Bud Extra - Anheuser-Busch

Drik

4.83/5  rDev +156.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5

It was one of the best beers I've ever tasted, it smelled good and it to affect after about 4 bottles. I think stores should start selling them again, with the same price.
Its nothing negative about this beer. I love the raspberry taste, the energy drink mixed in beer was great.

Serving type: bottle

07-07-2012 17:37:32 | More by Drik

DUBinMIA

Florida

1.45/5  rDev -22.9%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 2

Served in a pub glass from a bottle.

Very pale straw yellow color, very clear filtered look

no aroma noted

water like very light bodied

taste and looks like water.... no aroma... no head... i hear its very hard to make though and they get it the same every time... i guess that is one positive... oh and they do have good commercials!!!

I don't think they make this anymore

Serving type: bottle

08-01-2011 00:03:27 | More by DUBinMIA

JayS2629

Alabama

1.85/5  rDev -1.6%
look: 1.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.5

The only thing keeping this from being the worst beer I've tasted is the absense of skunk.

A- Weak, thin pale yellow with thin white head, no retention and no lacing.

S- corn, somthing fruity, raspberry?, damp hay, metallic tones

T- Follows the nose with the corn, faint fruit, hay and metallic tones. Strong taste of cardboard and light malts.

M- Thin, soda like, watery,

D- Bland, overly carbonated, and watery. Drain pour.

Serving type: bottle

01-02-2011 03:24:59 | More by JayS2629

zeff80

Missouri

1.2/5  rDev -36.2%
look: 2 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1

First of all, it has a cool bottle and logo. Sadly, these are the best qualities.

It looks like a typical Budwieser; yellow and fizzy. The smell is beer-like and candy-like. Kind of reminded me of a Jolly Rancher. Very odd. It simply did not taste good. Really lacks any beer-like taste. All in all I would not recommend this. It just does not taste good.

Serving type: bottle

11-10-2008 02:55:07 | More by zeff80

GratefulBeerGuy

New Hampshire

1/5  rDev -46.8%
look: 1 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1

Now called "Bud Extra" the motto: "Beer with something different" yeah...right.

10 oz twist-off bottle with a "born" on date of 2/5/07

AP: This is the thinnest, palest "beer" I've ever seen, looks like anorexic ginger ale with less fizz. Very little carbonation fails to create a head at all and only makes a thin-white soda-like fizzy head. Looks like mildly fizzy apple juice.

nose: All I can smell is the "natural" raspberry additive and something rusty and metallic.

flavor: wow, this is really terrible. a highly sweet raspberry sweetness with crushed up tylenol-like bitterness that is most likely caused by the Guarana becuase most "Energy" drinks I've ever had that has it in it's ingredients has a similar effect. It really is an unlpeasant assualt on your taste buds because of the sweet n' Lo-like bitterness that made me cringe. There is no sign of real beer flavor here at all...This is a Frankenstien's monster, it's hard to beleive this got past the perverbial drawing board; so to speak.

Feel: mildly fizzy, dull and lifeless. This is a zombie. an un-godly creation.

DA: This travesty should be avoided.

Serving type: bottle

05-10-2007 04:07:18 | More by GratefulBeerGuy

jettjon

Florida

2.03/5  rDev +8%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 1.5

Pours into the pint glass a bright yellow with an orange tint with a moderate amount of carbonation. One-finger head of white foam that fades quickly leaving no lacing and no cap/ring. Nose of rosy perfume and a sort of a water-down orange punch scent. Tastes of a weak “store brand” orange punch, you know, the really cheap kind in the plastic bottle with the twist-off plastic cap. Perfumy and very simplistic. Mouth is semi-bubbly and somewhat viscous with a good liquid feel. Sadly, I think this is this “beer’s” strongest point. Drinkability: ugh! Why?

Overall: As an alcoholic energy drink, it’s OK. I can see twenty-somethings chugging these at the trendiest night spots. As a beer, it’s godawful, tasting like someone mixed a couple tablespoons of Coors Light in a bottle of generic orange drink. Avoid.

Serving type: bottle

11-30-2006 01:56:00 | More by jettjon

jdhilt

New Hampshire

1.53/5  rDev -18.6%
look: 1 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1 | overall: 1.5

Pours a three finger, white head that quickly fades to nothing leaving no lace. Crystal clear pale yellow color. Traces of carbonation and very light bodied. Sweet fruity nose. Starts sweet from added flavors not from malt, no hint of hops or malts, higher ABV is not noticeable. A-B can make good beer if they really try (Bare Knuckle stout) but this doesn't taste or look like beer. Pricey - $5.49 for a 4-pak of 10oz bottles from Irving Blue Canoe Concord, NH.

