-
Stop lurking! Log in to search, post in our forums, review beers, see fewer ads, and more. — Todd, Founder of BeerAdvocate
Bud Light Lime
Anheuser-Busch
- From:
- Anheuser-Busch
- Missouri, United States
- Style:
- Light Lager
Ranked #155 - ABV:
- 4.2%
- Score:
- 53
Ranked #28,535 - Avg:
- 2.19 | pDev: 36.53%
- Reviews:
- 604
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Tuesday at 05:02 PM
- Added:
- Mar 27, 2008
- Wants:
- 17
- Gots:
- 785
Bud Light Lime is brewed using a combination of barley malts, non-malted cereal grains, subtle hopping and natural lime flavor.
Recent ratings and reviews. | Log in to view more ratings + sorting options.
Ratings by tempest:
Reviewed by tempest from New York
2.38/5 rDev +8.7%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
2.38/5 rDev +8.7%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
Ordered a $2 aluminum bottle at Stooge's in Allentown. Why? Because weird and bad beer fascinates me. It appeared a clear golden yellow with little to no head.
At first I couldn't decide whether this tasted more like a lemon-lime Sweet Tart or Smartie, but there really isn't enough tang for this to be a Sweet Tart. There was a hint of very plain, light barley malt in the background, but this beer was mostly a lime candy-flavored beverage. Barely beer, but technically it is. I will also give it credit for being completely inoffensive to the palate. If you're offended by fruity booze trying to pass as beer, however, that's another story. One was enough for me.
Nov 10, 2008At first I couldn't decide whether this tasted more like a lemon-lime Sweet Tart or Smartie, but there really isn't enough tang for this to be a Sweet Tart. There was a hint of very plain, light barley malt in the background, but this beer was mostly a lime candy-flavored beverage. Barely beer, but technically it is. I will also give it credit for being completely inoffensive to the palate. If you're offended by fruity booze trying to pass as beer, however, that's another story. One was enough for me.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by Death_Adder from South Carolina
4/5 rDev +82.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +82.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
On the nose it's one of the most pleasant smelling beers I've ever come across. It smells like freshly squeezed limes, and tastes like it as well. This might be my favorite Budweiser product now. It's a shame the price isn't lower and the abv isn't higher, but other than that, this is an above average beer for sure.
Style: Light Lager | Tap/Can/Bottle: Can | Abv: 4.2% | Rating: 4
Tuesday at 05:02 PMStyle: Light Lager | Tap/Can/Bottle: Can | Abv: 4.2% | Rating: 4
Rated by TheRealBen from Massachusetts
1.15/5 rDev -47.5%
look: 1.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
1.15/5 rDev -47.5%
look: 1.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
Do talking frogs like "natural lime flavor"?
Dec 20, 2023Rated by jarnev from Florida
2.71/5 rDev +23.7%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
2.71/5 rDev +23.7%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
I think this is a good beer to have after working in the hot Florida sun. Goes down smooth and easy.
Aug 19, 2023Reviewed by papposilenus from New Hampshire
2.52/5 rDev +15.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 1.25 | overall: 2.5
2.52/5 rDev +15.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 1.25 | overall: 2.5
From a 12oz bottle, vintage denoted as 22241VM1544. Served in a cervoise because fancy.
Pours an effervescent, pale honey-gold with a scant finger of fizzy suds. The head doesn’t stay around long enough to get much of a look at, just leaving the narrowest possible collar and a super-slippery film of what we may refer to as ‘lacing.’
Nose is bright and citrusy and otherwise has a faint cereal character. Aroma of lime, just as advertised.
Taste is corny and soapy with tart-tacky citrus. Tasting the titular lime, Corn Pops breakfast cereal and seltzer water.
Feel is slick and soapy, medium-thin bodied with fizzy, seltzer-like carbonation. In fact, each sip finishes not entirely unlike lime-flavoured seltzer water.
Overall, absolutely not utterly vile. It’s what the kids are drinking or, at least, it's what one of them left in my fridge.
Aug 19, 2023Pours an effervescent, pale honey-gold with a scant finger of fizzy suds. The head doesn’t stay around long enough to get much of a look at, just leaving the narrowest possible collar and a super-slippery film of what we may refer to as ‘lacing.’
Nose is bright and citrusy and otherwise has a faint cereal character. Aroma of lime, just as advertised.
Taste is corny and soapy with tart-tacky citrus. Tasting the titular lime, Corn Pops breakfast cereal and seltzer water.
Feel is slick and soapy, medium-thin bodied with fizzy, seltzer-like carbonation. In fact, each sip finishes not entirely unlike lime-flavoured seltzer water.
Overall, absolutely not utterly vile. It’s what the kids are drinking or, at least, it's what one of them left in my fridge.
