenience store doughnut. What a terrible taste the combination produced. I can still taste it 40 years later. Yuk.

You made me chuckle so hard that tears came out of my eyes. Thanks.

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy

Funny story about Malort. Which is a truly terrible spirit.

I got to try it at a John Hodgman show. He brings several bottles of the stuff and passes it around. By the time it gets to you it is more backwash than drink. But still awful.

I'm shocked no one has mentioned Chocolate Wine! Wine with the consistency of milk, with none of the redeeming qualities of either one.

DJ

Stella beer in Egypt. I bought the t-shirt. It says, "That which does not kill us makes us stronger. Drink Stella beer!"

Then there's Omar Khayam white wine also in Egypt. Paint thinner with Kool-Aid would be an improvement.

Becherovka & Why the Diss for Islay Single Malts?
 

Currently at a conference in Prague. I had forgotten quite how vile Becherovka herb liqueur was until I was invited to try a shot before dinner. As an aid to digestion, it works best in reverse!
For all the Islay haters on this forum I took a special side trip from Glasgow to Islay prior to a conference. The flight on a 24 seater turbo-prop is spectacular and the whiskies from Laphroaig, Bowmore and Bruichladdich even better on site.
We stayed in the same B&B as the Thirsty Traveler, Kevin Brauch, and had dinner in a restaurant with over 200 single malts.
I own a square meter of Islay, thanks to Laphroaig, and would love to go back there. Anyone who hates Islay single malts, Lagavullin, Ardbeg and Bunnahabhain is welcome to send them my way. I'd also accept Jura, Talisker and Highland Park from islands other than Islay.

Eric
Durban

Late to this thread, but my worst drink was quite memorable. I was in the French quarter in NO, and asked a bartender for his best personal drink. I rarely order from the menu. What I ended up with was some sort of martini concoction that had olives, vodka, pickling juice, and possibly some jalapeno juice. I choked it down and made a note never to return to this restaurant. That is the first and only time I have ever been burned by that request.

I'm sorry you brought this up. I get sick just thinking about Yoohoo and you reminded me of it. Now I have a mess to clean up ...

Not sure if it is the worst thing I have ever had, but I was recently caught off guard by how truly vile of a beer Sam Adams Thirteenth Hour was. I was rather expecting to like it, the description being:

In actuality, it tasked like rotten vegetables mixed with blood and vinegar. Absolutely vulgar swill.

Claymore. The finest scotch I've ever purchased at 25p the bottle.

In Luxemburg they have this very strong alcoholic drink "Gratte cul", translation: "scratch arse"
That's exactly what it does from your mouth all the way down :p

Home Brew Beer. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's the farthest thing from good and you're trying to find a bush to pour it out into.

I agree, including my own. I once made the mistake of giving someone a bottle without trying it myself first. I wanted to recall it but it was too late. he told me it was "interesting". I guess interesting means flat.

Dollar Margarita Night, at a NYC bar yet. Might have been gasoline since that was cheap back then.

I actually tasted three different pumpkin beers at a Bevmo once while they had a tasting going on. They basically went, super strong pumpkin flavor, medium pumpkin flavor, low pumpkin flavor. I didn't mind the latter two, but the first was a bit too much.

I haven't had the Beam Maple, but someone did buy me a shot of Crown Royal Maple. Cannot say that I'd ever drink that sickly sweet stuff again. There's about a million flavors of vodka available now too, and I think they all sound awful. Birthday cake flavored? Cinnabon? Whipped cream? All of those flavors are made by Three Olives which makes it bittersweet for me as I really enjoy regular Three Olives vodka.

Smoked Salmon Flavored Vodka
 

Smoked salmon flavored vodka from a distillery here in Alaska.
Tastes like a drunken, seasick fishing trip.

That sounds terrible.

I think we have a misunderstanding of what vodka is supposed to be.

It seems like distillers are treating vodka like tofu or tilapia. It has no flavor, therefore flavor must be added. I seldom drink it and on the rare occasions I do, collins mix is enough of an addition.

Four Loco
 

Four Loco Watermelon.

Words fail me.

SVU has a knockoff product they mention in a few episodes called "Five Crazy"

Hard for me to argue with that! There are a number of frat house beers I'd rather drink than Heineken... Why many airlines default to serving it I'll never understand.

I only drank 4 Loco once. I was on spring break and it was like 3-4 am. I woke up an hour or two later with my heart racing far faster than it should have been and couldn't go back to sleep.

I like Heineken a lot. Nice light crisp refreshing easy drinking. Then again, my regular beer of choice is Budweiser. I consider myself lucky that my favorites are inexpensive, considering the quantity I consume. :)

How can anybody call Budweiser a beer ! I would prefer to drink water - its just about as potent

Some sort of shaken mayo cocktail at the mayonnaise restaurant in Tokyo.

Depends what you mean by worst... I've liked them all. However, I did once get to drinking a little concoction called a c--- sucking cowby, consisting of Baileys layered on buterscotch shnapz, at a party. After a few, I still felt perfectly sober and chatty. Then I attempted to stand.....

Loch Dhu.

Actually, you did good when you bought another bottle just to prove that it is indeed an awful drink..

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.