Serving type: bottle

05-15-2006 22:24:40 | More by jdhilt

ski271

Pennsylvania

1.7/5  rDev -9.6%
look: 1.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2

I definitely agree with the saying “don’t knock it ‘til you try it”. And I’ve been pleasantly surprised by trying some things I normally wouldn’t even try. Like this burger joint near my work that sells steamed cheeseburgers. Sounds kind of wrong, but they actually were quite tasty! So I saw a bottle of this stuff and said what the hell, I’ll give it a shot.

Pours a clear, medium-pale straw with a small, white, foamy, quickly diminishing soda-like head. Smells of ginseng, fruit and cereal. Taste like… is this even beer? Fruit and ginseng with a bready yeast finish. It has a medium-thin body, sticky texture and some lively carbonation. This thing is way too sweet. It tastes like an energy drink (I’m thinking Donkey Kick) with a few shots of beer in it.

Well, there. I tried it. Now I can knock it. I’m not impressed at all and find this beer rather offensive. A-B has truly sold any last remnants of its soul with this one. But then again if they want to market something to get people liquored up but still energized without having to be burdened by the taste of beer, then this beer is for them. I’m impressed by how much alcohol they hid in this thing, too. I could see this being a big hit among the college chicks that frequent certain dance clubs in this town: keeps them dancing through the night while lowering any inhibitions they might have left and gives them enough energy for that random hook-up after the bars close. Soulless beer for soulless chicks. But notice I said chicks, not women. I differentiate between the two. Women will probably hate this stuff. My wife took a sip that was quickly followed by “Echk! What the hell is that crap?! That’s revolting!” I love my wife.

Serving type: bottle

03-26-2006 19:09:38 | More by ski271

Gagnonsux

Texas

2.85/5  rDev +51.6%
look: 2 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

The color is a shiny pale yellow with a fairly high level of carbonation. Head is small and foamy. The aroma has an sweet, artificial fruity smell that doesn't really compare to anything that I've had before. The taste has more of the same, an odd artificial fruity flavor that is sweet, but has an edge of tartness. I think I may have also noticed a trace of grainy beer flavor in the finish. After trying this, I don't consider it a beer, however for a malt beverage I found it pretty tasty. It sure beats a wine cooler. Just don't expect beer.

Serving type: bottle

12-03-2005 14:31:38 | More by Gagnonsux

tgbljb

Pennsylvania

3.05/5  rDev +62.2%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

poured a pale yellow color, almost like apple juice. No head to be found, and swirling can't raise one. Smell is very fruity (raspberries), and while pleasant, it is a bit overstated. Taste follows through with the fruitiness, very similiar, if not identical, to a beer or wine cooler. Finish is more fruit, more sweetness. While enjoyable, I think this should fall under the category of malternatives. Just my opinion.

Serving type: bottle

11-27-2005 20:41:17 | More by tgbljb

battlekow

Wisconsin

3.55/5  rDev +88.8%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5

B^E pours an extremely pale, watery yellow, capped by a big, fluffy head--rather incongruous when you sniff it and get an intense hit of berries; most berry beers are the color of berries, but not this one. The berry nose is rather grossly sweet, the Kiddie Cocktail version of fruit. The taste, though, is surprisingly...beery. I opened my little ten-ounce bottle figuring that this was going to be well nigh undrinkable, but after the initial berry assault, there's a definite, slightly toasted malt flavor. To be honest, it shocked me how palatable B^E was. I'm still shaking my head. One was definitely enough, and I'm feeling no energy boost, but still...

Serving type: bottle

10-20-2005 23:44:10 | More by battlekow

cypressbob

United Kingdom (Northern Ireland)

2.2/5  rDev +17%
look: 2 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.5

Bottled

Pours with an off yellow body, faint white head with pretty poor retention

Smell, odd to say the least...basically smells like red bull, more or less....isnt much else apart from maybe a hint of malt in the background

Taste, odd energy drink fizziness, slightly sour (we arent talking gueuze sour but just....sour), some hint of artificial fruit flavouring. The finish is the only hint that this may be a beer, dry and bud like on the finish

An oddity, i'd heard many things about this guff on BA, and when i saw it in my local good retailer i thought....i have to try, just to see how bad it is. Its not awful in the sense i could stomach a bottle, but it doesnt taste like beer....its basically an energy drink with a splash of bud. BTW, it appears that the UK stuff is only 5%, rather than 6.6

Serving type: bottle

10-09-2005 13:57:48 | More by cypressbob

Bumpon10s

Illinois

1.02/5  rDev -45.7%
look: 1.5 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1

Apperance: The oddest color I've seen for a beer, is it green? Is it orange? I'm not really to sure.

