Budweiser Brew Masters Private Reserve

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

Pours a golden amber with a suprising head. Aroma has hints of fruit including apple with a pinch of hop. Flavor is also suprising starting sweet malty with some fruit tones and finishes with a bit of a roasty hop character. The 8.5% ABV is noticeable and warms the belly. Medium and not too thin mouthfeel. Not really above average but a suprising beer considering the brewery.

Horrific. They make you want this, and when you take your first sips, you gag. Awful. Never again.

This was truly an aweful experience. Tasted like Budweiser concentrate with a gym sock infusion. Ick. Never again.

I bought this "Mother of all king of beers" to top off a "outhouse, clean-out-my-fridge" pilsner/lager tasting we held. The packaging is way over the top; the box alone must have been quite an investment. I actually had hopes that it would be at least half decent, but alas the overall experience was pretty much a joke. It was sweet, presumably full of unfermented (corn?) sugar and had a finish that almost hit my gag reflex. All who tasted it dumped their glasses. At least I can re-use the gigantic bottle to fill up with some homebrew. Sigh.

Pours an orange-amber with a fluffy, foamy head that settles into a light lacing due to the high abv. Aroma is of vanilla & caramel, reminds me of a Troegenator Doppelbock, even though they’re 2 different styles of beer. Taste is much like the aroma, caramel & vanilla, malty, a pinch of hops with a hint of alcohol that gets MUCH stronger as the beer warms. Very nice, full mouthfeel. This is the kind of beer A-B should have been brewing all along!! IMHO, it’s much more (and much better) than the "Budweiser on steroids" description that it’s been getting here, and I believe that some of the lower ratings are more a case of hating on Anheuser-Busch than a true reflection of what this brew has to offer. A-B deserves the bashing it gets for dumbing-down American beer, but it also deserves praise for this wonderful example of what it can produce when it’s brewers are permitted to toss aside the corporate formula, and make a "real" beer!!

Light amber colour. Rather sweet, not especially well-fermented. This makes the body a bit gooey even by malt liquor standards. And this isn’t really trying to be a malt liquor. But then as Yoda said "do or do not do, there is no try." And this does taste like a malt liquor with its apples, alcohol and way too much raw sugar character. Simple flavours, and not pleasant even in the most masochistic malt liquor sense of the word.

Bottled. Pale golden, near no head. Aroma of mashed apples. Sweet and lightly syrupy with clean mouthfeel. Some burning alcohol in a finish without bitterness.

nasty stuff, sampled at a superbowl party. cloying sweet garbagy flavor. would much rather drink regular bud. whats w/ the fancy bottle? its like putting a bow on a turd