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Shadow's Wild Black
Anheuser-Busch
- From:
- Anheuser-Busch
- Missouri, United States
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
- ABV:
- 8%
- Score:
- 63
- Avg:
- 2.54 | pDev: 31.89%
- Reviews:
- 33
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 09, 2015
- Added:
- Apr 08, 2012
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 8
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Ratings by mfnmbvp:
Reviewed by mfnmbvp from Illinois
2.61/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
2.61/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
12 oz. bottle, with no apparent bottled on date present. I tried this beer and it's two companion beers sometime last summer, and I remember being underwhelmed, but for the sake of knowledge I decided to give this beer another go. I do remember enjoying this one the most out of the three.
Poured into a Firestone Walker pint glass.
A - Pours about two fingers of fizzing pinkish / purple/ white colored head on top of a ruby red / purple berry fruit juice concentrate colored body. Looks like some fruit juice concentrate in a glass with some cotton candy head on it.
S - Smell is of generic berry juice concentrates more than it is of actual genuine blackberry or blueberry flavor. No natural beer flavors to comment upon.
T - Taste is comprised of artificial fruit juice flavor and a hint of hot medicinal alcohol presence. Tastes like some kind of punch mixed with a bit of cheap vodka more than it embodies an actual fruit beer. Minor tartness. Virtually no legitimate blackberry flavor to be found here, and that is apparent from the first sip onward. I suppose you could argue that there is faint corn husk and grain adjuncts present here as well, but that is debatable.
M - Feel is fruity, sugary, sticky, & artificial. Some burning nail polish remover alcohol astringency.
Overall, another awful Anheuser-Busch attempt to infiltrate the world of craft beer, with shady marketing schemes like releasing this beer under a separate moniker so you wouldn't know it was an Anheuser-Busch product, until you got home, drank it, and realized what a horrible rip-off it is. However, in the grand scheme of the beer world, it is palatable, inoffensive, and packs a solid 8.00% abv so it is sure to please those looking to rage during the summer.
Anheuser-Busch Shadow's Wild Black ---2.5/5
Apr 26, 2013Poured into a Firestone Walker pint glass.
A - Pours about two fingers of fizzing pinkish / purple/ white colored head on top of a ruby red / purple berry fruit juice concentrate colored body. Looks like some fruit juice concentrate in a glass with some cotton candy head on it.
S - Smell is of generic berry juice concentrates more than it is of actual genuine blackberry or blueberry flavor. No natural beer flavors to comment upon.
T - Taste is comprised of artificial fruit juice flavor and a hint of hot medicinal alcohol presence. Tastes like some kind of punch mixed with a bit of cheap vodka more than it embodies an actual fruit beer. Minor tartness. Virtually no legitimate blackberry flavor to be found here, and that is apparent from the first sip onward. I suppose you could argue that there is faint corn husk and grain adjuncts present here as well, but that is debatable.
M - Feel is fruity, sugary, sticky, & artificial. Some burning nail polish remover alcohol astringency.
Overall, another awful Anheuser-Busch attempt to infiltrate the world of craft beer, with shady marketing schemes like releasing this beer under a separate moniker so you wouldn't know it was an Anheuser-Busch product, until you got home, drank it, and realized what a horrible rip-off it is. However, in the grand scheme of the beer world, it is palatable, inoffensive, and packs a solid 8.00% abv so it is sure to please those looking to rage during the summer.
Anheuser-Busch Shadow's Wild Black ---2.5/5
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by JLaw55 from Missouri
1/5 rDev -60.6%
look: 1 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
1/5 rDev -60.6%
look: 1 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
There was no redeeming quality to this beer...hang on, can we even call this beer??? No matter, regardless it is a horrible twist on beer. Sure, plenty of breweries decide to add fruit to beer, sometimes to great effect. This? Not so much. Imagine you have a bunch of blackberries.....and you let them sit for a long time, as if you are making a very dry blackberry wine. Then you take a sub par beer (one that you would not drink even on it's own) and decide to add this blackberry juice/paint stripper to the beer. Voila! Wild Black!
Would Drink Again: No
Would Purchase Again: No
Nov 04, 2014Would Drink Again: No
Would Purchase Again: No
Reviewed by brewdlyhooked13 from Ohio
2.65/5 rDev +4.3%
look: 2.25 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
2.65/5 rDev +4.3%
look: 2.25 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
Appearance - brownish purple tint below a watery thin soda-like top, a sparse cover after a few seconds.
Aroma - mostly grape, but some blackberry aroma.
Taste - initially has a grape juice flavor, some blackberry kicks in and is quickly washed away by a shallow boozy breath. The flavors dilute in the bubbles, ending with a light syrupy sweetness and belly warming. Wine cooler or beer, can't really tell, but it doesn't taste bad.
