Busch NA
Busch NA is a fully-fermented, non-alcohol version of Busch beer that offers a smooth, full-bodied, malty flavor. All of Anheuser-Busch’s non-alcohol products are brewed, fermented and aged to full maturity. The alcohol is then removed through the use of low-temperature, low-pressure distillation. This extremely gentle process allows the alcohol to be removed without heating or cooking the beer, which retains the full, rich and delicate flavor and balance of our non-alcohol brews.
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St. Louis, United States
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Pour from a 12oz can. Yellow brew with white head. Aroma of malt and wet paper. Taste is inoffensive but just rather blah. There are better NA brews sitting right next to it on the shelf...
12 ounce can courtesy of my landlord. Pours a clear amber color with a large frothy white head. Decent head retention. Aroma of grassy hops and sweet malts. The taste is sweet malts, faint cracker notes. Thin bodied.
From the 12 fl. oz. can marked: 12117-CE70. I am trying to review this only on whether it represents the style not so much as a craft beer. That is how I look at all non-alcohol beers. The pour is better than average for its style with a golden-yellow color and a fizzy head that disperses quickly. The aroma has the muted grainy malts that accompany the style and the slightest hop crisp. The body is watery-light and appropriate for the style. The taste is grainy with a clean finish. For a non-alcohol beer this is adequate.
Can to pint (from notes). Looks okay for an NA beer; golden with off-white head and solid carbonation. All down hill from there. Smells and tastes like a watered-down version of Busch Light, which isn’t good to begin with. Below average on the palate. This beer has no redeeming qualities in my opinion; but then again, I’m not a fan of NA beers, so...
12 oz can pours yellow with a white head. Aroma of malt and grain. Taste is the same but more like water.
Roughing it in the Northwoods.. 12oz can. Poured watery straw golden with a well-retained white head. The aroma picked up wet corn, honey, and a touch of cardboard, with odd, dark floral accents.. non-offensive, but very little to it. The flavor found garbage water over the aforementioned adjuncty malt-like stuff.. tacky and dry on the finish. Watery on the palate, with higher carbonation.. not a horrible flow to it.. this met expectations.
4/8/12. 12oz can. Clear light golden pour with a surprisingly nice off-white head that is thick and creamy but fades fast and doesn’t lace at all. Plain aroma with basically nothing at all. Very light grainy, metallica, slightly appley aroma with nothing else really. Tastes like water that’s been run through a rusty pipe for about a decade... lingering anesepticy, kinda graininess. Very thin body - feels like lightly carbonated water. Lingering corn chips on the exhale.
Can to Shaker: Pale watery gold....sudsy white head.
Nose is grain.
Taste is cornflakes, water, cardboard ....and....water.
Take this for what it’s worth, but this is probably the best NA out there. If there weren’t 100,000 + other beers to drink, I’d have one. Seriously, good to keep a few around if you want a beer-like drink and can’t have one. I used to keep them around for when my minister dropped by. He was diabetic, and ....well... a minister. But he still wanted a beer!
Pours a light yellow, good foam for a NA .. . tastes just like a lighter version of busch light .. . i tricked Judy with it .. . as far as NA’s goes this is abit below average .. . how come when i wear basketball shorts, my butt starts smelling?
can, clear yellow with light white foam, aroma and flavor is actually somewhat fruity and some body to it, finish is pretty off putting however
Sampled from a 12 oz can this beer poured a medium golden color with a huge yellow-white head that lingered. The aroma was faint citrus and dry malts. The flavor was dry and a touch malty and nutty. The finish was short and watery. Very light body. Amazingly this was better than the full alcohol version - but still far from good.
Can. Pours a decent golden-yellow with a thin white head that lasts. Very similar to Busch, but has a little more bitterness to it. A pretty good N/A, since it is comparable to the regular version. That may seem like a bad, but for me it is a good. Refreshing and rather enjoyable, when one wants a beer, but can’t have one.
Can: Oh, Boy! Pours a color that resembles yellow snow more than anything I can think of. Not much of a smell, kind of sweet, and not much of a taste. Didn’t offend me, but if I had to make a choice I’d take H2O.
Overall Impression: Busch, you are killing me with this crap, I can’t say I’ve had a whole one, but I’ve had enough to know I don’t like it.
Can from Kegs & Barrels in Plano, TX. Pours light straw yellow, white fizzy head. Aroma of corn with signs of grain. Flavor is very much the same. Mouthfeel is light body, very watery and over carbonation.
Clear light gold with a tall frothy white head.
Sweet corn aroma.
Little flavor, some faint grainyness.
Cold wet.
As good as a good cold glass of water.
SpringsLicker’s Fish Fry. Sample from a can thanks to Suttree. Crystal clear yellow with a thin white fuzz. Aroma is water, some grain. Taste is water. Not that offensive. But taste is about like...water.
