Bud Extra (B-to-the-E)

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

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

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10 oz. can for $1.50. Pours a pale yellow color. Aroma is sweet and fruity. Kind of like oranges and candy. It tastes like Budweiser with an energy drink poured into it. It is kind of interesting I guess. I prefer Sparks though if I’m gonna drink and energy malt beverage.

Can at the Syracuse Holiday Brewfest Dec.04 2004. Light anemic yellow. Smell of raspberry and cream soda. Very sweet mix of cream soda and lactic acid. No body malternative.

Ok, this one was out there. I think this beer would get much better ratings if it had any color! Would do better to add some red food coloring. Definitely a novelty beer, but much better than any AB product I have tasted. I can see it now, people carried out of clubs because they had 6 cans of this stuff, all strung out. If it doesnt make it past test marketing, you can try some by pouring 50% red bull and 50% bud into a glass.

Why the Hell did I buy this? Poured a light yellow color with an averaged sized white head. Herbal/fruity taste and aroma. Sweet. Bizarre beer. More of an Energy Drink taste than a beer. Novelty beer at the most.

Very light straw colored. Head is initially medium-sized, creamy white, and falls to a thin, white ring. Very sweet, sugary aroma, with a definite fruitiness that I can only compare to raspberry Kool Ade. Wow, I just took a sip. This stuff has a sweetness to match the aroma: cane sugar, raspberry, candy - nothing in there that resembles beer. Finish has a very light bitterness, and only there do you get the hint that you may be drinking a beer. Sticky sweetness coats your mouth for quite a while after taking a drink. Everything in this seems artificial. I have seen the future, and it is full of college kids slamming B to the E. Mark my words.

Also, I predict that this will be the highest rated Anheuser-Busch product on the site. Go figure.

Poured from a mini can a crystal clear pale straw with a quickly dinishing white head. I smell no beer in there. Aroma is very sweet and fruity but nit a fruit I can think of...more like candy. Flavor...I taste no beer so for a bud wow they made bud better. Fruity again candy like. Ends a little tart. Actually becomes more tart as I drink it. Very light body but filling from being very carbonated. As I keep drinking I think that end taste might be from the added caff, ginseng etc. I think the ladies who like fruit drinks will like it. Hmm a test. Yes my wife loves it....She also loves Steel Reserve 211. Now what to base my scores on...beer or something other than. I don’t mind smelling it and it is oddly drinkable but not like having a beer.

B to the E, picked it up at a Sav-On Drugs in Vegas. Two ten ounce cans for $3 USD. Born on date, 10.26.04. Heavy pear aroma, sweet flavor. Sugary flavor, did not detect any caffeine flavor (if there is such a thing). After a day of driving through Southern Nevada this was a good beer to kick-off a Friday night on Fremont Street. A-B may be able to find a niche market with this beer.

This was some decent shit actually. I figured it to be god awful, but it was basically like dropping a red bull in my bud. Had a weird fruity flava to it. i was tired before having it and it woke me up i guess. I would rather have a rockstar and then a beer, not both in one though.

UPDATED: APR 15, 2005 Clear and pale yellow with a foamy -- but quickly fading -- head. Smells like an energy drink. Soft texture with a prickly carbonation. Very sweet base (probably from "natural flavors," rather than from the malt). Big notes of synthetically sweetened apples. A strange, tangy bitterness surfaces a couple of seconds after swallowing. Aftertaste isn’t very appealing, with some very odd flavors and aromas (i.e., plastic, chemically fabricated fruit flavors, odd bitterness). A sticky residue lingers in the back of the throat after swallowing, making it kind of cloying. Overall, it’s like the offspring of a diet energy drink and a bland beer. Drink a bunch in a row and it could be a heart attack in a can.

This is what you get when you mix Budweiser with something similar to Sparks. Because of the fruity stuff that is added into this Bud drink, it’s more flavorful that the typical Bud. They are sold in ten-ounce cans.