Anheuser-Busch

Bud Light

ABV 4% • Vol 355 ml • bottle • USA • Cheap • Flavour 1
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Another no-taste offering from AB. Goes well on a construction site when you don't want to spend much on the other workers (about a half dollar per can - just about right). Tastes like water with a hint of vodka and a little sweat mixed in. Perhaps 'brewed' in an old boot. One more American classic!!!!

Review submitted by: Matt Azzara

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Review updated 07 September 2000

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It IS water.
Adam from Canada

I love this beer.
Joe Cardenas

Official state beer of Texas. I've somehow become conditioned to drinking large quanities after living there...
Jason L.

This review has inspired my next home-brew project: take the leftover water from boiling rice, add some yeast... :-)
Martin Brady

The only thing I could afford in college....
Matt Chinn

It's not all THAT bad. There are worse suds out there. Depends on what you are thirsty for. (Needless to say, I'm not usually thirsty for Bud Light.)
Mike, Atlanta

One of the best selling yet worst tasing beers on the market. Subtle flavors of slightly sweet urine cut with sparkling water. The alcoholic/hippy beer of choice.
Joel IV - Houston, Texas

If I want carbonated water I will buy carbonated water and dispense with the pretense of buying beer. If I want beer I won't buy this stuff. I know what the Clydesdales had to do with this stuff...
Peter L. Berghold

I can't believe you have tasted this one!
Murray Henderson

This is my favourite drink of all time. Whoops! I seem to have found the wrong page, I thought it was the one extolling the vitues of parsnip water.
Dave Jackson

When I grow up I want to be a Budweiser? Not even the frogs in the ad would touch this. I am positive there is no real alcohol and this is merely an experiment.
Creighton

How the hell did this beverage qualify to be listed and reviewed? The official state beer of Texas - I bet Santa Ana is rolling with laughter in his grave - relieved that he lost Texas to the USA.
Champers Charlie

Why is this even on a beer website, t'is a pointless liquid made for no comprehendble reason. A drink for toddlers, not for anyone over the age of three.
Patrick Gray

The most frightening thing about this idiosyncratic mess is the "flourescent-urine" color. I refuse to put anything so obviously conceived in a test tube into my body for alimentary purposes.
Hopalong

Probably the worst beer in the world. Doesn't deserve its name. Must be called American Hop-Pop or smth like this
Ernie

Treeeeemendous drink. This is the ONLY beer worth drinking. I recomend every man woman and child buys a box today!
George W Bush

We love this beer and are only disappointed that it is no longer brewed in the UK.
Lisa

Quote "...We love this beer and are only disappointed that it is no longer brewed in the UK..." Is this really true? Hooray - there is a Santa Claus. Can we look forward to the demise of the other execrable A-B products and clones?
Richard English

No longer available in the UK.
Good news.
Tony Blair

Undrinkable at any thirst.
Ralph Nader

I love this beer with all my heart! Nothing i like more than putting my feet up, listening to some dolly parton tracks and drinking my bud light
wendy o'donnell

As if Bud regular isn't inspid and tasteless enough they made a light version??? Why???? To call it pee would be to imply it actually has an aroma and a flavour.
Simon

A resounding flop in the UK. Maybe there is hope after all!
heavy_t

LIKE THE ENGLISH KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT BEER!!!!!!!!! JUST LOOK AT THE CONTENTS OF ANY UK OFF LICENCE!!! THAT'LL GIVE YOU AN IDEA!!
Sad to be English

If I want to drink my date under the table, Bud Lite is my choice. All I do is pee when I drink it.
Joanne G.

first of all, if you dont like bud light, what do u like, it is one of the top selling beers on the market, and if u were to look it's not cheap either, especially for college students who can bearly afford the natty
pat brown

If Bud Light is your idea of a beer, why are you looking at a site with real grown up beers discussed on it?
John Lees

Pat, is your bud light consumption in some way responsible for your atrocious spelling?
John Lewis

