Budweiser American Ale

Brewed by Anheuser-Busch InBev
Style: Amber Ale
St. Louis, Missouri USA

12 oz. bottle. From "mix-a-six" rack at Jewel. Actually a bit of a surprise. A brown bottle with a non-screwtop crown. Definite malt smell with a nosegay of hops that spreads out when I pour. Amber body with a pale ale head instead of fizzy macro pop foam. There’s some malt in the taste. Yes, some hops that are balanced more in favor of the malt. Not a boatload of PNW hops, just a profile that can repeated from year to year and in many breweries. Mouthfeel does come across a little brittle, like a light beer, the only real ding against it. Like the kid down the street who wants to be Honkers Ale when grows up.

Pours copper orange clear with some carbonation bubbles. Decent soapy head. This is Budweiser? Aroma actually has some malt & hops. Apple flavors. Best Budweiser I’ve had, but flat and lacking any finish of a real ale. Still, if you find this among only macroswill, it is the better of that variety.

Better than I expected but still not that great. Just once I’d like to see the big names take a risk! Nice red color with whitish head, mosty malty in flavor. Slight bitterness, a metallic-type smell, kind of foul.

(Draught) Pours a clear amber body with a medium off-white head. Aroma of caramel, grass, nuts, and toasted grain. Flavor of mild hops (grass, floral, earthiness), bread, and caramel malt.

Tap. Reddish-amber color with a nice sixed head. Hoppy, rough aroma. Flavor is hops and caramel. Quite grainy and quite carbonated, and not very smooth, but still much better than any other A-B product I’ve tried.

Bottle. Red beer with a big ol’ head. Big malty aroma, but this is essentially a sweet beer wtih a definite starchy bent. Why did I expect something better? (#3507, 2/14/2009)

Pours a brown hue with a small white head that is mostly diminishing. Taste is very burnt, and chalky - weirdly enough. Some dark fruits in the taste, but not much - mostly water and wood. Hoppy aroma with a slightly bitter ending taste. Medium body with light carbonation. Better than bud light? yes

This tastes burnt. Why can’t they get anything right? It does have a slight hop aroma, in a break from their typical brews. Amber in color (likely from artificial caramel coloring). This is just unpleasant. Horribly over rated here at 2.7