Budweiser American Ale

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

no aroma; nice amber brown color with tan head. This tasted watery and soapy for the first 1/2. Going down, it was actually quite good. But that first half is a deal breaker..

You know how fast food joints have this "flavor" that all their food tastes like? So if you have McEgg Foo Young someday, it won’t taste like Egg Foo Young, it will taste like McDonalds food. Well this is the Amber Ale version of that. On draft at Pampered Pig in Columbus, MO of all places. The BBQ was good! so good I didn’t want to defile it with the rest of this beer. So I didn’t. Anyway, looks like an amber, smells like Budweiser. Tastes like Budweiser. In a blind test, I’d swear it was Budweiser.

Sample at Montgomery Inn in Dublin. The beer is a mostly clear amber-brown color with a medium light beige head that recedes quickly. Thin rings of lacing on the glass. Mildly sweet toasted malt aroma. Light body with sweet caramel malt flavor and faint hops. The finish is sweet and malty and does not linger long. About what I expected overall.

12 oz. bottle, clear amber, white head. Light aroma of fresh hops, malt extract, candy sugar and grass. Mild and sweet like an amber with a brief hop punch of a pale. Appreciate this effort from Bud.

12 ounce bottle at Applebees. Darker appearance than most AB products. Citrus aroma. Should be called an IPA based on the taste with its bitter underbite. Fair. Forgettable.

On tap. Pale hop aroma, lingering yeast. Dark amber color. Sharp bitter mouthfeel. Thin for an ale too watery. Could be better balanced, some lingering sweetness with some crisp malt notes. Too overcarbonated in the end. Very average but as expected.

bottle. Poured clear red-amber with thinning off-white head. Woody, hoppy aroma. A bit watery texture. Some caramel, sweet and malty. Finishes dry with lingering metallic bitterness.

[Bottle] Sweet malt aroma (a plus). Looks clear and crisp, like a solid amber ale . . . with a thin head. Bitter and carbonated, but quite thin for a THE american ale, but then again, its from the makers of uber-commercialized beer. No qualms about it, i’ll take it over your standard Bud or Bud Light any day, but I won’t be excited about it. IN SUM: I like the aroma; that’s about it. I also wouldn’t pay more than $1 per bottle for it. . .