Bud Light Platinum - Anheuser-Busch

camhack

Illinois

3.45/5  rDev +53.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5

This is pretty much like Bud Light with extra ABV. Taste is much sweeter. The mouthfeel is less carbonated so its a little smoother. It kind of smells unpleasant, like a sulfur scent. Th apperance is your typical AAL. If you want a decent beer to get obliterated on.. this is it.

Serving type: bottle

02-05-2012 09:14:58 | More by camhack

AlCaponeJunior

Texas

3/5  rDev +33.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

typical of the style, clear and lightly tan, I'm giving it a staight up average rating. I was expecting crap, but it wasn't that bad at all. Grainy and sweet, but with a slightly dry finish. Good enough for my expecting terrible. Better than typical for the brewery, that's for sure.

Serving type: bottle

02-05-2012 01:54:32 | More by AlCaponeJunior

EgadBananas

Louisiana

1.83/5  rDev -18.7%
look: 2.5 | smell: 1 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 1.5

It's been a long time since I've had a beer like this, but I feel like such an American cracking open this bottle. So close to the super bowl, this is appropriate...there will be no shortage of their commercials begging us for it's consumption. It's blue. Really blue. When the liquid is gone, it's REALLY blue. Goddammit, why do they have to be screw tops?! How AWESOME would these bottles be for bottling homebrew?! I still may... Sam @ Dogfish Head seems to be okay with their validity, at least short-term. F*ck it, I'll use a few for humors sake. Blue bottles FTW.

Okay, okay, on to a review.

A- This pours piss yellow, as clear as humanly possible, with a bone white finger of head that dissipates to... well, there's actually some bubbles strewn across the beers surface! Really doesn't help any...

S- Okay, please, don't smell this. It's better to just assume something, anything. The aroma is putrid almost. It's musty. Sweet, but old smelling. I won't throw skunk out there though. How does blue stand up against light, anyway? This was a 12 pack completely encased in cardboard, so I think light isn't of much concern. Still, this sucks as far as my nose is concerned.

T- There's a level of sweetness to the taste and it's corn. That's it.

M- The only way this may differ from regular BL is that it's fairly higher in alcohol and you can get that in the mouthfeel. It's light, and watered down, BUT... there's something there that isn't in regular BL. Minute and admissible just the same though.

O- With 7 less calories than a Budweiser, and a whole % more in ABV, I suppose it is well deserving of the Bud Light title. Still, it's just a boring American swill lager. I'll get drunk tonight either way. Boy, I shouldn't have bought a 12 pack...

Serving type: bottle

02-05-2012 00:12:04 | More by EgadBananas

7beerphil

Maryland

2.78/5  rDev +23.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 3.5

First, I want to say that this is too expensive for what it is. And what it is, is a very confused beer.

The blue bottles are unique and get a thumbs up. I didn't pour it out of the bottle, so I can't judge the appearance.

Smell's like Bud light...bug surprise there! Corn, rice, etc prevail.

Taste is a let-down. This is supposed to be a craft light beer--whatever that is. Very sweet taste, which doesn't hide the 6.0% abv at all. Give me a King Cobra instead and I'd be much more pleased.

Mouth feel is light, so it did achieve that for the style. Lots of carbonation, almost seems artificially carbonated.

Overall, this is a light beer trying to be a malt liquor, or a malt liquor trying to be a light beer. Identity crisis? Yes! A-B should put it in tall cans and 40s and call it a day.

Serving type: bottle

02-05-2012 00:04:55 | More by 7beerphil

HighballurRollby

California

2.85/5  rDev +26.7%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3

Alright!! BLP is out! Been expecting this beer for about 2 months. Reading about this beer and reasoning behind it, I've come to this conclusion. This beer was made because BL is a huge seller ( I believe its the #1 seller in us) and that since this beer is found at most college parties, house parties, bars, etc, that there would be a large market of people who go straight for it because its higher ABV. Alot of college people like getting hammered and BLP will get them there, and they're familiar with it. On to the beer.

