Bud Light Lime Grape-Fruit-Rita
Anheuser-Busch

 

Tastes like alcoholic Ocean Spray Ruby Red. Not terrible, however I personally enjoy the Lime-A-Rita more.
2.51 - C
Decent

So refreshing and tasty. Only wish it came in smaller cans. Love the grapefruit!

 

A: Pours a cloudy pale to medium pink in color (not dissimilar to the color of Ocean Spray Pink Grapefruit Juice Cocktail or Ocean Spray Mauna Lai from my childhood) with moderate amounts of active visible carbonation rising quickly along the edges of the glass and faint pale orange colored highlights. The beer has a finger tall fizzy white head that quickly reduces to a small patch of very thin film and a very thin ring at the edges of the glass. Minimal amounts of lacing are observed.

S: Moderate aromas of sweetened pink grapefruit juice/grapefruit soda with some hints of artificial grapefruit flavoring and lime.

T: Upfront there are light flavors of cereal grain malts with moderate to significant amounts of sugary sweetness. That is followed by strong flavors of sweetened pink grapefruit juice/grapefruit soda with some hints of artificial grapefruit flavoring and hints of sweetened lime. Relatively clean finish.

M: Light to medium bodied with moderate amounts of carbonation. Light amounts of alcohol warming in the finish.

O: Drinks easily considering the strength - the alcohol is well hidden by the sugary sweetness. Better flavor-wise than some of the other offerings in the series but much sweeter.

This CANtinues my delving into the Ritas as a part of yesterday's New Bud Light Lime Beer-A-Rita Sunday (Week 680) & more fodder for The CANQuest (tm). The impetus comes from a discussion on Saturday at the FGBS in which I was queried as to having drank all of the new Ritas. I knew that I had a stash in abeyance, so I declined any new purchases until I could get home & see what I already had. I get the add & approved pic photo credit for this one, BTW.

These reviews are dedicated to my late-Great Aunt Rita, one of my favorite relatives. She lived in a suburb of Kleveland with late-Great Uncle Max & was my late-maternal grandmother's sister. As a kid, they would come to visit my teetotaling, religiously morally upright grandmother with Max at the helm of his Caddy, its trunk laden with smokes & booze of every stripe. Y'see, PA has the State Store system & until recently wine & distilled spirits could only be purchased at a State Store & beer could only be bought at a distributor at a minimum of a case. Nothing was available on Sundays, a product of our Blue Laws, which is why NFL games start at 1300 - to be finished by sunset. Legend has it that on one visit, Max awoke early, was having a Vodka & Grapefruit, scandalizing my grandmother and offhandedly remarked that it was the last of his stash so following church, he would need to stop off & reload. Her response caused his mouth to fly open & his lit cigarette to fall into his lap & he began to weep. He informed Rita that right after church, they would be westbound for Ahia, toot sweet! Haha. Even better, as soon as he passed through the PA/OH Turnpike's tollbooth, he would shimmy the steering wheel, flash the high beams, toot the horn & lean out the window, proclaiming that he had returned to sanity. I remain unsure since they lived in Kleveland, but it was his gig. After that, he was like a Boy Scout - fully prepared. I loved those two & I don't know if it was a tic or that Max knew that I got it, but he would always punctualize his conversations with me with a wink. Man, when they showed up, the Vice Squad wasn't far behind - alcohol, tobacco, playing cards & dice. Hoo boy, was it a great time with them!

From the CAN: "Grapefruit Margarita"; "Contains Alcohol"; "Malt Beverage with Natural Flavors and Artificial Colors".

I have recently gotten hip to truly reviewing/rating to style, not to taste, following some jagov's taking another user to task for reviewing/rating to taste, something that you are NOT supposed to do & which I reported. Mine will probably be an outlier as a result, but at least you know the justification.

First of all, this was one of those massive new 25-fl.oz. CANs, as if they were doing anyone a favor with the added volume. They tend to fight me on the Crack! & this one was no exception. The other drawback of which to be aware (& it also happens with Crowlers) is that the vent sits further from the lip of the seam than in regular CANs, so dribbling (or worse) CAN occur during the Glug if you do not position the CAN right into the glass. I am saddened to report that despite a fizziness, I could not raise any head on this one, even via an in-glass swirl, following a heavy-handed Glug. Color was a cloudy Deep Pink (SRM = 1). Nose had the sweetish grapefruit scent of Ocean Spray Red Grapefruit Drink, not to be CANfused with juice. Personally, I prefer grapefruit juice to just about all others, but the drink is too sweet for my taste. That was where this one was lagging - yes, it tasted of grapefruit, but there was also a sugary sweetness to it that I did not enjoy. Ugh. Mouthfeel was medium, thankfully not as watery as some of the entries in this series. This one was really hindered by its sweetness, making it challenging to work through the entire CAN. Finish remained rather sweet, despite the tartness of the grapefruit. This was really a one & done for me. YMMV.