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Fuller's ESB or Waddies 6X.
It's not fashionable, it's not very hoppy, or strong. You can even buy it in cans.
Marston's pedigree.
(One of the few beers I can still drink without getting a crippling headache)
Carling - the best beer!
Carlsberg..... well, probably 
Budweiser
Banks's Mild.
Pedigree and 6X not rated? Not cool enough for the Fashion Tarts!
In the same vein, Hook Norton OLd Hooky and Everards Tiger.
Grandad Beers for all the family!
I for one welcome the fashion tarts! Even 5 years ago there wasn't nearly the selection of 'proper' beer in most (non-offie) shops. The tiny Co-op near me has Doombar, Whistable Bay, Bengal Lancer, Old Crafty Hen, Golden Hen, Hobgoblin, and 4 or 5 more that I've forgotten. Definitely not complaining!
I've always liked 6X, even before I had a brewery tour. London Pride is my fave tipple though, hoping there's a bottle in the cupboard for this evening. 🙂
Banks' Bitter at 89p at Aldi. If you like a traditional English bitter, it takes some beating at that price!
Marstons IPA ('selected for Morrisons') 5.8%, quite nice.
captainsasquatch - Member
Banks's Mild.
Yer....ryght.... 😆
I think it depends on how thirsty you are. I'm not a fan of Old Speckled Hen but if I walk to the Rising Sun near me that's what they sell... Tastes like shite but with the view and sunset it's quite sublime. 😐
Greene King IPA Gold. Straight from the fridge, decanted into a glass tankard, natch! Sorry CAMRA 😀
The dark Leffe in Paris this weekend is delicious
American Budweiser, but only of you are in the US. Here it can be a bit week and tasteless but if you are somewhere hot and you are just back from a ride it is perfect
Yer....ryght....I think it depends on how thirsty you are. I'm not a fan of Old Speckled Hen but if I walk to the Rising Sun near me that's what they sell... Tastes like shite but with the view and sunset it's quite sublime
As the thread is titled least rated, well done. 😆
Guinness.
Fosters
Budweiser Budvar
Shepherd Neame MasterBrew
Fosters
Fosters. It's actually made from the urine of dead weasels, (& sometimes live ones) It's so shit that 3 mates of mine took 18 cans to a bothy with the intention of drinking them all but actually left 12 for the next visitors. If I'd called & found Fosters & I'd have tipped it out, squashed the cans to take home & done without.
It's ok though Dave, I knew you were kidding!
Doom bar
By "least rated" do you mean "mainstream non-craft"?
I'll nominate Hobgoblin. It's a solid 7/10 on my scale.
Theakstons XB
ESB is too strong for a big session. Loads of people love London Pride, I can just about tolerate it.
Hobgoblin is horrible, but Hobgoblin Gold is lovely.
My vote goes to Brakspear Oxford Gold.
It's ok though Dave, I knew you were kidding!
Fosters; I grew (am still growing) up on the stuff. Tastes ok to me. It's got to be well chilled though. Budweiser OTOH; had a bottle of it the other week; hadn't drunk it for years; it doesn't taste of anything?!
McEwans Export!mmmm
Landlord is well nice though not sure if it's generally maligned or not
I've lately taken to bottles of Birra Morretti when life leads me to a wetherspoons. If I'm only having one drink then I sadly just don't trust them to have kept the ale properly and the brewery not to have been playing silly buggers with the artisanal flavours, and their lager on tap is shite. I'm not fussy, it just got to the stage where 1 in 3 ales I tried in any pub were [s]rank[/s] not to my taste. Dunno if Morretti's rated over here or not, but I can't recall ever seeing someone else drinking it. It's everywhere in Italy mind, but so is Tennent's Super so what do they know?
Boddies. Cream in a can. Can't beat a 4 pack with a curry. Our local doesn't have a license, so much better than the cobra/kingfisher crap that you have to pay through the nose for at most places.
Doombar for me too.
Hobgoblin gold +1
When I lived in Devizes, the favourite Wadworth tipple was IPA, 6x was for outsiders.
Lech - seen as a pissheads drink ireland and is dirt cheap.
It's a really nice smooth lager - preferable to the big brands (And doesn't give me a hangover).
Stones!
Tennents.
Harveys Best anywhere outside of Sussex (or weirdly Redhill).
Defiantly banks... Sold very cheaply for bottled ale but no worse than most at over twice its price. 3.8% is fine for weekday drinking these days
Tesco, even in Fife, were selling Badger's 'Tanglefoot' ale for several months and I got through rather lots of it this year, a pound a can too.
Heineken, only the Dutch brewed stuff mind, works for me for lager.
Hobgoblin here too, £1.29 in Lidl and sometimes Asda, cannae whack it.
+1 London Pride
Tis my favourite of the supermarket stocked ales.
Staropramen is hard to beat as a low cost option.
Saccades - Member
Lech - seen as a pissheads drink ireland and is dirt cheap.
It's a really nice smooth lager - preferable to the big brands (And doesn't give me a hangover).
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Just as an aside - Lech is a brand of SAB Miller (InBev global shite).
Coop Czech Lager is just rebadged Staropramen and very good if in a lager mood. 1l for 3 quid at the moment.
