Worst Drink You've Ever Had
 

The worst beer I've ever tasted was from Dogfish Head, of all places. It proves even the best get it wrong sometimes.

It was called Raison D'Etre and it was made with raisins. Really. And you could taste raisin in every sip.

I'm embarrassed to admit I bought it a second time by mistake. I figured I'd try it again in case I just had a bad bottle. Nope, still gawdawful.

Blue Moon Cinnamon Horchata Ale

I mean, it wasn't AWFUL. I just don't think beer should be a dessert.

For awful, Laphroaig. I could make a similar drink by chugging a bottle of Liquid Smoke.

Oh, this one's easy. Without a doubt, Yanghe Haizhilan. We're only three posts in and I declare myself winner of this thread :)

Someone brought a bottle of this stuff into my office and we all ritualistically forced ourselves to try some. As none of us speak Chinese, we started referring to it as "The Goat". Partly because the company logo is a goat, but mostly because the stuff tastes like musty barn with an aroma of wet hay and strong notes of wet mud and goat sweat on the finish.

The worst is the aftermath: you'll be burping goat taste for a good 24-48 hours after trying a shot of this stuff.

I'd attempt to describe it further, but I think the manufacturer's flowy description does it better than I ever could:

I don't vary my alcoholic drinks very much (usually Jack - or Beam - straight or with Coke), but a bartender offered me a free Jim Beam Honey. Couldn't finish it. Probably the first and only free drink I've ever turned down.

Just horrible.

OMG how could I forget? Fireball.

A "Jersey Turnpike" (They empty the bar mats into a shot glass)

or Coors Light is a close second.

I actually like that beer... worst to me is Fernet Branca. It's bad straight, bad in cocktails, and worst with coke like the Argentine's prefer.

"Raisin beer" is just wrong. :mad:

I had some pretty awful Pumpkin Ale one fall. I'll avoid any of those in the future.

This sounds pretty awful, too.

http://www.jimbeam.com/maple

Guiness Blonde. I was at a Tilted Kilt recently and asked the bartender for a sample. Putrid, disgusting.

It's beers like the Guiness Blonde which answer the question why brewers in the United States don't try to make more complex and different beers.

BamaVol Jr #1 tells me that Wells Banana Bread beer is worse than anything else he's tried and he's tried a lot of beers.

They've been brewing it for 15 years so someone else besides you must be drinking it too.

Suze.

Sort of herbal-tasting concoction, made me feel the same way I felt when I was a kid and my mother tried to force medicine down my throat. Parents of a friend in France gave it to me, they knew how I'd react.

Fermented mare's milk in Mongolia. Unbelievably, it tastes worse than it sounds.

Have you actually drunk that?

Sounds like the winner, hands down.:td:

Tang.

"Never turn down Tang. Growing boys need Tang!"

Ardbeg. It was vile, like poison. I don't know if something was wrong with it or that's how it tastes. I considered reporting it to someone in case it was poisoned but wasn't sure how to, so I poured it down the drain.

Please send me yours.

Moonshine from Bulgaria... Yikes. :eek:

I got rid of it. I only hope it didn't seep out and destroy the eco-system.

Yes. In a ger in the middle of nowhere (which is quite easy to find in Mongolia). We wanted to camp near the ger so went over to ask permission and were invited in for a drink with the new neighbours.

I'd describe it as liquified goat cheese that was past its use by date, with a strong smell of grass. And no, not the type of grass that would make such tastes enjoyable ;)

How many times have you tried it? For some reason I tried it time after time and now enjoy it... It leads to interesting mornings I've discovered.

Drinks don't have to be exotic to be vile.

Worst I ever had was Diet Pepsi and cheap vodka. Finals week, junior year in college, I discovered that I had not received the notice stating that time had been changed for one of my Econ exams and I had missed the exam. I stopped by a friend's room to vent and she offered me a drink. Gak! :mad: Not a Pepsi person to start with, and add cheap vodka - haven't touched either since then.



