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I’m not a great fan of Budwieser, but I was talking to a brewer at a local microbrew and he was saying how even if you don’t like Bud its really impressive that they can make as much beer as they do and it always tastes the same.
Also I think this poll is just bashing the US. Seriously France and Italy are better beer making countries then the US, UK and Australia, I don’t think so.
If your in the states try a microbrew, every area of the US has many different local beers that are way better then the mass produced bud or coors.

@Alan

Bud is the worst beer in the world no question except for possibly Castle in ZA

Most every country has their piss water big breweries that are only interested in making as much money as they can, use cheap ingredients, lots of chemicals to speed up the process, screw the taste. They spend their money on marketing and advertising.

US: Bud, Coors,..
Canada: Molson Canadian
Australia: Fosters

Most all of countries also have local smaller microbreweries that produce quality beer.
Any REAL beer aficionado drinks those and stays clear of the big corp beer.

Since the first ingredient in Bud is RICE, not barley, this is no surprise.

And, yes, France has a quite serious beer culture in the north along the Belgian Border. Try some Trois Monts Reserve, Jeanlain, Schlafly or La Choulette.

Italy is just now enjoying a craft beer bloom, lots of good stuff happening but not much imported here…

Budweiser and the other big breweries shouldn’t bring the U.S. down in terms of quality beer. They should try polling people that drink micro brews. Samuel Adams, Boulevard, Leinenkugel’s

This is absolutely the most ignorant list in the world.
Anyone with half a brain knows the American craft brewing industry
is on the forefront of the beer world. If you go to ratebeer.com
or beeradvocate.com you will quickly learn that the vast majority of
the worlds best beers are brewed in the USA. Just because America brews
B,M,C doesn’t mean that America isn’t also brewing the best beers in the world.
This list is just anther example of how non-Americans jump to incorrect assumptions about America. If you don’t know anything about the beer industry and you think America only brews BMC maybe you shouldn’t have a vote.

Bull,Caffery’s ail in england is the best.

France..WTF THEY DRINK TOUBUAUGS DANISH BEER.

Italy top5… BWHAHAHAHHA

American beer suffers from rules. Imported beer in the USA is far inferior to the same brands in their home countries.

I have resided twice in Europe, three times in Japan, once in Korea, and travelled extensively in Europe and Asia. I was extremely surprised at the excellent French beer served in the bar of the hotel where I regularly stayed near the Madelaine! I have not drunk beer all over France or sampled many brands, but I did have some excellent beer in Paris. The big American beer brands are crap, I agree. But there are many excellent micro and middle-sized breweries in the US making beers competitive anywhere.

Clearly none of those people have actually had crap beer. If you have actually tried really crap beer, you would think that Budweiser is a gift from the gods.

My favorite crap beer was Bubbs (motto: “Makes it fun to be thirsty!”)

Available in Chicago. My friends and I bought a case, opened a can, drank a small amount, could not believe how bad it was, got thirsty, thought “It couldn’t have been that bad. I’ll get a cold one from the fridge” and the cycle repeated itself. We ended up with nearly full cans all over the apartment.

like many polls on “the most.. whatever thing” this was intended to be a joke, a funny fact. you united states people (youre americans as all the americans in the continent)just cannot bear to see some funny facts about something you feel like yours. yes, accept it, Bud miller and those are bad creations, bud this products are NOT your creations as citizens of united states… just products of transnational companies. what do you care if the people of the world say bud is crap? why do u have to take it always as an attack on your “american pride”. do you have to be always the “best biggest faster on everything? you really sound as the cartoon of yourselves shown on the media around the world.

Just because we have the best beer doesn’t mean we don’t also have the worst. Though it’s usually difficult to declare a worst contender in a field of rotten candidates, I think we win because crap beer is by far the most heavily consumed. This isn’t just because it’s cheap, but because watery lager appeals to the sweet-loving American palate. Even the craft beers we drink most are fruity wheat beers. I do take flak for liking hops, but at least I’m not drinking something that tastes like pancakes with syrup. As I would tell folks who prefer strawberry swirl vodka and triple white chocolate raspberry mochas, if you don’t like coffee, vodka, or beer, don’t drink it!

@Anonymous
No doubt about the claim that Bud is always produced with the same taste as it simply lacks any. This is the closest than any other drink (I can not call it beer) could ever get to water.

In the US microbrews are somewhere around 12% of the market place so yes we do consume crap beer.
I always serve good microbrew beer but when I go to someone elses place they bust out the Bud, Coors and Miller. God I need new friends!

A-B, Miller, and Coor’s make their sales by way of advertising. Coor’s Light, Milwaukee’s Best Light, Natural Light, Keystone Light, Miller Lite, Bud Light, etc are beers for people who don’t like beer. No wonder the Europeans laugh at our beers. If you think those are bad, how about Bud Select “55″, or MGD 64?