So, for my 2500th rating, I decided to get something special - I was going to rate the the hghest rated beer on this site that I had not had. A quick check of the top 50 reveals that its Närke Kaggen Stormaktsporter. Cool. So, armed with this knowledge, a litle resolve, and 5 dollars, I head off to the Food City grocery store. But here’s the thing - they didn’t have it! Really! (For the record, they didn’t have Hair of the Dog Dave, either. I was prepared to rate that, if I had to.). Obviously, I was disappointed, but what’re gonna do? I had to come up with a new plan. Maybe they had the lowest rated beer I had not rated? What luck! They did.! They only had it in six packs of cans, though. I prefer to rate from a 22 oz or 750ml, so, y’know, I can really savor and reflect on the beer. Oh, and they wouldn’t let me break up a sixer, either. But, nevertheless, I got my rating ! Huzzah!
Oh, I almost forgot - this beer is like 100% pure sadness, convienently packaged in 12oz can.
Can. A pale yellow color with a thick quickly diminishing fizzy white head Aroma is a light sweet malt ,dry and grainy malt with a bit of corn, but not sickly sweet. Flavor is lightly sweet with a bit of skunk or maybe it is hops, who knows. Watery light body with lots of carbonation, no lacing,finish and aftertaste are a little barn-yardish.No beer buzz.
Smells of piss and beans. Almost colorless, clear, and effervescent. No head at all. Tastes like seltzer. Harsh aftertaste of cardboard that had been pissed on then dried. No redeeming value. If there is anyone who has intentionally bought this more than once I want to meet them. Their inability to taste deserves scientific study.
I will never understand non-alcoholic brews. Yes I know...I should appreciate beer for beer. But damn, shouldn’t it have some alcohol in it?
[1630-20080824] 12floz can. Grassy mud clods, mild dandelion petals and wheat aroma. Clear, light brown yellow body with a big medium-lasting foamy white head and a channel of tiny centralized bubbles. Cold flavoured water has notes of grass and light yeast. Light body. Not great but it’s notable Not to be skunky, so it must be good (ahem, unique) in its class for that reason.
(c/o biegaman, w/ jerc)
2008-08-24. Crisp transparent yellow body that manages a decent albeit short lived white head with a swirl of the glass. Muted aroma of grainy straw, similar flavour of dilute straw and grassy cereals that are fairly washed out. Vaguest touch of bitterness. Palate is thin, but surprisingly decent for a N/A. At least its not skunky. Wisely chose to depart from it before it started to warm up. The cold is your friend on this one. Can, c/o Biegaman
You know I’ve had low alcohol beers before that were quite tasty, this is a piss poor example of that style and I do mean piss. Nuff said.
Rating #1500 12 oz. can courtesy of Bockyhorsey - That’s right boys and girls. It’s time to rate Arizona’s favorite milestone beer and my 1st, probably last, low alcohol beer. Pours a crystal clear golden color with a one and a half finger thick white head. Light spotty lacing. Aroma is your typical grain and herbal hops. The flavor is.... Ah hell, this beer(?) just plain SUCKS. Which makes it perfect for #1500! If you didn’t have to drink it, it would be OK. Anyways, thanks (I think) to Bill for hooking me up.
# 1900 Can at Bockyhorsey’s Bocky Bash on 7-5-08. Aroma of grain. Yellow body with white head. Just the standard grain flavor you would find in swill. Bought mainly for around the house when my dad visits but someone hadn’t rated a n/a beer so had to bust it out.
Sampled at Bockyhorsey’s Bocky Bash on 7-5-08. Number 600! Thanks Bill, though I’m a little curious why you had this in the house... As for the rating: Anheuser Busch, using detailed and proven scientific methods, discovered everything good and desirable about beer. Then they invented a way to remove all of it. This is the result. Cheers!
Can shared with tupalev - courtesy of biegaman. Actually looks OK at first - nice golden colour with a large white head - but the head quickly disappears to a thin, scummy layer. Aroma of rotting vegetables and chicken fat - ugh! Body is sticky and greasy. Flavour tastes like slightly rancid chicken stock mixed with the water that corn has been boiled in. Absolutely vile.
if you really need to drink an na beer than i guess this is it. its the best oine out there. but to drink beer without alcohol is like screwing without coming. why?
[b]Can (12oz)[/b]. [i]Courtesy of "Grampa Jan" - rating #3100[/I]. Light gold pour, looks oily and dead - large fluffy bright white diminishing plastic head. The aroma is very unpleasant, even when damned cold - pesticided grass clippings, hot PVC, metal and corn silage - if I’m honest, maybe a hint of clover. The taste is fricking brutal, though - corn, plastic, urine-soaked newsprint, hummingbird feeder water and weeds, aged in a dumpster in full sun then lightly flambeed. Thin, flat, harsh, fake - ugly aftertaste - utterly worthless after all.