Mouthfeel - very much like drinking soda, both in the syrupy weight and the carbonation. About as refreshing.
Overall - pulls no punches but I'm good with just the one.
Jun 18, 2014Aroma - mostly grape, but some blackberry aroma.
Taste - initially has a grape juice flavor, some blackberry kicks in and is quickly washed away by a shallow boozy breath. The flavors dilute in the bubbles, ending with a light syrupy sweetness and belly warming. Wine cooler or beer, can't really tell, but it doesn't taste bad.
Mouthfeel - very much like drinking soda, both in the syrupy weight and the carbonation. About as refreshing.
Overall - pulls no punches but I'm good with just the one.
Reviewed by RVigz from Pennsylvania
2.15/5 rDev -15.4%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.25
2.15/5 rDev -15.4%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.25
When taking the first sip of this beer it tastes like blackberry juice and you will think oh man for 8% this is pretty delicious, but the aftertaste is like someone spilled their lager into your cup of juice. Drinking more than one of these at a time made me sick because of how sweet it was. I cant safely say that its NOT my type of lager.. or that i even consider it a lager. Its worth a try though, some people enjoy that overly sweet taste. I consider it more of a sugary mixed drink, but that's just my opinion.
Jan 22, 2014Reviewed by notchucknorris from California
1.54/5 rDev -39.4%
look: 2.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.25 | overall: 1.5
1.54/5 rDev -39.4%
look: 2.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.25 | overall: 1.5
Had Wild Blue a few years back and it remains one of the worst concoctions I've ever had. For some reason, I was in a Total Wine about a year and a half ago and saw this and thought, "Man, it can't be worse that Wild Blue. But I HAVE to know how bad it is." Walked out of there, only then remembering how torturous the experience of drinking Wild Blue really was, and then parked this in my fridge, where it has sat for 18 months. I'm moving soon, so it's time to clear some inventory. Even if it kills me.
A: Pours a deep purple color, similar to wild blue. Has a faint tinge of purple to the head, but nothing crazy alarming just yet. Definitely looks like more of a Juice Squeeze than beer, but I've had weird looking beer that tasted good before. Who knows...
S: Nope, this is gonna suck. A sickeningly sweet artificial blackberry monster attacks the nostrils immediately. Behind it are "notes" of chlorine, concord grape, artificial blueberry, wet cardboard and what I would imagine dog vomit would smell like if that dog had just scarfed a BUNCH of Starbursts.
T: Scared to do this after the smell, but it's a little too late now. For science! A faint dash of faded hop sourness is first, but it's quickly obliterated by sweet and sticky notes of grape jelly, pureed raisin and blackberry Robitussin (if that's a thing). There's a brief really sweet wine-like note towards the end, kind of like those fruity berry Arbor Mist things that you used to see those dumb commercials for with dudes jumping on trampolines. Leaves a lingering note on the tongue that's somewhere between what it would taste like if you blended blackberries with tar and pure shame. Somehow, this is better than Wild Blue, but that's kind of like saying that Pizza Beer is better than Rogue's Voodoo Maple Bacon Ale. Bottom of the barrel caliber stuff here. Just say no, my friends.
Nov 20, 2013A: Pours a deep purple color, similar to wild blue. Has a faint tinge of purple to the head, but nothing crazy alarming just yet. Definitely looks like more of a Juice Squeeze than beer, but I've had weird looking beer that tasted good before. Who knows...
S: Nope, this is gonna suck. A sickeningly sweet artificial blackberry monster attacks the nostrils immediately. Behind it are "notes" of chlorine, concord grape, artificial blueberry, wet cardboard and what I would imagine dog vomit would smell like if that dog had just scarfed a BUNCH of Starbursts.
T: Scared to do this after the smell, but it's a little too late now. For science! A faint dash of faded hop sourness is first, but it's quickly obliterated by sweet and sticky notes of grape jelly, pureed raisin and blackberry Robitussin (if that's a thing). There's a brief really sweet wine-like note towards the end, kind of like those fruity berry Arbor Mist things that you used to see those dumb commercials for with dudes jumping on trampolines. Leaves a lingering note on the tongue that's somewhere between what it would taste like if you blended blackberries with tar and pure shame. Somehow, this is better than Wild Blue, but that's kind of like saying that Pizza Beer is better than Rogue's Voodoo Maple Bacon Ale. Bottom of the barrel caliber stuff here. Just say no, my friends.
Shadow's Wild Black from Anheuser-Busch
Beer rating:
63 out of
100 with
112 ratings
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