It’s so interesting to see someone try these American macro lagers for the first time after they’ve had a good variety of other beers. For many of us in the US, these are the first beers we try. Then we one day learn that beers can actually taste good.
Nice one, mate! The review we needed to see! As a Brit living in Canada, it amazes and saddens me that these are the beers I see drunk the most here and the beers I most often get offered at other peoples' houses. I usually tell them I'm not drinking and ask for water instead... I've tried both in the past. Bud Light gave me a headache, Coors Light was just yellow fizzy water; both made me question whether or not my tastebuds were working.
I was born and raised in the USA and I can tell you personally I wouldn’t drink either of those two beers, even on a bet… I was ecstatic to see the rise of craft beers in the 90s because at least these beers had some character, some flavor!!
You'll get people drinking this trash in England. English beer is revered by beer lovers all over the world, yet people in England will drink this in preference to our own amazing beers which are part of our culture. These people are not the most inspiring, inquisitive or intelligent it has to be said. And I'm being generous there.
Also US born and bred, the craft brew movement has brought some interesting flavors. Back in the ‘80’s the only good beers were imported. Really loved the English imports like Fuller’s ESB, the Old Peculiar, as well as various ales and stouts.
The only reasons I would drink those beers: 1. I really didn't want water and the bar had ran out of diet pop, any fruit juice, tea, coffee, milk, gravy or Bovril. 2. It was free.
3. someone bet me 100 quid I didn't dare to drink a pint of horse piss and I took the bet, then wanted to prove him wrong, and guess what, I won 100 quid!
As a youth I drank the average beer, but typically not "light" beers. Never really liked them. Then one day I decided to try a dark beer... Michelob Dark (not the Amber crap they changed to) and found there really was a difference in types of beer. Years later I took my parents on a vacation to Germany. Being born in Germany and coming to America as a child, I never really experienced good beer until that trip 40 years thereafter. WOW, I discovered my all time favorite beer, Spaten Optimator. Although there are great beers from many parts of the world, for me there are none better. Oh yeah, I love to try different styles and some come close to Optimator (like their Oktoberfest), but if I could only have one beer a day the choice is simple. As for "Light" beer, the only one I've found worthwhile is Yuengling. While it's still considered light, it's a good alternative to those of us trying to watch our caloric input... :) :)
My American friend told me the quality of the water at the Colorado brewery is superb and makes the Coors a genuinely decent American beer. Though it's likely what we get is brewed in the UK, but about 15 years ago when the Coors Lite brand was getting set up in the UK at Wetherspoons I think we got the American beer and it was excellent.
@@davidcalvert5849 I think you're right about the ABV... I never drink any lager less than 5 percent unless it's Pilsner Urquell... So it must have been at least 5 percent....
@theseeker3771 yeah at least 5 I remember a few of our regulars who tried it when it first came on were a bit surprised at the strength and ended up in right states 🤣
Although my tastes in beer have changed, I did quite enjoy a pint of Coors when it was first introduced to the UK. Obviously not a drink to be considered in its UK brewed form though.
Simon you can always ad a grain of rice or 2 to to the bottom of the glass like they do in many places in Bavaria to get the bubbles going when u dont have 2 nucleated glasses. I know in this video u didnt need it but that can always be added to keep things more equal. Or for that matter to a weisse beer glass just the one grain when enjoying a Franziskaner or Paulaner if so you choose. Just gives it that lil bit different mouth feel to change things up.
Coors light used to be promoted and first appeared at Wetherspoons maybe 15 years ago and it was one of their permanent taps... It was actually a very nice refreshing lager., no off-notes and satisfying mouth feel....Not bad at all. As for Bud Light...when's the operation Simon?
Coors used to be a go to on a Friday after a long week at work and fancied a beer at home, knowing I had to be up early with my son. It was crisp and inoffensive compared to the usual fosters, Carling etc.
I went to the US in the early 90's all you could get is coors or bud light everywhere, utter piss, glad to see the explosion of craft beers now over there as they bloody need it, a real kick in the teeth to see bud as a UK football sponsor, whenever I see anyone walking out of a supermarket with a crate of bud it makes me wince. My fav widely available US beer is Sierra Nevada pale ale, top drawer
Tried Bud Lite once and once only when Wetherspoons started selling it and my son in law said he wanted one so i thought that I'd join him. Tasted like a normal Bud, half mixed with soda water. That was few years back now, not touched one since, nor will I.