Smell: Just like a Red Bull with a detectable alcohol smell.

Taste: It is very much simply mixing a Budweiser ICE and a Red Bull, and to tell the truth I don't like either.

Mouthfeel: This beer hurt, it actually caused pain to my mouth. So far the first and only beer I can say that of.

Drinkability: One is all you'll be able to handle. I shared this with a group of friend's, and I was the only one able to finish it, it is not worth tasting again.

I remember anticpating this beer before it came out thinking it may prove to be interesting. It was, but not in a good way. I don't bark on most beers, but single handedly the worst "beer" to ever cross my mouth. The redeeming factor being in that it gets you "drunk". I've never considered a beer a tool to be intoxicated, but some do, and for them this would be up their alley.

Serving type: bottle

09-03-2005 01:13:22 | More by Bumpon10s

Vancer

Illinois

1.63/5  rDev -13.3%
look: 1.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1

WTF is this stuff? It ain’t no brew, that’s for sure. Damn, just raspberry soda in the smell and taste, with alcohol and caffeine mixed in for good measure. Dinky little 10oz bottle. I mean, it wasn’t really drinkable, after one or two, the sweetness will make ya sick. Another alocopop for the dumbed down masses. College boys and girls will luv it.

Serving type: bottle

06-20-2005 18:46:12 | More by Vancer

rowew

Colorado

2.03/5  rDev +8%
look: 1.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2.5

Presentation: 10 oz bottle completely wrapped in plastic. "Beer with something extra . . ." Maybe they could have spent less on the label and put a full serving in the bottle?

Appearance: Pours a very pale yellow with a head that fades quickly to nothing.

Smell: I can smell this one from across the room. Sickly sweet aroma - reminds me of some of the more overly sweet ciders. Slight hint of artificial fruit.

Taste: Taste is like the aroma - overly sweet and artificial fruit. Slight chalkiness to the mouthfeel.

Overall impression: I'm not sure what masochistic urge made me pick up this bottle, but I guess curiosity won out. This one is easy to drink because there isn't much going on - but I'm a bit afraid of what it is doing to my body while I drink it.

Serving type: bottle

05-04-2005 21:37:44 | More by rowew

pentathlete

Virginia

1.5/5  rDev -20.2%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 1 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2

"So if we call it a beer, even though it is a malternative, we can trick some beer drinkers into having it," is what I think AB marketing types were saying around the long mahogany table.

Chalky, sweet-tart tasting swill. Ugly non-natural yellow color. Candy fizzy smell. Completely non-beer flavor. Might as well be a Bacardi Silver or something. Mouthfeel is phony energy drink carbonation. There is no reason to drink one of these let alone worrying about drinkability. And, hey!, it's conveniently priced like a regular Bud but in a sporty ten oz can! What a deal!

Serving type: bottle

04-17-2005 17:01:06 | More by pentathlete

TinusTime

Virginia

1.88/5  rDev 0%
look: 1.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 1.5

Forgive me father for I have sinned.. Having had the B to the E at the HR-NOVA gathering. I decided I should break out a couple of samples and do a side by side with Sparks. Hey someone had to eat the first oyster....

Pours a pale white yellow with maybe a hint of pink. Head is more like a collection of bubbles really nothing too lingering. Smell is nothing.. Really cant get much off of it other than maybe a touch of sweetness. Smells almost like a seltzer water. Taste is rather light too.. A hint of beer flavour then to a medicinal childrens asprin and Spree combo.. Pretty sweet stuff. But really not much flavour at all. Sparks has much more of a flavour, but that isnt really a good thing. Mouthfeel is once again sprightly like soda pop. Drinkability.. Well it wont make you gag.... but honestly after you try it just to say you have.. whats the point other than trying to get to the power of E

Serving type: bottle

04-05-2005 21:09:06 | More by TinusTime

ragerx

Alaska

3.4/5  rDev +80.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 4

I started drinking this at my local bar around 5:30-6 pm because it went on sale for $2.00 a can cuz the owner couldnt move it at a higher price. After about 10-12 of them (cant quite remember) and a few hours later, I was well buzzed. I went home and putzed around for awhile before hitting the sack around 11:30 pm. I awoke at 2:30 am wide awake, less buzzed than before. I could not go to sleep to save my life and felt like I had drank 30 cups of coffee. 2 1/2 hours later i was still wide awake. The moral of this story is dont drink this stuff if your expecting to just pass out after getting bombed , cuz you will just wake up soon after thinking you had passed out!