Quote "LIKE THE ENGLISH KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT BEER!!!!!!!!! JUST LOOK AT THE CONTENTS OF ANY UK OFF LICENCE!!! THAT'LL GIVE YOU AN IDEA!!..." What an extraordinarily ill-informed comment which must come, I feel sure, from one who has never been nearer to an English off-licence than Boston (Mass, that is). Or, failing that, knows about English off-licences but has never seen the stock in the average US beer outlet.
Richard English

I've been told that at Anheuser, they have the Clydesdale's drink Budweiser, and when they urinate.......PRESTO!!!.......you've got Bud Light. With the possible exception of Coors light, this is the worst beer I've ever had.
Doug Wells

Quote "...I've been told that at Anheuser, they have the Clydesdale's drink Budweiser..." There might be more truth to that than your realise! In the UK A-B Budweiser is brewed at Mortlake, just a short way down the Thames from Wandsworth, where Young's brew their excellent ales. Youngs, of course, have a farm and stable and their Clydesdales haul their drays for local delivery. Now, if they get their drinking water from the Thames and A-B's effluents get discharged into that same river.... Of course, A-B themselves don't have real horses and more than they brew real beer.
Richard English

The only thing worse in the US is the 40oz Malt Liquor, with food coloring (colouring). There are quite a few variaties;Lazer, CrazyHorse, King Cobra, Colt45(BillyD,what were you thinking...)
Dotcubed in Toledo,Ohio USA land of the free home

this is the best beer ever made, all other beers tremble before bud light. bud light makes other beers its bitches.
spank you

Absolutely worthless if looking for taste but excellent if looking to drink large quantities quickly with minimal effort. (lets drop the pretense - most people like to get drunk on occasion) Still very far from worst though. If you think this is bad try the stuff thats even cheaper. On the other hand maybe you shouldn't.
A True MSU Spartan

Well, "Spank You," I can only assume you are about 14 years old, judging by the "Street language" and never tried any beer, such as the excellent ales brewed by some of the American microbreweries, or imported beers from Belgium, the Czech Republic (e.g. the REAL Bud), Germany or UK as drinking this maiden's water you have never tasted beer.
John Lees

Anything but Sam Adams muck!
Cammy

Good refreshing clean taste beer - very nice to drink in a hottish climate - so probably not so good in Britain!
Alistair Bird

This is the beer i drink when i want to sober up. Near impossible to get drunk on without imbibing over a gallon. I HATE this beer with a passion.
Samuel Lee

This is a great beer. The only problem is you just can't buy the US brewed stuff anywhere in the UK.
Dan Da Man

Best selling beer in the world. Nuff said.
Stuckey

Quote "...This is a great beer. The only problem is you just can't buy the US brewed stuff anywhere in the UK..."
Don't worry. A-B are very proud of the fact that their beer is brewed to consistent standards worldwide.
The US version is exactly the same as the UK version - cold, fizzy, tasteless and capable of producing a real fizzer of a headache.
Richard English

Obviously a terrible beer, but as I've grown older I have come to appreciate these light and crappy american beers. For example, when you are going out for a long of night of entertainment (say bowling), you need a beer that will permit you to drink for hours on end without getting totally plastered. If I know I need to last 8 hours, I won't start drinking my favorite beers (with much more ABV and flavor). Expecially if I have to be involved sportingly. So, I can appreciate bud light on a certain level. It's carbonated and has alcohol. As long as you can get past the nasty flavor you'll last a lot longer into the evening. Just imagine the good stuff you will be drinking later and it helps.
The D

In fact, unless A-B lying, their Budweiser is 5% abv - quite a strong beer so, if you can force its fizzy iciness past your throat quickly enough, it will get you drunk.
Most British ales are of lower gravity than 5% and still manage to be packed with flavour. Welton's Pride and Joy at only 2.7% and Harvey's mild at just 3% are both excellent examples of what can be done with a low-gravity brew.
As A-B Budweiser clearly proves, high gravity doesn't necessarily equate to good flavour.
I am not so familiar with US craft beers but I feel quite sure that there are many of lowish gravity around and, if not, well, there are plenty of imported British beers of under 5% - Consiston Bluebird for one.
Richard English

