motleybrew
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Stella. Smells like bottled skunk piss
There are few of Magic Hat's beers that I can tolerate. There aren't any that I enjoy and I don't know any of my friends who like Magic Hat, either. I'm wondering if the brewer has a rich uncle or something.
It is a pretty good beer. Not sure how it could have possibly made this thread when there are literally hundreds if not thousands of worse beers out there.
I take my icehouse vote back. There was some brew Brooklyn brew that my bro-in-law and I had a couple years ago. Worst beer I've ever had hands down. Down the drain for most of the 6-pack, and that never happens. If I can remember the exact one I'll post it. Tasted like way under-fermented vomit beer.
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Tiger beer in Malaysia or Singapore. Awful stuff
This. Hands down. Almost drank half of one before i actually threw up. It was un-godly bad. View attachment 272202
Stella. Smells like bottled skunk piss
Stella smells like skunk piss when you get it in 6 packs because it's bottled in green bottles. Hop alpha acids are broken down by blue-green light (whether it's artificial or natural light doesn't matter) and when in the presence of hydrogen sulfide (A think all beer has at some level) forms mercaptan, which is the same aromatic compound skunks release.
However, there are ways around this. Stella ships its 12 racks in fully enclosed cardboard boxes. If you insist on having stella in a bottle, drink it from a 12 rack. However, the best way to have stella is on draught, due to the fact that distributors are usually required to keep the kegs at cold/consistent temperatures and the fact that, rather than brown bottles that block 98% of blue-green light, kegs block 100% of the wavelengths of light which denature alpha acids.
Honestly, drinking a green bottle that has been exposed to light will ALWAYS smell like a skunk. That's like... beer storage lesson #1. When you have green bottles, mitigate light. When you're buying green bottles, don't buy ones which have been exposed to light.
I do a tasting every week or so with my coworkers. Last week we actually did a side-by-side lineup of stella draught, stella from a 6 pack, stella from a 12 rack, and a stella which was left purposefully outside in the sun for 5 days. Stella from a 6 pack is very similar to stella left in the sun. Stella from a 12 rack is much closer to stella on draught.
Everybody is entitled to their opinion on beer, but please, if you're drinking skunky beer, it's usually a storage problem (On your part, or on the part of the distributors/shop-workers who either have no idea that green bottles skunk beer, or who think it's an overblown urban legend).
I've never had Tequiza, but that would be my guess. And for the record, I did not, nor would I ever, buy this. A freind brought it over for me to try. Or should I say, ex-friend.I've seen that around stores lately. I'm assuming it's the new Tequiza?
Old Speckled Hen - I'm still tasting the funk bomb that comes from bad beer in a clear bottle! How it gets anything other than an 'F' on beer advocate is beyond me. I've had two separate examples as I thought the first was an anomaly - no third time for me thanks...
I think Dark Horse's Raspberry Ale is absolutely foul. It is not only one of the worst commercial beers I've ever had, but one of the worst beers period. I am amazed that that's the best they can do with it.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Stella is a really solid beer (its basically Belgian Budweiser, but better) but green bottles are garbage. I've found it to even be skunky in the cardboard wrapped 12 packs, so I only buy it in cans now when i buy it.
Two words. Big flats. Couple bucks for a sixer at Walgreen's. It's their house brand!
Can't beat Big Flats at the pool on a scorching hot day in Texas [emoji123]
This is my favorite example because it generates such a response... But I had the red-wax Dark Lord (I think it was 2012) with 3 of my friends. We traded a bottle of Juicy for it. It was awful. I love big-ass alcoholic stouts. One of my all time favorite beers is BCBCS. This was pure syrup. All of us hated it. We poured it out and lamented the loss of a bottle of Juicy.
I think Dark Lord is EXTREMELY overrated, personally.
Agreed. It's nowhere near "bad", but it's mostly fueled by the scarcity and hype.
I hate to disagree, but it was bad. Nothing redeeming about it besides the alcohol. I've read many reviews of this particular vintage, and it's definitely considered the worst of the bunch, but nothing as bad as I describe.
I can only assume it was a bad bottle or someone hoodwinked me, because it was undrinkable.
A friend of mine has I think 3 different years stored up, I think. Might do a vertical. Maybe it'll redeem it in my eyes; we'll see.
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