Beach Bum Blonde Ale
Anheuser-Busch InBev USA in St. Louis, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
4.74
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Beach Bum is an all-malt American blonde ale, which draws its deep golden color from the finest pale and caramel roasted barley malts. This beer is dry hopped with the choicest imported Alsace and Hallertau hops as well as Cascade hops from the Pacific Northwest, which lend to its pleasant hop aroma and its slightly spicy and fruity taste.
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5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Draught at MacGregors. Had no idea that this was from AB, but it makes sense. Clear gold with a low head. Malty aroma of buttered peaches. Fruity, buttery sweet malt flavor with honey and a slight tart edge. Lightly bitter finish. Very fruity and quite sweet. Not very interesting.
Tried
on 07 Sep 2011
at 07:19
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Bottled@Monks Café Wallingatan, Stockholm. Yellowish golden colour, small white head. Aroma is fruits, nectar, wood and mild honey as well as some mild hoppyness. Flavour is sweet malts, mild hops and some grassyness. Yet a slight swill feeling to it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jul 2011
at 23:07
2.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 2
Amazing how, with such a big, complicated description, what you get is a bottle of truly shit beer. All of these flavors may or may not appear, because mainly Beach Bum is a fizzy-yet-watery Michelob brewed with ale yeast. I personally think A-B missed out on a very lucrative advertising niche: Beach Bum, the Seasonal Beer of Assholes. Kinda catchy, I think. (2008)
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 May 2011
at 19:21
6.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
12 oz bottle into English pint. Grainy, citrus powder aroma; lemony. Excellent appearance--pours a medium deep gold hue with a nice, nice rocky head and excellent lacework. Head has long retention. Taste is interesting for this dull style. There are some spice notes: cinnamon, nutmeg (?). Someone put the idea in my head that it tastes like beach sand before I started ranking and I can’t get it out of my head. It does taste a little like beach sand. WTF? Carbonation is medium to high. A little watery. This is one of the most boring styles of beer I feel, but Michelob has made this one stand out a bit from the blonde ale crowd I think. I’m always amazed when those Anheuser-Busch douchebags actually produce something with any merit. This one has some merit I think.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Aug 2010
at 19:22
3.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Draught at Pour 24, Las Vegas, NV. Clear yellow, minimal head. Light bodied with clean mouthfeel. Slight notes of honey, other wise vacuum dominates until it warms slightly and stale butter takes over. Hard and fizzy, dull but somewhat drinkable.
Tried
on 26 Jul 2010
at 01:45
4.1/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Man, everytime you turn around there is another michelob beer to be tasted. Smell is sweetly hoppy. Looks like a pale lager of sorts. Taste is at first a little bitter hoppy then that fades quite rapidly. Decent amount of fizz on the palate, each sips is fizzy but fades to a flat. Seems to be a tad watery at times. Friendly light and easy going for the most part. Background slight medicinal bitterness on the finish. IMHO there are many other better blondes for the price such as Indigo Imp Blonde Bombshell, Roy Pitz Best Blonde Ale, Hoppy Liquid Sunshine Blonde Ale but its much better than koch’s golden anniversary ale.
Tried
on 22 May 2010
at 11:39