Budweiser Select 55

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

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

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100th Pale Lager. But with only 2.4% this watered down ’beer’ should probably be a Low Alcohol. The thing is, it isn’t horrible. It pours a surprisingly dark golden yellow with an extremely quick white fizz. The aroma is thin macro lager standard fare of a pinch of corn with a dash of hops. After that it is water. The taste is sparkling water, with a bit of hopped malt extract. Inoffensive, so bland.

I never appreciated low calorie beers until I went on a serious diet. You can drink a six pack of this for under 350 calories. It is some watered down crap and you need to drink a ton to get drunk but it is what it is.

Tall bone white head, no retention. Pale straw pour with lots of carbonation. Looks like ginger ale. Aroma is actually really offensive. Sour corn and hot garbage. Flavor is almost shockingly absent. There’s a familiar touch of sour malt that reminds you of the flavor of other crappy lagers, priming you to expect more of that, but it never shows up. The flavor that is present is so bad that it makes me a bit relieved that there’s not more of it. Seriously, the finish is just nothing, completely nonexistent. There’s a faint touch of berries showing up; blueberry, raspberry. This makes it all the more reminiscent of a seltzer water. Pretty damn bad, but like I said, the lack of flavor might actually improve it.

when ice cold this is a good beer but its like drinking water. but its nice being able to share a twelve pack in an afternoon while swimming in 90 weather.

Poured a straw, watered-down yellow. Aroma is corn syrup and barley. Taste is sweet corn and bitter. Very thin palate, but a good substitute for water on a hot summer day.

Bottle. Light sour barley malt aroma. Golden yellow color with moderate but short-lasting head. Slightly sweet barley malt flavor. Weak but just probably better than Bud Select - actually not horrible for a 2.5% AB beer and no off tastes.

Can’t believe I bought this expensive flavored water. Its not offensive in any way but lacks any redeeming qualities.

Here is some math for you half the calories and half the alcohol means you drink twice as much for the same effect so you actually drink the same amount of calories

Bottle from Thad’s fridge. There was no aroma but at least it was offensive. Appearance is a straw color. This tastes like carbonated water flavored with a bit of malt. Its easy to drink, I’ll give it that.

This beer is so watered down it is like drinking a bottled water that had a drop of beer in it.

crystal clear gold, thin white head...Aroma: essentially none. Taste is faintly corny. I agree with my peers.....It DOES taste like alka-seltzer !!! This is SO light, So non-existent, you could look at a picture of it and get the same feeling as drinking it.