Bud Light Golden Wheat

Brewed by Anheuser-Busch InBev
Style: Wheat Ale
St. Louis, Missouri USA

Draught at Old Juan’s in Oceano. The best draught option, over bud light and coors light. That’s just sad. Well, it was a new beer that pormised to at least be a little interesting. Big light meets witbier? I guess that’s what they were going for, but the bud light part wins out in the end. Dull hazy gold in color with a quickly dying white head. The aroma shows the advertised orange peel, along with some sweet grain, and an impossibly small hint of spice. The flavor has a little orange and wheat before a short and watery finish devoid of any beer character. Lightly sweet, no bitterness, and a mostly clean profile that tastes more like a lager. Light bodied and a little spritzy. Better than regular bud light, and has much more flavor overall, though I don’t know If I could take more than a couple of these, which I can always to with the regular stuff due to its clean, watery nature.

Pours a very lightly hazy golden orange with a small bubbly white head. Aroma of orange and light corriander. Flavor also has the light orange and corriander notes. The orange is a little soda like. The beer has some light cereal grains/wheat present...really not a horrible beer, but also not good. Would pick over Bud Light...but thats about it.

Damn, I just rated a Bud Light product over "2!" I have wanted to try this beer for quite awhile. I did not have high expectations, but surprisingly for the Evil Empire Brewing Co. this wheat actually tastes like a wheat, albeit a very, very light and thin one. The pour is cloudy but lacks any head to speak of. The aroma is faint traces of wheat, yeast and fruit. Flavors of citrus and coriander and yeast exist, but there’s just not enough. For God’s sake, don’t be afraid to be good. Why does this brewery continue to brew microbrewed styles of beer for the Bud Light guys who don’t really like beer in the first place?

I don’t understand all the ratings calling this beer horrible. Compared to Bud light, this is a major step forward. It IS a light beer and should be rated as such. I’ve had this beer on draft and in bottle and prefer the draft. It poured slightly darker than Bud Light with a decent off-white head. Flavor was mostly orange and coriander with some wheat in the background. Not overly carbonated makes this an easy beer to drink. At $23.00 a case, A-B will sell a lot of this.

Bottle (thanks to Angeloregon for sharing)... Poured orange with no head. A very bland, malted, sweet, almost factory made aroma -- one that would match other Bud aromas. Sweet, easy drinking beer, with that hint of orange peel and coriander spiced before a malted wheat finish.

Draft for cheap. Golden pour with an offwhite head. Aroma is Budlight with some cardboardy wheatiness. Flavor is pretty bland with some wheat and a very subdued citrus. Even for 2$ its a stretch.

First impression was a nose full of acetaldehyde, even more than I usually detect in A-B products. Flavor was more like a typical american wheat but not with a big wheat presence. Moderately zesty, fairly clean except for the aceltadehyde. Didn’t taste any of the spices. Hazy bronze color, moderate foamy head.

Finally gave this a try since I was at a bar with $1 drafts. Pours cloudy gold with a light sweet wheat aroma and some citrus. I would best describe this as a water down, worse version of Blue Moon.