Bud Ice

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

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker

Now come on, there are plenty of beers that taste nasty. This just tastes of sparkling mineral water with a little bit of demerara sugar added. Not sure it’s beer to be honest, but I’d drink this over a fair few horrors I’ve tried in the past.

Got it for the bottle, which was cool at the time. Tastes like all other Bud products, gritty, metallic, dusty. Would prefer if I never had to get this again.

I don’t think I need to comment...other than, "IT"S AN ICE BEER FOR GOD’S SAKE!"

I figured I’d go into Stat Whore mode for a moment, coming back down off the mountaintop of hop goodness to kick some reality back into me. It’s been a while, and this beverage is suitable for that descent from up on high. Changing my mindset and suspending disbelief for the time being, there’s something appealing about this. Something about that nice blue label and the promise of higher alcohol content than that to which I was accustomed. Wasn’t looking for hops. Wasn’t looking for malt. Wasn’t looking for taste. Just something to drink with alcohol allure that presented itself to me in a street-whore kind of way. Didn’t disappoint! Better to be a pig in slop and satisfied than Socrates dissatisfied, that’s my excuse. Appreciation for mass culture is necessary to proper understanding of one’s fellow man, so goes my untested hypothesis. As American as McDonald’s, welfare motherhood, and 2-for-$1 apple pies. Did I mention that I could actually taste something when I drank this?

More alcho-pop. Fizzy pale yellow with a decently retained egg white colored head. Aroma is unpleasent with damp cardboard being the dominant aroma. Flavor is better. Sweet corn flavor and thats about it. The only reason this is drunk is for the 5.5% ABV and the very cheap price tag. Ugh.

bottle from local bodega,more taste than regular Bud unforunately the taste is wack, metallic, corny beer ehh

On July 4th on a steaming day and a mostly empty cooler a bud ice offered the only refreshment save water. Probably because I was so damn thirsty but the mild maltiness with the inherent water actually made it refreshing.

UPDATED: OCT 31, 2005 I think I can taste a little alcohol but that’s about it for this lager. Very similar to regular but, not smooth tasting like the commercial description says. Weak malt flavor as expected. Maybe a little dryer than regular, hard to tell.