Budweiser

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

To me Bud is not so terrible and won’t kill you if you drink it. While its not what I prefer to drink if you are at an open bar and that is all there is I will drink it instead of soda, goes down like water but will get you drunk after ten of them and give you bud mud in the morning.

Bottle, ATP:NY:09. Nose is light sweet malt, nothing else. Flavor is very light malt & soda water. No hop character. 100% boring but not really offensive.

Bottle. Light aroma of grain for the malt, cooked corn, paper and bile in the background. Head is average size, fizzy, white with good lacing and is mostly diminishing. Color is sparkling clear light amber. Flavor is lightly to moderately acidic to start and finishes lightly acidic and bitter. Palate is light, watery and has a carbonation between lively and fizzy. An old time favorite, but I still tried to be overly judgemental: It’s still a good drinker and still my favorite for making a Red Eye.

Golden, clear. White head. Malty sweet aroma. Mild flavour with malty sweetness. Lively carbonation. High drinkability, onedimensional, dull pale lager (but its better than carlsberg...)

A little bit of background on this: I’m in France, and can’t remember when I last had a budweiser (it was from a can, in someone’s car, at 2am, in North America, many years ago). After going through all of the good beers at my local French supermarket, and then going through all the bad beers, I was left with one last beer in wide distribution here that I hadn’t reviewed: "Bud", as it’s called, "Budweiser" to Yankee types. A package of six bottles is twice the price of Heineken, and even a couple of Euros more than six cans of Guinness. Marketing genius indeed, and being a sucker for punishment, I bought six just to remind myself of what it tastes like. Poured into a Chimay chalice (I hope the irony is not lost on you) after being chilled only slightly in the fridge, this is the yellowest beer I’ve ever seen. Head is soap-foam like, looks a bit like a bubble bath. I think I picked up some corn starch in the smell, a little alcohol, but very little of anything else. Taste? I taste syrup, a little graininess on the back end, a slightly dry finish. I will give this one extra points for drinkability, and then take away even more points for being the most expensive, and worst tasting beer in my local French supermarket. Seriously, double the price of Heineken!? The marketers aren’t taking the piss, they’re trying to sell it. Ha!

As much as I’d like to .5 this, it’s really not that bad. Refreshing and a little sweet. But the King of Beers? No. Just no.

If there’s any flavour at all it’s a hint of dried-out straw mashed in a wooden cask in old sock-rinsing water- then sucrose and alcohol added, carbonated, and chilled. Imagination aside, the reality is It’s a banal, uninspiring and soulless drink.