Michelob Light
Introduced in 1978 as the country's first super-premium light beer. Brewed with a high percentage of two-row barley malt and all imported hops to make this Anheuser-Busch's most flavorful light beer
1.7
668 reviews
St. Louis, United States
Community reviews
Golden colored water that resembles a watered down beer. This is a perfect beer for those who are scared of beer that has flavor. Not a good beer at all.
Michelob Light is a superior light beer. It achieves body, balance, and a discernible and pleasant hop note. It is also refreshing. More expensive than many competitors.
Transfer from BA review on 4-2-13-
Poured from bottle into a pint glass
Appearance – Pours a light golden-yellow color with a two finger pure white head. The head fades over about a two minute time frame to leave a rather surprisingly good level of lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell –The aroma is very light. The light detectable smells are of a bread, corn, paper, caramel and light citrus hop smell.
Taste – The taste begins with a tiny bit of a bready flavor consisting mainly of a corny sweet flavor. As the flavors advanced the sweetness grew even stronger more toward the middle with some other light fruit flavors as well as some light caramel flavor coming to the tongue. The taste is rather sweet from here to the end, leaving a rather sweet flavor of corn, caramel, and some fruit with very little of any other flavors to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the brew is on the average to above average side for a light brew (but still on the thinner side overall) with a carbonation level that is on the average side. The slightly thicker body for a light brew accentuates some of the sweeter corn and papery flavors a bit to heavily, where a lighter body and a bit more carbonation would have better hidden these and created a more refreshing style brew.
Overall – Higher in sweetness but lower in refreshment for a beer of the “light” category. A little too much corn and papery taste combined with the off feel make this brew one to likely avoid.
Another beer of my youth. For some reason we felt that Michelob was a classier beer than most of the other lagers around, I’m not sure why. We must’ve been victims of advertising.
Reviewed from notes.
Sometimes an after hockey beer.
Most of the time when it was consumed in a glass, it was a pint glass.
Here goes.
The appearance was a decent looking super light yellow color with a super clear transparency about it. Carbonation was seen rising at a rapid pace. The white one finger foamy head rapidly dissipated into oblivion. There wasn’t any lacing.
The smell was, uh.....what was that....as many times as I’ve had this, honestly, there really wasn’t much, maybe some cooked corn if anything, but even that was barely there.
The taste was semi-sweet but that was about it.
The palate, well, it sat exceptionally light and showed a superb sessionability about it.
Overall, uh....its Michelob Light. Have you ever had it? Hmmm....okay, uh...cheers and I’ll leave it at that thinking I could fit that "confused look" emoticon in this to wonder why I felt the need to even say something about this.
Bottle into pint glass, because I’m classy. Light pale golden color with some white lacing. Aroma of faint pale malt sweetness, slight corn, grainy and faintest grass note. Taste adds maybe some toasted grain and a metallic note. Light body, heavy carbination, watery, crisp with clean finish. Not the best, not the worst. Another watery lager from AB does what it does.
355ml bottle. Drinkable. I actually could taste some hops over the corny light beer malt. Body was pretty crisp when it was really cold. Overall, better than Coors Light.
Guy bought me a beer while we were golfing... oh God. You can’t say no, so you take it and smile and say thanks! Then you hope he hits his ball into the forest so you have the opportunity to dump this shit onto the ground!
blah..blah..blah..shit..shit..shit..just like anything else from anheuser-busch...
Thanks to whoever brought this to my house and forgot it. You’re a real pal. Canned on August 27, 2013.
Appearance: This is a great looking beer in all honesty. The body is crystal clear with a pale golden hue and the head is tall with good retention. The head settles into a foamy uneven white coating.
Aroma: The aroma pushes to the nose easily, but there’s nothing really to grasp. Some toast is present and a slight grassiness, but nothing pleasant or appealing. It’s just beer.
Taste: Oh boy that’s pretty bad. Water and light toasted slightly sweet malts greet the tongue, mostly water though. Perhaps a slight metallic tinge to this. This is one of the most watery beers I’ve ever had.
Palate: Carbonated water.
Overall: When people I see at work claim this is the only beer they drink, I now know for sure that they don’t have the faintest idea of what beer is. This is hardly short of sparkling water. I guess to each their own, but I don’t look forward to finding a stray Michelob Ultra in my fridge, how watery will that taste?
Well, I expected a beer as good as Michelob Lager, sadly is not that good, all the features are lower and plain, just a bit watery and a low trace of malt.
bottle. pale straw with minimal head. mildly grassy with no detectable hops. watery. about what you expect. it’s at least refreshing.
Not a very good beer, can, super light and easy to drink, not a proud rating here
May be the best light beer in the world in my opinion or at least the best I’ve ever tried. I’ve been drinking this for years and never got around to rating it. Goes down like a light beer should and very refreshing with more substance & taste than other light beers. Excellent pizza beer or with salt & vinegar potato chips.
12oz bottle - pours pale straw with minimal white head. nose is grainy. slightly sweet. refreshing and goes down really well. better than I expected
Can from backlog. Pours pale yellow. White head. Nose and taste of corn, grains and metal. Watery body.
Bottle. Gold color, decent head. Grainy, a little sweet flavor. Aroma, also grains, watery.
This was the only beer I could find at the Dogwood Festival in Atlanta during an 8 hour stopover from Panama to the UK. I don’t know why I’m bothering to rate this, I couldn’t finish it so I gave it someone I was travelling with who doesn’t drink beer. He finished it...
Bottle from the in-laws fridge. Aroma: Mostly sweet cereal, like corn puffs. Hop aroma is minimal, but seems to tend toward grass. Appearance: Very carbonated gold with white head that quickly dissipated. Flavor: Matches the nose; mostly cereal with some faint grass. Palate: light body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation, long finish. Overall: A beer you get from your in-laws fridge.
Bottle. Aroma is all but nonexistent. Light grains, very watery, thin, metallic, bad. Exactly as expected
I thought this was the good stuff in college. But I also ate a lot of ramen noodles.
Couldnt smell or rate appearance in bottle...ok beer...medium taste strength...malty no hops
12 bottle into a pint. Clear, thin golden hue, crisp white divides shine through the appearance. Taste is striaght corn, tangy sweet malt, good carbination though, not that dreadful of a brew. the malt punch packs a good deal of clarity to where this is going, but from there the tread falls short. Bland after taste, no compelling malt bite, substandard overall presence, but so much more intriguing that alot of the macros. Not so bad.....
Pours clear gold with a whipped white head.
Corn malt aroma.
Sweet malt flavour...
Basic...a better than average light.
Slightly enhanced rate due to the fact that in my teen years...errr, when I was 21....I drank a truckload of these....Hey! This was premium stuff in the early 80’s!
Nothing special but a beer that us super easy to drink. If you are looking for the buzz, you'll need quite a few if these.
Whats the difference between this and Ultra? Is there really a need for more than one of these awful "beers".
12 oz bottle. No need to pour it. No aroma, nothing exciting but smooth and easy to drink.
06.08.2012. 0,33l Bottle. Memphis TN. Pale yellow colour with white head. Low on both flavours and aroma. Very little of everything. Grassy faint hobs. Refreshing when ice cold like a glas of water!
I don’t know, I still like this beer for some strange reason. I didn’t know that they still made it. Typical macro light beer, nothing more.
Bottle. Clear pale yellow pour with a white head. Bland, tasteless, odorless (save a touch of skunkiness), and very thin. I expected no more from this.