Bud Light Lemon-Ade-Rita Review

Name: Bud Light Lemon-Ade-Rita
Style: Malt Liquor
ABV: 8%

I can't believe I'm doing this but I'm reviewing my first Malt Liquor in nearly a year and what better way to do so than with Bud Light Lemon-Ade-Rita? Part of Budweiser's wildly successful Lime-A-Rita series, they've got flavors ranging from lime all the way to mango! This beer in particular is the newest entry in the series having been released within the past month in anticipation of the upcoming summer season.

This is the stuff I usually see being consumed at 4th of July events and almost always in bulk. Then again, what better to pass a 6 hour waiting period for a 20 minute fireworks show than with dirt cheap alcohol? Come to think of it, the name Lemon-Ade-Rita isn't even at all catchy unlike the others in the series.

I'll be forthcoming and admit that I've had the Cran-Burr-Rita before at a wedding and I'm pretty sure my taste buds still haven't forgiven me for putting it through such misery. This is coming from someone who, while considering himself to be a beer connoisseur, every once in a great while enjoys a good margarita or mixed drink on the side.

To add further to my point I can-....Wait, what's this on the side of the can?

Gods be good, the can is telling me to deliberately water this down! I don't think I've ever seen a beer can that suggested to me that I add ice to it, which I will not be doing for this review. However, on the front of the can, you can see this being consumed from a mason jar, which I just so happen to have on hand so that what is we'll be pouring this into today.

Appearance - A very hazy bright yellow color with a high amount of visible carbonation, both on the sides of the glass and rising from the bottom. The head is around for maybe 2 seconds before fading away and it should come as a surprise to no one that there is no carbonation either. In fact, it looks like a glass of lemonade.

Aroma - Well, I'd be lying if I said if it didn't smell like Lemonade but it doesn't stop there. I'm also picking up on some light tequila notes along with some surprisingly mild adjunct grains. And hops.....well....there is none.

Taste - Lemonade, orange juice, tequila and very mild adjunct grains with some maltiness thrown in for good measure. Basically it's Mike's Hard Lemonade but Imperialized. To its credit, there is nothing offensive about it.

This is something you drink if you can't afford to buy the ingredients to make an awesome margarita. Do yourself and your BFFs a favor and spend that few extra bucks to buy a real margarita or at the very least, buy a premixed Jose Cuervo margarita bottle; It's certainly a lot better than what this beer/wanna-be margarita has to offer.

Bud Light Lemon-Ade-Rita - 3/10

Bud Light Review

Name: Bud Light
Style: American Adjunct Lager
ABV: 4.2%

It's been a long time coming but I think there is no better time to review Bud Light than right now. Why is that you ask? Because this Sunday is the Super Bowl and Budweiser & Bud Light will be the only 2 beers being advertised during the game! Never mind that Budweiser & Bud Light sales have been slipping over the past few years and that Anheuser-Busch will be using the Super Bowl to target specifically to Millennials, an age group in which almost half of them have never had a Bud before.

Rather than spend money on a six-pack of this, I opted for a tallboy can that was on sale. Now this isn't your standard 16 oz. tallboy can. No No, this is a whole 25oz! Upon closer inspection, I noticed this little ditty written near the top of the can....

A whole extra ounce of Bud Light?!?!? Why A-B, you shouldn't have!!!! I'm serious....you really shouldn't have. Let's take Bud Light's slogan, Up For Whatever, and run with it. After all, I'm up for whatever with reviewing this beer.

Bud Light pours a pale yellow color with a high amount of visible carbonation. It possesses a very foamy-fizzy head with no lacing to speak of.

The aroma starts off with some cardboard-like notes, some cereal grains, light booziness, and some light pale maltiness. There is also some skunkiness present too as it warms up.

The flavor consists of cardboard, cereal grains, booziness, some skunkiness that gets stronger as the beer warms up and light pale malts. Bear in mind all the flavors listed above are quite mild when drank from a glass & the aftertaste is about as dry as you can get. In fact, the only time I got any mildly vibrant flavors whatsoever is when I drank it directly from the can and even the skunkiness was there with reinforcements.

I find it kind of sad that this is beer of choice being advertised at the Super Bowl in attempt to win over Millennials, an age group which I just so happen to belong to. Myself, along with many others in my age group, don't have brand loyalty to just one brewery and we are willing to spend a couple extra bucks on a beer that tastes vastly superior to Bud Light. If Anheuser-Busch really wants to win over the younger crowd, I would suggest they starting making good beer, though I don't see that happening anytime soon.

At the end of the day, Bud Light is devoid of pretty much any flavors to speak of and is quite watery in terms of taste. With all of that said, it is nowhere near as bad as other beers I've had before BUT my advice to you would be to drink better beer during the Super Bowl.

Bud Light - 3/10