Budweiser Select

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

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

This is easily the most disappointing beer I’ve ever had. I think to myself - hey Jay Z’s doing commercials, and yeah, he’s not too relevant anymore, but what the hell, it could be kinda cool anyways. It came in some funky looking thin cans. I was drinking it on a roof deck at night in downtown Manhattan. So really, everything looking up at this point. So then I take a sip and... nothing. Just nothing. I have often described it by saying that the entire experience is over while you’re still waiting for the taste. Granted, that means it goes down very very smooth, and I could probably drink a million of them at a time (ok, that might be an exaggeration, I’ll test it out later). So yeah, similar to Bud Select, this review seemed to have so much promise but now I’m just gonna end it without ever saying too much about the beer. Jay Z’s alright though, I mean, he got Beyonce, so props for that.

12 fl oz bottle. Pours clear and golden yellow with a small white head. Aroma is sweet cornish. Dry, bitter and watery. Thin watery finish.

Selected by whom? Pale straw, large white head. Unbalanced malt, no hops or bitterness. A pointless beer.

Sampled at a bar. Not bad by Bud standards. Well drinking and tempting to go back for another unlike other products.

Bottled. A golden beer with a white head. The aroma is sweet with notes of brewing syrup. The flavor is sweet with light notes of vitamins as well as brewing cereal and just a touch of malt. The body is watery thin. Forgetable.

12 oz. bottle. Somewhere between Bud and Bud Light, I suppose. Easier to drink than Bud, slightly more grain, rice, corn than Bud Light. I guess the low carbs are a plus, and it’s not offensive like some others in its class.

Pale yellow. No head. I honestly don’t know what to say, because I couldn’t taste ANYTHING, good or bad. No bad flavors for me knock it down (so in that sense it’s better than most A-B products), but nothing good to bump it up either. Just fizzy yellow water. If you’re just looking for a lawnmower beer, you could do worse. Or much, much better.

Pale yellow, fizzy head, faint aroma of grain. Flavor of slight grain, virtually no finish, virtually no hops. At least there are no offensive, vegetal, or off flavors. But - Long brewed? Bavarian hops? Dark gold in color? What a joke...