What is the most overrated beer?
Nothing here is bad, exactly. The argument is whether the reputation, the price or the advertising got ahead of what is in the glass.
1Corona ExtraSold on a beach and a lime wedge, and famously skunked by its clear glass bottle.1000pts
2Stella ArtoisMarketed in Belgium as a premium lager and nicknamed wife beater in British pubs.954pts
3Dos EquisThe Most Interesting Man in the World sold a lot of a fairly ordinary Mexican lager.500pts
4HeinekenThe green bottle travels everywhere and arrives lightstruck almost as often as Corona.500pts
5BudweiserThe self-declared King of Beers, brewed with rice and aged on beechwood chips.500pts
6Blue MoonSold as a craft witbier with an orange slice; brewed by Molson Coors.433pts
7Coors LightThe mountains on the can turn blue to tell you the beer is cold enough to hide its flavour.433pts
8Guinness DraughtThe two-part pour and the 119.5-second wait do a lot of work for a 4.2% stout.433pts
9Peroni Nastro AzzurroPriced as an Italian luxury import and brewed under licence in several countries.357pts
10HoegaardenThe revived witbier is now a global brand, and purists say the recipe travelled badly.357pts
11Michelob Ultra95 calories, 2.6 grams of carbohydrate, and a gym membership sold as a beer.357pts
12Pabst Blue RibbonA 19th-century mass lager that became an irony purchase and then a genuine one.357pts
13Bud LightAmerica's best-seller for two decades, on a recipe designed to taste of as little as possible.357pts
14Samuel Adams Boston LagerThe beer that made craft mainstream, and that craft drinkers stopped ordering once it did.357pts
15Newcastle Brown AleA Tyneside icon that has not been brewed in Newcastle since 2005.0pts
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