Michelob Celebrate Vanilla Oak

Brewed by Anheuser-Busch InBev
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
St. Louis, Missouri USA

Chestnut colored with almost no head. Aroma definitely has vanilla, but I cannot smell much else. Taste is like a flat cream soda, and alcohol is not particularly apparent. I wanted to like this product despite it rating and pedigree. Not worth the $10/24oz, but I did it for science.

Gift set. The same thing as the chocolate one except vanilla. Aroma and flavor was strictly vanilla. Nothing special.

2006 x-mas set...red amber no head present...smells heavy syrupy, very mild oak muddled...instant sweetness, vanilla present...6.5 for flavor would be ideal but I can’t give this a half score so i went ahead with the 7...well done Michelob, well done, an unexpected delight...easy going for the 10% that it is, although the finish is very tainted with pure alcohol

Ick, tastes like shitty cough syrup. Had this one year, then another, it really sucks. Alcohol taste to strng, vanilla, not so, well, vanilla. This does not deserve the rating it has. People just think they are getting a luxury product and rate accordingly. The power of marketing amazes me.

Bottle (Thanks John, you ass): The bottle appears to be shaped like a suppository and quickly earns the name Anal Bombshell. The beer pours a bloody stool color, with a white head. It smells of an assy sweetness, some alcohol, and some brown malts. The delicate flavors of vanilla extract, oak tree excrement, stale assy malts, and wood chips, it’s as if the brewer used an oak funnel to pour this into his own ass before bottling by shoving the bottle up there. In the end it really wasn’t that bad, but it just tasted like a fake oak aged beer. Too much vanilla extract, and you could tell it was oak chips, not the real thing.

21-Nov-06 (24 oz bullet-shaped bottle, part of Celebrate gift pack: $17.99 at BevMo in La Jolla, CA) After sampling the Celebrate Chocolate, things can only get better with the Vanilla Oak, or at least I’m hopeful that’s the case. The beer pours a deep copper color with perfect clarity. The light-tan head, however, is small and short-lived, fully dissipating in under two minutes. Without even bringing the glass to my nose for a full sniff, the fragrance of vanilla is pretty overpowering, almost like a vanilla-scented candle. It’s extremely sweet with a bit of alcohol coming through. And in the flavor, the sweet vanilla is also achieving a extreme level of dominance that makes the beer so out of whack, it’s not enjoyable. Couple that with a harsh, astringent bitterness, and this beer is almost as disappointing as Celebrate Chocolate. Underlying flavors are more or less lost on me. A modest butteriness emerges in the finish as the beer warms, but the astringency picks up considerably as well, so I think this beer is best when served at mid-30s temperature. Actually, it’s probably best when not served at all. Light-medium in body with plentiful carbonation, but the astringency of the mouthfeel is a significant issue. While this half of the gift pack is more enjoyable than Celebrate Chocolate, it’s poorly constructed, simply a vanilla bomb to mask the underlying beer.

almost couldnt believe this was a michelob product, pretty good oak taste, worth a try but probably just that.

I should have known, being a michelob beverage, I should have known....Lets put it this way, My girlfriend hates beer, and she drank more of this than I did. The best part of the beer is the appearance, It pours a ruby amber colour, with a pure white head which quickly dissapeard and left behind a white ring. The aroma was of flat cream soda, and that is pretty much how it tasted to. Will NOT buy this beer again.