Bottle from East End Liquors in Knoxville, shared at a tasting. I was designated to bring the "bad beer" to the tasting, but someone else also brought one and it turns out this wasn’t even the worst beer. Pours a clear golden color with no head. Aroma of grassy hops, grain, cardboard. The taste is cardboard, grain, caramel, grassy hops. Medium bodied, no carbonation, hot and boozy.

500 ml bottle, $2.50 at Binny’s. Gotta admit these Rinku beers are my guilty please. No one produces such consistently crappy beers accompanied by total cluelessness in marketing. Frighteningly hazy orange pour into my tumbler glass. Kicks up a bit of a head before it fizzes away. Seems to have a fusel alcohol smell when I pop the crown, but that actually fades away quickly, Leaving, oddly, not much smell at all. Taste is like a weak whiskey, mixed with corn syrup and diluted with soda water. If there were a trace of hop to this, I admit it couldbe mistaken for a barley wine. Well, I did this rating in the kitchen before going out with the rest of the bottle to grill and be "drinkin’ without thinkin." But I am thinking that an average Lagunitas or Rogue bomber at twice the price is more than twice as good!

New Beer Distributors, NYC 50cl: Pours orange with a white head. Aroma is alcohol, rotten fruit, booze, alcohol, and sugar. Considering its very hefty alcohol content and its very poor production quality, this beer managed to hide the absurd abv somewhat well. Really sweet. I didn’t let it sit in my mouth for too long and sort of chugged my small glasses of it (I shared the bottle with friends). Buying this beer was the kind of decision I regretted as soon as I walked out of the store.

Bottle... thanks Andy? poured a clear, golden color, virtually no head at all. Aroma is strange Eastern European lager, sweet, caramel. Hot alcohol, a bit like burning, perhaps not 15% burning, but hot.