Michelob Ultra Pomegranate Raspberry

Light gold pour with a fizzy head. Beer aroma and flavor is nearly non existent. Sweet fruitiness dominates. No big deal!

This is pretty nasty stuff, thin beer overall, whoever though that corn and rice, could be masked by pomegranate and raspberry, reminds me of the dead kennedys fresh fruit for rotten vegetables. Except that it is not fresh but artifical.

bottle, thin yellow color, nose is hawaiian fruit punch, flavorless like a melted red snocone

Bottles of Michelob Ultra Pomegranate Raspberry ’snuck’ into the bar where I work. I have a feeling the local A-B rep comp’d the bar a case. Knowing that I will never buy one I popped open a bottle to sample and share. Body is light yellow, with some fruit flavors in the aroma. The pomegranate and raspberry flavors are very weak and being backed by a thin beer does not help. Just nothing going on here for me, but I suppose that A-B has put in market research to justify that somebody lwill buy this beer.

Bottle poured a clear yellow with a small lingering ring of white foam. Aromas of raspberry, cookie and pomegranate. Palate was light bodied and crisp. Flavors of pomegranate, raspberry and cookie with a crisp clean finish.

Golden color, little head, and no appearance of any fruit. Aroma is of sweet berries, nothing else. Taste is very watery and fake, overly sweet fruit extracts. Nothing offensive-tasting here, just not enough hops and malts, and clearly not much real fruit used. I like a well made fruit beer, but this one is just plain boring.

The wife and daughter like Mic Ultra so I got a 12 pk for them and so I could get this over with and try these 3. This one had a very sweet(berry or cherry?) aroma. Flavor was more of a sweet soda with alittle Mic Ultra added to it. No need to try again.

7/12/2008: I will start by going on the record to say that this beer isn’t all that horrible. That being said, let me qualify that comment before a get roasted by somebody for this opinion... I don’t hate fruit beers and actually really enjoy them if properly done. Michelob Ultra Pomegranate Raspberry isn’t great by any stretch, but for a macro, mass-produced, fruit-flavored beer, it really isn’t that bad. It actually tastes a lot less fake than I had originally anticipated and they did a pretty good job of keeping the fruitiness in check. This beer has the same transparant, pale champagne as most light beers and it is generously carbonated. The aroma has fresh raspberry and that dry pome/cranberry-esque quality (pomegranate doesn’t really present a discreet aroma for me). The flavor has a slightly powdery raspberry in the front along with a trace amount of that difficult-to-describe pomegranate fruitiness and dryness. A soft light beer flavor can be found in the mid-palate. The finish has the typical graininess and the fruit flavors linger. This beer could have been a lot more horrible that in actually is. My wife and mother really seemed to enjoy it. I guess that’s what counts to some degree!

12 fl. oz. clear twist-off bottle (4.2% Alc./Vol.) from my mother. Rating #83 for this beer...