Before drinking: It looks like a bud light, which is to say, a particularly shallow bronze shade of water, like sallow tap water drizzling out of eighty year old pipes, like the saliva of a particularly slow teenager after chewing on the metal eraser-bracket end of a pencil.
First sip: Amazingly neutral. I can't actually detect any sort of flavour. This is a step forward from regular Bud Light.
Subsequent drinks: I suppose I can taste a bit of lime mixed in there somewhere, lurking about the edges. The lime is the awkward unsocial fellow with a bow-tie who got invited to the party out of politeness but doesn't really know how to get involved. He just ends up at the edge of the room, smiling gamely, really just happy to be there.
The beer itself manages the amazing feat of actually tasting like rice. A lot of major market brands are basically just rice and caramel but this one really delivers the rice flavour, less the caramel. If you took one of those rice cake snacks that has the texture of a cardboard drink coaster and the flavour of a cardboard drink coaster, and fermented it, this is what you'd end up bottling.
As I get about a third of the way through, the lime flavour has been washed away. That poor fellow in the bow tie has given up his faint efforts to engage an awkward girl in conversation and has retired for the evening. I wish I could give him an encouraging speech, maybe get a couple of shots into him, but people aren't projects, and this party is going in a bad direction either way.
I wonder how much time they spent working out the right level of carbonation to get such a stereotypical level of bubble activity. Rather more than they did in working out how to make beer without wheat or hops, I suspect.
If you are looking for a beer to look photogenic on video, a medium without any context for odour or flavour, you could do worse.
I'm about half done and I'm going to wrap up this exercise because I don't think I can finish this beer if I have to spend this much time considering what I'm doing.
First sip: Amazingly neutral. I can't actually detect any sort of flavour. This is a step forward from regular Bud Light.
Subsequent drinks: I suppose I can taste a bit of lime mixed in there somewhere, lurking about the edges. The lime is the awkward unsocial fellow with a bow-tie who got invited to the party out of politeness but doesn't really know how to get involved. He just ends up at the edge of the room, smiling gamely, really just happy to be there.
The beer itself manages the amazing feat of actually tasting like rice. A lot of major market brands are basically just rice and caramel but this one really delivers the rice flavour, less the caramel. If you took one of those rice cake snacks that has the texture of a cardboard drink coaster and the flavour of a cardboard drink coaster, and fermented it, this is what you'd end up bottling.
As I get about a third of the way through, the lime flavour has been washed away. That poor fellow in the bow tie has given up his faint efforts to engage an awkward girl in conversation and has retired for the evening. I wish I could give him an encouraging speech, maybe get a couple of shots into him, but people aren't projects, and this party is going in a bad direction either way.
I wonder how much time they spent working out the right level of carbonation to get such a stereotypical level of bubble activity. Rather more than they did in working out how to make beer without wheat or hops, I suspect.
If you are looking for a beer to look photogenic on video, a medium without any context for odour or flavour, you could do worse.
I'm about half done and I'm going to wrap up this exercise because I don't think I can finish this beer if I have to spend this much time considering what I'm doing.
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