Bud Extra (B-to-the-E)
Beer with caffeine, ginseng and guarana extract and natural flavors.
1.5
218 reviews
St. Louis, United States
Community reviews
From a 1 pint can marked 8-06-25-D-2-
MA. The label says Raspberry flavored but the commercial description on this page does not mention that. I hope I have the right one. It pours clear yellow with an overpowering aroma of raspberry. But whether this raspberry is real or raspberry flavoring I am not sure. The taste is w-a-a-y too much raspberry. It tastes like a wine cooler. This was a drain pour. Not one of Bud’s better ideas.
First of all if I want to get a caffeine buzz while I’m drinking I’ll drink a cup of coffee or do a jager bomb. This was pretty much horrid, by no means necessary is this a beer. Flavored seltzer water with some alcohol and caffeine.
Sampled in the BrewMaster’s Club at Busch Gardens Williamsburg on 07/10/2008. Very clear pale golden body with a small frothy white head. Sweet fruity almost redbull aroma. More rebull flavor with a grainy background that takes over. Medium light body with fairly high carbonation.
Not really a beer, but a decent wine cooler that gets you good and awake and slightly buzzed before getting to the real stuff.
i guess when it comes to wine coolers with caffeine, this would be king. by no stretch a beer, aroma is berries and carbonation. the taste is seltzer water, raspberries and cough syrup. embarrassing
I really can’t stand beer on a regular basis, but this I can drink. And a lot of it.
For what it is...there is nothing better, tilt and sparks SUCK compared to this. It actually has good flavor and is VERY easy to drink. I’ve had many 4 packs of these, it’s cheap 5 for 4 or 1.59 a piece and it tastes good. Probably couldn’t do much more for an energy beer.
For the price I expected this to be better. Like many say it does taste like a bud mixed with an energy drink, which was expected. It did give me a bit of an energy boost, so cheers to that. Ok, I guess for a energy beer.
Consumed from the Tall Pilsener Glass of Extremely Low Expectations Which Cannot Lie. Fruity seltzer aroma. Doesn’t taste like beer, tastes like wine cooler. Really fizzy, but then once it’s poured it’s flat. Yep, the best analogy I can make here is white wine spritzer - it’s even got a winey aftertaste. Not sure why they tried to market this under the Bud umbrella -- don’t think this is going to appeal to the Nascar/Hunting/tobacco-spitting crowd.
Can. Better than Tilt, but not by much. This is not very good. I would not recommend this.
i thought this would disappoint but its really not as bad as everyone says it is. i wouldnt get it again but for now im not unhappy
No suprise that this beer would disappoint. I tried this on someone’s recommendation who I now have disowned as a friend
Had this at Sea World as part of the Brewmasters program. Ok this sucked. Tasted light a watered down American Light lager with a vitamin/mineral taste. I’m not going to waste anymore time.
bleh. i expected more for a beer with such a fancy title...cough cough. bud is trying to be hip, they should just stick to making a session beer that gets me drunk. eh.
Very clear,light yellow,has an odd fruit tea aroma, fruity but dry tasted Not as awful as I expected,but I wouldn’t get it again.
Tastes like a bad energy drink... so its an upgrade for the bud lineup. Excellent for shotgunning for a quick pick me up on those heavy drinking nights.
I LOVED THE CONCEPTOF THIS BEER. ITS AN ENERGY DRINK MIXED WITH A HIGH ALCOHOL CONTENT MALT BEVERAGE. I HAD IT AT SEAWORLD HAVE TRIED TO FIND IT IN STORES BUT I HAVE HAD NO SUCCESS. I THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD BEER IF YOU WERE GOING TO HAVE ONE TO KICKSTART THE NIGHT.
Pours a very pale straw yellow, almost clear. Hints of sugary sweetness and a pale lager mixed in the aroma. Flavor is similar, nothing much going on. Energy drink up front but when you swallow it switches to beer. So weird. Tongue says energy, throat says beer, mind says WTF???!?
(Can) Not beer. Nasty mix that tastes more like energy drink than anything else.
