Michelob Celebrate Vanilla Oak

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

I’m not getting the vanilla aroma I did the first time I tasted this. Smells like a slightly more hoppy michelob lager. Amber in color with a fast fading head. The vanilla comes out in the flavor along with a fruity sweetness (cherry?) and you can even taste the oak. Some almond notes are in there as well. The finish is a touch too syrupy tasting, but it’s definitely one of the better Bud products I’ve ever had.

(bottle - 24 oz: 2005 vintage) Cloudy copper color with not much of a head. Aroma is very sweet and sticky with lots of oak, vanilla, bubblegum, and some cookie dough. Lots of sweet malts. Overly sweet flavor with tons of vanilla, malts, plums, alcohol, bubble gum, and a ton of smoke flavor at the end. Very complex but way too sweet. Alcohol very present.

orange/amber with no head. tastes like cream soda. alcohol is hidden. medium bodied. aroma of cream soda. yuck.

Dang - I wanted to like this, but what a piece o crap. Looked good, a bright crystal ruby-garnet color, fizzy head, fading quickly leaving no lace. Poured with legs, revealing the alcohol potency. Aroma mild, but lots of vanilla, a little melanoidin malt, maybe some burnt malt, and a heavy whiff of alcohol. Flavor sweetish up front, with a little hint of vanilla, some whiskey, brandy notes, going straight into a harsh alcoholic finish. Thin body, sickly, with not enough carbonation. A general impression of a bad vanilla cream soda mixed with brandy. I nursed a glass of this until I couldn’t torture myself anymore, so harsh and unbalanced it is not drinkable. I dumped the remaining bottle and regret at the $11 purchase.

Very clear, light amber body with little to no head. Light alcohol and vanilla aroma. Sweet, almost too much so, with a strong vanilla extract flavor. Quite artificial. Light bodied, thin. A nice big beer only for those who haven’t had many others.

Two words: Train wreck. This beer makes Celebrate Chocolate look like a good idea.

Ample bottle from Budweiser rep. Not half bad! Big nose of vanilla and oak. Very creamy and smooth on the palet.

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.