Ideas for getting rid of extraordinarily bad tasting beer?!
Answers: we bought some czechvar. god what foul stuff. some excuse for european beer. that is not the real stuff. anyways, i was thinking how when i was in spain, i took some cheap beer that was not so great, and mixed it with cheap blueberry liquor which was also not so great, but together, they made one hell of a drink! any ideas how to do this with the foul czechvar? ( for any of you who like awful tasting beers i'm sorry its nothing personal )
You can turn it into a fondue/cheese/queso dip. Recipes are everywhere on the net; i'd search 'beer cheese dip'. Beer bread, again recipes can be searched online. You could use it as beer batter for fish, mushrooms, pickles, chicken, cheese or jalepenos. I use 'Drakes Crispy Fry Mix'; make sure to save some of the dry batter to coat the food prior to the battering. Any type of cooking oil will do for frying.
Makes great fertilizer for the lawn.
1 bottle of beer
1 oz ammonia
1 gal water
Peace to you.
Ok, ok, if you MUST drink it - what kind of beer is it? If it's one of those godawful lager-y water-y things you can drop a shotglass of tequila in it, splash of hot sauce on the top, and rim the glass with limejuice - sabroso.
If it's a darker, skunkier concoction, I'm sorry... :-)
No matter how bad the beer there is probably someone you know who will drink it. Just sit tight till that person is around.
Take a bath in it.
Make a cake with it.
If bottles, practice your bar fighting skills by breaking it perfectly in half.
Use the bottles as bowling pins.
Grab a BB gun and shoot em.
Just try your own mixes with really random stuff, and see if you can't come out with the worlds next best mixed drink.
Make an Appalachian cocktail:
Large Mason jar.
Ginger ale.
Your disgusting beer.
Pour beer and ginger ale together in equal amounts into mason jar. It will foam like crazy! After foam settles, drink.
Also: Beer bread.
Mix 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 egg, 1/4 cup oil (I prefer corn oil), and 12 ounces beer. Pour into bread pan and bake at 350 degrees for about 45-50 minutes--it's done with a toothpick poked into its center comes out clean and dry. Let cool in bread pan for at least 10 minutes before turning it out to cool on a rack.
It most likely tastes awful because it was lightstruck. Green and clear bottles offer zero protection from UV rays, which react with iso-alpha acids in hops, producing a chemical off-flavor that is identical to one of the chemicals found in a skunk's defense system... hence the term: skunky beer.
Czechvar is normally delicious, but it is packaged in green glass and therefore is very fragile and easily damaged by light.
To answer your question, the best cure I've found (and I've done this with Heineken and Peroni that were lightstruck and tasting bad) is to stuff a LEMON wedge into the bottle and drink straight from the bottle, minimizing the aroma of the beer.
This hides lots of off flavors and aromas the same way that squirting dishsoap down the disposal gets rid of nasty smells.
Good luck.
btw... Why do you think Corona is served with a lime?