Michelob Celebrate Vanilla Oak

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

An orangish pour with an aroma of vanilla and alcohol. A malty vanillie flavor that tastes like a cream ale soda with alcohol. A decent palate that is thin but not fizzy. Pleasant surprise.

Nice dark amber color,small tannish head that had a decent hangt ime then faded to leave a bit of a lace behind.Malty sweetish aroma ,some hints of maybe some bourbonesque or wine like smell coming through as well as maybe some caramel or toffee.The flavor is sort of unbalanced you get a little malt up front then it turns thin and alcoholic with a funky sort of vanilla taste and some earth tones coming through in the middle some oak notes but mostly i just get that sickening vanilla taste and alcohol.This seems more like a cheap high octane ML then anything to me.It’s not worth the $20 to try but hey gotta go once around .

A bright orange appearance with almost no head. A caramel, raisin, and alcohol aroma. The flavor is quite interesting with vanilla, oranges, honey, and lemons. The alcohol really shows through from beginning to end on this one. The twist off cap is still cracking me up. Overall it was not as bad as I had feared.

a nice pour, ruby hints in a rich mahogany body with a cream head. aroma has vanilla, sugar, and some sort of berry. interesting. sweet flavor, very sweet, but not cloying. cotton candy and vanilla are present. a bit butter toffee in the finish with some noticeable alcohol, but i’m not complaining about noticing alcohol on a 10 percent sipper on a sunday morning while trying to get the smoker burning in the cold and rain. i will have brisquet, oh yes i will. back to the beer, caramel edge to this as it warms that also brings out more vanilla. a slick mouthfeel that coats my tongue. there is also something yarn like. i am enjoying this. this goes well with an iced honey bun

Pours a clear, copper/vermillion with red leanings. A fizz of a head settles immediately to a hairline of halo. Dusty, macro-corn & light diacetyl aromas under prominent vanilla. My impression is that it smells like a brewpub experiment. Alcohol is intense as it warms. Flavor finds cloyingly sweet vanilla with nuttiness beneath. Thinly syruped with light alcohol-astringence late. My suggestion is to have this in place of your late night craving for ice cream.

I suppose the increase in alcohol, body and flavor (albeit contrived) is reason for A/B to celebrate, but it’s not quite reason enough for me. This beer is cloying yet strangely drinkable for those who don’t mind their pancakes absolutely smothered with syrup.

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Aroma is oak, flour, butter, raspberries, vanilla, cherry coke. body is brown white orange hue. Taste is fruity with oak, caramel, vanilla and dried fruit along with some hazelnut. Palate is too light for the alcohol content, but if this is really 10% it is hidden well.

Clear amber with a medium, dense off-white head. The aroma is sweet caramel, alcohol, and vanilla bean. The flavor is quite sweet and dominated by vanilla. Vanilla is an easy flavor to over do. Full creamy body. Almost like a glass of vanilla ice cream topped by caramel sauce. The real trouble starts as it gets warmer. This is when the choking cloying sweetness of this becomes obvious.

Bottle sampled with Stegosaurus. Pours deep copper with an off-white head. Aroma of vanilla, alcohol, and bourbon. The flavor ia sweet, alcohol, and vanilla, but taste a little weird like all these new and improved flravor were just added to a bottle of regular michelob.