Michelob Celebrate Vanilla Oak

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

Aroma and taste are pretty similar. Oak,vanilla,semi sweet malt,hints of bourbon,dried dark fruits. I’m not getting ANY hops in this like others have noted. ABV is fairly well masked. Gotta give a macro a big thumbs up for a decent attempt. With a little tweaking this could damn good.

I had a feeling it was a bad idea to buy anything with a macro label on it but I thought I would give this one a try..... horrible mistake. Not a bad looking brew - deep ruby with a tight khaki head; however, it went downhill from there - and fast. Syrupy sweet aroma of vanilla extract and malt. Cloyingly sweet flavor of artificial vanilla and smoke-in-a-bottle atop a roasted malt backbone that was all too well masked by the vanilla syrup. Entirely too much alcohol in the finish which is otherwise much too sweet and stubbornly aggressive. I don’t know how this beer is getting so many "positive" reviews because it is simply awful. A-B should stick to doing what it does so well - flavorless industrial lagers.

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

smells and tastes like vanilla flavoring. it does have a funky plum aftertaste which has an alcohol bite

wasnt expecting much out of this. i was surprised when this was poured. i was expecting a dark black lager and instead got a bright clear almost ruby red lager with a very small white head. huge cranberry or cream soda aroma....maybe its big red. very sweet and kinda fruity. the vanilla is too much. tastes and smells more like imitation vanilla extract than actual vanilla. i do enjoy the mouth feel. medium bodied nice and creamy. the finish does leave a nasty bitter flavor in your mouth. kinda like drinking a bunch of imitation vanilla extract. big props to AB i didnt know that you could make a beer smell and taste like soda before i had this.

Too much vanilla flavor. Tastes kinda like cream soda. A little oak. some malt.

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.

750ml bottle.
I must confess I was motivated in part to find out whether this is actually a good beer that got low ratings here because it’s an A-B product or if the beer really is mediocre. Turns out it’s the latter. Pours a thick clear dark ruby red with little carbonation or head. Pleasant but one-dimensional aroma of extract-like vanilla and alcohol; maybe some cherry if you really concentrate. Vanilla, sweet caramel malt, faint fruit (apple, cherry), and unfortunately medicinal flavor is at the same time complex and weak. Leave it to A-B to perfectly walk that line. (This theme is foreshadowed by the shimmering, glossy gift box holding an elegently labeled bottle topped with a freakin’ screwcap. WTF is this, a limited-edition barrel-aged malt liquor?? This forehead-slappingly awkward packaging contradiction pretty much typifies the whole experience that is this beer.) For all the emphasis placed on the bourbon barrel aging, I can’t detect the faintest hint of bourbon. Thin mouthfeel and a flat, half-dead oily palate. This is the brewing equivalent of Ford trying to make Mercedes-Benz-type luxury cars and ending up with Lincolns. I’ll give A-B credit for trying, as this appears to be an honest effort and not just a cynical attempt to market obvious junk as treasure.