Serving type: bottle

03-25-2005 14:34:33 | More by ragerx

Dukeofearl

California

1/5  rDev -46.8%
look: 1 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1

Alright, I've read about this on BA and a few other web sites in the months since it came out, and I never thought I would review it. But I was in a local liquor store tonight, just checking out the selection, when I saw that they had singles of this 10 ounce wonder available, so I couldn't resist the opportunity to see what it's all about.

Pours a very pale yellow, lite beer pale yellow, with only a small white head of large bubbles after an aggressive pour. This unattractive head on an unattractive beer quickly dropped to nothing. Almost no carbonation- looked flat at first, after a few minutes, a small number of bubbles start popping up (did I use it all up in the pour?).

Aroma- it's easier to say what it doesn't have, than what it does have. No "beer" aroma at all. No hops, no malt, no grain, no yeast. What does it have? Sweet artificial fruit soda like flavor- very similar to the RedBull/RockStar energy drink suite of beverages. But even that's pretty thin.

Flavor- SweetTart-like, fruit (berry), artificial. Where's the beer? These are not beer flavors. At all. Sweet, in the worst possible way. I can't finish this. I think this is my very first score of 1. It's awful. What else can I say?

EDIT (a couple hours later): I didn't finish this "beer", but for some odd reason, I drank most of it before pouring the remainder out. I did this just before planning to go to bed. Two hours later, I'm still wide awake... be afraid, be very very afraid... (or be happy, be very very happy, depending on your goals....)

Serving type: bottle

03-24-2005 05:56:43 | More by Dukeofearl

twi1609372

Florida

3/5  rDev +59.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

What to say about this?It's not really a "beer" in the strictest sence. It's honestly not much worse than red bull. I still perfer redbull and vodka, but this isnt much worse. I guess it's not bad if you want to be a wide awake drunk. I'm not a fan of most budweiser beers but i have to give them credit for this where it is due. It isnt that bad. It's no beer drinkers beer at all, do not mistake me, if i am in the mood for a tasty beer, you wont see this in my hand. A lot of people tend to get tired when they drink. You want a buzz but you dont want to be unconcious, it's an understandable occorance. beer and cofee? sorry doesent sound good, beer and soda(stick to captain/jack and coke), no, or beer with caffine, out of the other options it isnt the worst i can think of. While i will not defend this as a "beer" in the strickest sence, it is not that bad for what it is.

Serving type: bottle

03-23-2005 04:20:04 | More by twi1609372

budgood1

Minnesota

2.58/5  rDev +37.2%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3

bud extra pours out a very pale straw yellow colour, with a tight white head. the skittle aroma is evident from a distance...lol..."skittle brau". gotta love it. upon tasting, it's a flavourful concoction...all skittles. any beer flavour is hidden by the fruitiness of the energy drink half of this "beverage". it has a nice mouthfeel and is very palateable. an energy drink crossed with a lager beer isn't something i would have ever thought of, but i suppose there is a market for it, however short that time frame may be. i'm not going to hammer this alcoholic beverage...if drinking one or two or three of these would help me stay alert and energized enough to enjoy some real beer...well, then i'll go for it.

Serving type: bottle

03-05-2005 19:38:17 | More by budgood1

deejaydan

Michigan

1.27/5  rDev -32.4%
look: 2 | smell: 1 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1 | overall: 1

Okay, So I decided to try it. I'm not a huge fan of energy drinks to start with. I'd rather have a cup of coffee if I need energy. Pours a clear yellow fizzy color, with a minimal head. I'll give it some credit for the lacing on the glass. Smell is, well, just plain bad. Maybe it's the energy drink crap that I'm smelling. Taste follows smell. The worst part of the beer is the mouthfeel. It leaves a bad taste in your mouth and on your teeth, like an overdose of citric acid. It's almost like somebody mixed the candy Nerds in a beer. Fake fruity citric acid taste and mouthfeel. Not for me.

