Budweiser American Ale

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

If you drink this offering from Bud like you would one of thier lagers, ie, ice cold, then I can see the reasoning behind some of the negative comments. Once it warmed up a bit, about the half-way point in the glass, some interesting things popped out - like coriander. This is a smooth-drinking ale, and while the Cascade hops that are claimed to have been used are virtually non-existant, I’de buy it again.

I really wanted to like this beer before cracking it open. There is zero taste to this beer.

Tap at some bar on Jericho Tpke: Amber pour with clarity and a thin off white head. The aroma is simple with toasted/dried barley and just a hint of caramelized character, no hops to speak of. Decent mouthfeel- mild/medium carbonation. A bit of a macro-malt flavor. Stale barley with a touch of toast and no hop character. Not as bad as expected considering the source, but still a bad Amber Ale.

It wasn’t bad but it wasn’t anything to write home about. I guess not a bad product from AB but then again I drank it straight out of the bottle so I couldn’t enjoy it out of a glass.

Clear pale copper, decent eggshell head. Sweet caramel with a bit of toast and grass. A surprisingly nice citrus flavor upfront, but it doesn’t follow through. Finish is thin with nowhere near the bitterness or malt character expected of an American Pale or Amber Ale. Way better than the regular Bud, but nothing compared to, say SNPA. Quaffable, for sure.

Bottle.Medium sized off-white head, semi-fizzy, with good retention, fair amount of lacing, transparent, orange hue, and champagne like carbonation. Aroma was sweet, malt, caramel, nutty, floral, citrus hops, and some pine notes. The flavor was sweet, nutty, malt, caramel, citrus hops, some pine, and finishes clean and semi-dry. Tingly, and somewhat of a sticky, gummy mouthfeel and medium bodied. A quaffable, nicely balanced beer by AB and hats off to them for brewing a beer that I would absolutely drink over the rest of the BMC beers. This is easy to drink, and I may be wrong with this, but I truly do not believe that the masses that drink AB beers are going to enjoy this particular beer due to the color and flavor. Come on, it’s not yellow and fizzy!!

Bottle. Pours clear amber with white head. Aroma is malt and caramel. Flavor is caramel malts with touch of hops. Decent mouthfeel. If they were tring to make a hoppy pale ale they failed but as an amber it is not to bad and is an easy drinker. Would take this over other basic bud and miller options.

Pours a clear amber color. Slim cream colored head. Basic light malt aroma, but that’s about it. Tastes a little watered down, with a hint of hops and malt. But it truly is lacking in terms of an amber ale. But for Bud? One of their better beers.