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Which is the Worst Tasting Beer in America?

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The majority of the beer brands on this list are classified as light lagers. Such light beers are characterized by fewer calories, and often lower alcohol content. While these beers may appeal to many fitness conscious drinkers, it appears that cutting calories often means sacrificing taste. Other beers on this list include those flavored with fruits or vegetables, like the Bud Light & Clamato Chelada, or are some variety of malt liquor, like Olde English 800.

Despite low public opinion, many beers on this list are also some of the biggest sellers. Bud Light, the sixth worst tasting beer with a score of only 1.94 out of 5, has also been the best selling beer in America since it overtook Budweiser 2004. Anheuser-Busch InBev shipped 36.7 million barrels of Bud Light in 2015. Coors Light, the second most popular beer in America, shipped 17.1 million barrels in 2015. Coors Light is tied with Natural Ice as the 10th worst tasting beer by popular opinion, with a score of 2.06 out of 5.

Every beer on this list falls under the umbrella of one of two parent companies: Anheuser-Busch InBev SA and Molson Coors Brewing Company. The two companies have a combined 69% share of the U.S. beer market.

Here is the top ten

  1. Natural Light: 1.86
  2. Budweiser Select 55: 1.87
  3. Michelob Ultra: 1.88
  4. Bud Light & Clamato Chelada: 1.89
  5. Corona Light: 1.90
  6. Bud Light: 1.94
  7. Busch Light: 1.99
  8. Keystone Light: 2.02
  9. Natural Ice: 2.06
  10. Coors Light: 2.06

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74 Comments on Which is the Worst Tasting Beer in America?

  5. I used to get 30 packs of Milwaukee’s Best Light because the 24 packs of Miller Lite were more expensive and didn’t quite make it for two nights of drinking. Now I’m limited to 150ml of vodka per night and once a month or so a 6-pack of Two Brother’s gluten free beer (that’s actually pretty good). Every now and then I’ll grab a full bodied craft beer for lunch as a meal replacement. The abundance of gluten in beer, while I enjoy it, my body says no more, especially the cheep beers like every single beer on this top 10 list. Because honestly no one can drink just one cheep beer, they flow like water, that’s the only reason why they are the top.

  7. I don’t always drink beer. . .but when I do. . . nevermind, I really don’t drink beer often, more of a spirits guy myself. But it’s tough doing the whole male bonding thing with the son in law who thinks Bud light actually is a beer. I usually grab a six pack of Guinness Draft and make it last a week or so. it’s also GREAT for brushing onto slowly roasting Brauts.

  8. Most of the beer I drank as a young man, are either gone, or not sold around here. Schmidts (Philly version) Carling Black Label, Ballentine Beer, (not ale) Schaefer. The rest of the mass produced junk is what I consider a beer like substance.

  9. Life is too short to drink light beer.

    Bring to mind a passage in a book I like a lot by John Steakly.

    “Are we dancing or fucking, or dancing now and fucking later? Nothing else will do, I’m a busy man.”

  17. I like miller light on draft it’s just fine. Corona with a lime is good, and fat tire is excellent. Ive had little kings too back in high school. Not bad from what I remember. Worst beer? Probably beast light. But based on my college days any beer tastes fine after 5 or 6 of them. Now I only have beer on business trips because someone else is paying.

  20. the worst tasting beer I ever had was something called ‘Tasmanian’ Beer, back in the mid ’70’s. it came in a 6-pack … white background w/ blue & black lettering … if I remember correctly
    man, that stuff smelled bad from the moment I opened the very first can. I drank about half a can, poured it out, opened another one … smelled just as bad. took one sip … poured it out … tossed the rest in the trash

    @TonyR ~ PBR … redneck rot-gut nostalgia .. same w/ Natty Bo … nostalgia … we had a fit when the Baltimore Orioles stopped selling that swill last year at the Camden Yards stadium … every time I went to a ball game, we just had to have a Natty Bo …. even if I hate the stuff

  21. oh … & can someone tell me the purpose of Corona Light? is that stuff just vapor? I mean, you have to throw fruit in Corona regular just to give it taste!

