I didn’t even read the story yet. I just knew you all would want to see this.
Let’s see who gets the most wound up
Who has the best?
The beer market is a realm in which Sturgeon’s law is particularly applicable. The United States may brew the lion’s share of the world’s crappest* beer, but it is also a nation in which some of the world’s best beer is brewed.
*Unlike Belgium, where beer is often Trappist.
Even some of the worst beers produced in America are good for boiling brats. 
Not that I have had any! I use a Michelob to cook brats, I haven’t tried it 'cause it scares me but the wife and me mum like the brats cooked in it, with onions.
My vote would be Belgium, even though I don’t like the heavier Belgian beers. The whites and blondes are just sooooo good.
Of the places I’ve visited, my vote for the worst would probably be Portugal, followed by France. My theory is that good beer is hard to find because good wine is everywhere. It was so hard to find decent beer in Portugal (I found it once) that I even wound up drinking wine. At least in France I could usually find Belgian beer.
The microbrew revolution of the last 30 years or so has been a godsend for the US beer drinker. In New England it seems every other town has a local brewer, and many of them are absolutely world class.
My opinion:
Sagres Portugal and Coral Madiera are darn good beers. At least they were in 1988.
The same can be said for the UK. We’re currently awash with superb ales of all styles from a myriad microbreweries all over the country. It’s just that most people seem to be content to drink that fizzy, flavourless chilled horse pee known as ‘lager’ (and which actually has nothing to do with decently brewed craft lagers).
Never mind countries. I live in a county that has some of the finest coastline and best beaches in the world and which can produce Doom Bar, Chalky’s Bite, Chalky’s Bark, Sharp’s Special Bitter, Sharp’s Own, Sharp’s Single Brew Reserve, Nadelik winter ale and Massive Ale. We also have a winery that produces a sparkling wine from Cornish grapes that knocked most vintage champagnes into a cocked hat in a blind tasting. And you haven’t lived until you’ve tasted St Endellion brie.
Interesting. I’ve heard of, and in some cases tasted, some very agreeable beers from some of those places. I’ve heard of Egypt as brewing some mighty fine stuff. No question there is some terrible stuff in France, but there is good stuff there too.
Trouble is, what is a bad beer?
My taste doesn’t run to Lagers, but I’ve heard people swear by and at Fosters, both.
Somebody once told me that the worst beer in the world was Lone Star. This by a guy who had naively bought himself a fridge full of the stuff - a UK expat, he had always wanted a fridge full of beer. For him this was the American Dream. He couldn’t find anyone to drink it with him. I’ve also noted an Off-Licence in the next village which claims to sell exotic beers, which couldn’t get rid of the stuff.
So I say: name the guilty ones. It’s a matter of opinion after all, but is there any kind of consensus? What is the worst beer?
The Czech Republic.
http://www.virtourist.com/europe/budejovice/Budejovice_Czech.htm
Home of the ORIGINAL Budweiser. The REAL THING.
Personally I like dark bocks, preferably a Doppelbock. Consequently my choices for a good brew are significantly smaller than the choices others have for the bilge water they call beer.
I will name one (later) but personally most ‘products’ mass produced by the multinationals are all equally bad. For me this means nearly all keg beers such as John Smiths (or anything labelled ‘Smooth’. Smooth = Bland), Fosters, Carlsberg, Heineken (or anything labelled ‘Cold’. ‘Cold’ also = Bland), Coors, Bud et.al. or anything you have to shove a lime in to make it taste of anything (i.e lime). Yes, I know lots of people drink this stuff. That’s 'cos its safe and consistent. I have yet to hear a lager drinker say ‘Bugger me, that’s a good pint’.
As for the worst beer? My local micro has just brewed a beer called The Hop. It has been brewed specifically to win the world record for the world’s bitterest beer. It has achieved this and is being ratified at the moment. All I can say is that it’s vile.*
- The rest of his beers are on the whole, excellent.
A fellow I know said exactly this of Fosters Lager. 
Blimey!! .
Well…the world would be a boring place if we all thought the same.
make it hard to feel superior too 
That’s all right. There isn’t one.
I love good white/wit/wheat/weizen beers, but it doesn’t get much worse than a bad one, like (imo) Blue Moon or Allagash White, that taste like puddle water sprayed with perfume.
Sam Adams makes some great beers, but they had a limited edition of old recipe brews from colonial America, including an alcoholic root beer that was the worst thing I think I’ve ever tasted.
But my most disappointing beer drinking experience would have to be the time in an Edinburgh pub when I ordered a bitter, but the barman misheard me and my Yankee accent and gave me a Miller.
Ah! See, there’s your mistake. You should have asked for a pint of ‘heavy’ and he would have understood you.
I’ve known a number of gastropods who loved it, for a short time at least.