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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
21671.16/5.01.16/5.04.2%0.5Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker
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Introduced nationally in 1982, Bud Light is brewed with a malt and hops ratio different from Budweiser for a distinctively crisp taste with fewer calories.
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 beerandIT (183), Richmond, Virginia, USA
0.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
1/101/52/101/52/20
Jun 13, 2009  
Pours gold piss color with head that leaves the scene quickly. Skunk corn, rice smell. I think they waived a couple of hops over the beer. Light bodied. Barley, possibly some malt on the palate. Does not stick around at all though. Another beer to drink when free!


 alagnak (338), Littleton, Colorado, USA
1.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
2/102/54/103/57/20
Jun 12, 2009  
Part of a glass (mom is in town). Virtually no smell - just a hint of malt/yeast, but basically nothing. Tastes very mild, a little malt, maybe a hint of rice, high carbonation, finishes as watery as they come. It’s maybe the best (certainly the least offensive - probably because it has almost no taste) of the American llight beers. Is it "good beer"? No, but it’s not horrendous - After ~1/3 of a glass, I didn’t necessarily want to pour it out or run screaming or anything, but I did want to give it back to Mom and go grab a beer that had some taste.


CJfromPhilly (82), Aston, Pennsylvania, USA
0.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
2/101/52/102/52/20
Jun 12, 2009  
Pours from the 12 oz can a pale golden color with a foamy one finger white head. It’s about as fizzy as one would expect. Aroma--I mowed my lawn late yesterday, too late to rake up the clippings because it got too dark. It rained overnight. The smell of those soaked grass clippings...that’s the aroma of Bud Light. Taste is of club soda with a few ounces of beer mixed in. A "beer spritzer" if you want to call it that. Mouthfeel is on par with the aforementioned club soda. I do give it high marks for drinkability. It has that, but not much else. Anheuser-Busch was wise to use the "drinkability" aspect of this beer as its sales pitch, because that’s all it has going for it. I was offered the remainder of a 30-pack of this stuff (about 14 cans) at the end of an after-work tailgate party, and I accepted it purely to be polite. This beer was absolutely free and I still feel that I overpaid for it! I’ll never cough up a dime for this, and the only way I plan on drinking this again is if my only alternative is dying of thirst!!!


 dnstone (163), , New Jersey, USA
0.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
1/102/51/101/53/20
Jun 11, 2009  
This was my go-to power hour beer back in college, and it did the trick. Still better than the other big brewers because you can barely taste it, which is better than tasting like dirt.


 CUJO (346), Brooklyn, New York, USA
0.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
1/101/51/101/51/20
Jun 10, 2009  
Filth. Extremely light golden color. Aroma is faint skunk. Taste is offensive.


bradner (25), Oswego, Illinois, USA
0.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
1/101/51/101/51/20
Jun 5, 2009  
Consumed in a 12 oz bottle. Color is nearly clear as water. No aroma, no head, mouthfeel is water. This is the worst of the worst.


 DiabolikDUB (143), Portland, Oregon, USA
2.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/55/102/58/20
Jun 5, 2009  
Poured from Bottle into Pint glass. Pours a pale crystal clear yellow with a one-inch bubbly head that dissolves quickly and leaves no hint there ever was one. Aroma is faint sweet caramel, no hops to speak of and a little bit of yeast? Flavor has a little more of that caramel flavor although light and has a touch of earthy hops. Very light-bodied beer which I suppose makes for easy and quick drinking. While its not good its also not completely terrible. Pretty sure I’d rather drink this from the bottle rather than a glass.


CoreyDW (18), Arizona, USA
1.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
2/102/52/102/56/20
May 31, 2009    Updated: Jun 25, 2009
Had it in a bottle. Boring flavor. Poor aroma. Like carbonated water. Somewhat refreshing but not a good beer to sit around and relax with.



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