Budweiser
Anheuser-Busch

BudweiserBudweiser
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From:
Anheuser-Busch
 
Missouri, United States
Style:
American Adjunct Lager
Ranked #286
ABV:
5%
Score:
57
Ranked #28,512
Avg:
2.38 | pDev: 34.03%
Reviews:
1,910
Ratings:
6,982
Status:
Active
Rated:
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Added:
Nov 21, 2000
Wants:
  89
Gots:
  1,951
Brewed using a blend of imported and classic American aroma hops, and a blend of barley malts and rice. Budweiser is brewed with time-honored methods including “kraeusening” for natural carbonation and Beechwood aging, which results in unparalleled balance and character.
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Rated by Shumj from Illinois

1.75/5  rDev -26.5%

Dec 05, 2011
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Reviewed by Ant777uk from England

2.21/5  rDev -7.1%
look: 1.25 | smell: 2 | taste: 3 | feel: 2 | overall: 1.25
People love to hate big companies. This seems to be actual American brewed and is probably genetically modified and full of Monsanto roundup ready checmicals. Yay.

First impressions...bottle is amazing and their advertising is phenominal. As recognizable as Coca Cola.

Rather thin appearance and small head, best left in the beautiful bottle for sure. Aroma is kind of unique because of the rice. It has a slight mystical quality. And kind of funky and skunky.

My goodness. Taste is again unique. It has a kind of tequila feel...an alcohol taste without hardly any malt flavour or hops. But as it warms up a bit (I may have chilled it a bit too much in the freezer) it kind of improves. It's really easy drinking. So easy drinking that I am drinking it at the same pace as a bottle of water after a marathon in Death Valley. Dominant flavours include rice, some mega subtle and quite interesting pruney, tangerine flavours, and maybe some banana skin. Mouth feel is thin but there are still some interesting mouth sensations happening.

Even though it's light, the taste tensations are reasonably complex and it has an abundance of subtle flavours. It's kind of refreshing. However I feel a wierd sensation when drinking it. It's probably the genetically modified and Monsanto ingedients. I definitely don't want to drink any more of this.

Kind of ok but I'm never drinking this again due to the likely ingredients, though I admit I probably have had about 200 in the past at least. I totally struggle to understand why anyone would create or order Bud Light, which I have never seen anywhere, when this is literally the lightest beer ever. Aside from genetically engineered DNA and pesticides. Obviously a lot of people like this as whenever I see a video in an American bar, there seems to be Budweiser everywhere. Maybe they have a good marketing team. For sure they do. But I actually think the beer tastes pretty good, it's a lot more of an interesting flavour than a random Euro pilsner. Probably I think this because I have just drank about 10 Euro pilsners, and I actually prefer the taste and easy drinkingness of this bottle of Budweiser in many ways. But there is a light version. Wow
Today at 02:58 AM
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Reviewed by Robo67 from Nevada

1.14/5  rDev -52.1%
look: 1.5 | smell: 1.25 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1.25
Half beer and done. Over carbonated flavor is of what old wet socks smells like. You are better off buying a cheap bottle of vodka and mixing it with any kind of soda! For real!! Every beer that cost less that I've ever had is better than this garbage. I guess the reason this cost more is because of the extensive marketing. Obviously marketing fools the fools!
Feb 11, 2024
 
Rated: 2.28 by Costa417 from Massachusetts

Feb 03, 2024
 
Rated: 2.15 by BuffaloDan

Jan 27, 2024
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Rated by Mardinae from Texas

1.56/5  rDev -34.5%
look: 2.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2
The worst of the American big three
Jan 26, 2024
 
Rated: 1 by SeanP99 from North Carolina

Jan 11, 2024
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Reviewed by Coolbreez from Illinois

1.3/5  rDev -45.4%
look: 1.75 | smell: 1.75 | taste: 1 | feel: 1.25 | overall: 1.25
This is not the same Bud that I drank as a underaged kid in the 60's and of age in the 70's. Bud used to have a unique taste that was easily recognizable even if you were blindfolded. Unfortunately not surprising since InBev bought the Bush's out. One word to describe this swill - lousy.
Jan 07, 2024
 
Rated: 3 by Overtonjd from New Jersey

Jan 07, 2024
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Rated by Beer_Emperer from Florida

1.06/5  rDev -55.5%
look: 1 | smell: 1.25 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
Highly carbonated with very little taste. The rice doesn't help it at all. Actually don't feel to good after drinking it either.
Dec 28, 2023
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Rated by TheRealBen from Massachusetts

3/5  rDev +26.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
The standard comparison for the massive volume of production of American lagers.
Dec 20, 2023
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Reviewed by Luscious_Malfoy from Illinois