I've had malt liquor before, I admit it. I think it smells like no other beers with that chemical smell goin on with it (similar to four loko). BLP has a bit of this smell but not as bad, its a cross. I can tell right off that there is traditional BL in this, but the aftertaste has that malt liquor flavor to it. I am willing to tolerate it with the extra ABV. And I like that fact that the mouthfeel is better with the more moderate carbonation vs. regular.
Overall I think that this beer will work out well. Personally I think that it tastes different than BUD ICE, althought similar in ABV. I think I like it because to me BL is a go to beer for chugging and now that its lower carbonation it will make that easier. And the added alcohol is a bonus for the purpose this beer serves for me.

Serving type: bottle

02-04-2012 06:33:40 | More by HighballurRollby

Beerney

California

2/5  rDev -11.1%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2

Tastes and smells like a cross between skunky bud light and malt liquor.

BLP has 6% alcohol and 137 calories. King Cobra (another AB product) is 6% and 133 calories per 12 oz. That is not even counting the extra calories that you'll burn lifting the heavier bottle.

I suppose it's a wash since I poured out a little of my BLP for my homies who are no longer with me.

Serving type: bottle

02-04-2012 03:27:06 | More by Beerney

CowsCanBark

Pennsylvania

1.68/5  rDev -25.3%
look: 2 | smell: 1 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2

Poured from 12 oz. bottle into pint glass.

Appearance: Pours your typical AAL clear pale golden, with a quickly disappearing white one-finger head. Zero lacing.

Smell: Corn, and a weird chemical smell.

Taste: Similar to the smell, but not as horrifying...but close. All you taste are adjuncts, alcohol, and metal. Oh and an overwhelming sweetness.

Mouthfeel: Light and crisp.

Overall: Not worth a try. Bud Light with more alcohol and sweetness. Ugh.

Serving type: bottle

02-04-2012 03:09:09 | More by CowsCanBark

blacklabel67k

Massachusetts

3.53/5  rDev +56.9%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5

This is a nice light beer that shouldn't be reviewed as a craft beer or expected to be something it is not. Too many biased reviews on here for this beer.

A-Pale yellow lager color. Typical for a beer of this type. Maybe a little paler than a regular Bud light.

S-Smells funky. Kind of that bitter lager smell with a little fruity note. Not offensive at all.

M-Very bubbly, the carbonation burns (which I love) and tickles the mouth. Almost champagne like.

O- I enjoyed it and I'll probably buy it again. Will I put it on my next beer list? nah, not for awhile. But I'm sure someday I'll want something light and refreshing, and it'll be this.

Serving type: bottle

02-03-2012 07:14:40 | More by blacklabel67k

TMoney2591

Illinois

2.7/5  rDev +20%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

Served in a tumbler.

Been waiting with baited breath for this randomness to come out. Call it a ticker's curiosity. It pours a clear straw topped by a finger or so of white foam. The nose is faint, with undertones of corn syrup, light grass, light sweet flowers, and mild wheat. The taste is a blast of corn syrup sweetness, with some grains hidden behind. A touch of sweetgrass flares up as well. The body is a light-leaning medium, with a moderate carbonation and a lightly syrupy feel. Overall, this honestly ain't as bad as it initially sounded. Frankly, I'd take this over a normal Bud Light any day...

Serving type: bottle

02-03-2012 06:42:08 | More by TMoney2591

DavidST

Texas

2/5  rDev -11.1%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2

Poured from a 12 oz bottle into pint glass likely fresh. This pours a straw color with a decent white head high bubbling carbonation. The smell is as expected, adjunct, sweet malts, no real hop presence. The feel is light, taste is similar to regular bud, nice marketing ploy though.

Serving type: bottle

02-03-2012 01:16:34 | More by DavidST

beerman207

Kentucky

1.33/5  rDev -40.9%
look: 1 | smell: 1 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 1

Why???? WHY??? DO I KEEP TRYING these beers?

A: Pours with basically no head and no fizz. Once it settles you could piss in a glass and sit it next to this beer and couldn't tell the difference. Not cool

S: Smell is corn, some weird fruit flavor and almost a bit like....ZIMA!!!! Whatever the combination is it just doesnt work.

