Natural Ice

Brewed by Anheuser-Busch InBev
Style: Malt Liquor
St. Louis, Missouri USA

24 ounce can. I hated Natty Light IN COLLEGE! We’ll see if this is any better at all. Pale straw yellow A mere whisper of a head. Boozy and slightly fruity corn aroma with some sawdust. Taste is an acrid graininess with faint corn notes. Really tart and offputting. The corn turns to creamed corn as it warms. I won’t say the taste is smooth. No way. Watery. Worse than Natty Light... this actually has flavor.

February 3, 2004 bottling. Pale, sparkling yellow, with huge sparkling carbonation forming a large white head that quickly fades. I smiled as I sniffed the nose of this beverage. Although the gas station had been careful to keep this beer cellared at 40 degree Farenheit temperatures, I was worried that the exposure to the flourescents may have damaged the bouquet. But cereal aromas of corn and rice rose to greet me, unharmed by their handling over the past 30 days. These aromas merged seemlessly into an aroma that was somewhat reminiscent of Sanger Hall at MCV, in the room where they perform the medical autopsies. Sharp, attention grabbing carbonation brought my palate bouncing to life, preparing it to meet the rush of flavors. Rice, corn, and a slight sweetness flooded my mouth, before fading away rapidly, leaving only a trace of memory behind. Vile stuff.

Cheap beer that will put a hurting on you fast. A true alcoholic’s beer.

09.28.04 12oz can. I accidentally busted up a 12-pack of this stuff at work, so the boss told me my punnishment was to take it home and taste it. Ok. Totally clear, pale, yellowish, artificial looking. Big fizzy white head is loud as it quickly fades to ziltch. Aroma has hints of mulching grass, something chemical like nail polish remover can be detected but you really have to concentrate (I had others tell me the same). Almost zero flavor but touches of wet typing paper. My tongue and cheeks momentarily burn, but not in a good way. At least at the price/ABV you might quickly forget this abomination.

Ahhh, Natty Ice. Metal that has been liquified and thinned. Among the worst beverages ever conceived, price be damned.

Ahhh, Natural Ice. A lifesaver when the wallet is bare and the pockets light. Strong, and sometimes quaffable (if close to freezing). This stuff definitely gets nasty above 40 degrees, but it is tolerable at extremely cold temperatures. When quantity is goal and quality is unaffordable, pick up a case of the Natty!

[can - 12 oz] Wow. This is just nasty. Tasted like a mixture of sweet corn with metal flakes. I don’t care if it’s 5.9%... it ain’t worth it.

Good god this is awful, A-B ought to be ashamed to even sell this. Now, I’m about as accepting as any of one of the pale lager style, but this was a mess. Actually the aroma wasn’t too bad, it was somewhat lemony. It was also a lemonade yellow color and produced a three finger eggshell pitted white head. But the flavor was dominated by acetaldehyde and fusel alcohols. A lighter bodied malt liquor essentially, and very bad. I wish I could give a 0 for flavor.