{"id":5064,"date":"2010-10-26T18:21:32","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T00:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=5064"},"modified":"2010-10-27T08:58:24","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T14:58:24","slug":"yep-olde-or-old-english-has-always-sucked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/yep-olde-or-old-english-has-always-sucked\/","title":{"rendered":"Yep, Olde (or Old) English has always sucked"},"content":{"rendered":"

That Olde English 800 3.2<\/a> tops the list of the world’s worst beers at Rate Beer<\/a> got a little press this past week, but that Olde English 800 sucks hardly ranks as news. Even if it does have its own Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Back in 1978 James Robertson gave Old English (note the difference in spelling) 800, the version brewed at Ortlieb in Philadelphia, a hefty 12 in The Great American Beer Book.<\/em> Not the worst (Fischer Pils received a 4, and there were many in single digits), but poor by any measure. And these numbers were earned in carefully conducted blind tastings (multiple tasters, highest and lowest scores tossed out, various adjustments made). <\/p>\n

I wouldn’t have bothered were it not for the opportunity to pass along this drinking note: “One of the beers more like a ‘pop’ wine, strong aromatic flavor that is overdone. Too sweet for a beer drinker. Nor can I think of any food that would go with it.” (Not even a food pairing could save it<\/a>, Alan.)<\/p>\n

Nonetheless MillerCoors has seen fit to keep it alive, and to even brew it to a variety of strengths.<\/a> You can have my invitation to that blind tasting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That Olde English 800 3.2 tops the list of the world’s worst beers at Rate Beer got a little press this past week, but that Olde English 800 sucks hardly ranks as news. Even if it does have its own Facebook page. Back in 1978 James Robertson gave Old English (note the difference in spelling) … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-1jG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5064"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5073,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5064\/revisions\/5073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}