Michelob Golden Draft Light
An exceptionally smooth taste in a premium draft beer. Cold filtered and brewed the Michelob way.
1.8
212 reviews
St. Louis, United States
Community reviews
Clear as glass, pale yellow pour with a small white head. The aroma light grain with notes of cardboard and light skunk. It has a light, crisp body with lively carbonation. The taste is neutral with a clean, mildly dry finish.
12 oz clear bottle shared by DrSilverworm via Paul and Jamie. Pours a clear yellow color with a small white head. The aroma and flavor have corn, a bathroom skunk, some sweetness, just nothing worth getting long winded about, it is what I thought it would be, expectations were met and they were very low to begin with.
12oz clear glass bottle, thanks to Paul & Jamie for this (this was the only non-micro in the box). Dated 07/Dec/15. Shared with raters. Clear golden color. Thin white head, some bits of lace. Decent breadiness to it, mild peppery. Not much else, but not much to complain about honestly. And I barely get any skunk compared to other lagers I’ve had. Some bite to it, kind of rough dryness in the finish. Moderate sweet taste, mild bitter. It got worse as it went. Worth trying once to split, I guess, if you’re a manic completionist.
Bottle shared by Paul and Jamie pour crystal clear light pee yellow with thin white head. Nose corn, adjunct, and urinal. Taste cold and wet. Some crystal malt and adjunct. What do you expect?
12 oz bottle pours golden with a white head. Aroma and taste of grains and grass.
Quite a good beer. Easy going down. Flavorful. Would try again good aroma and notrogen foam.
Bottle (a new AB tick thanks to Patrickctenchi). Lactic barley malt and straw aroma. Medium yellow with giant white head. Lightly sweet lemon, barley malt, and straw flavor. Decent - a bit better than the average BMC light beer.
Bottle:
Clear gold, with a small white head.
Slightly tangy grain malt aroma.
Taste also has a slight bite to the grains...nothing wrong with it...just watery and not much flavour.
Strongly carbonated....decent enough...(at the lawn mower level)
Draft to taster at the St. Louis brewery. Looks solid; a completely transparent gold with white head that steadily dissipates into lacing. Smells and tastes of mild grain, hops, and lager yeast. Tastes like it smells, but more diluted. Mouthfeel is light-bodied. Inoffensive, but unflavorful.
Draft at the Budweiser brew house . Light drinking session . Watered down beer with nothing special.
12oz bottle. Clear golden color. Not much aroma. Grainy watery flavor. Not much flavor. No reason to ever purchase.
This is a regional beer brewed by AB-Inbev intended to be more similar to Miller beers their Budweiser branded product offerings, and is sold in some of the midwestern states where Miller does extremely well percentage of the market wise relative to it’s national market percentage. They want to make some inroads among people who love Miller in states that love Miller. I’m told it’s very inexpensive where it’s sold. This is my first time trying it, because I live on the east coast and they don’t sell it here. Pour is a pale yellow with a hint of gold. Aroma is kind of muted and grainy, you know- a light adjunct lager kind of smell. Taste is smooth and refreshing, but not very flavorful- little bit of grain or corn and pale malt with just a kiss of hops. Very watery. Less carbonated or harsh that some offerings in this style and price range. I actually think this would be a good beer to drink on an upset stomach if you really want to drink a beer on an upset stomach, it’d also work as a palette cleanser between beers or with foods where you really want to focus on the taste of the food and beer is secondary. I often tend to think of these light adjunct lagers as sort of beer flavored water, and in that context, they make a bit more sense to me. Hard for them to compete with "real" beer, but if you want water with sort of a bit of beer flavor and coloring and stuff, they’d hit the spot. Would be nice on a warm summer day. Reminds me a lot of Miller High Life or Miller Lite, not surprisingly, as I think it’s intended to be a clone. When you’re drinking cheap beer, sometimes you want something that has a taste, even if it’s an off taste, and sometimes you water something that is just really smooth with only a hint of flavor, and I think this falls into the later category. Better than some product offerings like Keystone Light in a similar price range as what I’m told this falls into. They might want to think about expanding it nationally. Obviously, it’s nothing that is going to compete with a good IPA, but when I look at it relative to other light beers, I think it’s better than the sub-premium lights, and better than Bud Light (Which is considered a premium beer in industry parlance). Similar to Miller Lite or Coors Light in quality, at a cheaper price point (I think, anyway- as mentioned, I haven’t actually seen it on a a shelf at a liquor store). I don’t know why they wouldn’t sell this nationally over stuff like Keystone Light, which seems like a non-beer beverage, or Busch Light (All Busch tastes horrible). Undercutting Miller Lite with a similar but less expensive beer sounds like sound strategy to me.