Nasty, vile, horrid, ridiculously bad stuff. Undrinkable. AB’s marketing takes no back seat to Miller, they too can ingeniously design a can of nasty tasting junk that may or may not have cat urine in it. Honest, I’ve been drinking for 35 years, and this is the worst crap I’ve EVER tasted. Well, except that bottle of "wheat wine" my dad made that I spirited out of the house in grade 10. This AB stuff is the worst commercial product I’ve had. A couple of sips and the other cans were drainpour.
Bottle. A neat idea to make a beer/energy drink. You could sneak one of these in around midnight just as your ass starts to drag and a group of new talent walks through the door. Otherwise a totally worthless pint o piss. Smells of puke breath, tastes of weak red bull.
16 oz. cans from local package store. I actually didn’t mind the taste at all, and after drinking 4 pints of the stuff, I found myself pleasantly buzzed yet strangely alert.
Has a mild raspberry taste to it and unlike Red Bull, Monster, etc., it’s not cloyingly sweet at all. Very faint bitter aftertaste, likely from the caffeine. Light golden color, fizzy and pours with a respectable head that fades in seconds.
This is an energy drink disguised as a beer. If you crack one open and expect it to taste anything like a traditional beer, you are going to be disappointed.
If you’re the adventurous type, give it a try. Better than Sparks or the other knockoffs by far. This would be something to bring to a party where the ladies don’t like the taste of beer. At 6.6% alcohol, your mileage may vary.
Garbage. Who the hell though of this one. Could not have been a brewer. Budbull.
I actually liked this one. It tasted like someone accidentally mixed bud in my red bull. It definately gives you wings gave it to a girl I knew and she drank 2 and cleaned all night. Used it on golfcourse and it gave you energy and buzz at same time.
More an energy drink than a beer. Sour, sticky, sweet, with touches of artificial berry flavors. Very fizzy, light color. Hard to tell there’s a beer under this.
From a can. Really more like an energy drink than a beer. Some sweet flavor of guarine to go with the corn sour flavor of the beer. Not my idea of a good drink particularly
I really don’t know why someone would drink an energy drink and a deppressant at the same time. I was under the impression that they would cancel easch other out; or worse make you crazy. Flavor was pretty good. I had this at Busch Gardens and thought that it was different. It’s just confusing. I doubt anybody is going to drink this to maximize thier physical potential. I had this out of some shot glass looking sample cup.
Rated 11/25/06: I’m sorry but this just isn’t beer, and it isn’t good either. My uncle got me again on turkeyday this year. He has a knack for getting me to finish his bad choices. Long story short he bought a few of these a year ago choked down two and kept the last one. I drank half of the 16 oz can and dumped the rest. Talked my pops into trying it and I quote "I don’t think I like that son" exactly, no redeeming qualities pure evil.
From a 10 oz. can with a freshness date on the bottom of can, sampled ice cold in a 10 oz. lager glass. I saw this in the iced dollar bucket at a local liquor store and I thought, "Why not try, I’ve drank some pretty awful malt liquors in my time, how bad can this be."
Poured a clear pale lemon soda yellow with a foamy white head, decent retention with lots of carbonation.
A plastic, artificial raspberry flavored candy sweetness, some cotton candy, medicinal alcohol, this is pretty close to being sickly sweet smelling.
Lots of fizzy carbonation and a crisp, dry, thin, soda-like light bodied mouthfeel, not very pleasant, this is tough for me to drink, to fizzy, amplifies the overt sweetness.
This is just too sweet and soda-like for my personal taste, all that is missing is the ice cubes you get with a soda, sugary and artificial raspberry tasting, not much in the way of herbs except for a ginger ale-like taste, faint resemblances of sweet neutral pale malts, heavy on the rice, and a dry, sweet soda finish with a good deal of soda-like acidity.
Sorry, but this is not for me, I really hated this, a drain pour.
This beer tastes as if you mixed a Budweiser and a Red Devil (an energy drink available at Cumberland Farms). Considering they’re just 10 ozers the strength of this is nothing special. But the taste is bearable. All and all it’s a step-up from regular Bud.