BUD LIGHT IS A GREAT EASY TO DRINK BEAR WITH NO RANK AFTER TASTE LIKE THESE "FANCY" BEERS. TRUST ME, DRINK BUD LIGHT AND ENJOY LIFE :-P
Nate

Quote "...BUD LIGHT IS A GREAT EASY TO DRINK BEAR WITH NO RANK AFTER TASTE LIKE THESE "FANCY" BEERS. TRUST ME, DRINK BUD LIGHT AND ENJOY LIFE :-P..." Well, if you like drinking bears (sic) then make sure they're not Grizzlies and still alive! But seriously, the reason why Bud Light has no "rank aftertaste" is primarily because it has little discernable taste. What it does leave you with is a headache and dyspepsia - which some of the less knowing might regard as better than the feeling of pleasure and euphoria that a few pints of fine beer creates. I am pleased to say I grew out of the preference for the former many years ago!
Richard English

Well Nate, as you can't even spell beer, I am not surpised that you drink this poor excuse for a beverage...
John Lees

Great beer, easy on the palate, and doesn't fill you up - nuff said!!! All these plonkers who like the taste of Ales and British "Beers" (Brewed in someone’s cellar or macerator toilet) which leave a rank taste in your mouth for hours afterwards and give you a stinker of a sore head and empty your bank balance. Bud Light is cheap, easy to drink and doesn't give hangovers. I often like to drink expensive champagnes so don't even insult me on what tastes good (wait for the cheap insults – lol) I also like Kronenburg Blanc and other European beers but Bud Light, still the best. Have a good day y'all :-D
Bud

Well said Bud. Try his hardest, poor lil' Richard English is not going to have any impact on the tremendous sales of Anheuser-Busch products. God bless Budweiser!!!!! HA HA HA. Go on Ricky write to your hearts content (Quote, quote, quote - lol), Everyone else, buy a Bud chill it and enjoy responsibly in this beautiful weather we are having.
Peter E Sharpe

Hmm, on my way to work this morning I saw a sticker that read "Billy no mates drinks Budweiser" - Discuss! However, Bud, Bud Light rhymes with ordure. As for your ideas of British Ales, you are way off the mark and Champagne is vastly overrated and definitely overpriced. As Al Murray in hos persona of The Pub Landlord would say "All hail for the ale!"
John Lees

Quote "...Try his hardest, poor lil' Richard English is not going to have any impact on the tremendous sales of Anheuser-Busch products. ..." Strangely enough this is just the sort of thing that the mega-brewers said about the fledging CAMRA (just 4 men) when it was founded. But look at what's happened since CAMRA started. The USA has gone from brewing nothing but rubbish to brewing several thousand fine beers. The march of the chemical fizz brewers has been substantially reduced and, in spite of what you say, A-B sales are dropping as thinking drinker begin to realise that not all beer is like Dudweiser - cold, tasteless, gassy and prone to give its drinkers dispepsia and thumping hangovers.
Richard English

Hey Bud, do you mention that you drink expensive champagne mean you are trying to set yourself above the trailer trash who drink this poor excuse for an ale? Or are you just trying to be a poseur? Then again, Bud Sh**e isn't cheap in the UK...
One who cares for ale

Lovely light refreshing beer. Should be released in the UK again but with better advertising. Shouldn't be compared to Champagne, totally different catagory but all in all a good clean drink.
Paul

Well "One who cares for ale" considering Bud Light isn't even available in the UK you seem to know a lot about it - hmmm??! I do on the odd occassion drink champagne, is it my fault that you probably have never had the chance to try some? I think not! So please refrain from the cheap insults - oh I forget, British Ale drinkers usually have no more brain cells left to come out with anything better that what you write. Currently I am a 32 year old Bank manager with HSBC, maybe even who you Bank with????? So don't get my confused with the small amount of low life "Trailer Trash" who do happen to also drink this beer.
Regards
Bud

