Michelob Ultra Amber

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

I found this to be fairly despicable. At least the regular Ultra had very little to no taste. This thin and overcarbonated brew(?) had a weird artificial taste, kind of like plastic. It looks better than regular Ultra though. I couldn’t hardly finish this one.

Dear lord. Tried this at a wedding where the only other options were Winter’s Bourbon Cask Ale and Budweiser. Tried the Winter’s Bourbon first and it was awful. I figured this might be the only time in my life that I try Mich Ultra Amber, so I gave it a shot. It wasn’t any better. No need for a detailed description here. Just know that it sucks.

bottle, dark brown color, faint nose with sweet caramely flavors better finish than the other ultras.

pours an ugly clear burnt orange under a small white head. aroma is that of your typical macro lager with notes of metal and skunky hops. way over carbonated pop rocks palate. flavor sucks.

Bottle. Clear copper in color with no head. Citrusy hoppy aroma. Malty flavor. Good lawnmowing beer. Ok

bottle - Pours clear light amber with a thin, fading head. The malt aroma is light. The flavor was very lacking. It was more malts substantial than the standard Ultra but still weak and had no hops presence to speak of. The body was very thin and watery and the finish seems off somehow, but it’s close enough to water it doesn’t offend too much. I wonder... do the huge American macrobrews just not even try? Do they deliberately make horrible beer? They must.

Pours a brownish amber color not to deep, with a creamy white head. Has a sweet caramel aroma, but its very light and not overwhelming. Has that rich malty flavor with a weak finish.

Rerated 6/24/07: On tap at the Little Traverse during a poker run, Looks darker, taste is winelike. Vinegar or sour aroma in a 20 oz plastic cup. No bitterness but does has a sour taste. Mild & well behaved, quite different than the bottle I had a while ago. Old Rating: 12 oz brown bottle with a twist off cap. Has a nice aroma of sweetness. Pours a little darker than I expected, perhaps even a little brown. Initial taste is a little weak but there is no offense except for the possible hint of dishwater in the background. Is a little weak in the hop department and it seems the hops are stripped of their impressive ability and replaced with inoffensive floating hoppyness. Same with the malts., they are missing something. Do malts add calories to the beer? This beer seems to trying to imitate the amber style of dark lagers by still remaining a pale lager. I’m curios as to how a beer that is brown can be classifies as a pale lager. A little less pleasantly flavorful than many of the other good pale lagers. Finish has a lingering aftertaste that is not too pleasing. This is somewhat on par with henie light and other beers of the genre. Not as good as miller highlife or rolling rock.