3.86/5  rDev +62.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
draft pour into standard shaker pint glass. straw gold, barely any foam but a nice sweat on the glass that makes it seem like it could be a refreshing beverage. heavy malt on the nose. bready, lightly sweet but also a little musty too. taste is light, musty oak, lagery malt and yeast. it’s not super clean. more borderline ethanol or malt liquor type flavors. decent mouthfeel actually. it’s heavy.. too heavy for the abv but it’s not bad.
Dec 10, 2023
 
Rated: 2.27 by HS676 from Pennsylvania

Dec 05, 2023
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Reviewed by Nath91 from Australia

1.77/5  rDev -25.6%
look: 2 | smell: 1.75 | taste: 1.75 | feel: 1.75 | overall: 1.75
Budweiser. It's the most famous of all American beers. Probably. You go to any country in the world and ask what an American beer is, the answer you'll get I'm sure more than anything is Budweiser. It's to America as what VB is to Australia. It's not a beer that is particularly popular in Australia, and much to my surprise I noticed on this bottle I have purchased that it's actually now brewed under license, here in Australia by Carlton & United Breweries. When that happened, I don't know, but it's still not a super popular beer outside I'm sure of the American ex-pat population (the smart ones probably don't drink it - it's probably just brewed for the ever-increasing US military personal Prescence in Australia.) Further more, this beer brewed under license is not the 5% ABV it is in America (and from the one time I had it during the 2018 FIFA world cup at Cheers Bar in Sydney) - it's now a rather modest, 4.5% ABV. This I'm sure is going to affect the overall quality even further. So, here goes nothing.

Purchased at the Glenfield Bottle Shop in Sydney. There is a date on the label of 24 September, 2023. So this is either about 2 months fresh, or 2 months out of date. Who knows?

Appearance:
Typical lager look. Golden appearance. Head disappeared before I could really get a look at it properly. Lots of carbonation bubbles in the glass. Looks like a lager. Say no less, say no more.

Aroma:
Light toasted malt, some faint hop aroma, although being brewed under License now Carlton & United might have chucked in some Pride of Ringwood hops for shits n giggle. Not a whole load of smell to the beer,

Taste: It doesn't taste bad, it just doesn't taste of much. It's very sweet, some ever so slight bitterness that leads to an unnatural dryness in the mouth. Nothing flavourwise in terms of hop. Just sweet soda water, with a rather unnatural dryness. Again, it doesn't taste bad, it just really doesn't have a taste.

Feel. Highly carbonated, thin, watery. It's beer flavored soda water. Sweet soda water. You know how you get flavored mineral waters, lime, lemon, and the lime, lemon is this artificial flavoring, well replace that with 'malty beer flavoring' and this would pass on the supermarket shelf next to your flavored mineral waters. It's smooth, it's drinkable.

Overall: I'm not one of these craft beer snobs that hates adjunct lagers for the sake of hating them. But Budweiser, whether it's brewed in America in brewed in Australia, it's just boring. I dislike Australian adjunct lagers, because they all taste the same and use Pride of Ringwood hops. I'm crying out for some PoR hop in this. It's bland, boring, and that's why i'm giving it such a bad score. It's a boring beer, at least Aussie adjunct have some flavour and characteristics. This is just boring.

#️⃣6️⃣3️⃣
Nov 24, 2023
 
Rated: 3.04 by Calvinism from Colorado

Nov 15, 2023
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Reviewed by LeinenkugelDrinker from Nevada

1.19/5  rDev -50%
look: 1.25 | smell: 1 | taste: 1.25 | feel: 1.25 | overall: 1.25
Piss in a can. I usually am forced to consume a couple a year. That’s ok though. Reminds me not purchase it. I remember first drinking it and thinking “why does this taste so fucking salty?” Flavorless shit
Nov 08, 2023
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Reviewed by FreePal88

1.5/5  rDev -37%
look: 1.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.5
So flavorless you might as well just be drinking Bud Light. But if you're drinking Bud Light you might as well just be drinking a bit of malt liquor, because you're sure not drinking it for the flavor. Not the worst thing in the world, but very close to as bad as it gets. I'm not anti-lager, I'm not anti-light beer, I'm not "IPA only," Budweiser just fucking sucks, even for what it is.
Nov 04, 2023
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Reviewed by Deaconmark from Illinois

2.97/5  rDev +24.8%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
I am going to rate it since I was at a bar that only has it in bottles. Pours very loose no dense head. Smells a bit sweet but nothing wrong or outstanding. First taste is all sweep no feeling of depth in character. No real malt or hops that stands out. However in all fairness is does not taste bad at all. The beer snobs just thumbs down but in reality it has no off flavors. Have to remember this is not Bud Light. But this is another review.
Oct 31, 2023
Budweiser from Anheuser-Busch
Beer rating: 57 out of 100 with 6982 ratings