Well Bud, I have drunk champagne on many occaions, most recently on my father's 80th birthday (last month). As for your remarks about my braincells, I am a 46 year old with a degree and Ph.SD. in chemistry and work for a firm of Patent & Trade Mark attorneys so so much for your "Cheap insults" about my brain cells or lack of them. As for it not being available in the UK, perhaps my enthusiasm ran away from me, but it was available and I did try it - I have tried many beers and will try many more - not just sticking with the same old, same old. If you enjoy American beers, I would suggest you try Brooklyn Lager, a much darker beer than the one under discussion here and available from Tescos, you never know you might enjoy it... As for banking with HSBC, well I will keep my thoughts to myself and continue with the Nationwide - I believe in mutuality.
One who still cares for ale

Bud. Your comments are unworthy of one who holds down a job of the status that a bank manager's job once deserved. And as is so often the case with those who drink Dudweiser and its clones, you seem unable to make your point without resorting to cheap personal insults (and ungrammatical and badly spelt insults at that). Have you maybe considered that some of us that comment about US and other foreign beers might have travelled to these beers' countries of origin - as have I? Could I suggest that you follow your own advice and "...please refrain from the cheap insults..." Your comments so far have added nothing of substance to this discussion and have certainly done nothing to enhance the cause of Bud Light.
Richard English

Wow, this is heated :-O One who cares for ale, can you please tell me where you bought this drink in the UK? Thanks
wabbit1

Quote "...Wow, this is heated :-O One who cares for ale, can you please tell me where you bought this drink in the UK? Thanks..." I feel sure that any decent off-licence will stock this rubbish, along with the proper beer that they should also sell. But I ask you, why bother?
Richard English

I do like lots of beers and this is one which I also like as well. To me it makes a nice alternative to some of the slightly heavier beers and ales which I drink when out with friends.
wabbit1

In my opinion, not the world's best beer but one that I like very much. Cool, refreshing and easy.
D Hunter

Quote "...In my opinion, not the world's best beer but one that I like very much. Cool, refreshing and easy...." Actually that says probably more than most of the postings here. It is an "easy" drink. No effort is needed to quaff it; no knowledge to appreciate it; no lovingly-acquired learning to sample its simple nothingness. A fine drink for those who prefer a lazy, unchallenging existence with no surprises, no challenges and no high spots. Nothing that is worthwhile was ever achieved without effort - and that includes appreciation of good food and drink.
Richard English

where can I order Bud Light in the UK? Why did we stop selling it and how is it that Stella is flooding our markets? Hate the stuff
Mike

Quote "...where can I order Bud Light in the UK? Why did we stop selling it ..." I'd like to think it was because people started to appreciate good beer, but sadly, as many still seem to be drinking ordinary Dudweiser, that can't be the case. Now, MIke, and all those others who laud thi and similar infifferent beers, why not step out of your narrow comfort zones and try one of this country's 2,500 different real beers and leave this rubbish to the palate-deprived innocents who know no better.
Richard English

After living in the UK for 27 years I have had the opportunity to try lots of real beers, ales, ciders, lagers, stouts, but why would you want to have to put heeps of effort in to enjoy a drink everyday?!? (As per Richard English quotes above). People are unique, some like one, some like the other, some like a bit of both. Good beer in my opinion, lets hope Anheuser-Busch bring it back to the UK market :-P how happy would that make some people.
Tommy S

A good indication of its quality is that the only way it tastes half decent is if it is drunk ice cold. That diminishes the flavor enough to make it palatable.
Alan from the US

I take it nobody knows where to buy Bud light in the uk
Pepper

During the 6 months I spent in America, I slowly fell in love with Bud Light. Goes down easy and is low in calories, while my drinking level stayed the same my beer belly got smaller. I need to find somewhere in England that I can buy it! Never thought I would miss it but its a decent beer.
James, England