About what you would expect- light, sweet grain and straw but diluted down to a thin, beer pong/beer bong worthy chugger.
Can, bonused by some dillweed :). Pours pale yellow, small fizzy white head, some lacing. Aroma is fear and water. Flavor is water, corn, water. Water. Very light sweet, light bitter, no real flavor going on at all. Weird. Light body, high carbonation.
There are worse things in the world than mass produced gutter beer. This one does have a very faint fruit hint, maybe the people who say apple are right. I don’t know really I’m just compelled to write this. I ran out of mine and she said I could have hers, hahahaha!
Terrible sample pour... Thanks for nothing Luke. It smells like dirty water, maltish. No hops... Flavor is dirty and unpleasant. I quit.
Max comes through with a sick BMC tick. Pours gold with a white head. Plain and actually relatively clean, with low sweetness and plain grainy notes. Really not that bad with almost no "off" notes.
Bottle at Max’s. Pours a clear yellow body with no head, some minor light white lacing. Aroma is dirty malts, cereal, corn and plain grass. Mouthfeel is lightly carbonated and a touch dry and grainy. Overall, not too offensive.
Bottle shared in Hoboken - huge thanks to Max for this one. The aroma has some simple dry cereal notes, paper, lemon. Light sweet flavor with some white bread, slight hay, cereal. Light bodied with average carbonation. Sweet finish with some doughy white bread, minimal bitterness, cereal. Meh.
Draft at a dive in the middle of the midwest. It’s cold, it’s gold, it’s beer like. For some reason they had the same thing on tap, in bottles and cans, but I couldn’t care to taste the others.
So clear, so light, so tame. It has a white fine bubbled head w/ good staying power and tons of lace. This was served to me super cold at the brewery and in this condition it was exceptionally light and crisp. There is not much going on here aside from a faint note of apple amongst the miniscule contributions from grassy hops and Grape-Nuts malts. Unless you consider the apple note a flavor flaw--and many do--this is pretty much devoid of any problems aside from the fact that it was brewed to be pretty much tasteless but it is exactly what it’s supposed to be and I respect that.
Draft pour at the Anheuser-Busch Biergarten in St. Louis. Pours a pale clear gold with a white head. Pale malts, a lot of hay, with grass and lemon. Light-bodied, with medium carbonation and a crisp mouthfeel that finishes dry. Not much to say here. It’s fine for what it is.
Draft @ the biergarten, St Louis, MO. Pours a clear pale golden color with a white head. Has a fruity grainy malty aroma. Fruity malty grainy crisp flavor. Has a grainy malty finish.
On tap at the Biergarten. Pours a clear light gold with a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has a musty bread note with a bit of grain backing. Flavor is thin with bread and grain notes and a touch of corn.
Draft at inbev STl. Golden pour nice lacing. Very close.to water in smell and aroma.
Draft at STL brewery. Aroma is cold and nothing else. Pour is an amazingly clear pale yellow. Taste is completely water and maybe a touch of hay. I am boggled at how there is no flavor here at all. But yet very drinkable.
Pale Lager tick courtesy of TheHOFF43. 12oz clear glass bottle with screw top cap pours with a clear pale gold body that supported a short lived near white head. The aroma offers up some sweet smelling fruity esters as well as floral hops and a bit of spicy hops. The taste confirms as I get a mix of pear and apple like sweet fruity esters that are cut by above average carbonation that scissors through the sweetness and leading the way toward muted and mild floral to spicy to slightly lime like hops. Nothing wrong with this and the estery sweetness is balanced somewhat which is nice but… It ends fairly neutral and free of after taste. When it’s a 110F out this might do the trick. Don’t know.
The light version of Michelob Golden Draft, really not much else to it other than a watered down Mich Gold Draft.
12oz bottle (Old Notes)-Pours a light golden with a small white head. Aroma of corn and grains. Taste of the same. This light bodied brew was to compete with MGD and not nearly as good IMO.
12 oz. bottle. Gee, thanks TheHOFF43. Pours pale yellow, with a big, quickly dissipating, off-white head. The aroma is corn syrup, very light noble hops, and a touch of caramel. Sweet, very light bitterness, and a slight, sticky, medicinal note in the finish. Light body, sticky, with low carbonation. This is a relatively inoffensive beer, but with the flavor is just a little unpleasant; enough to make this worse than the average macro lager.