Natural Ice
Anheuser-Busch InBev USA in St. Louis, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Pale Regular|
Score
2.83
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superspak (10160) reviewed Natural Ice from Anheuser-Busch InBev USA 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
25 ounce can into lager glass, canned on 10/29/2017. Pours crystal clear medium golden yellow color with a 1 finger fairly dense and fluffy white head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of cracker, corn, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, and mild herbal/grassy earthiness. A bit of fruity aromas, but not overwhelming. Okay aromas with pale malt/corn and light earthy hop notes; with poor strength. Taste of cracker, corn, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, and mild herbal/grassy earthiness. Mild herbal, grassy, spicy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of cracker, corn, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, and mild herbal/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Nice robustness of pale malt/corn and light earthy hop flavors; with a nice malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Fairly crisp/clean finishing. Perfectly clean on lager flavors, with zero yeast notes present. Light-moderate increasing dryness from lingering bitterness and carbonation. Medium-high carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, moderately bready/grainy, and lightly sticky mouthfeel that is good. A bit thin, but not watery finish. Mildly increasing warmth of alcohol after the finish. Overall this is a very solid pale adjunct lager style. All around good robustness of pale malt/corn and light earthy hop flavors; very smooth, crisp, clean, and pretty refreshing to drink. Very clean barley/corn flavors and decent earthy hop balance. Not too heavy on adjunct character. An enjoyable offering, and well made style example. Very acceptable for the style expectations.
Bitterbill (4330) reviewed Natural Ice from Anheuser-Busch InBev USA 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5
I wanted a single serving so I had to settle for this big ass 25 ounce can.
Pours a clear straw, loads of foam.
Smells so grainy and sweet, to the point of rotten veggies.
Grainy and off putting sweet taste. Again, I get a vegetal nastiness that I can't get past. Malt Liquor lite? I'd rather have a Mickeys.
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 0.5
very faint yellow appearance. 1 finger solid white head. almost zero aroma. flavor. dead sugar, yeast corn and cardboard.
Marduk (26467) ticked Natural Ice from Anheuser-Busch InBev USA 8 years ago
VastActiv (16429) reviewed Natural Ice from Anheuser-Busch InBev USA 8 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2
Sample for the can at TCrapBF2017, Tallinn. Colour is clear pale with small white head. Aromas and flavours: Paper and malts. Totally useless for every purpose.
mart (27297) reviewed Natural Ice from Anheuser-Busch InBev USA 8 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2
Can at tcbw. Pours clear yellow. Aroma is puke, corn. Flavor is sweet and bitter, watery, corn, watery. Overall: bad.
TBone (30139) reviewed Natural Ice from Anheuser-Busch InBev USA 8 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2.5
Can at Tallinn Crap Beer Festival. Clear pale yellow color, not much head. Industrial green apple aroma. Light-bodied. Watery. Green apple. Not much else.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Refrigerated 25 oz. aluminum can poured into a glass, served ice cold. Clear pale with small/medium white head. Aroma is corny, light body, lower carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is corny, some light grain, and hints of rice. Don’t let this warm up.
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 1
Fairly tasteless and inoffensive when ice cold, but wait til this baby warms up to room temperature. All kinds of heavy metals, light metals, battery acid. It’s like meth in a can.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 4.5
Wait a minute, I’ve had this more than enough times in my life and I just found my notes on this. Though mostly an after hockey game beer, I grabbed a couple to take home to investigate its characteristics. Here are my findings (yes, this is from several years ago, but honestly, I don’t think that matters).
I have always poured this into a pint glass.
The appearance was a decent looking clear yellow color with a fair amount of carbonation rising at a rapid pace. The white less than one fingered white foamy head dissipated within less than twenty seconds. There wasn’t any lacing.
The smell was cooked corn. I couldn’t get anything else.
The taste was sweet and had the corn invade that sweetness.
The palate, it sat exceptionally light and showed a superior sessionability about this one. The carbonation seems good for the style and okay to me, yeah I know its one of light lagers, yeah well.
Overall, well, its Natural Ice, a beer that has quenched me after hockey for more than enough years and has helped sleep fairly well at night after I used to pound probably the whole 12 pack. Sigh, well, now that I’m a good 7 years older from my original beer roots and I look at this beer. Hmmm...its not bad, but probably not something I’d seek to buy. Would I have it again after a hockey game these days? Hmmm...probably would. Cheers. That’s all that matters.