Coors Lite . . . and the labels double up as a temp gauge sticker 😛 #whenthemountainsturnblue
Just as an aside - Lech is a brand of SAB Miller (InBev global shite).
I couldnt care less who makes my beer, if it's good, then what's the difference?. It's about what you like the taste of.
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8 Ace.
Jennings Cumberland Ale
My vote goes to Brakspear Oxford Gold.
Not sure that classes as a 'least rated beer' does it? Pretty much everyone seems to like it.
I'll vote for the 4% becks, nice and cold it's a good early doors thirst quencher.
I'm going for Sheps IPA. Generous with both malt and hops, 6.1%, and £1.50 for 500ml in the supermarkets. Whats not to like?
I agree spud-face, if I really don't trust the beer to be looked after properly then I'll go for that first (btw they also do limited edition ones that is generally only available in italy with orange blossom http://www.birramoretti.it/le-birre-di-casa/birra-moretti-alla-siciliana/ )moretti
don't see it as much as you'd think but Thwaites Bomber is a solid choice, it's like a straightforward drinking beer
Agree with Everards Tiger always used to be the beer of choiceat the pub when I used to visit friends in Nuneaton.
I have to nominate Hobgoblin as it is my all time favourite beer, much nicer on draught but palatable in bottles.
Boddies. Cream in a can
Sorry but as anyone who was alive and drinking beer 30 years ago knows, "modern" Boddies is rubbish.
Around my neck of the woods Banks, Lees, Holts and Hydes are still around and can be quite decent.
Sorry but as anyone who was alive and drinking beer 30 years ago knows, "modern" Boddies is rubbish.
Around my neck of the woods Banks, Lees, Holts and Hydes are still around and can be quite decent.
😆
[quote=irelanst ]Not sure that classes as a 'least rated beer' does it?
To be fair that also applies to the majority of suggestions on this thread - I'm not sure some people have understood the point.
Yep, TT Landlord and Doombar have won just a few awards too.
Coop Czech Lager is just rebadged Staropramen...
Its rebadged "Vratislav Premium" not rebadged Staropramen.
It's made in the same factory as Staropramen, and owned by the same company, but it's not the same beer.
Also available in "own brand" forms at Waitrose, Tesco, Somerfield, Gateway and Thresher
Hydes is my pick of that list, the holts brewery is at the bottom of cheetham hill rd and uses the same spring water as boddies so probably the closest recreation to 'old' boddies
Badgers Fursty Ferret was my ale of choice for a good long while, also Wainwrights, that stuff is lovely
Generally I'm an average middle aged beer snob, but I love an ice cold Peroni
When I am purely looking for strength to cost vs flavour, I go for a nice chilled Special Brew
With a more limited selection just now available here, if it is on tap, I'll take a Trappis - 10% 6quid a pint.
Or if it is from the shops - ESB/London Pride/London Porter are all around 2.80 a bottle so good value.
I've recently been chugging down some giant cans of russian beer - 1l badboys, they are quite nice and old school
However - with the more flavoursom beers being a bit spendy here, although the local brands get you through an evening good enough - I would rather buy a bottle of JW Red, for the same as it costs me for 4 bottles of beer and drink that instead.
Outcome does tend to be somewhat different to having drank four beers though.
Coopers Sparkling in summer, Coopers Dark in winter
Well it's not a beer but fits the OP's 'Least rated' part of the question. Earlier this year on a warm saturday afternoon meeting up with some friends in a local chain pub I just couldn't bring myself to drink any of the usual crappy fizzy, tasteless beers on offer. The heavier, slightly more palatable ales they had on wouldn't have worked on a really hot day, so I plumped for something I hadn't had for 20 years - a pint of Strongbow. I thoroughly enjoyed the few-ish pints I had of it. Granted it was a really hot day drinking out in the beer garden, so not something i've repeated since - the right drink for the moment scenario, but enjoyable all the same. Roll on next summer!
Deuchars IPA is good for a mass-produced ale - found everywhere in Scotland.
Lancaster bomber is decent in bottles from the co-op - don't know if that's a rated beer or not, though.
Deuchars is pretty highly rated, won a few CAMRA awards for example.
My old man buys in a few tins of McEwans (export? The red one) when I visit, I'm a beer snob but it always hits the spot.
Brains
Lager sold in pubs here is tasteless fizz Fosters ,Carling ,Peroni is all bloody horrible .I have had some nice bottled stuff a German mate brought over though
Banks's, but then I did almost grow up on the stuff. The bitter is perfectly OK and normally dirt cheap, the mild reminds me of drinking in the snooker hall when I was 16 and so also tastes fine in my eyes.
Tetley from a cask not a nitro keg.
Bloody lovely and rare to find (round here).
I'm consistently disappointedby "craft" beer. Some if it seems to survive just by not being mass produced even if it is tasteless pish. Brakspere ox gold, bath gem, lovely stuff.
Tetley from a cask not a nitro keg.
This. Had some at our local rugby club a few months ago and I was genuinely surprised by how nice it was. Not been seen since sadly.
Had some Carlsberg Citrus last night, I suspect anyone who is into beer or knows what a craft beer is would shudder at the thought - but I liked it.
Cheap too, £2 for 4 small bottles.