My wife loves Italian lager, likes Czech lager and sometimes buys Kronenberg 1664. She bought some Coors last Christmas. She liked it: not too strong, crisp and clean etc. I thought it tasted like fizzy water and won't touch the stuff again. I dread to think how bad Bud Light is in comparison. I was also asking myself who'd actually drink that by choice.
The most close to water lager I ever tried was Shlitz made in UK on license early 90’s. It was almost like drinking perrier in a can. Was actually quite keen on it during hot summers (remember them anyone?)
Personally I'd pour a can into a glass and leave a minute, but happy to drink out of a glass bottle. Had some Heineken recently and the bottled was much nicer than the canned.
They removed the 'light' from Coors as in 2022 they were planning on launching 'Coors Original' in the UK (think called banquet in the USA). So Coors Light would be coors and Coors Original would be the premium one. But they seem to have rowed back from this and now have no plans to launch the Original in the UK...
It just shows you what the right marketing can do iv seen a few young people now drink coors. But on the other hand the premium lagers in supermarkets eg Stella are probably no better at this stage.
There is one and only one situation where i drink Coors, and that's after I've been for a run or to the gym. An ice cold Coors with a squeeze of fresh lime is such a quencher! Wouldn't touch it if i were down the pub though.
lived in Florida and most of their beers were like tap water, although the strong stuff in the supermarkets was cheaper! drank natural ice 5.9% and steel head reserve 8%
I remember drinking Coors in the early 90s , in a gold colour bottle (before coors light) I remember it was 5% Abv , possibly American and it was fairly decent. You could get (proper) Coors and Coors light at one point , for whatever reason they stopped making the full blooded version , pity because it was better than bud or miller.
We could get it back then on draught at Stamford Bridge, when Coors sponsored the shirts @'93-94. As mainly an ale drinker I never found even the old version that good, it had a bit of an odd taste compared to things like 1664 and Stella which were still original full strength imports back then, probably?
@@johnp8131 it was still mass produced American lager that used rice. But it had some flavour unlike bud and wasn’t as sickly sweet as miller. Of course now we’re getting spoiled with really good stuff from across the pond .
Coors, I don't mind in the summer on a hot day. I only had Bud Lite once and didn't like it. I think Coors has a wee bit of sentimental value as we visited the Coors brewery in Colorado years ago, so it reminds me of that.
Confusing, which Coors is it now? Used to drink the original draught Coors at Football back in the mid nineties, because there was nothing else available in the ground! That stuff was a bit stronger back then but still rubbish. I presume the Coors chemical factory is in Burton on Trent as there's a massive "Coors" advert on the side of the main building there, or at least there was a few years ago?
If you can get it, Morrisons Premium Lager's not bad at all for 4.8% cheaper one. I think Cain's brew it for them in Liverpool, or at least they did? Maybe a little sweet for some people perhaps?
budget lagers are generally really good and the best of the supermarket brands are made by some brewery with some kind of status it's a matter of preference really among the 5% guys, when you do a true test, you should just isolate it on the ones you already prefer by taste profile it's not that the others are objectively worse, but you can pick them out because you particularly are not as fond of their taste profile, i kind of pick them out by deduction, and the top ones are almost indistinguishable to me because i like their profile as a nice crisp drinker it's like you almost mostly taste the water quality more than anything else there are exceptions, of course, like particularly hoppy ones, or some being particularly citrussy/acidic ones, some of them have this almost white beer thing to it because they are particularly not-hoppy too, personally i sense that a bit more with the german cheap lagers :D then theres beers they put syrup in too, the sugary ones, like amstel, 1 cold one on a summery day is fun, but you can't keep drinking them, heineken is even regular heineken is more refreshing and ultimately dirnkable then i'm Dutch by the by, for perspective i also happen to live ~10 kilometers away from the original Heineken factory in Zoeterwoude (they provide a shit ton of jobs around here, since they went big time international in 1971) the heineken ships go through the rhine canals to the port terminal of my town (of which they funded 80% orso), before heading to rotterdam so we get to have these extra fresh ones in stores in the viciinity too, they are green bottles, but are brown paper wrapped too, and upsold as a premium product delivered within 24 hours from the production line and has no silly conservatives/additives and the such, so their shelf lifeof being good is way limited to only 2-3 weeks or so too, gotta say, they're really nice and refreshing that way, basically heineken with reinheitsgebot principles :D
@@captainmeatsadventures7954 Here in Southern Germany we have only Karlskrone (as an Aldi brand) at Aldi Süd. This could be translated as Charles crown...😂😂😂 Now he finally got it...😂😂😂
@@martinkasper197 I know it and have drunk the odd one but I don't remember where. It wasn't the worst I've had when we lived over there. There were some dreadful local pilsners up in the north-west of Germany thirty odd years ago, that have mostly gone now, thankfully?