If you try micros from most of the craft and micro breweries, you’ll find
Tasty varieties, not all of which you like, but adventuous.
Breweries taking chances, and marketing beers that are “out there”. Magic Hat, Breckenridge, Lagunitas, Stone’s, Bell’s, Founder’s, Harpoon, New Holland, New Glarus,Troeg’s, Wachusetts, Clipper City, Schafly, and even larger craft brewers such as Schells and Sam Adams have soething to please nearly every one. These are just a few of the really good ones. Live at little, enjoy a good beer, not cloned crud.

A laugh at A-B’s efforts to clone Oberon, Wheat Beers, “specialty beers and ales”. All of poor imitations of the brands they steal shelf space from.

Erik and Suds,

I hope you don´t mind me digressing here but could I try to tweak up your english a little? You don´t say Most all of but Almost all, I realise its one of those language divergences that occur when the speakers are too many years away from their original language country and it also happens with south americans and their weird spanish. As a Brit living in Spain I wince and North Americanisms and Latin Americanisms.

Queens english if you please. Otherwise stick to your own way if you must but remember, with each passing year we understand you less and less.

Ok,I´m only joking, don´t take me seriously, ha,ha. THE BEST BEER IS DEF BELGIAN. AWESOME STUFF.

Steer clear of the industrial malt product manufacturers and you hit the best beer in the world – American craft brewed beer. Belgium is running a pretty close second with its range of small brewery beers. Just stay away from the mega brewers!!

Yes, there is some awfully bad beer in this country, but there is some really good brews too! Almost anything that Sierra Nevada brews is high quality and would compete anywhere in the world!

US micros make the best beer in the world if you are a hop head, end of story

@Clint
Leinenkugels is TERRIBLE beer! I’d hide that away if you want to bring up the average…

If you let Bud warm up and then smell it, tell me it doesn’t smell like piss.

@Heather: hear, hear! Bring on the hops! Harpoon or Dogfish head IPA! THere’s a great microbrewery in Richmond VA called Legend. They make a kick-ass IPA and a delicious Brown Ale that is sold on tap in restaurants all over town.

American micros make some wonderful stuff, but US mass-marketed beer is on a level with bong water. Unfortunately the latter is what most people, including Americans, think of as American beer.

Who makes the world’s worst beer? United States
Who makes the world’s best beer? United States
Guilty on both counts.

This has probably been said, but for good measure…

this poll does not take into account the tremendous micro brew culture that is probably the strongest in America than anywhere else…

Also called a loaded question.. at least of sorts… at the least mis-leading… poor poll-taking…. would have got a C+ in a high school statistics class.

Ok. A Frenchmans cat could piss more quality into a glass than anything found in the US.
As usual the corporate pigs attempt to make our lives a misery with frankly evil overfunded ‘products’ so you will never have heard of these european nectars of the gods. its called market boundaries.
It would be nice to invite you guys over here to taste a few european masterpeice brews but you dont have passports over there do you.

@Jim
Jim, Jim,Jim…
I’m sad that you have to resort to such taunting. As it has been said many times, here in the US, you have to do the micro brew and the beer is delicious. I have spent considerable time in Europe and the Middle East and the last time I was in England, everyone there was drinking Budweiser! I was the weird one for ordering good beer.
By the way, and this is to all the haters writing here, its much easier to rip on something than it is to really access and describe the good qualities of something. Micro brews are fantastic!

I agree with Doug. The United States makes both the worst beer and the best beer in the world. So the survey is technically correct, but doesn’t reveal the whole picture.

if bud is the worst beer ever blame the belguians…BUD is ownwd by them now

Worst beer I ever had was in East Germany in the early ’80s.

the reason Bud can make so much beer that always tastes the same is because it is chemically controlled! It ain’t brewed naturally.

@suds
+1 my friend! America actually makes the best beer in the world. Right now, there is no other country making more varieties of beer than the U.S. People are uneducated about beer. This shows because craft beer is only like 5% of the market of beer in the U.S.

@jj
Huh? Chemically controlled? Really? Where’s your source of info there? I’m no Bud fan, but I’m pretty sure every brew made is “chemically controlled”. You can’t make beer without chemistry.

The sad thing is that Bud isn’t even the worst beer in the US. I went ahead an blind-tasted the big three side by side (full disclosure: I am a beer judge) and Bud came out on top ahead of Miller and Coors. A survey like this is so subjective it’s basically meaningless. It only shows that the largest number of people out there know Bud as bad. That only shows that they have pervasive marketing. The people that I know who are hard-core beer nuts all agree that the US, as the home of the micro movement is the best beer brewing country in the world as has been pointed out on this forum. Countries like Germany and England have awesome beer, but they are also somewhat straightjacketed by their established brewing traditions.

