[Closed] Least rated beer that is actually rather good?

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?

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.

[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.