T: Wow - taste is like a diet drink. Is there nutrasweet in this? My god i feel like I'm drinking an appletini.

M: Not bad - carbonation is low and this beer will likely be very popular in fraternities and sororities.

O: COMPLETE FAIL. I can tolerate bud light. Can't tolerate this one even though I want to at 6.0 abv.

Serving type: bottle

02-02-2012 01:00:32 | More by beerman207

BEERchitect

Kentucky

2/5  rDev -11.1%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2

Maybe considered to be a high-gravity light beer, Bud Light Platinum breaks all the rules and traditions of beer to accomodate those who don't like beer but wants the buzz to come in a couple drinks rather than multiple.

Extremely light in straw with hardly and color at all- even ginger ales have a more beer-like appearance than this. Efforvescent streams of carbonation fuel an absolute fizzy head for a moment or two before falling flat. A rather dull looking beer overall.

Aromas of mineral water and grain carry a sweetish cereal component that dominates the nose. Vegital and with an apple-like sulfur note, the beer offers very little aromatic value.

Flavors do much the same. When the taste of water gives just as much intensity as the rice, corn, and aspirtame sweetness, then that might become a complement rather than a criticism. Minerally, like hard water and raw grains struggle to offer any bready malt notes or floral hop profiles.

Very light throughout and with an evaporative cooling from the alcohol dryness that starts almost immediately, even while the grainy-sweet taste is still present early on. Thin, watery, and dry- this is the closest thing I've taste to alcoholic water.

Surprisingly, I'm not too terribly off put with this beer. It's probably because there actually has to be a taste present in order to critique negativley. There's just no 'there' there.

Serving type: bottle

02-01-2012 19:15:10 | More by BEERchitect

Lemke10

Wisconsin

2.3/5  rDev +2.2%
look: 1.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2

I bought a 6pk of this from Woodman's in Janesville, WI for $6.39 in early 2012.

Pours a very pale yellow color almost like it is a glass of tainted water. A slight head but it disappears quickly. Not too strong of a scent, mostly just hints of cheap earthy grains. The taste isn't too bad. It has a sweet, easy, drinkable texture. Only a slight reminisce of beer in the after taste. Definitely would take this over a Bud Light or MGD 64.

Serving type: bottle

02-01-2012 05:26:16 | More by Lemke10

puboflyons

New Hampshire

3.15/5  rDev +40%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3

From a bottle stamped 12015BK83. Sampled on January 31, 2012. The pour was pale yellow with a short lived fizzy white head. The aroma was better than most lights with a decent combination of grains, malts, sugars, and a clean hop note. The body fell in the medium range but also had a smooth creamy character. The taste was also on the grainy side with a clean hop bite and something almost fruity. A light beer with 6% ABV. This is better than some folks give it credit for.

Serving type: bottle

02-01-2012 01:59:27 | More by puboflyons

rvonhagen

Washington

3.1/5  rDev +37.8%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5

Calories=137. Carbohydrates=4.4 grams. 6.0% ALC./VOL. As a type 2 diabetic who still loves to drink beer this offers a decent alternative to most low carb options. It is very crisp with some more flavor than most low carb beers. Still very light though. The alcohol content is surprising as it doesn't taste much like an ice beer or high gravity lager. It is light years from my unfortunately now rare passion Duvel. But it does offers a lot more in many ways to those of us who must watch carbs for health reasons. Considering that Bud Light is the #1 selling beer, my guess is that Platinum will be a huge marketing success for AB-InBev.

Serving type: bottle

01-31-2012 05:13:36 | More by rvonhagen

Reaper16

Alabama

2.5/5  rDev +11.1%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5

12oz. bottle served into a pint glass

Pours out a very pale yellow color. It looks remarkably like, well, Bud Light. It even has the whole soap suds-looking white foam that dissipates completely in like twelve seconds. This looks like shit, but don't all adjunct lagers? At least you can see that there is a pretty steady stream of carbonation here.

