Natural Light

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

24oz can. Cheap beer that does not live beyond its means. This beer truly is what it is. And unlike most beers of this caliber that have nothing to report because there is nothing there, this one has one of the worst smells I have even had go up my nose. It is sour and metallic and very reminiscent of a bathroom at a gas station. If you drink this beer DO NOT SMELL IT! Because the smell combined with the yellow color will make you think about what this might actually be. After the smell I almost didn’t taste it. But since I had spent a whole $1.32 I couldn’t pour it out (eventually I did; could not finish it). Once I built up the courage to taste it I was greeted by an astringent bitterness and a remote Cornish maltyness. Aftertaste is flat. Thank God its over.

Well as much as I detest these beers, I was given one today, and as I try always to be polite, I accepted it, as it’s been like 4 years since I sampled one, so what’s the harm. The beer as it pours from the 12 ounce aluminum can, it forms a transparent gold color with a bright white head and the lace a very thin sheet to cover the glass. Nose is all malt, sweet, fresh and crisp to the senses, start is lightly sweet, some malt noticed, the top is cadaverous. Finish has a benign acidity, the hops negligible, very dry, guess its better than dying of thirst, but only barely.

Accepted as a courtesy from a friend of mine on vacation. Forgot that I hadn’t rated it. 5 years without a Natch Lite (since I’ve been on this board) must mean that I’ve been living right - used to drink a good bit of this in college back in the 80’s. Bland malt liquor aroma. Worthless appearance - pale fizzy water, bad can (what are the two boomerangs supposed to represent). Very light hopping, banana esters. Bad. Yech, I’d forgotten exactly how bad this was.

Pale yellow color with a medium frothy white head. Aroma of grain, corn and wet cardboard. Flavor of light rice and some cardboard.

Almost no taste. From can - metallic and bitter/sour. You get what you pay for.

Drank this one after a skunky beer. Could find no aroma to speak of. Body was gold in color and had a water downed taste. Wouldn’t be my choice for frige fill.

Little to no aroma, but not funky like I thought I’d remembered. Very thin and ricay, it doesn’t taste like anything (which actually raises the score slightly once you’ve the worst beer ever: Huebert’s Old Tyme Lager). Not good, but slightly better that I remembered. Also, this score may be slightly inflated since I was working hard all day before having this. Ya know, the lawnmower effect.

Smells like wet paper and burlap, yellow color, foamy white head. No taste. This beer has no taste. That’s a neat trick - yellow water. Someone forgot to add the ingredients.