Busch NA

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

I will never understand non-alcoholic brews. Yes I know...I should appreciate beer for beer. But damn, shouldn’t it have some alcohol in it?

WCCII: With thanks and no thanks to Argo0. So we’re sitting around having this awesome beer party at Aaron and Kathy’s. It’s approaching midnight and after a second round of Kathy’s scrummy Mexican and a belly fully of high gravity beer my senses are getting fuggy and overwhelmed. My objectivity nose and tongue were clearly faltering. I needed a reference beer, something that would snap me out of saturation city and bring me to my senses. Then Aaron says. "Here try this"! Back lit from the kitchen, the can shone with a peculiar mystic radiance. For the first time I can recall a NA beer never looked so good. But . . .on opening it looked seriously insipid, smelt like stale feral cats urine and tasted . . . well I’m not sure of what. I think they left some of that can cleansing detergent solvent stuff in it. One mouthful was enough to help me regain my senses. I kept looking for rating numbers less than 1 but alas none were to be found. But it had served it’s purpose and reminds me to offer at least one NA at my next beer rating party even if it is to break the heavy serious monotony of all that note taking.

RBSG DC 2006: Pours to a clear pale yellow body with a small white head. The aroma is clearly skunked and highly oxidized, showing sweaty feet and stale corn syrup. The taste is overly sweet corn syrup, sweet celery (really gross), and artificial sweetener. Light bodied, medium-lively carbonated.

Can. Pours pale with a foamy white head. Lager aroma with subdue grainy, corn flavor. Very light and watery. Why would you have to do this? Just drink water if it comes down to that decision.

Sampled at Bockyhorsey’s Bocky Bash on 7-5-08. Number 600! Thanks Bill, though I’m a little curious why you had this in the house... As for the rating: Anheuser Busch, using detailed and proven scientific methods, discovered everything good and desirable about beer. Then they invented a way to remove all of it. This is the result. Cheers!

WCCII: Argo0 boldly stated this was the worst beer in the world. I have had bad beers before so I was really curious. Well, my verdict is that it will be difficult to come up with a beer worse than this. It is indescribably bad. This will be my reference beer for beers around 0.5. Thanks to Argo0 for broadening my perspectives.

You know I’ve had low alcohol beers before that were quite tasty, this is a piss poor example of that style and I do mean piss. Nuff said.

Smells of piss and beans. Almost colorless, clear, and effervescent. No head at all. Tastes like seltzer. Harsh aftertaste of cardboard that had been pissed on then dried. No redeeming value. If there is anyone who has intentionally bought this more than once I want to meet them. Their inability to taste deserves scientific study.