Budweiser Select 55

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

What a waste of 55 calories. Lightest beer in the world? Fuck that. Nastiest beer in the world.

12oz bottle (2009) drank straight from the bottle, baby! The aroma and flavor are both like club soda with a little bit of adjunct, grass, hay, and a dash of skunk. Oy. Skip this one - or try it just to say you did.

Tallahassee, Fl. Publix Supermarket - 12 oz bottle. Medium golden pour, pretty lifeless - little to no head or bubble action. Little to no aroma - what is there reminds me of mineral water. Club soda flavor, no malt or hop flavor noted whatsoever. Mouthfeel has that throat clenching quality to it that most low carb entries have. Maybe refreshing ice cold after a workout, but not any other time.

The legend, the beast. Finally I was able to snag this brew! Pale as can be with a huge white head that vanished immediately. Smells just a little skunky, but mostly doesn’t smell like anything at all. Tastes unpleasant, but it’s so faint and so quick to go away that I can’t place it. Really, the taste is gone as soon as it appears. At 2.4%, I think I’m actually sobering up as I drink. Thanks to the Kroger on Lamar for having mixed six packs. I only had to buy one of these.

Better than MGD 64 but nothing good at all still. No in-depth review needed.

12 oz. bottle from the refridgerator at work. That’s what you get for leaving it in there for more than 2 weeks, real estate team. In its clear bottle, this beer could easily pass for something a bum picked up and urinated in- surprisingly little visible carbonation, and a flat clear yellow-gold color. A little bit of a white head that doesn’t stick long. Skunky aroma, corny, nasty grain, a little malt- bleh. The flavor is less offensive than the smell, mostly because it’s so watery. But the bad grain and corn taste is there along with cheap maltiness and lingering skunk. Light bodied, watery, with the mouthfeel of a lot of macro swill. This seriously offers nothing in looks, smell, or taste. I’ll give it one extra notch because it isn’t as offensive as anything with "Milwaukee’s Best" on the can.

12 oz clear glass bottle. Only 50¢ at Binny’s DG singles rack. Wow, less than a penny per calorie! That’s the sign of a great beer! Pop the cap and… Skunk Bomb! Lot of bad smells from being so light struck! Folks, I am trying to be nice, but even while pouring it’s armpit. Bubbly with color of a urine sample. Soda pop bubbles make for a thin, low powered head. This is in a Sam Adams glass, I’m giving it every chance I can. Unlike that homeopathic preparation called MGD 64, this actually shows a little body. Slight note of hops, a flavor that suggests it once went to kindergarten with some malts. There is a small ring of foam around the edge of what’s left in the bottle, so it’s at least a step above Zima. But reason they put this under the Bud Select moniker is probably similar to why Coca-Cola called its diet soda Tab: don’t want to taint the flagship Budweiser beer by association. I admit to liking a Bud on draft on a hot day, but this makes O’Doul’s taste like Orval.

12oz bottle 11/18/09 (Single @ Binny’s Naperville)-Pours a light clear golden with a small white head that dissipated into nothing. Aroma of skunk and nothing. Taste of carbonated water. This no bodied brew has no taste. If it is competing with MGD 64 at least that has some flavor.