The "low in calories" thing is a myth, perpetrated by the likes of A-B. If you drink any low-gravity beer you'll drink fewer calories. The style matters not on iota. I suggest to switch to some real beer or lowish gravity - there are plenty of fine milds around.
Richard English

Bud Light is now on sale in Ireland!!!!!! :-) Hopefully it won't be long until Anheuser-Busch rolls it across here again.
wabbit1

My 70 year old mom in San Diego, CA loves this stuff! Nuff said. My Dad luckily prefers tequila.
John Arce

I hate this stuff. Their commercials piss me off and I only drink it when it's free and when I do drink it I wish I had a real beer. I hate that this is the beer America is known for. Try our micro brews like Boulevard and Sierra Nevada.
DaveInKansas

where can i buy bud light in the uk
shaun harding

I LOVE BUD LIGHT (brewed in Canada)
Rob

Another great mystery : How something so bad can still be sold
Vlad

Bud light is like water, you can drink a whole case on a summer day and not feel groogy or bloated. Try that with Molson Canadian or a heavy Euro beer?
Sinjun

Quote "...Bud light is like water, you can drink a whole case on a summer day and not feel groogy or bloated. Try that with Molson Canadian or a heavy Euro beer?... The bloated feeling that one may get from drinking is caused primarily by the carbon dioxide content. The solids in a beer, even a "heavy Euro beer" (whatever that might be) are few. The restrictions on consumption of beer are mainly two fold: the gassiness (the more gassy the more difficult to drink as bloatedness will rapidly ensure) and the strength (the stronger the more rapidly will drunkenness ensue). The easiest beer to drink in quantity with neither problem ensuing is a mild. Traditionally milds were brewed to slake the mammoth thirsts of those who worked in heavy industries, such as steel-making. The decline in heavy industries in the UK has led to a drop in demand for milds, which is a shame since a good mild is a fine and flavoursome drink, unbeatable on a hot summer's day.
Richard English

Last week I was in Chicago and we stopped at one of that city's better bars that had dozens of fine beers on offer. As a joke, with the collusion of the barman, the group secretly bought me a drink and asked me to try it, suggesting that it was some fine and rather special brew. When I took the first mouthful I realised that this was not a good beer; indeed, it didn't taste like beer at all. a very slight lemon taste on the tongue an little else. No mouthfeel and certainly no finish. The others kept their faces straight and a supped more, thinking that maybe there were some hidden virtues that I hadn't appreciated - but no. Just that slight lemon taste and nothing more - not even any perception of alcohol.
So after I'd drunk half the glass I asked the barman for the name of the brew "so that I could be sure never, ever to to order it.
The conspirators, realising they'd been rumbled, hooted with laughter and admitted that I had been drinking Bud Light. Now, for the first time, I could truly appreciate what a ghastly, no-taste apology for a beer that it truly is!
And to think that there are those who want to be able to buy it in the UK. I am profoundly grateful that there's a comfortable couple of thousand miles of Atlantic between it and me - although, horror of horrors, it is apparently slinking into Ireland (and I thought the Irish had more taste!).
Richard English

ii LOVE it! can't get enough of BUD LIGHT when i visit the us. can you buy it in the UK? BUD SILVER is not the same.
carly (uk)

On a recent trip to Florida I tried this "beer" for the first time. I was surprised to find that it has even less flavour than Carling! It is like drinking chilled carbonated water. Can't believe it's America's best selling beer!
Cantillon

473 ml can, now unfortunately available in Norway. ABV here is 4.1%. Golden colour, fizzy, moderate head. Surprisingly strong aroma of artifical candy. Fizzy mouthfeel, a little sweetness, no real flavour at all, hardly any traceable hops, no aftertaste. Crap. Score: 1
Sigmund