    & Select 55 & MD 64 are near-beers … only 2.3% & 2.8% alcohol

  23. I’ve got to go into the Wayback Machine for my 2 nominees. #1 is Garden State Beer. This swill came in a case of 7 oz bottles which could have been perfect for a hot, humid summer day on the Jersey shore. The only problem was that the beer tasted like it was brewed with unfiltered water from the Raritan River. Disgusting is too high a compliment.

    My #2 nominee comes from my college days in the ’70’s at the U of Delaware. Somebody brought some local Philly pisswater called Ortlieb’s to a party one night. It’s easy to tell what the worst beer at a party is because it’s the last one left. Well, there were still a few Ortlieb’s left in the fridge the next morning. Like an idiot I had one with my breakfast pizza. Bad idea. Really bad beer.

    Dishonorable mention goes to Olympia and Stroh’s.

  25. The worst beer is any beer presented in a green bottle.

    The other day I stopped at the experimental brewery and ordered a 10 ounce Serum of Truth. At 16.5ABV the man behind the tasting counter said; That’s the only beer I can serve you today.

  27. In the 70s I ran across the most disgusting gag-inducing beer while living in Washington DC: Embassy Club. My local liquor and beer store had such a hard time selling it that they eventually lowered the price to $1.20 a case. At a nickel a can they finally got rid of the last of it but it took a while.

    A close second in ability to nauseate was Queens Braü. Yes, that’s not a typo: the umlaut was over the u.

  33. I’m not sure what brand it was but someone gave a chocolate beer last week.
    1. It didn’t taste like chocolate.
    2. It was bitter and skunky.
    3.It tasted like used power steering fluid.

  36. LOL. Carling Black Label. I think that was a Baltimore beer. Drank a few at U of Del. Not that bad. I remember their jingle: ‘Mabel, Black Label’ (back when women weren’t denigrated for popping a brew for their man).

  37. This is exactly what Commonsewers already knew, Coors Light is 10 times better, is statistically above the mean average, and is “most popular” despite falling shipments. The air is better here, the water clearer, in the top 10%.

  38. If you prefer light beer then you don’t really like beer…

    Light beer is like having sex in a canoe….it’s fuckin’ near water…

    There was a liquor store near me in college that had a $3.99 per case bar bottle deal….you could have Carlings black label, Falstaff, or Hamms….I didn’t have a solid movement for 2 years…

    As an adult a friends neighbor swore by a brew from Minnesota or Michigan…..”Pig’s eye”….we made the eye fly on many weekends…

  39. Finally — a topic on which I really can speak with authority. Some good candidates here already — Black Label was pretty deadly. Milwaukees Best light was nasty. Busch light is horrible. Blatz was not the best beer I ever had, nor was Falstaff. The bud lite/busch lite genre I see at the tailgaters tastes like alka seltzer. Some beers like Olympia were more watery and tasteless than nasty. I grew up near WI so got a good breadth and a legitimate sample size back in the day.

  43. I had to quit drinking beer about 5 years ago and Anheuser Busch called me up to tell me that if I didn’t start drinking’ again then they were gonna have to put 10 Clydsdales down…..I told them to start hauling vodka and tequila….

  46. Vietvet, Schlitz was really bad news. Stevo reminded me of Carling Black Label. I can’t imagine developing a taste for either one of those. I used to like Budweiser but now that they have come out with that stupid commercial about immigration I don’t even look at it anymore.

  47. Just before I turned 18, NJ raised the drinking age to 21. Dad sympathized, and put a case of Blatz in the fridge in the garage. He told me he’d replenish it, as long as I didn’t go through it too fast. Thanks, Dad.

    Blatz wasn’t good beer, but I’d gladly have one any time.

    Anybody remember:

    Gibbons
    Weidemann’s
    Munich
    Red, White & Blue
    Old Bohemian
    Tuborg Gold
    Schlitz
    Michelob Dark

    Happily enjoying Späten Oktoberfest, HofBrau, Czekvar, and other good beers nowadays.

  49. Huh. I got a small fridge full of several names on that list but, oddly, I don’t feel deprived. Then again, I also have several local brown ales and some oatmeal stouts.

