Sunday evening I felt pretty good after going through my bottle of 2010 Cuvee van de kaizer… That is, until 4am the next morning. I dunno whether it was due to a crappy fermentation (11% ABV) or something else, but I had the worst hangover I’ve ever had my entire life. Cold sweats, dry heaving, shakes, unable to lie down but feeling like I needed to pass out, and then of course the headache. Oy vey. I am never touching anything by Carolus ever again.
This also happened to me on a night when I had six bottles of Fischer. It was at an event my wife asked me to go to (“asked”) that ended up being crap (she apologized to me the next day) but while I was there I soothed the suffering with those six bottles… Except the next morning I thought I was going to die.
So those are my two “never again” beers. Anybody else?
Fischer has never made me feel that way, of course, I’ve never drank 6 bottles of it either (I only see it in ~600ml swing tops here).
Infinium is on my ‘Never Again’ list - not because it made me feel horrible, but because I plain didn’t enjoy it & certainly didn’t think it was worth the $$ I paid for it.
This thread is a bit funny in that the Cuvee beer you mention was something like number 6 on your “this has been a perfect day because…” thread! :D Still, as some (longish?) fellow said, “into each life a little rain must fall”.
I have a handful of beers that I just plain didn’t like at all that I would not resample. An oldish SA Triple Bock was like a maple-soy marinade, not enjoyable at all. The only beer I recall that I had to simply pour down the drain after one sip was Hanssens Oude Kriek, which is quite definitely a never again for me. Maybe a little too “authentic” for my tastes…I wouldn’t be surprised to find out I’m just not into funky, sour beers.
Wow. First Gouden Carolus, now Monk’s Flemish Sour… this thread has just gone completely sideways. Gonna have to cover my ears and pretend I’m not hearing this
I may get some flack for this, but Fat Tire is something I never need to have again. Too much biscuit to it. I like lots of other New Belgium beers, but I won’t buy another folly pack because of the Fat Tire.
I’ve only sent back one beer in my life; it was after just two sips. The funny thing is that, we were traveling and had stopped at a small cafe to eat. I asked the waitress what they had on tap and she listed a beer I’d never heard of before, so I asked who had brewed it. Rather than tell me the name of the brewery she just told me the brewers name; it was an old friend that I hadn’t seen in a long time. I think the beer was an american amber; it was completely, horribly, sour. Everyone else in the bar was drinking the amber ale and raving about how great the new brewery was (their first brewery). I cracked up and told her that just because the brewer was a friend I would not be finishing the beer and I didn’t care what everyone else in the bar thought. To be fair, I know that since then they’ve cleaned things up and I’m betting their american amber is good.
There was a Ft Collins brewery that has since gone out of business, I recall hating every single one of their brews.