I must admit I am one of these people lol I got onto Coors in my mid 20s in the late 00s coz found it much better than Carling or Fosters, it used to be 4.5% back then too. My palate has evolved now and I drink a lot more different beers now, Krombacher and Singha being my favourites but I do still enjoy a Coors.
Chances are the Coors you back then was brewed in America and was better than the generic dull lager we get in the UK. UK lagers are always to be avoided. Most beers have hugely degraded in quality over the past twenty years.... Many are a shadow of their former selves...so many people just don't notice.. they just stick with the brand... It's strange behaviour.
Saw Krombacher on Draught today for the first time locally near Cambridge. Every other pub used to sell it, as it was one of the main regional pilsners when I lived over in Germany 30 years ago.
@@johnp8131 I used to love Bittburger, that for me was the best German lager... but again in the past 15 odd years it is unrecognisible. It's not just beer, it's also Scotch whisky they do this to. Cut costs and 'soften' the flavours so nothing is too distinctive and everything is just kind of dull and in the middle... nothing too pronounced or striking in the flavour profile, just safe and dull for the consumer. Anyone remember how amazing and distinctive Holsten Pils in the 90's used to be for instance? I think it used to be 5.5ABV.
I Steer well clear of any lite beer or UK "rubbish" brewed ditch water ,Budvar all the way or lidl Perlenbacher. great video Simon Keep up the good work 👍👍🍺🍻🍻
Beer is very subjective, and for those who like a change from heavy lagers with tons of strong hop tastes and bitter notes........Bud Light is a crisp, refreshing alternative. This is coming from a Geordie who was raised on the original Newcy Broon and I had to stop drinking that coz I was waking up with a red nose and the shakes lol Try drinking fizzy piss, see how bad Bud Light compares to that!
I did a blind taste test between coors light and bud light, and they were almost indistinguishable. The coors was slightly drier and less fruity, and had a marignally lighter body. Also, you are incorrect about both being brewed with rice; the coors is brewed with corn. A typical American light beer drinker could switch between the two and wouldn't notice a difference. You should also know that typical bud light has a higher ABV, 3.5% is for special compliance states that have strict controls about what you can sell. The 3.5% bud light tastes much worse. For context, in the US these beers are dirt cheap. And it's also ridiculously hot and humid in many areas, so normal beers can be a bit much after mowing your lawn, fly fishing, or watching a baseball game. Spend a summer in Alabama and you'll see what i mean. I could see how this beer wouldn't fly in colder climates.
For a low cal lower carb beer which I don't drink very often due to lack of taste and body but I would prefer Heineken Silver over both of those beers. By the way Coors Light uses corn not rice and here in the states they are both 4.2% abv. Cheers.
I drink once in 3 months a bottle of Coors Light because i like the bottle and i need a kapsalon with lots of sauce because it otherwise tastes of nothing mister Simon
Your feeling about Bud Light reminds me very much of my trip to Australia - their mass-brand lagers are utterly flavourless. I mean, ironically I'd rather drink that than Carling, Fosters etc. because better to have something that tastes of literally nothing than something that tastes positively unpleasant.They're not awful in a disgusting sense, they're just a waste of calories going in for absolutely no enjoyment.
In fairness, those beers are for people who want to 'get on the piss' for cheap. If you enjoy a good beer, you don't drink them. We have a very healthy craft industry and just about every local has a decent selection. Too many to name but Simon's reviewed a fair few
We do indeed! Though drinking good beer is getting more and more expensive at a very rapid rate, and breweries are still going bust even after the price hikes - I am somewhat worried about what the damage will be in the next 3-5 years, with the best will in the world not everyone can afford £7.50 a pint down the pub or £4 a can to drink at home.