  51. Do they still make Hams beer? I remember as a kid we’d fight with each other to grab a beer for my dad. That’s because we got to open it and take a sip (when he wasn’t looking). Never been much of a beer drinker, a couple of swigs is about it. Now, ask me about wine!

  52. “One of the fully grown sons of my old boss drank Keystone light on purpose…..I knew he was stupid before that…” – willygoatsgruff

    He may have been stupid, or he may have been like a guy I knew who smoked Chesterfields; he knew nobody would try bumming a cigarette off him…

  54. Olympia beer was Clint Eastwood’s favorite beer. The 2 worst beers I ever drank were San Miguel (we called it San Magoo) in the Philippines and Mickey’s wide mouth beer in green bottles with a wide mouthed lid. It was cheap when I was in HS, yeah I know we weren’t supposed to drink beer but we did anyway. The legal drinking age in Idaho was 19 and when I was 19 a friend and I got roaringly drunk just over the state line. God protects fools and idiots when they’re young and stupid like we were.

  55. There is still an old Hamm’s beer tin sign with the Hamm’s beer bear on it on the Hwy. just outside St. Maries, Id. It’s old and worn out and has a few bullet holes in it but you can still make out the Hamm’s beer bear on the sign. And Oly’s ads back in the 70’s said I’ve seen the Artesians since they made their beer supposedly from artesian water.

  56. The old joke back in flyover country was that someone sent a sample of ______ beer into the veterinarian for analysis, and the recommendation was “Don’t work your horse for 10 days.”

  58. Schaefer light cans.
    Pabst light cans.
    I have drank more than a few of the above. You know how it goes

    Second the motion on Keystone
    I believe I had one and that was enough

  61. I’m happy with St. Pauli Girl these days, but seeing the comments above on Hamm’s reminded me of their great TV commercials back in the black and white days, like this one.

    One of the comments on youtube was apt:

    I come from the “land of sky blue waters” the home of Hamms Beer all I can say is why would anyone ever purchase laxatives when a 6 pack of Hamms works far better than a whole box of exlax ever could

  64. The folks kept a cooler stocked with Miller Lite on the porch, so I acquired a taste for it. They later switched to a generic beer – I think it was Edelweiss – which some friends would never touch. However, the generic beer was Miller Lite under another name and with no advertising. The same thing is true with Red, White and Blue, which I think was PBR under a generic label. Back then, the big brewers would put out the same beer under generic labels but without the advertising, so if that was your thing, it was less expensive.

    I think Corona is o.k., although to be honest we used Corona as a chaser for tequila shots so I really don’t know. Lucky Lager was also another cheap beer in the rotation – when you couldn’t solve the puzzle under the cap, it was time to slow down.

  65. Schlitz, Red, White & Blue, Schaefer’s, Billy beer…dang, you people are old! Sure am glad I don’t have a clue what any of those are!

    Ok. That’s my fake young person comment of the day. If it was sold in the last 5 decades, I’ve probably drank a little of it, and I don’t even like beer.
    My son drinks those expensive foreign brands & some of those fruity things, too, with his GF. I don’t know what the heck they are.
    Sure

  66. I guess since I’m an upstate NY’er, my tastes ran to Genesee & Utica Club. Just don’t have a taste for beer anymore, though I will quaff a Corona if I’m feeling frisky. More of a wine gal now.

  69. we had reingold and narragansett. there was the reingold “girls” calanders and the narragansett “GIQ” giant imperial quart which we bought in college. in new bedford mass we had dawson, we know old joe dawson, he always had a couple cases in the back of his car for us. he also had a beer faucet in the men’s room of the brewery so it is rumored

  72. Rolling Rock, why do you suppose they had a horse’s head on the bottle?

    Mickey’s Malt Liquor, Genny Cream Ale, Iron City, Stroh’s, Blatz, Heileman’s, Natty Bo… anything free your cheap friends were handing you

  73. Grain Belt should not be left off this list. A few bottles sat in my parents’ basement fridge untouched for decades. I would drink the Schmidt b4 the G.B. You might be able to still get Schmidt on tap back in my no-stop light hometown in flyover country.

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