Michelob Celebrate Vanilla Oak

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

Bottle, Vail Beer Fest. Head is mostly diminishing. Body is medium amber. Aroma is moderately malty (caramel), with notes vanilla, candy sugar, and DMS. Flavor is moderately sweet. Finish is lightly sweet, lightly bitter, unclean. Medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation, lightly alcoholic. If you’re even slightly meticulous, you will find the macro-swill smell underneath the sugary and vanilla notes. That’s a shame, really...why use a shitty base beer to make a special brew? Oh, right, this is A-B we’re talking about. God forbid they would actually avoid shortcuts and adjuncts for a fancy packaged celebratory beer. That would cost money.

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 .

(bottle) Nice amber red with off white head. Aroma of vanilla. Flavor is vanilla and oak. Blech.

I’ve had multiple chances to consume this beer and have skipped it either on purpose or by chance each time. So now the beer finds it’s way to our tasting and while it’s not horrible, it’s nothing to shout about either.

The beer pours out a clear, orangeish/amber color with a one-finger thick head. Aroma is vanilla-extract like. Cheap vanilla-extract to be specific. A bit of buttered bread, and grains and caramel also show up in the background, but the vanilla is so over the top...not in a good way. Mouthfeel is watery. Flavors are vanilla, waffle-cones, and alcohol. Now there’s good ways to use vanilla beans (see Schooners VBOS) and bad ways. This is the bad way. Ew.

I bought this as a joke for a friend...and what a joke it was. Came in a weird, bullet-shaped bottle with a plastic lid. I’ll spare you the details on this one....just think of regular Michelob mixed with cream soda and malt liquor. As for the alleged bourbon barrel again...it kinda made me with I were drinking a bourbon. Shit, this stuff sucks.....I am gonna go get a bourbon.

i bought this shit at a ghetto ass gas station outside of sarasota florida for like 10 dolla. it is very bad, way too much vanilla flavor that covers up the thin alcoholesque slightly malty beverage. i forgot to keep the glasses, dammit, that was the only good part.

2005 bottle. Ruby-garnet to chestnut-auburn, clear, rather viscous looking in the glass, with a bit of fairly dense grey-beige head (look at the picture to the left) that is poorly to moderately retained, no lacing. Aroma of thick, syrupy, artificial candy (twizzlers, jolly ranchers provide the light fruit notes, while a heavier, darker and equally artificial candy note is present as well). Bits of light wood notes, dry, short lived but no where near the strength needed to balance this sweetness (which is predominantly thick, syrupy, cloying caramel and buttercream). Notes of light cinnamon and toffee and then of course, we have the vanilla. What can I say? This is actually done well, be it a bit too heavy. The notable thing is that it is a whole bean vanilla addition, providing a true vanilla note, in place of the expected vanilla extract. Some crunchy dark malts, bit of graininess, but it’s fleeting and inadequate. The flavor is a syrupy, cloying mess of a beer, very artificial, sluggish and with no elegance whatsoever. Thick vanilla cream flavors combine with syrupy sugar and candy coated cherries to pulverize the senses, while the wood character adds a sharpness on the end that is neither welcome nor balancing. Syrupy, extremely undercarbonated and underattenuated mouthfeel. But at least they got the vanilla right (sort of). . . .

Verbatim: Small white head, fair retention +spotty lace. Gold with a copper hue. Lotsa cotton candy, peach, sugars, marshmallow, candy corn. Sweet finish. You was right Brian. Thanks Robert!