{"id":11789,"date":"2013-07-08T10:30:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T15:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/?p=11789"},"modified":"2021-08-31T15:48:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T20:48:09","slug":"straw-ber-rita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/straw-ber-rita\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, We Did: Bud Light Straw-Ber-Rita, Investigated"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n We’ve threatened to do this for some time now (okay, it was really just me because I have some sort of beer-guy masochism streak running through me a mile wide) and finally, during this week of celebrating freedom, I dove in headfirst. I purchased, opened, consumed a Bud Light Straw-Ber-Rita.<\/strong><\/p>\n Oh, the shame.<\/p>\n There’s not a lot to say, really, other than this:<\/p>\n As this is a Flavored Malt Beverage<\/a>, calling this a beer is bordering on fraud. We’ve tried Bud Light Lime before as well. It wasn’t the end of the world — get it cold enough, sit yourself by the pool, and it’ll go down decently enough. This is not Bud Light Lime. This isn’t a beer with some chemical flavoring dumped on top of it and a nifty new logo slapped on the can.<\/p>\n Looking for some coverage of better fruit beers? Check out our review of Short’s Strawberry Shortscake<\/a> or New Glarus Raspberry Tart<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n Looking for other Anheuser-Busch related coverage? Check out all our Goose Island reporting<\/a>, our Save The Craft<\/a> campaign as well as the times we tried Shock Top Pretzel Wheat<\/a> and Shock Top Campfire Wheat<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Labeling this with a Bud Light logo and getting people to think it’s beer is the alcohol equivalent of casting the Bee Gees in the Sgt. Pepper movie. And yes, in that metaphor, I just cast Bud Light as the Beatles. That should give you a sense of how this “product” performed.<\/p>\n It doesn’t even resemble a margarita, either. It’s just fruit punch slush with ethanol in it. No brace of tequila back there (which can be done in a beer — remember Tequiza?) and zero lime mixed in — just\u00a0a sticky, sugary, Mike’s Hard Lemonade by way of Bud Light Michelada that is neither refreshing nor entertaining.<\/p>\n It is, however, at 8%ABV in a monster 24 oz silo can, intoxicating. The rush of sweetness mixed with the malt liquor goes right to your brain much like I imagine the difference between crack and clean uncut cocaine. It’s a dirty high, and a quick one. I tried to verify if this was laden with corn syrup; there is no easily searchable ingredients list for this FMB so I can’t confirm the fructose level here; I assume that it is quite high, however.<\/p>\n Sometimes you can drink something terrible, while knowing it’s terrible, and still have a good time doing it, even if it’s in a ha-ha-look-at-me ironic sense of enjoyment. This wasn’t even fun. This was just frustrating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Someone had to do it. Why did it have to be us? We don’t know; it just did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[363],"yoast_head":"\n
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