# 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.

*By YPB Team · Published September 15, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-most-overrated-beer*

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## Current results (no votes yet)

1. **Corona Extra** — score 1000/1000
   Sold on a beach and a lime wedge, and famously skunked by its clear glass bottle.
2. **Stella Artois** — score 954/1000
   Marketed in Belgium as a premium lager and nicknamed wife beater in British pubs.
3. **Dos Equis** — score 500/1000
   The Most Interesting Man in the World sold a lot of a fairly ordinary Mexican lager.
4. **Heineken** — score 500/1000
   The green bottle travels everywhere and arrives lightstruck almost as often as Corona.
5. **Budweiser** — score 500/1000
   The self-declared King of Beers, brewed with rice and aged on beechwood chips.
6. **Blue Moon** — score 433/1000
   Sold as a craft witbier with an orange slice; brewed by Molson Coors.
7. **Coors Light** — score 433/1000
   The mountains on the can turn blue to tell you the beer is cold enough to hide its flavour.
8. **Guinness Draught** — score 433/1000
   The two-part pour and the 119.5-second wait do a lot of work for a 4.2% stout.
9. **Peroni Nastro Azzurro** — score 357/1000
   Priced as an Italian luxury import and brewed under licence in several countries.
10. **Hoegaarden** — score 357/1000
   The revived witbier is now a global brand, and purists say the recipe travelled badly.
11. **Michelob Ultra** — score 357/1000
   95 calories, 2.6 grams of carbohydrate, and a gym membership sold as a beer.
12. **Pabst Blue Ribbon** — score 357/1000
   A 19th-century mass lager that became an irony purchase and then a genuine one.
13. **Bud Light** — score 357/1000
   America's best-seller for two decades, on a recipe designed to taste of as little as possible.
14. **Samuel Adams Boston Lager** — score 357/1000
   The beer that made craft mainstream, and that craft drinkers stopped ordering once it did.
15. **Newcastle Brown Ale** — score 0/1000
   A Tyneside icon that has not been brewed in Newcastle since 2005.

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