As a long time home-brewer, I prefer drinking my own self made beers to almost anything at the supermarket here in the United States. Seeing budwieser called the world’s worst beer is little surprise to me. It’s one of the beers which I absolutely refuse to drink in a bar. When Consumer Reports did a report on the best light beers, they listed bud light as one of them, which completely surprised me. More information on my conflicts with their report here: cyberwolfman.com/blog_2008.htm#best_light_beer on my personal Web site, with no ads, nothing for sale on it. Among all the American beers I’ve drank, which is an embarrassingly long list, it’s almost the very worst I’ve tasted. As for the whole ‘chemical’ or ‘chemically controlled’ question, some beers are not only chemically preserved, but, also, chemically aged. They use chemical accelerators to rapidly age the beers. In my humble opinion, this reflects upon the taste of the beer, and, I’d much rather wait for it to naturally age. And, of course, not put too much sugar in the bottles of my home brew because even the returnable bottles can break from the internal pressure . . . One of the BEST American beers I’ve tasted is Rhinelander, which I don’t believe is in business anymore.

I get a headache WHILE I am drinking Budweiser. Even worse I live in St Louis, and every once in a while I get to smell it being made. Keep Rice out of my beer!

And I thought I was the only person who cannot, will not, drink American beer. Actually, calling the stuff sold in the US as beer is a misnomer. I don’t know what to call it, but beer it is not.

@Roberto Rogness
You are wrong. Rice doesn’t have any diastatic power, and most barley doesn’t have enough diastatic power to convert a grist that comes anywhere close to being 51% rice.

I’m not trying to say Bud is good, but there’s no use spreading misinformation like that.

Have any of you tried Moritz beer from Spain? It lacks any and all malt or hops flavor; the only thing that jumps out is diacetyl from stressed yeast. That’s my vote for worst beer in the world. At least Bud is pretty good at tasting like nothing; it’s not nearly as offensive as most beers sold in the US in green bottles (which facilitate “skunking).

Firstly, Bud isn’t really even beer- it’s made with rice. What is Sake called? Rice wine(not “wine”). Likewise, Bud is “rice beer”, as distinguished from “beer”.
You’ve got to hand it to the arrogance of Americans- 15-20 years of making something and all of a sudden they’re “undistputedly” the masters…Nevermind the centuries of experience and knowledge that’s gone into European brewing, it’s nothing that can’t be surpassed in a few years by some American college dropouts/slackers…
Of course, if high alcohol content and ridiculous amounts of hops are what qualifies as “good”(as well as clever names), then maybe America does have the best beer.
Btw, with 88% of the market, rice beer IS American beer throughout the world.

every one knows the worst beer is the one your puking up, the best beer is the one in your hand drinking. HA you got on NPR so you got something out of this poll.

Practically all the beer brewed in the world is the lowest common denominator mass produced so-called “lager” or “pils” beer. It’s recognisable by its pale colour, lack of taste and character and the fact that it’s drunk cold (always a giveaway to poor beer)
The US also has a thriving craft brewing section which produces much better beers than this and a few of them are excellent.Some are even world class. Also countries like the UK , Germany and Belgium brew a lot of superb beers although as elsewhere the bulk of production is mass produced swill.Cask ales in the UK are a revelation to those who drink bottled or kegged beers, Trappist beers are world class and many offerings from Germany are of very high quality too.

@Anniblah
Big brewery beer is not “bad” – it’s usually “consistent” and not terribly interesting. I have had beers in rural areas of China that were almost undrinakble; on a hot humid day you start hunting for Tsingtao (or any “corporate” brand) because odds are good it won’t be rancid!

I believe the poll asks about the worst beer, not the worst beer on average. America probably has the greatest range of beer quality, not literally the worst single beer, and great consistency of (dull) taste among its corporate beers (ironically). What the European “beer countries” have such as Belgium and Germany are centuries old, strict laws that are adhered to by breweries. So not only are their beers great on average, but there are hardly any bad ones to be found. Also, smaller European breweries are run by experts with family and local traditions, i.e. they are expressions of locality. In the US, beers tend to be expressions of the enthusiasm of a few eccentrics or entrepreneurs, and do not really represent “place” or tradition. In terms of inventiveness though, the U.S. beers seem to be the ahead of the world. What makes American beers have such a bad reputation, is the big mouth of corporate advertising. If Budweiser (and the other watery brands) would just shut up, and Americans would drink smaller quantities of higher quality (which is healthier anyway) the US reputation would improve.

@fred mertz
HAHAHA! You typed, “ail” when you meant ale. And you’re prolly a Brit, too. You twat!

You should definitely try Moritz from Barcelona. It sucks. Which is weird because is made by the people from La Zaragozana, who also brew Ambar, a pretty nice beer from Zaragoza.

You have not even listed fresh Vietnamese beer. I’m shocked. The coffee rocked but that beer, wouldn’t even use it to kill slugs!

Damn right!
@Alx

Damn right!

Does anyone know if the worst beer I’ve ever had “Quittin’ Time” is still even made? Had it in Florida in the early 80’s but it came from Texas. They were so proud of it that the manufacturer’s name was printed in silver on a can which was gold colored. It was almost completely impossible to read unless you just caught it in the right light. Nasty but dirt cheap.