Busch NA

Name: Busch NA
Date: 05/10/2008
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Cellar Party

Appearance: clear gold, wispy white head, streaks of drippy lace,
Aroma: sweet cereal aroma with a slightly decaying grain character,
Body: body is a bit thin,
Flavor: sweet cereal flavor, lots of green apple, light bitterness, light moldy character like wet grain that has been sitting too long,

Aroma: 2/10; Appearance: 4/10; Flavor: 2/10; Palate: 3/10; Overall: 4/20
Rating: 1.2/5.0
Drinkability: 3/10
Score: -/4

(can) Clear apple juice body with medium white head. Aroma is faint, corn, mild sweet, artificial, slightly soured milk. Taste is minimal -- medium sweet corn, finishing with an unpleasant "filling without substance" feeling. Very light body. I cannot imagine a worthier beer for #2000 -- thanks so much Dan.

Seltzer water. Turn your back on this one! Thanks to Argo0 for the sample.

12oz can-pours a disappearing white head and yellow color. Aroma is grain with slight sweetness, spice. Taste is grain with slight sweetness, spice, thin/watery. Nothing bad, just not much of anything.

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).

Can. When opened I though "oh god, I don’t know where to start". Sitting here in Sumpter, OR at the town grocery store/gift shop/museum and I see thi beast, I couldn’t resist. Watery flavor and essence. Not like most NA beers where it’s like sugary wort, this actually has enough adjuncts in it to be super saturated with them. Smells like dishwater & butane. Tastes like pine sap and spoiled corn husks. Could be used as slug bait, but I see no benefit of drinking this.

Can at RBSG Grand Tasting, July 2006. The aroma is truly vile. I won’t attempt to describe all the nasty elements. The flavour is somewhat better in that it is entirely absent. Tap water has more body and flavour than this. At least I won’t have to drink it again. And I’ve got my low alcohol beer tick back again - the previous one, whatever it was, that I tried specifically to cross off the style must have been reclassified.

Can from Krogers. Clear pale color with a minimal frothy white head that mostly diminished with fair lacing. Light grainy hop aroma. Light body with a watery texture and soft carbonation. Medium sweet flavor with a light sweet finish of short duration. My expectations where met.