The good news is the proof let me make up the exam because she knew me well enough to know I'd never miss it on purpose.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/dinin...net-gross.html

But I've had worse. I just have to think about what they were.

My dear husband thought it wise to get a pineapple "wine" at a corner store in rural Costa Rica. It was not good.

As far as something not available commercially, I had a co-worker back in East Tennessee who tried making wine out of potatoes he grew in his backyard. When no one wanted to drink it, he ran it through his still and produced moonshine. Still no one wanted to drink it. He added maple syrup and told people it was homemade "Maple Crown Royal". I took one sip and spit it out. It may very well have been identical in flavor to what he was trying to replicate. I have no idea what came over me. I never drank any of his homemade alcohol again which I suppose was a shame because some of his home brewed beer was okay.

Actually, it can and does taste nice. The classy version comes from animals who are raised high in the mountains and feed on a special type of grass.

I had moonshine once in Kentucky. A friend of a friend's parents made it on their farm. It was sweet and peach flavored. Not bad, but I couldn't have more than a little.

Ah yes, when we were young and foolish and didn't know better we bought a bottle of pineapple wine at a roadside stand in Hawaii. It was, um, memorable.

That's what I did the first time I had a wheat beer at a beer tasting. Thought it was spoiled. Poured it down a nearby drain.

Garlic wine --- a souvenir (not mine) from the Gilroy Garlic Festival.

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I had a friend who loved banana bread beer.

I have a friend who "loves hoppy beer...the hoppier the better" but Dank Tank by Sweetwater did him in.

Just about any wine is the worst thing I've ever had. My tastes in beer change and if I don't like something I may like it in a few years and I try to stay away from things I'm warned against.

It's a toss up between a prarie oyster (urrggghhh), a cement mixer (bailey's and lime juice, it curdles and solidifies on the way down (bleeeughhh) and a brain hemorrhage (same idea as the cement mixer, but it is baileys, archers and a dash of grenadine for the hemorrhage!). Managed them all (on different occasions) without throwing up, but not entirely sure how!

Nowadays, tequila, any sort, produces the same gut feeling the above did!

On my 21st birthday I went pub crawling with some of my friends. Lots of places offered me a free drink for my birthday, though a few bartenders/waitresses seemed to revel in giving me the grossest thing possible as a freebie. I had a cement mixer and a brain hemorrhage, neither of which I liked but which weren't that bad. The standout worst mixed drink I had was a prairie fire -- cheap tequila and tabasco sauce. :eek:

You have to be kidding me! Two of my favoutire single malts! :eek:


Ugh, Fernet is definitely vile, but I'm not sure it's the worst thing I've ever had. Hubba Bubba is a serious contender though.

A few years ago went to breakfast and we all decided to get bloody marys. We didn't realize this place only served beer and wine, so they made their bloody marys with Fat Tire instead of vodka. It was so bad, even the smell of Fat Tire disgusts me to this day, lol.

My local brewpub made a "Hot Beer" once. I think it had jalapeños and I also think the brewmaster did not understand powers of 10.

Supposed to be consumed with Mexican food I guess, but utterly vile.

This is pretty bad for a container. Taxidermied squirrel:

http://geekologie.com/2010/07/now-th...lds-most-e.php

Jeppson's Malört, a Chicago liqueur, is supposed to be awful, though I never tried it.

As for the Ardbeg, there may have been something wrong with it. I don't remember the taste exactly and I couldn't identify it at the time, but let's say it was like chlorine or some other chemical taste.

I like various types of Glenlivet, Glenmorangie, Lagavulin, Caol Ila and more, so it's not like I'm averse to peaty, or non-peaty...

I really thought it had been contaminated. I don't know it there's any record of such a thing happening. I tried to google it but didn't find anything.

They make some very nice wines here in Cyprus, but I just can't drink the zivania - it's about 45% alcohol by volume. I'm sure it will kill anything that ails you.