I’m generally a fan of pretty shit beer (XXXX is my day-to-day). But even I have my limits.

Back in the day, it was clearly Tooheys Red Bitter, but I think these even Red is getting a run for it’s money, e.g. from Byron Bay Premium Lager, which is something like James Boags but with all the soul sucked out through the nostrils. Obviously Foster’s fucking sucks too, but I don’t think you can even buy their lager in Australia, the only place I ever drank it was on a Singapore airlines flight out of the country, and once in Paris. Though I just realised that “light ice” was theirs too, and my Grandparents somehow always had one bottle of that in their fridge in the 90s, and it was shit too.

Anyway, there’s about a million types of beer produced in australia these days, and heaps of them suck, but I want to know if Red has been knocked off it’s podium for the worst beer ever.

Red drinkers: fite me.

    • naught101@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      13 days ago

      Absolutely agree that that’s high on the list. I don’t really understand how it’s so popular.

  • Thecornershop@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    20 days ago

    I had a huge house party back in the late 90s when at uni. Filled the bathtub with ice, bought 4 cases of the cheapest beer I could get to make sure people didn’t go without even though it was byo. Party was huge. Band in backyard, cops coming, fence pailing going in the fire huge. About 3am we ran out of beer and so it wound down and everyone crashed out or went home.

    Got up in the morning and there was at least two cases worth of this beer still in the tub. Went out back to pick up all the empties and almost every opened can of this beer was still almost full but had been abandoned.

    This beer was so utterly bad that a bunch of rowdy drunk brike uni students wouldn’t even drink it!

    That beer was Tasman Bitter.

  • ForgottenUsername@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    20 days ago

    I also drink XXXX as my daily, and love a XXXX bitter if I can get it. I really consider myself very flexible and will drink pretty much anything, from lagers, to black beer, to wheat beer.

    I however cannot do Carlton, that shit literally makes me wanna puke. No idea why as I’ll drink pretty much everything. It’s actually really frustrating cos Carlton is buying every bar up near where I am and often it’s hard to find any alternative.