Busch NA

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

Thanks to Maniac for leaving this one at Immy’s Tasting! 12oz. can. Pours clear yellow with a fizzy white head. Nose is faint, but some metallic sweet corn can be made. No flavor at all. Possibly a little corn. A little metallic aftertaste. Mostly this resembles water, and kind of quenches your thirst as well.

I really wasn’t expecting much from a NA beer from AB. its pretty much what you expect. Skunky taste of carbonation and corn with no flavor to satisfy anything.

surprisingly (?) i haven’t seen this beer in many places, so i was excited to pick up a sixer in houghton, mi. the can itself doesn’t look so bad except for the words "non-alcoholic." pale yellow with lots of bubbles and a big head. smells like grainy breakfast cereal with water instead of milk, and tastes like the water from that same bowl of cereal. water throughout the body and finish, and few other flavors are apparent. why would anyone drink this beer? it tastes like nothing and there’s no booze in it. <a href=http://tinyurl.com/q39dq>yummy

Wow it is really true what they say about this beer having no taste or aroma. You really have to try really hard to smell anything and when you do you might get a tiny hint of malt. The appearance is pale gold with a medium head that fades fast. The flavor is closer to water than beer. Much like the aroma you might be able to taste a tiny bit of sweet malt if you try. The palate is like having a glass of water. The only reason this gets any points from me is the lack of offensive tastes. The only real value it has is maybe someone’s first beer.

So this is the supposed worst beer on RateBeer? I’ve had a lot worse, mostly brewpubs that put nothing less than an abortion of a beer on tap. See... the more ingridients you add to a beer, I believe the worse off it could possibly become. Therefore, if you don’t put a lot into a beer, like Busch NA, I don’t see how it can really taste so damn awful. The Lost Lake I had the other night was worse than this. Now, I’m not saying this is anything great, no way. The nose is still pretty putrid, full of straw, corn, and fuel (butane). Frothy, fizzy, pale, thin, oily, tastes a little bit like celery. Bad, but not the worst. That title belongs to Molson 0.5 and the Groggs beers (all of them).

"Beer" #9 RBSG 06. Thanks to Maniac for making sure I had the chance to try this. Pale fizzy yellow. No aroma. Literally none. Almost no flavor as well, just slight corn. Really better than it is given credit for. Or perhaps my palate was fatigued and I was unable to appreciate the subtle nature of the vileness. Had trouble getting people to try this one. Excellent for rinsing out the glass. Whaleman commented that there was still a drop of the Upstream Barleywine in his glass when he poured the Busch, and the single drop of Upstream came clear through in the aroma. Ultimately, I’ve had far worse, as this wasn’t aggressively bad. There was just literally nothing there.

Clear carbonated yellow with a darker tinge than I expected. White head. Skunky aroma with, yes, some dough. Extremely watery palate. Half doughy nothing/half vile taste. I found myself not wanting to swallow. Who drinks this?

So for the last of my self-immolation where beer is concerned, I’m going to the bottom of the ladder. This is the worst it can get and I know it before I get into it.... I was wrong. God is this stuff horrible, rancid corn aroma with a dark urine colored body. Taste is dull and full of harsh grains that seem to have little claws on them as they go down. Ending is about the only thing here that isn’t down right horrible, instead it’s mildly disgusting.

Next time I get it in my head to hit the swill market again, someone just remind me of this shit.