Natural Light

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

ah yes... the natty light. Dull, bland, gross aftertaste... it's even worse the next morning when your head is pounding.

Water w/ a slight beer aftertaste.

In college there was this bar called the Stone Balloon and every thursday night was Mug Night! If you brought your own mug (which you had to buy at the Balloon) you could get 50 cent Natty Light draft. I'd go with friends every now and then. I'd drink about 15 dollars worth of beer and I wouldn't be drunk. Then I'd start drinking shots of SoCo to get drunk. And then next morning I thought that I was going to die. This is a REALLY bad beer. It's next thing to water.

Story time. In college, a couple of freinds of mine lived right on the railroad tracks. The house sat about 25 yards from the tracks, and there was a decent grade of elevation between the tracks and the house. Once every 15 minutes or so, a train would happen by the house. Sometimes it was AmTrak, but more often then not, it would be a freighter hauling a few miles worth of coal cars. A train of this magnitude will shake a house like a woman with postpartum psychosis shakes a child. At any rate, on a clear night, you could look down the tracks and see the headlights of a train from miles away. Out by the tracks, we kept a few lawnchairs and a giant Rubbermaid(tm) trashcan full of empty beer bottles. When a train was spotted, we'd go sit in our chairs and wait for the train to travel the distance between us and the house, all the while prepping a few more bottles. Such was the routine, no matter the weather. Several memories return that include snow, ice, or freezing rain, and yet we'd wait there, 10 feet away and ten feet above the tracks, patiently waiting for the train to speed past. When the train did speed past, assuming it was not a passenger train, it was greeted with a barrage of flying beer bottles. The loud *pop* of beer bottles busting on the side of a train moving at 70 mph is a very distinct sound, one I will remember for years to come. First, there's the initial *pop*, then the sound of glass showering down on the gravel rail bed. We must have thrown a thousand bottles in this same spot, and the rail bed was as much glass as anything else. At any rate, one night, we found ourselves out of bottles, but James did have a full case of Natty in the fridge. Needless to say, we threw the whole case of full cans at trains that night, and it was at least as good as the bottles. Aside from throwing this beer at moving trains to witness the ensuing foamy explosion, I could not recommend this beer to anyone.

Re-rated 3/4/2008 - as beer #1 of the "Bad Beer Challenge". Pale gold color with light head. Taste is very watered down, nothing too special about this, but very weak. A small improvement to my previous rating. There is nothing natural about this light beer. It is just plain awful. Good if you are constipated and need some help with your pooper.

I was impressed with this stuff for a few reasons. It tastes reasonable, its cheap, and it gets the job done because it has one of the highest alcohol contents around for a cheap beer. It may be watered down but hell it got me through high school without hurting my pockets too bad. Natty Light was a top choice for me and my friends in High School. During this last football season I went into our local grocery store before the pregame show, hungover to beat hell, and I saw they had 12 packs of bottles of this stuff for 4.99. I immediately called my roommates and we bought 12 cases worth of this stuff.

I guess I’m swimming against the tide here. Back when I drank light beers this was my favorite lite macro. I don’t drink it any more but I preferred it to most. The only other macro lite I drank was Coors light.

Pale yellow beer. Aroma is actually almost imperceptible. Flavor combines water, metal, and the basic qualities of a shitty pale lager. Awful stuff.