Busch Beer

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

Did someone just say they had a ’95 vintage Busch?!? Just, wow. Economy must be bad everywhere. My macro swill of choice, fresh, for whatever reason. I can kill 12oz without blinking. Goes down extremely simple and clean; bottles or cans. I won’t give this a glass. Bottles more agreeable. Good party session, though I’m sure the general consumer base is 30+ y/o. Cheap as hell. Not really offensive or metallic anywhere. Watery, but somewhat full mouth. Still grainy, cereal sweet taste, with limited corn. Hint of fruitiness. I hate Miller with a passion, unless its one of their fine malt liquors. A-B is at least putting forth some effort with American Ale and Golden Wheat. Then again, their Tomato and Lime Light beers make me cringe just thinking about ’em. Label suggests "Cold as the mountainsSmooth as its name" Well. Its ONLY as smooth as its name, WHEN its as cold as the mountains. So I guess its not as bad as OM’s "America’s Best Beer" claim. Plus, they don’t put those faggy gimmick, color changing, cold-activated lines on the bottle. Drink this when you’re looking for a cheap, easy going, semi-flavorless pale lager, that people won’t think you’re (too) ghetto for drinking. Sooo many are WORSE than this in my book. (Icehouse, High Life, Keystone, MGD, Rolling Rock, Old Style, Coors/Light, Milwaukees Beast, OLD Milwaukee, Hamms, Steel Reserve, etc.) They either taste like piss, metal, booze, or water. That’s the only reason I’m semi-praising this. "No window love. Go!"

Very soft aged version - approx 1995. There’s very little flavour here, but some soft watery malt emerges. No awareness of hops. Not much happening. Wet ghost. No off flavours. No carbonation left. Drinkable.

16 oz can, big time! Light yellow with a foamy head. Sweet tasting, corn based. Not repulsive but bland.

Lots of corn sweetness. Tastes like beerpong, or maybe that’s because it’s the only thing I use this beer for (or chugging). Cheaper than other macros and less watery than natty.

Quite a few kegs of this in college. Pours a clear yellow color with a foamy white head. Nose is light corn and fizz. Palate is fizzy water. Flavor of plastic keg cup, corn, fizz, water, etc

Pours a clear yellow with minimal off white head. Aroma is of slight corn with a minor metallic smell. Taste just like it smells. Minor metallic and corn in taste. A very flavorless and light beer.

Busch greets the drinker with a rather sweet aroma that does not instantly inspire the thought of beer. It possesses a very pale golden appearance, which accurately foreshadows its somewhat watered down flavor. Like many other A-B products, Busch has an unusual sweetness that seemingly comes from A-B’s odd tendency towards what seems to taste like the heavy use of rice and corn in brewing. It is relatively dry, and leaves (predictably) a sort of sweet but stale aftertaste. Overall, not the worst in the world, but it should be among the absolute cheapest. In my neck of the woods, it is more expensive that Milwaukee’s Best, which should be considered a notch above Busch, and is priced similarly with PBR, High Life, and Schlitz, which are all its superiors. This once again brings to mind A-B’s frustratingly strong foothold in the marketplace, as brands like PBR are locally available, yet not in every nook and cranny like Busch, and are so much better for the money.

First of all I must ask all my fellow rate beerians to forgive me for actually drinking this but it’s one less to drink on this site. Clear and extremely pale yellow color. Aroma is of skunked rice, wheat, and corn. Taste is watered down, corn and malts. Aftertaste is nothing worth actually mentioning. I’ll let all those broke drunks keep this one. Not for me.......ever.