On first sniff, this smells like an amped up Bud Light: there's the ricecorn nothingness and the slight floral note. But it soon opens up to smell a lot like a diet malt liquor. Actually: there's more fruitness than that. It's like a white wine cooler. But with rice. Very sweet with nary a balancing hop to be smelled.

The taste follows the nose, only with less fruit. Some sugary, synthetic fruit flavor would improve this. You know how sometimes water from a refrigerator's water filter/ice maker will have a plasticky taste to it? Bud Light Platinum tastes like you made a bowl of rice with that water. Plus some sugar, because assholes sugar their rice and you are probably an asshole. The finish is like you ate an entire sleeve of rice cakes. Awful & boring, simultaneously.

The mouthfeel feels somewhat lively on the tongue, but the beer is slick and thin on the swallow. Below average, but not a disaster. Overall, this is a below average adjunct lager. It's diet malt liquor. Does this taste better than Bud Light? I guess, sure, because it has a taste.

Serving type: bottle

01-31-2012 04:22:35 | More by Reaper16

WVbeergeek

Ohio

3.6/5  rDev +60%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

Marketing, marketing, marketing, cool blue bottles Bud Light with a bit more alcohol and flavor not just premium but platinum. Pours a fizzy yellow bright golden color with white head dwindling quickly. Aroma has some green apple notes with a faint slightly metallic note with cooked veggies and cereal grains. This is like putting a tuxedo on a malt liquor. Flavor has the sweetness, like sweet creamed corn notes and a touch of rough alcohol herbal hops. Juicy fruit and sweet malts defines this beer pretty much. Sweet even cloyingly so brings beer to a new level of mass production and acceptable sweetness levels. Overall a beer I will drink with friends who buy this but I won't be spending 11.99 on a 12 pack again, although my wife seems to enjoy the effects of a beer that drinks just as easy as Bud Light but has the full alcohol level of 6% abv.

Serving type: bottle

01-31-2012 04:22:02 | More by WVbeergeek

gabedivision

New York

2.35/5  rDev +4.4%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5

Poured from a 12 oz bottle to a bud light pint glass, classy.

Well, well, well, lets see here, pours a straw golden diet gingerale with a frothy 1/2 finger foam head that lays atop the beer nicely for most of the time. Grainy smells of corn and grass come through mixed with a slight rubbing alcohol touch, oddly not offensive in anyway. Ah, the taste, rubbing alcohol feel without the burn, corn, old stagnant water with some hand sanitizer dripped into it...weird tasting shit. Mouthfeel; well its light, real light, very light....not much body or balance to this what so ever. Come together now folks, now i dont quite understand why this beer exists, and i hope soon it doesnt, but it does and right now im drinking it. It has no smell, no taste, and no feel to it, its just all around a bud light with some hand sanitizer in it.

Serving type: bottle

01-31-2012 03:14:13 | More by gabedivision

Swim424

Florida

2/5  rDev -11.1%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2

Poured from the 12oz bottle into hoegaarden glass

A-very pale yellow. a bit more golden than a normal BL. small head the dissappeared fast. doesnt look like much carbonation compared to others of the style

S-Rice, cereal, straw, corn. not much to it

T-corn and rice. pretty simple as well. tastes like they added more flavor to this one compared to BL. Sort of like regular Budweiser, with a bit more alcohol to it.

MF-very light. nothing to it. pretty watery.

O-very average. better than BL. about equal with bud, but i would probably pick a normal bud.

Serving type: bottle

01-31-2012 03:10:00 | More by Swim424

WeissbrauMeister

Michigan

1.38/5  rDev -38.7%
look: 1 | smell: 1 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.5

A- I'm pretty sure this beer doesn't have a SRM value. Very pale gold.

S- Has a sweet aroma. Unfortunately that is the only scent I can pick up.

T- As predicted by my smell test, the beer is sweet, without any trace of hops. Taste very similar to my first homebrew done with a Mr. Beer kit.

M- Light with a decent amount of carbonation.