@@ZX-wy1tw You cant "get on the piss" with beer this weak. You would have to drink a huge number of cans and you'd probably get an upset stomach before you could consume enough alcohol! Lol!
@@peterm7548 I assume he's talking about the mass produced full strength stuff on tap at many of our pubs, and the cheaper slabs of tinnies at the local bottle shop. VB, XXXX and so on. Thanks for the lesson in beer consumption and very respectful comment
@@jackharrison5695 True mate I was just talking with someone about this very topic yesterday. A pint of craft beer will set you back at least $15 here, often closer to $20. Micro brewery runs and special/limited release cans seem to have climbed a bit since last year and you're often not getting much change from a $20.
If you think Bud Lite is bad I believe in the States you can get Bud Ultra Lite - say no more. If memory serves me correctly from a few visits to the USA the abv on lite beers is about the same as regular beers around 5%. In the US lite means less calories not less alcohol. This is especially important if you are driving as some people thing lites are not as strong as regular beers. This piss being brewed in the UK is it any wonder they have reduced the abv - that's normal isn't it.
When you held up the two beers together it reminded me of a sample my doctors ask for every six months. I still think you are too generous with your scoring, I was expecting a 2 and a 3 maybe. I do have a small pike pure for fishing that is a small model can with a Coors label on it, but no pike has ever taken it. Perhaps even the pike have more sense.
when German brewers arrived in the US in the 19th century, they found that american malts produced cloudy beers, so they turned to rice and corn to get the clarity which is why US beer is flavourless
Trouble is it's as rare as "Rocking horse sh!t" where I live! I think there's one pub six miles away the sells Elgoods "Black dog" and another over ten miles away that occasionally has the very rare Greene King XX mild?
I’m normally a staunch real ale / strong Belgian ale drinker but on a hot day a pint of draft Bud Light ( in Spoon’s) to start off with is genuinely really refreshing. Obviously I then switch to something else.
You can't go wrong with a normal bud, and light ones ok too hmmm lol. Cools is nice too. i like the long hair too, why not?? Also we all know drinking from the bottle is better 💯. Alcohol free drinks are great for so many reasons, or light one's.
I too generally much prefer something with a little more body and guts in it, however sometimes, especially if you need something lighter (as in I am driving) I will have a Coors, rather than an alcohol free alternative
Would never even try Bud Light due to the fact that it is only 3.5% compared with 4.2% rest of the world. Same reason I ditched regular Budweiser as it went from 5% to 4.8% to 4.5% in the UK yet is still 5% everywhere else.
My partners brother drinks Coors, he drinks it for the calorie content so that's a different look at it I guess but he can go through near enough a pack of x20 a night.
It's quite odd in US vs UK same beers. Here in the USA Bud light, Coors light, Miller light, Michelob Ultra,they're all 4.2%. Your Fosters is 3.7% in the USA it's 5% ABV. Seems like the large beer manufacturers screw over the UK consumers.
Taxes, higher ABV, higher tax so brewers are encouraged to brew crap cheap low abv beer for the same or higher prices than they did before to keep their profits up. Just buy imports, plenty of sites do them.
I'm in Australia and don't ever remember seeing Bud lite.Coors sits in friges at pubs with advertising on the walls but you don't see anyone drinking it. There's lots of lite beers out there that are good so no need to drink rubbish.
I do question your mindset sometimes and your thought process. The beer companies aren’t trying to fool anyone mate. They’re aimed at people who might be watching their alcohol consumption or people who might be driving and don’t want to go over the limit but might fancy a drink. The light part of the beers name being the give away. Light beers never taste great no matter who brews them. Much like session ipas don’t have the character of a dipa etc. they don’t have the abv and therefore complexity so they always taste watered down in comparison. Sorry mate but you don’t half talk s*** sometimes.