Reviewed by JZH1000 from Colorado
2.33/5 rDev +6.4%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.25
2.33/5 rDev +6.4%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.25
24oz can, poured in a glass.
On the pour thre fingers of head form, with some retention off the bat, but after a moment, instead of a rocky head forming, it got fizzy and dissipated. Body is a completely clear gold. For a light lime lager, this is looking real fake.
Aroma is mostly the same lime flavor that comes on hint of lime chips, which I don't hate, probably because of the "real lime peels" used. In the back there is a carbonic acid aroma like generic seltzer water, with a very light bud light funk. Smells blandly acidic with a "hint of lime".
Taste follows the aroma, but admittedly loses the off flavors. Still however those is very bland and would probably be most enjoyable after a strong malt liquor while outside in very hot weather. This is about as flavorful as a lime truly, but with a slight and light reminder that this is beer with a very vague malt character at the end.
Feel is the only decent category here. It is drinkable like regular bud light, but it almost comes off as even more watery. Despite that the lime flavoring amd possible sweetener makes the finish long amd a bit syrupy. Meh.
Overall the only reason to drink this is if you can't afford leinie's summer shandy, but you desperately need something different than the cheap lagers in the 24oz cooler at the gas station.
Jul 20, 2023On the pour thre fingers of head form, with some retention off the bat, but after a moment, instead of a rocky head forming, it got fizzy and dissipated. Body is a completely clear gold. For a light lime lager, this is looking real fake.
Aroma is mostly the same lime flavor that comes on hint of lime chips, which I don't hate, probably because of the "real lime peels" used. In the back there is a carbonic acid aroma like generic seltzer water, with a very light bud light funk. Smells blandly acidic with a "hint of lime".
Taste follows the aroma, but admittedly loses the off flavors. Still however those is very bland and would probably be most enjoyable after a strong malt liquor while outside in very hot weather. This is about as flavorful as a lime truly, but with a slight and light reminder that this is beer with a very vague malt character at the end.
Feel is the only decent category here. It is drinkable like regular bud light, but it almost comes off as even more watery. Despite that the lime flavoring amd possible sweetener makes the finish long amd a bit syrupy. Meh.
Overall the only reason to drink this is if you can't afford leinie's summer shandy, but you desperately need something different than the cheap lagers in the 24oz cooler at the gas station.
Reviewed by beerbussy
3.7/5 rDev +68.9%
look: 5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.5
3.7/5 rDev +68.9%
look: 5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.5
whats a better lime beer than this? to all craft beer snobs/women what is better. just buy regular beer that doesnt taste like dogshit. if you want something strong pour a real glass. this forum is fucking sad
Jun 11, 2023Rated by Graham71
3.56/5 rDev +62.6%
look: 4 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4
3.56/5 rDev +62.6%
look: 4 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4
Out of all the lime flavored beers its the most refreshing on a hot day.
Apr 20, 2023Reviewed by jdamaso84 from Colorado
4.74/5 rDev +116.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5
4.74/5 rDev +116.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5
Look: Light haze, like looking through a deeply familiar, cozy mist rolling through the family farmstead.
Smell: Rivaled only by traversing through the fields of Tecomán on a warm day at peak lime season.
Taste: Like plucking its carefully-blended native fruit off of a tree and sipping its gently-fermented contents through a frosted, platinum-lined metal straw.
Feel: Silky. Soft. Comfortable. Horse blanket on a frigid autumn morning. Nostalgic and pure; truly joyous! Unmistakable and irreplaceable.
Overall: The perfect beer. Overlooked, but likely not for long. Many are behind on this one, but it will have its day and when it does I do genuinely hope Budweiser (keep an eye on this beermaker) can meet customer demand.
Feb 26, 2023Smell: Rivaled only by traversing through the fields of Tecomán on a warm day at peak lime season.
Taste: Like plucking its carefully-blended native fruit off of a tree and sipping its gently-fermented contents through a frosted, platinum-lined metal straw.
Feel: Silky. Soft. Comfortable. Horse blanket on a frigid autumn morning. Nostalgic and pure; truly joyous! Unmistakable and irreplaceable.
Overall: The perfect beer. Overlooked, but likely not for long. Many are behind on this one, but it will have its day and when it does I do genuinely hope Budweiser (keep an eye on this beermaker) can meet customer demand.
Bud Light Lime from Anheuser-Busch
Beer rating:
53 out of
100 with
2733 ratings
We love reviews (150 characters or more)! Check out: How to Review a Beer. You don't need to get fancy. Drop some thoughts on the beer's attributes (look, smell, taste, feel) plus your overall impression. Something that backs up your rating and helps others. Thanks!