Serving type: bottle

03-04-2005 01:00:05 | More by deejaydan

GIVEMEBACKMYSON

Alaska

1.25/5  rDev -33.5%
look: 2 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1 | feel: 2 | overall: 1

I didn't actually pour this into a glass, but from what it looked like around the rim of the 10 oz can, there is no reason to. Slightly dark yellow fizz look.
It smells like a raunchy flat beer, but with a nuance I can only describe as "off".
This tasted pretty much as it smelled, spot on. That "off" scent was reflected in the flavor as being sort of a dissolved sweet tart. If the sweet tart flavor were the only thing, I would only call this a 2 for not impressed, but coupled with the beer characteristic, which is even assier than their already ass beer, this becomes 1.0-awful. And that is being generous. If a rating could go down to 0-putrid calamity, then I would give it that in a heartbeat.
I didn't really expect to like this, but this is even worse than anticipated. Absolutely foul.
If you find one of these in your hand, put it back where you found it, and heel-kick your own self in the ass. Say "NO!".

Serving type: bottle

02-19-2005 18:34:02 | More by GIVEMEBACKMYSON

RushLimbmalt

Minnesota

3.45/5  rDev +83.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5

Pours a pale yellow color and has a decent head for a Anheuser-Busch beer. The aroma is hardcore fruity and a touch beer hidden in there. The flavor is very fruity, but not obscene like a Leinie's Berryweiss, and very much like tart raspberries. I love raspberries, so I have to admit I am a bit smitten. I was skeptical at first, but it turns out to not be too bad at all, if a bit gimmicky. Where this beer truly lacks is it's drinkability. Besides a gut ache and overdose on the supplements, it is a tad too sweet for any kind of extended drinking session.

Serving type: bottle

02-19-2005 09:11:25 | More by RushLimbmalt

mynie

Indiana

1.35/5  rDev -28.2%
look: 1.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1 | overall: 1

Once, when I about 14, my friend Dusty told me that he had found some naked pictures of his mother. I could tell that he had been upset about something, but I refused to believe him. He was the youngest of four kids and at the time his oldest sibling was in her middle thirties. He mother was in her early 60s and had always seemed to me the epitome of a fat old housewife, always wearing an apron, often baking, never exhibiting the slightest hint of sexuality in her dress or matter.

I demanded to see these pictures, as proof, and sure enough there she was, all 300 pounds of her: bare ass naked. It almost made me puke, literally, it had a worse effect on my stomach than had any image I had ever seen, before or since. But still I had seen it, and seeing it had given me closure.

And so, with Dusty’s mom in mind, I stood patiently before a man wearing a Bud jacket at the gas station today as he wooed myself a few other younger men, regaling us with the wonders of mixing uppers and downers as he doled out free samples of the new AB product: B to the E.

The feelings were all the same: morbid curiosity, like slowing down to look at the scene of an accident. And it felt dirty, too, grabbing a free drink at a gas station, right before I drove away, there *had* to have been some law that I would have been breaking. But mostly all I wanted to do was see the carnage for myself. The whole idea just seemed so impossible, so horrible, that my very faith in god would be destroyed if the myths and rumors I had been hearing were proven true. Like a mother being brought in to her child’s deathbed, this was the kind of thing I could never truly believe until I saw it for myself, no matter how painful it might have been.

And no, I do not ask you to approve of my actions. Just to understand and forgive them. I did what had to be done.

Looks like Bud. No head. No nothing.

Smells like an energy drink, like berries and medicine. You know Amp? Not the Mountain Dew kind, but the other kind? It smells, and tastes, like that. Somewhere in between the sour of Red Bull and the sweetness of Laffy Taffy.

It doesn’t taste like beer. There isn’t even a hint of beer. The only beery remnant is the trademarked AB foul malt aftertaste. Still, this doesn’t really taste *bad,* so I can’t give it a perfect zero. Damn near a zero, though.

Drinking more than a few of these wouldn’t just be hard on your palette, it would be a genuine danger to your health. Uppers and downers should not be taken together. I learned that in 5th grade. And as this product contains not one, but two forms of potent diuretics, you should look for more than few B to the E fatalities in the next few months. All I can say is that anyone who drinks more than one of these probably deserves to die.

Serving type: bottle

01-29-2005 00:11:54 | More by mynie