Busch Ice
Busch Ice has a rich, smooth taste with exceptional drinkability and a slightly sweet finish. Busch Ice undergoes Anheuser-Busch’s exclusive ice-brewing process, which takes the beer to a temperature below freezing. This leads to the formation of ice crystals in the finishing process, which help create its rich, smooth taste. Ice beer is rumored to have been developed by accident in Germany during Oktoberfest celebrations. A particularly cold year froze the celebrated bock beers, which are traditionally brewed for spring, and a new taste was noticed by the drinkers.
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200 reviews
St. Louis, United States
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Very light pale lager smell...almost none...taste is very slightly malty...no hops...smooth but one dimentional and very light...almost like water
Backlog. This one is foul...even highschool kids know it is. Watery and chemical like character. Yuck.
Can: Ugh. Like drinking bleach!!!! Corn water light yellow pour. Astringent aroma. As bad as all ice beers are this is even worse!
Bottle poured to pint glass very cold beer
Appearance: Light yellow head, a lot of lacing
Aroma: scent smell of malt, nothing else
Taste: not really great
Mouth feel: very carbonated
Overall: good beer for the hot weather, specially camping outdoors, nothing special
One of the cheapest beers in the grocery aisle
just got it to taste it, i promise not to do it again
Aroma is light roasted malts and corn/rice adjunct. Definitely some sulphur notes. Taste is bland graininess with almost no hop character. The 6 percent abv is obvious and the dank maltiness is all encompassing. Appearance is a clear gold body with a thin pearl head that retains fairly poorly.
One extra ounce can. pale pour. autolyzed yeast aroma. paper, flavor is disgusting sweet and papery
This is a Jolly Rancher centric ice beer. It’s kind of sharp w/ fruity stressed yeast notes on the nose. It’s sweet and thick w/ lots of oxidized cardboardy elements. I guess you can get drunk on this stuff if you like so, hey, excellent beer.
Brutalist can, guaranteeing me of 25 oz of sexiness. Clear, yella, sticky white head. Powdery aroma. Very low hopping, slightly sweet, really not much going on here at all. ABV is well masked, FWIW. Medium to slightly light body. Picked this tick up at the RaceTrac minimart in Cumming, GA.
Arômes de malt, gas carbonique et leger sucre. Rien à signaler en bouche à part un goût subtil de houblon, melon et malt. Carbonation trop élevé.
Drank from a bottle. Canadian (Labatt) version, 5.5%, used to be 6.0%. Overall not bad for an ice beer, and leagues ahead of Busch Light. Less watery, with a nice golden colour. Would buy again, but in smaller quantity if possible.
24 oz. can from notes. Pours a clear yellow gold with a medium sized white head. The aroma and flavor have corn and grainy malts, metallic notes, not smooth, actually a bit harsh, I admit I am doing this strictly for the tick, not worth having again.
Can 473ml @ Hotel room, Hyatt Place, Pittsburgh, PA
Pours clear golden with a small white head. Aroma has notes of malt, corn and apples. Taste is light to medium sweet and light bitter. Body is light to medium, texture is thin to oily, carbonation is soft. Why am I willingly buying these shitty beers? Too punish my self maybe? I really need to make better life choices...
Can, A clear, golden beer with a small, white head. The aroma is rather corn-ish, with some generic fruityness. It’s medium bodied and quite dry, with a decent carbonation level. Corn and a generic fruityness in the flavor, as well as a hint of bitterness. Medium length finish. Rather bland and unpleasant this one. 150617
Pours a straw color. Large white but thin head at the pour. Lots and lots of little bubbles coming up from the bottom. There’s some lacing. Eh, for the most part, nothing special.
Aroma is sweet. It’s a clean smell. Fresh almost. I don’t pick up on much of anything else.
Taste is pretty good. I’m guessing it has some rice in it. Most ice beer has a pretty harsh, or at least, a noticable alcohol taste. This doesn’t. I like that. Other than that, not a lot of taste.I do taste some light hops in there.
Mouthfeel is light. I would call this a light ice beer. Very drinkable.
Overall, this is very tasty. This is the first time I’ve had this. I used to think Bud Ice was King of Ice Beers. But, I stand corrected. i think this is. It’s very drinkable. It’s cheap. It’s high in alcohol. It’s easy to drink. It’s really good. I’ll buy this again!
out of the can on another hotel tick. nose is full of wet sloppy grain and puke. reminds me of college for some reason. taste has some sweetness, but corn, and cardboard dominate. elmers glue towards the end. FML.
Good stuff. Have it in kentucky. I’ve only seen it in a few places. Easily one of the best ice brews. bud and This are the ice brews i go for usually. I will say one thing about these though. Don’t let them get warm. Ice brews are really bad when they warm. Cold, very good taste, just not really overly complicated. Tastes like a typical beer.
