Michelob Celebrate Vanilla Oak

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

Celebrate, my friends. Let’s see. All 6.5 billion - 82 people that have not had the experience of drinking this beer. I was surprised that such a product existed. Now I am disgusted. This is raunchy and disgusting. When you crack the lid some vanilla aroma sneaks out but then it is totally dominated by alcohol and god, let’s see, some weird chemicals...maybe melted plastic. Flavor is alcohol, medicine, a little vanilla. copper color with no head. It tastes like a nasty brandy mixed drink. At $8 for 26 oz. stay away from this at all costs. I don’t understand why with all the money and resources that Busch has why they can’t create a good tasting beer.

Vanilla syrup, way too sweet. Clear amber body, no head. Smells of malt and watered vanilla extract. Aftertaste has a slight coffee burn, but this is really a little bad due to its unbalanced sweetness.

Bottle from a neoghbors collection. Reddish pour with thin off white head. Syrupy aroma with hints of vanilla. A little sweet for me and thin. Brown sugar finish. I was not crazy about it.

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.

Pours an attractive clear amber red, topped by a thin bubbly layer of foam. Spotty lacing. Sweet aroma of sugary vanilla. Lots of vanilla flavor, and not the cheapo vanilla extract either. A hint of charred oak. And then lots of sugar. And then that’s it. Lightish body, gentle carbonation. Not bad, but definately too much vanilla and too sweet for me.

Strong Vanilla. No confusing the flavor here. Very sweet. All malt with little to no hops. Very drinkable. Got this for my buddy who had this on tap down in Seaworld where they give you free samples (since Seaworld is sponsored by Anheuser Busch). He said he liked the tap version better, but still thought this was good. Of course, his palate isn’t quite adjusted to the more hoppy beers. Give Michelob some credit for trying to "dress up" their beer. A valid effort. Still not worth the overpriced $19 which I paid for it (even though it contained 2 snifters in a gift set). Also, at least they should put a cork in the bottle if they’re going to charge that much for it. The screw off cap is cheesy.

2006 vintage, 24 oz bottle. Pours hazy orangish color with white head. Aroma vanilla and nothing else, same with the taste, alcohol warming with dry finish. I am glad I got two snifter in the gift set.

All alcohol in the nose. Light amber color with a small head. Initial vanilla going into a slight alcohol burn and finishing with a imitation vanilla flavor that lasts with a slight amount of alcohol still coming though. Weak palate.