Totally agree with you. He's a bit ignorant when it comes to assuming everyone likes the same type of beer and considering some of the drinks he has I wouldn't drink if he paid me. I'm not a big drinker but I find bud light to be very refreshing and it suits me fine. Many people will agree with his take on this but I bet just as many think he's talking out of his arse again
For some reason I don’t get why in America bud light seems to be the most famous beer in the brand over the regular one. I mean there’s probably better beers than the OG as well but how can you (if you wanna stay in the same brand) not just go for the regular one instead of that water stuff
Millions of American beer drinkers would disagree. If you gonna drink pissbeer in the US a trashy beer like PAsbt BlueRibbon is a better choice, tastes bad, but it least it has a taste, that was my preferred beer as a teenager. I’ve been in Germany nearly 30 years, so I know what beer SHOULD taste like. Love your take on these two brands of overpriced water. Review is spot on.😅
😂😂😂Please Don't Hold Back!!! Tell Us How You Really Feel!! Let em have it!!💥 I'm an amateur home brewer, and can say what I produce in my garage is far superior, even on my worst day, compared to the US mbev beers. I once drank the swill till I discovered craft beer. Understood how it was made and what beer was supposed to taste like.
When Beer becomes rocket science this is what i looked up as i thought how the Heck can etching make more carbonation ? The etching is called a nucleation point (or a widget in the UK) and helps the release of carbonation and can create a steady stream of bubble emanating from the etched portion of the glass. This works by CO2 releasing (dissolving into gas) when it comes in contact with the rough surface of the nucleation points
Was stood in my living room once ranting at a coors light TV advert saying how shite it was etc. My flatmates old mate from uni was sat there listening while I meandered over to the kitchen only to find the fridge full of the stuff that he'd brought 😅
ok well yo arnt drinking coors lihrt as its meant to be drank, when i traiend wit hthe head of SIBA he gave me this advice, about coors ligth, he said, coors light is NOT designed to be drank on its own, its designed to be drank with really salty snacks, which activates the flavour of the coors which you wouldnt npormally taste. its designed with that in mind. to pair with salty snacks such as pretzels, a bit like how you use a sour beer to cut through fatty food or with fish
Only time I’ve ever had bud light was a cheeky half whilst waiting for a friend in spoons. And my god was it tasteless. Non alcoholic lager has more flavour than it. Will be interesting to see how the new 3.4% abv carlsberg compares. I expect it will also be dire
i was a comercial brewer and after changing professions around 6 years ago ive started to drink coors just for a refreshing drink i must add you have to get the 330ml bottles the taste out of the bottle is just on another level and now im totally addicted to coors in teh bottle onistly i cant help it but i love it not keen of it out of can and even worse from the pump on the bar
when i was a child my mother used to bathe me in weak lager. it wasn't until many years later that i realised i had been fostered.
I see what you did there!
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It’s so interesting to see someone try these American macro lagers for the first time after they’ve had a good variety of other beers. For many of us in the US, these are the first beers we try. Then we one day learn that beers can actually taste good.
thanks for taking one for the team!
£5.75 is some kind of sick joke for that rubbish you can get 4 cans of Budvar in Home Bargains for less than that 🤣
Correct. I just picked up the budvar keg from food warehouse, for £18.
16 quid in Home Bargains
Just bought a box in bargain booze for £12.
I got a box for £9
Bud Lite: the beverage pretending to be a beer, advertised by a man pretending to be a woman.
Nice one, mate! The review we needed to see! As a Brit living in Canada, it amazes and saddens me that these are the beers I see drunk the most here and the beers I most often get offered at other peoples' houses. I usually tell them I'm not drinking and ask for water instead... I've tried both in the past. Bud Light gave me a headache, Coors Light was just yellow fizzy water; both made me question whether or not my tastebuds were working.
I was born and raised in the USA and I can tell you personally I wouldn’t drink either of those two beers, even on a bet… I was ecstatic to see the rise of craft beers in the 90s because at least these beers had some character, some flavor!!
Neither of them are beer. They're piss water masquerading as beer, just like Dylan Mulvaney is a man masquerading as a woman.
You'll get people drinking this trash in England. English beer is revered by beer lovers all over the world, yet people in England will drink this in preference to our own amazing beers which are part of our culture. These people are not the most inspiring, inquisitive or intelligent it has to be said. And I'm being generous there.
