Budweiser Project Twelve - Batch 23185 (Williamsburg)
Anheuser-Busch InBev USA in St. Louis, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Premium Regular|
Score
5.38
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The beer is brewed by Daniel Westmoreland from the Williamsburg, Va. brewery and was developed in collaboration with brewmasters Mike Anderson in Jacksonville, Fla. and Dan Kahn in Cartersville, Ga.
“We took staves from fresh bourbon barrels and we aged the beer on those staves and spiced it with a hint of vanilla,” said Westmoreland, who has been a Budweiser brewmaster for more than 30 years. “It’s an all-malt brew, and it has a perfect color that is similar to the color of bourbon itself. Batch No. 23185 has a nice vanilla aroma with a little oakiness on the end – it’s a great beer.”
“We took staves from fresh bourbon barrels and we aged the beer on those staves and spiced it with a hint of vanilla,” said Westmoreland, who has been a Budweiser brewmaster for more than 30 years. “It’s an all-malt brew, and it has a perfect color that is similar to the color of bourbon itself. Batch No. 23185 has a nice vanilla aroma with a little oakiness on the end – it’s a great beer.”
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6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Of the three Project 12 beers I tried, this is the best one. Color was deep amber. Nice head. Taste was mild, slight oaky vanilla. Aroma was grains, watery, vanilla. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Mar 2025
at 04:42
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Bottle. Thanks to Bobby. Shared with Blipp on his last tasting at my house. Pours gold white head. Nose/taste of vanilla, bourbon, oaky malt and old malt - medium body
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jun 2015
at 23:16
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a dark amber color with a medium sized foamy orange-white head that left a bit of lacing. The aroma was faint with a sour and malty presence that was a bit tangy and had a hint of toffee. The flavor was tangy and sweet bread, honey, toffee and sugar syrup - though all a bit faint. Medium length muddled sweet finish. Moderately full bodied. Eh.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 May 2013
at 14:59
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Amber beer with a cream head. Vanilla and malt aroma with light sweetness. Malt and vanilla flavor with light bourbon. Medium bodied. Malt and grain linger with vanilla.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Mar 2013
at 09:13
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Drank in my room while staying at ’The Sheraton on Fishermans Wharf’ San Franscico on 5 Feb 2013. Poured into a platic beaker a couple of times: still looked OK. I chilled the 12 ounce bottle in the sink with loads of ice, leaving it there while we went out and cracked in on our return. Amber body with an off-white crown. I found the beer a bit too sweet: and I like sweeter beers normally. This however was to smooth and almost sickly, the vanilla hints helping to make the brew feel that way. Great if you’ve a sweet tooth and like vanilla flavours, otherwise steer clear of this beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Mar 2013
at 02:59
4.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
12oz bottle poured into a shaker. Pours a clear light amber with a half finger of white head. Aroma of light grains, some vanilla and a little boozy oak...all very weak though. Taste of light grains, light vanilla and light banana. Light bodied with a thin texture. Fizzy carbonation and not much of a finish. Overall, not bad. This probably should have won.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Feb 2013
at 14:52
3.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3
Clear golden coloured body with a thin, very fast-dying white head. Aroma of pale malt, some light sugars and a hint of earth - not much else noticeable. Light-bodied; Sharp pungent cardboard and malt notes with nothing else but more funkiness and cardboard. Aftertaste shows some light earthiness, a bit of alcohol and that unpleasant maltiness that is just stale and dank. Overeall, a pretty bad offering, but that’s pretty much to be expected from this brewery, isn’t it? I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Liqour Outlet in Boonton, New Jersey on 12-December-2012 for US$0.98 sampled at home in Washington on 02-February-2013.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Feb 2013
at 23:14
2.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 2
Hate to get overly simple on this one, but if they didn’t try hard, neither will I. Taste like Bud Ice aged on oak.
Tried
on 21 Jan 2013
at 06:22
5.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 7
OK, as an engineer, I like punching in a number to search for this stuff, every beer should have anumber on the label to search by. Decent pour and whoever, said this was a dark lager is so funny, ignorantly funny. Yes quite smooth out of the botlle. Nice thin creamy head makes it fairly attractive. Good over all taste impressions, smooth and goes down easy. Reminds me of bud poured right out of the tap into a styrofoam cup, yep has that arome, clean and crisp, no ill olfactory. You would not know this is over 5%, hides the alky well. Yes, smooth easy and well behaved, has manners and it will be easy for any lager lover to drink. Good overall beer drinken experience. A little more sharp than the 91406, heheh, but just as mannered. Theser are slight variations on the same style. CO2 is present and much appreciated. Finish almost has a hint of banana in it. Does come across as mild as many wheat beers.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Jan 2013
at 14:55
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
American dark lager? The bottle says it is a light amber lager, which it is. Whatever. Filtered, terrifying internal carbonation, steady head. A little too bubbly, but pretty decent too. The more I sip on it, the more I think Cream Ale. Vanilla, some unoffensive corn, caramel. Never outright sugary or sticky, a little too thin, something other beers could benefit from, but not this one. Tastes like vanilla Michelob. Really lacks depth.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Jan 2013
at 23:30