The only thing more embarassing to me as an American than Anheuser- Busch's product line is, of course, PARIS HILTON, who, for the benefit of those of you who are interested, is back in the hoosegow as I write! One blow for common sense. Honestly, I feel that the primary reason for the misguided comments of my fellow citizens is that this beer is so unremarkable that when one is under 21 this beer can be stolen from one's parents and said parents never even notice that it's gone. Habits acquired while a youth tend to be set in stone! That and a monumental advertising budget. I grew up figuring that if my parents liked a beer (or anything else for that matter), there had to be a better option. This made me ready to try anything.
Mike Gove

Quote, "...The only thing more embarassing to me as an American than Anheuser- Busch's product line is, of course, PARIS HILTON, ..." Actually that's quite a good analogy. "Blonde, heavily over-promoted and lacking any real character or substance" That could be almost anything from Dudweiser, Swiller or Curse!
Richard English

WENT TO VEGAS A FEW TIMES ABSOLUTELY LOVE THE STUFF-WOULD LOVE TO SEE IT GRACE OUR SHORES- COME ON A-B RELEASE THE SUBTLE SWEET TASTE OF THE WORLDS FINEST NECTAR UPON US-IF IM GONNA DIE FROM DRINKING IT MAY JUST TAKE A LITTLE LONGER-WANT SOME NOW
MARTIN RATCLIFFE

Once again I see that the inverse relationship between chemical-fizz liking and literacy is being maintained by Martin Ratcliffe.
Richard English

Bud Light is simply the best beer ever !!! Bring it back to the UK .
Dave Glasgow

Quote "...Bud Light is simply the best beer ever ..."
Someone else who has drunk every beer in the world, I see.
But speaking from my own, less comprehensive experience, I would say that Bud Light is the worst beer I have ever had the misfortune to try - were it not for the fact that is scarcely deserves the name beer at all. Dave from Glasgow would do better to buy himself some Fentiman's lemonade - cheaper, more tasty and nearly as alcoholic.
Richard English

Quote "...Best Beer ever!!!..." Did he said he has tried every beer in the world?
He is stating his own personal opinion. I can see by all the previous posts Mr English that you don't have much else to do with your life, quite sad that you spend it stuck to this website criticising everyone who likes something you don't.
Mr T

Quote "...Quote "...Best Beer ever!!!..." Did he said he has tried every beer in the world?..."
No, he did not. But the description "best beer ever" is meaningless unless he has. Had he written "the best beer I have ever tasted" then I wouldn't have picked up on the stupidity of the assertion - although I might have taken leave to disagree with it.
And, had you, Mr T, truly taken the trouble to read my several postings you would realise that your own statement is also inaccurate.
Richard English

Bud Light was perfect when i visited Orlando! Very easy to drink a 12 pack of it,and still get up at 8am the morning after with screaming kids dragging you to the theme parks!!!! Cold and Refreshing! Try drinking 12 Stella or Guinness,then going to parks? Sod that!!!!! Couldnt believe it when i spotted it in the offies in Ireland (tho was dear as hell!!!).
Northern Irish,Guinness and Bourbon Drinkin Rik.

So let me get this right. You are suggesting that around 3 pints of weak beer doesn't get you so drunk as a larger quantity of a stronger beer. Is that correct?
What an amazing insight.
Richard English

how do 12 x 330ml cans make 3 pints??????? you are obviously very smart!!! i was just making the point that you can drink away at it,without worrying about the sore head the next morning! and it tastes dam fine in the florida sunshine,or the cold irish rain!!!
Northern Irish,Guinness and Bourbon Drinkin Rik.

You didn't say what size the cans were, so I had to guess. But it's still a relatively small quantity of weak beer. And the Guinness cans I am used to are around 500ml.
I was once unfortunate enough to drink some Bud Light - the most tasteless and unsatisfying drink I have ever had the misfortune to try.
When I was last in Florida I drank Sierra Nevada - a very nice bottle-conditioned beer that leaves anything by Dudweiser back in the dust.
Richard English

Really foul tasting, and weak as cat piss. This beer is for kids and frat boys.
Stinky O'leary

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