O- Although I prefer it to bud light but I will won't be touching this beer again. I gave it a shot and it doesn't compare to some of the better light adjunct lagers out there.

Serving type: bottle

01-31-2012 01:33:53 | More by WeissbrauMeister

jburns4

Texas

1.05/5  rDev -53.3%
look: 1 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1

A - Pale yellow as expected. Light head.

S - Very sweet smell. Strongly hints at the flavor to come.

T - Lasting, saccharin sweetness. Not good. No flavors really. Just sweet.

M - Pretty good carbonation. Nothing unexpected there. The sweetness of it almost makes it feel a little sticky though.

O - Really awful. I imagine their thought process being, "Oh crap, you can almost taste the alcohol. We better make it overpoweringly sweet to hide that." If given the choice between this and bud light, I'll take the bud light. Actually, I can't think of anything I would choose this over (except maybe Wild Blue). Unless you're just looking to get drunk with a few less bottles, don't waste your money on this one.

Serving type: bottle

01-30-2012 02:43:02 | More by jburns4

greenmonstah

New Hampshire

1.85/5  rDev -17.8%
look: 1 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 1.5

A - Fizzy as all hell, but in the way a soda is fizzy. Big carbonation bubbles pour up audibly and make a tiny wisp of a head that dissipates in seconds. Ten seconds after pour there is no head, and the beer looks like a yellow piss soda pop.

S - Like bud light but with a lot more corny sweetness. Very faint malt character and zero hop presence. This is like a beer soda.

T - Tastes extremely sweet, with a finish like buttered corn-on-the-cob, which is a bit surprising considering AB's adjunct of choice being rice. There is even a tiny bit of ethanol, which I've never experienced in a 6% beer. Some hints of actual malt in here, with a very faint caramel flavor present.

M - Light body with some stickiness. Carbonated like a glass of Sprite. Really overstays its welcome by coating the palate so completely.

O - Overall this is terrible. Budweiser is a thousand times better, and Bud Light is even preferable. In fact, I'd take a Bud Light Lime over this garbage. The beer loses that "Crisp clean" aroma and taste that cheap adjunct lagers depend on, which makes the beers immensely less refreshing, which is supposed to be its top selling point.

Serving type: bottle

01-29-2012 18:54:14 | More by greenmonstah

Merkur

Tennessee

2.65/5  rDev +17.8%
look: 3 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3

Poured from a blue bottle into a pint glass.

Beer pours a straw yellow color with a bit of fizzy head.

Beer has no great smells. Mainly of corn.

Beer tastes very sweet. Tons of more flavor than Bud Light, which isn't saying much. Very strong corn taste.

Mouthfeel is thin and heavy carbonated.

Much better than Bud Light, I could see getting this from time to time instead of a Coors Light or similar.

Serving type: bottle

01-29-2012 15:42:53 | More by Merkur

Bito401

Rhode Island

2.42/5  rDev +7.6%
look: 2 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

Well i went into my lq store today to grab a 6 pack of random beers i have yet to try. I noticed they had bud light platinum so i grabbed one. The best thing about this beer is the cool blue bottle it comes in.

A- Light
T- Bud Light with more flavor
S- Non existent
O- Good replacement for bud light at a party at 6.0% alc

Serving type: bottle

01-28-2012 23:19:06 | More by Bito401

RonaldTheriot

Louisiana

3.7/5  rDev +64.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

Bud Light Platinum has a thick white head and a clear, straw appearance with few streaming bubbles, but a decent amount of lacing. The aroma is a combination of alcohol, sweetness, husks, and grain, and the taste is richly sweet (cloying), grainy, of rice, sharp, and fairly bold, with a touch of hop bitterness at the back end of the sip. Mouthfeel is light to medium, and Bud Light Platinum finishes pretty crisp, clean, refreshing, and easy drinking. I think A-B/InBev may have struck gold with this one (or , should I say platinum). It’s a winner, and it’s head and shoulders above the dull and flaccid Bud Light. I think we’ll be hearing a lot about this one!

RJT

Serving type: bottle

01-28-2012 16:41:46 | More by RonaldTheriot