Unlike it’s brother Busch regular beer, this is just nasty in my opinion. Usually when a beer has the word "Ice" in it, it immediately means strong skunky, high alcohol content beer. This one is no exception. This just is hard to drink period, the alcohol content just overrides any flavor. I give the appearance a 3 because it’s really hard to foul that one up in a beer. The aroma isn’t pleasant at all, like a malt liquor and completely different then Busch regular beer in my opinion. I guess if one wants to get smashed on the cheaper per ml alcohol content, other then a Malt Liquor, this has rank right up there. Just not an enjoyable beer.
Fun adjunct buzz-beer. Comparable to keystone ice, same color. Taste are non-offensive.
Don’t care what anyone . Says. Good freaking cheap beer. Just drink and enjoy this.
Clear golden yellow color, fluffy white head. Aroma of nail polish remover. Fortunately I’ve never tasted actual nail polich remover, so I’m not sure how the flavor compares.
Une blonde comme bien d’autres, ayant un mince voile à sa surface. Absence d’odeur. Goût minéral avec un succédané de sucre. Une effervescence qui picote. Une sérieuse compétition à la Coors Light. Sans odeur, goût insipide et pourcentage d’alcool plus élevé, quoique pas plus perceptible pour autant. Parfois, une bière comme celle-ci te fait apprécier encore plus une bonne bière. Ça a au moins ça de bon. (1291-131014)
Busch Ice bought at a gas station in Columbia, SC. This beer is simply made to be guzzled for a weekend party. Nothing complex or exhilarating about this. I will not buy this beer again.
pours a very pale yellow with next to no head. taste is typical macro lager with just a hint of alcohol to provide a bit of taste. You know what to expect going into this one, but I will give it credit for hiding the alcohol well which is not typical of high gravity bargain beers.
355ml can. Clear yellow pour, white foam. Apples in the aroma, a little lemon. Taste has some sweet grains and apple notes. Finish is pretty bland and flat. Light body, fizzy in the mouth. I knew what I was getting into with this one, but I had to tick it.
This beer is better than you would expect. For .58 cents per can at 6.99 a 12 Pack, this beer is a bargain buy. Everyone on this website compares this ~.60 cent beer to beers that cost up to $5.00 a piece. That’s ridiculous. Busch Ice is only sold in certain markets, and in Raleigh, NC this beer in sold in 6.99 12 packs (I have not seen it in bottles, 24 packs, 16 oz cans, etc).
For the price, this beer is very good. It pours a delicious amber color with a 2 inch head which quickly fades in the face of consistent streaming bubbles. First of all, there are no offensive aromas or tastes, and that’s important for a "cheap beer" (it’s commonly alleged that "cheap beers" are nasty). The taste is slightly sweet yet very smooth with a slight carbonation scrub
Second, this beer rivals Bud Light Platinum in taste, costs much less, and has approximately the same amount of alcohol. Third, this beer has some "cult" appeal because it is only sold regionally - unlike Bud Platinum and other ice beers.
Ultimately, I would highly recommend this beer. It is my favorite ice beer. Busch Ice is better than Natural Ice, though I prefer Natural for its light beer variety (Natural Light). Finally, this beer is just as good as Bud Light Platinum (or another other ice beer) for a fraction of the cost.
*Note that I am not comparing this beer to craft brews or other specialty lagers, but there is no denying that this beer has been greatly underrated by the self-proclaimed beer snobs of the world wide web. Suddenly, everyone is a beer expert, and no one likes the mass produced brews. Rethink the group think. Busch Ice is pretty darn good.
Can. Pours a golden colour with almost no head. Light body. As refreshing as drinking a glass of water. That’s it.
Big boy can picked up at a gas station near the VA/NC border. Split with some chill bros. Light gold with hardly any head whatsoever. Pretty papery nose. Little else. Light body, tastes of nothing really. Very active carbonation. Watery. Overall, there’s nothing to hate here. Nothing to commend, either.
Onward ho. Reviewed from notes.
This was poured more than enough times in a pint glass and a pilsener.
The appearance was a decent clear golden yellow color with a fast rising carbonation running about it. There is a head, but that dies within less than about fifteen seconds. There is some lacing, but that ends up sliding right on into the beer.
The smell had some cooked vegetable/sort of sweet corniness to it. Its actually quite a weird smell to be honest.
The taste well, that leaves a lot to be desired as it portrays a lot of wateriness to it.
The palate, it sits light and the carbonation is not really there.
Overall, this is not much of a beer to me. I realize "light" can be good, but I say really only if you’re seeking it. I’m not seeking it.
Stumbling onto the crappiest beer list inspired me to pick up a $0.99 25oz tall boy. Clear golden pour with giant initial white head that goes bye bye. Wow the smell of this is just horrible. Like dead beer garbage with stale vitamins and sweet corn booze. Taste is slightly better, but weak stale corny nastiness. Really is deserving for its ranking.
(can - 25 oz) Pale gold pour with a fizzy white head. Bad diesel fuel aroma with an even worse diesel fuel malt liquor taste. Nope.