Michelob Ultra

Brewed by Anheuser-Busch InBev
Style: Pale Lager
St. Louis, Missouri USA

AARGH! No taste. Dry due to high carbonation. Probably only low carb because there is nothing in the beer. Worst thing is I finally gave in and paid AU$4.50 for 1 bottle.

Had this at our end of the year tennis party. Unfortunately, as league coordinator, I bought enough for everyone based on the suggestion of our women's league coordinator. Darn budget. I can't really say anything about it; barely qualifies as beer. No flavor to speak of, no mouthfeel, thank God it was in a bottle so I didn't have to look at it. Next league party I'm going to upgrade to at least PBR. Hell, anything would be better than this.

Nothing ultra about it. Tastes like urine mixed with water. Definitely not worthy of a rating. No chance of me buying this crap.

I thought this would be a sick treat to try as my 714th beer on 7/14 which ALSO happens to be my birthday. This beer pours the palest straw color one could possibly imagine. Perfectly clear, absolutely minimal carbonation, no head and some sort of green tint in the color as if there were some sort of hops present. Might as well have poured water, added yellow dye number 4 and a little club soda and called it beer! The aroma is absolutely non-apparent....this smelled cold, and that was it..no aroma present. The flavor is light bodied, watery, very little carbonation with a dry cardboard finish. Menacing medicinal qualities as it warmed beyond 45 degrees. Very tough flavor to describe as there really wasnt much going on here at all...something to the effect of licking a cold toilet... cleaning and medicinal products mixed with cold glass. No redeeming qualities whatsoever, but not as horrid as I would have come to expect given the ratings. Not something I’d care to try again though.

imagine a swiftly flowing little creek: if someone twenty yards upstream from you poured a nice lager into the water all at once-- and you had to attempt to scoop it out as it flowed past, this would approximate the shadowy remnant of that beer. take twelve ounces of that watery futility, add some serious environmental damage to the purity of the watershed, and then entirely re-animate it with a grrrreat deal of carbonation, and there is your michelob ultra. in other words, the brewing ingredients are measured in parts per million. the pour, rather than flowing into the glass with a golden lustre, has a silvery look; i was frightened by this, and dismayed, and wanted to close myself in reclusive isolation and prayer until memories of the horror diminished-- but i marshaled my will to carry on. in a tumbler, the brew finally resolved to a very faint yellow, faint as a distant star-- a bland yellow like couscous or the fibers of a used cigarette filter. it had some modest lager-like head, given to minimalism, and the long orbs of vertical "lace" sometimes looked like the beer was trying to flip me off. ultra has an aroma of soft plastic consumer items-- perhaps a package of tupperware bowls. taste follows through with some microwave-safe container flavor-- a container that may have once held creamed corn. it’s like a mildly steeped tea made of broom bristles; verily a broth of dried grasshopper wings would yield a bolder brew. virtually no bitterness, but what there is suggests an oily discharge from fermenting pickles. it has a revolting kind of artificial sweetness-- like a kernal of your own dried nasal crud on your tongue-- one nearly shivers with the repugnance of it. carbonation is the only element of the brewing process that showed up in force, it fizzes like a sparkler, just waiting for some ingredients to ground it in reality. they never show up, so it hisses like hydrogen peroxide. altogether, it amounts to a shameful tainting of pure water. one is reminded of the heart-wrenching lament of a ship-wrecked sailor, storm-tossed at sea and perishing of thirst, he cries: "water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink!"

This was a hard beer to rate, mainly becaiuse it was like rating a glass of water.......not bad, just nothing to it. I have to say that this was the clearest beer I’ve ever seen. Poured from the bottle, it looked like a carbonated water, with little to no head or lacing. Aroam and taste were not necessarily bad, but again, nothing to them. I really don’t know why people wouild spend money on this stuff. if you are that weight and health conscious, just drink water out of the tap, and forget about paying for the dark bottle and Michelob label.

Looks ok,very pale with a white head...wait a minute...forget the head bit..its gone now! No aroma,and only a slight flavour of adjuncts...no malt and definetely no hops. I suppose that’s how they managed to make it low carb...dont put anything in it.

Bottle.Clear and bubbly.Looks like club soda.Tastes like club soda.I wasn’t expecting much.I got what I expected