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after all its a matter of taste...

but here goes

the best 3
'quack' served in 20 euro deposit wooden handled glasses in brussels, james boag tasmania's finest, a pot of pragues finest


the worst 3
VB Victoria bitter (or 'piss'), jungle juice ( s.i. nz), quilmes pronunced kill-mes or kill me in buenos aires


i'd also like to say murphy's, guiness, becks, castle black, andes, inca gold, german, hoegarten, peroni moretti, toohey's old, black sheep, landlord, corona are all good too

ps. no arguments on whats beer and whats lager please

whatyadoin...you may want to check out the best and worst threads in chit-chat, as well.

I don't know if I qualify these as best and worst, but here are a few of my thoughts.

Good
Safari Lager (Tanzana)

Worst
BinTang (Indonesia, especially after your sixth one)
Castle (Kenya)

My admittedly less than expert opinion:

Worst: Gallo beer, Guatemala.
Super cheap Mexican beer( gives you headaches and nasty hangovers)


Best: lots of belgian beers, Negro Modelo, Mexico. IN christmas, Buenos Suenos(Good dreams) By the same maker as Negro Modelo. Only made once a year for the christmas season, probably only distributed in Mexico due to limited production.

Used to like Kriegs, till I got tired of them. Then I developed a taste for Weiss Beer in Germany. I suppose I'd grow tired of that as well, leaving Negro Modelo, a dark sweetish light ale type beer.

Belgian trappist beers: powerful stuff, made me spin after one bottle. Good taste, overpowering alcohol content.

Best- Belgian Trappistes (chimay....)
Worst- natural light

Framboise Lambic
Duvel
Hoegarden
Maximator(or any other dark German beer)
Europeon Heineken(the 9.9%)
Chimay


Those are the best that I have had off the top of my head. Belgium makes fantastic beer(not to mention chocolate)!

As for bad beer- I try and avoid those. If I have to pick one I would say Tennents in Scotland. They make great whiskey but their beer needs improvement!

Donovan, maybe I've spent too long in Morocco (Flag and Stork land, NOT anyone's favorite) but I loved Bintang on my last trip to Bali. Never made it past the fourth bottle though.

Too many good ones to name here, but the all time WORST beer, EVER...

Stella in Egypt. Gave you the hangover before you got drunk.

One of the best: Dogfish Head 90 minute IPA, out of Delaware.

Worst: Anything sold in the USA with "light" in the title. (You have to drink it ice cold for a reason.)

Oh at last a subject I can do my masters on>

So far in the best,
Budvar dark (draft)
Erdinger Weiss Dunkel
Becks Kriesen (cant spell it and Ive only seen it in breman)
Anything brewed by Archers or Storm in the UK

Bad.
Most US larger (although some of the micro brewrey stuff has gone down well)
Becks normal
Carling - in fact any larger brewed on-mass in the UK.
Cheap french stubbies

Bud light is worst hands down. There are some that taste worse, sure, but that they promote that brand to be full of taste, "the best", etc is just criminal.

from se asia

best - beer lao
worst - chang

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Bud light is worst hands down. There are some that taste worse, sure, but that they promote that brand to be full of taste, "the best", etc is just criminal.

Really? Worse than San Miguel in the Philippines or Sol, Tecate, or XX in Mexico? Worse than Coors Light, or Natural Light or Keystone or Old Milwaukee? How about Hamms Light?

There's plenty of bad beers out there, but to say that Bud or Bud Light is the worst, well I don't know.

I think they do a pretty good job of mass producing a consistantly drinkable beer. Then again, I don't drink beer as a fine wine. I drink 6+ every day. Once in awhile I enjoy a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale or other IPA, but I can't drink them at 6+ per day.

Best- Banana Nut Bread beer in Budapest. I'm also a fan of Guiness, and the blue Chimay, and chocolaty stout beers.
Worst- Sierra Nevada Pale Ale (Ick), Budwieser, Mickys.

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Originally posted by braslvr:

I think they do a pretty good job of mass producing a consistantly drinkable beer. Then again, I don't drink beer as a fine wine. I drink 6+ every day. Once in awhile I enjoy a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale or other IPA, but I can't drink them at 6+ per day.

Sorry braslvr I just read your post after I poseted mine. I don't mean to knock on your Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, it's really not the worst I just really don't like it.

Pilsner Urquell in Prague is FANTASTIC and so unbelievably cheap.

Well, at least my country still has something it is famous for .

I totally agree that Dogfish Head IPA is wonderful! You might also want to try Titan IPA from Great Divide Brewery in Colorado if you can find it, it's similar in taste I think.

Has anyone ever heard of a beer called Moussy? I'm not sure on the spelling. In Egypt we were given something called 'beer' in a bottle with a label that said Moussy. It may have been non-alchoholic, I'm not sure. It was definitely disgusting. I have always wondered if anyone else has heard of this, or what it was we actually drank.

Not really a beer drinker, but do like to have a glass when in good company.
Somehow my first beer is the best beer, Australian Foster's Lager. Tiger Beer, a product of my country, is another good one.
Most American beers are quite watery except for the Vermont's Long Trail, which is one of my favorite.

Best Beer:
American: Samuel Adams (how is it that no one mentioned this beer before my post?), Saranac, Blue Point (a Long Island brew that you can also find dotted around Manhattan).

World: Guinness, Stigel (had that in Austria), Stella, Boddington's

Worst Beer:
American: Gennisee Lite (ugh!)

World: I've never been a fan of Peroni.

Mmmmm.... Beer.

The best beer I've ever had was probably a one-off vanilla bean porter that Scotch-Irish breweries (Ottawa) made for the Toronto beerfest.

The best production beer is a tougher one, but I'd go with Mill Street Brewery (Toronto) cask IPA for an ale and Emerson's (New Zealand) Pilsner for a lager.

Worst is tougher still...
Molson made something called Ultra back in the mid 90's (they sell an entirely different beer under the same name now.) Unlike a lot of the American beers that are being derided here it was not just bland, but genuinely foul tasting.