Bud American Ale

[Grist Licker]

I still have 4 bottles of this stuff in my fridge from when I wrote this review. It's not terrible, but I seem to always have something better around so it never gets drunk. Several times I have come home after a long day wanting to settle down with a great beer. I find this bud ale in my fridge and decide to just skip it. Or go to the store. It just isn't satisfying. It's plain to me, missing flavor.
You could have a McDonald's milkshake with lots of air and cellulose whipped in to keep cost low. It's sometimes better than no milkshake, but it's a pretty fucking poor substitute for a shake made in a malt shop or ice cream parlor with premium ice cream.

[Bugeater]

I stopped at the AB booth at GABF this year and talked with one of the brewers. I told him I needed to try the American Ale because I really can't bitch about a beer I haven't tried. He poured me a sample and asked me to critique it for him.

Overall, it is a very well made beer like all their products. It is marginally better to my taste than Bud Light. In tasting it I could definitely tell that they were getting exactly the beer they were trying to get for the audience for which it was being brewed. It has a mild hop flavor without any real bittering and is slightly sweet. It is a flavor that will not offend any of their existing customer base but yet actually offer them some flavor. I think this will be good for the rest of the craft beer industry in that it will introduce a bunch of folks that beer can have taste other than "cold".

All that said, I will most likely never buy one. If offered a choice of this or iced tea to drink, I may just have one rather than iced tea now and then.

Wayne

[Dirk McLargeHuge]

I totally respect the way you stand by your guns. But, we are talking about a beer made by AB.

Ok ok I will taste this beer if any of you pick this beer in your top 100.

If you've tasted this beer please rate it as one of the following:

Top 10
Top 25
Top 50
Top 100
Over 1000

I thought it was better than some Redhook I had. Maybe I have a crappy palate. I think Dog Fish Head 120 minute IPA is some of the nastiest stuff I ever put into my mouth. So that wouldn't even make my top 1000. But some people like it. I don't know why. I do know Bud American Ale would make my top 200, and might even crack the top 100.

Look, you can hate megaswill as much as you want. Don't forget, that includes Stella Artois, Pilsner Urquell, and Hoegaarden. And a dozen other Top 50 beers.

I think beer snobbery should be a violation of the Brewers Code.

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Oooo, a new addition to "Brewers Code"!

[slanted & enchanted]

i'm almost embarrassed to say i was really looking forward to this. mainly because i wanted a decent, cheap "emergency" beer to drink when i ran out of my own. this sounded like it would fit the bill.

well, turns out it's not so cheap (maybe a dollar a sixer less than snpa here). but i still snatched one up the first time i saw it.

after pouring, the first thing i found is that it had a noticeably hoppy aroma, not that much, but a hint. it looked beatiful, clear amber, nice head. i was really looking forward to tasting it. then i did. and i got some slight bitterness, some slight sweetness, but NO MALT. it was like the malt chair was pulled out from underneath me. very thin, watery... i'm not saying i had high hopes for it but i did have hopes.

now, it's not like this stuff is disgusting, but i think i'd rather have an unapolagetic swill beer (ie pabst) over something trying to pass itself off as something it's not. it's like drinking coke zero or whatever. just suck it up, drink the real stuff, and spend some extra time on the treadmill. i have no patience for imitation anything.

so about that sixer i bought about a month ago... still have 3 left. my girlfriend drank one, and a friend drank the other. does that tell you anything?

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... still have 3 left. my girlfriend drank one, and a friend drank the other. does that tell you anything?

You need 3 more friends?

[Dirk McLargeHuge]

i'm almost embarrassed to say i was really looking forward to this. mainly because i wanted a decent, cheap "emergency" beer to drink when i ran out of my own. this sounded like it would fit the bill.

well, turns out it's not so cheap (maybe a dollar a sixer less than snpa here). but i still snatched one up the first time i saw it.

after pouring, the first thing i found is that it had a noticeably hoppy aroma, not that much, but a hint. it looked beatiful, clear amber, nice head. i was really looking forward to tasting it. then i did. and i got some slight bitterness, some slight sweetness, but NO MALT. it was like the malt chair was pulled out from underneath me. very thin, watery... i'm not saying i had high hopes for it but i did have hopes.

now, it's not like this stuff is disgusting, but i think i'd rather have an unapolagetic swill beer (ie pabst) over something trying to pass itself off as something it's not. it's like drinking coke zero or whatever. just suck it up, drink the real stuff, and spend some extra time on the treadmill. i have no patience for imitation anything.

so about that sixer i bought about a month ago... still have 3 left. my girlfriend drank one, and a friend drank the other. does that tell you anything?

I still have a couple, too.

[Brew Engineer]

You both need to just man up and drink that shit. You bought it. It IS beer. just shotgun it like a Watermelon Wheat, and get it over with!

Stop whining!!!