Also US born and bred, the craft brew movement has brought some interesting flavors. Back in the ‘80’s the only good beers were imported. Really loved the English imports like Fuller’s ESB, the Old Peculiar, as well as various ales and stouts.
The only reasons I would drink those beers:
1. I really didn't want water and the bar had ran out of diet pop, any fruit juice, tea, coffee, milk, gravy or Bovril. 2. It was free.
3. someone bet me 100 quid I didn't dare to drink a pint of horse piss and I took the bet, then wanted to prove him wrong, and guess what, I won 100 quid!
As a youth I drank the average beer, but typically not "light" beers. Never really liked them. Then one day I decided to try a dark beer... Michelob Dark (not the Amber crap they changed to) and found there really was a difference in types of beer. Years later I took my parents on a vacation to Germany. Being born in Germany and coming to America as a child, I never really experienced good beer until that trip 40 years thereafter. WOW, I discovered my all time favorite beer, Spaten Optimator. Although there are great beers from many parts of the world, for me there are none better. Oh yeah, I love to try different styles and some come close to Optimator (like their Oktoberfest), but if I could only have one beer a day the choice is simple. As for "Light" beer, the only one I've found worthwhile is Yuengling. While it's still considered light, it's a good alternative to those of us trying to watch our caloric input... :) :)
My American friend told me the quality of the water at the Colorado brewery is superb and makes the Coors a genuinely decent American beer. Though it's likely what we get is brewed in the UK, but about 15 years ago when the Coors Lite brand was getting set up in the UK at Wetherspoons I think we got the American beer and it was excellent.
We had that coors in the pub I worked at, called it fine light beer then and I'm sure it was about 5.2 % then, sadly not been like that for years.
We had that coors in the pub I worked at, called it fine light beer then and I'm sure it was about 5.2 % then, sadly not been like that for years.
@@davidcalvert5849 I think you're right about the ABV... I never drink any lager less than 5 percent unless it's Pilsner Urquell... So it must have been at least 5 percent....
@theseeker3771 yeah at least 5 I remember a few of our regulars who tried it when it first came on were a bit surprised at the strength and ended up in right states 🤣
Although my tastes in beer have changed, I did quite enjoy a pint of Coors when it was first introduced to the UK. Obviously not a drink to be considered in its UK brewed form though.
Coors has always been 4%, it's good for a day sesh, goes down well like the lovely lady wife but not a patch on the Paulaner i'm currently drinking.
Simon you can always ad a grain of rice or 2 to to the bottom of the glass like they do in many places in Bavaria to get the bubbles going when u dont have 2 nucleated glasses. I know in this video u didnt need it but that can always be added to keep things more equal. Or for that matter to a weisse beer glass just the one grain when enjoying a Franziskaner or Paulaner if so you choose. Just gives it that lil bit different mouth feel to change things up.
You’re right on point my friend. Spot on review!
Coors light used to be promoted and first appeared at Wetherspoons maybe 15 years ago and it was one of their permanent taps... It was actually a very nice refreshing lager., no off-notes and satisfying mouth feel....Not bad at all. As for Bud Light...when's the operation Simon?
JVC in his loafers 🤣 agreed it was a decent beer when it first appeared, it was either 5% or 4.5% if I remember rightly.
Coors used to be a go to on a Friday after a long week at work and fancied a beer at home, knowing I had to be up early with my son. It was crisp and inoffensive compared to the usual fosters, Carling etc.
I went to the US in the early 90's all you could get is coors or bud light everywhere, utter piss, glad to see the explosion of craft beers now over there as they bloody need it, a real kick in the teeth to see bud as a UK football sponsor, whenever I see anyone walking out of a supermarket with a crate of bud it makes me wince. My fav widely available US beer is Sierra Nevada pale ale, top drawer
Tried Bud Lite once and once only when Wetherspoons started selling it and my son in law said he wanted one so i thought that I'd join him. Tasted like a normal Bud, half mixed with soda water. That was few years back now, not touched one since, nor will I.
My wife loves Italian lager, likes Czech lager and sometimes buys Kronenberg 1664. She bought some Coors last Christmas. She liked it: not too strong, crisp and clean etc. I thought it tasted like fizzy water and won't touch the stuff again. I dread to think how bad Bud Light is in comparison. I was also asking myself who'd actually drink that by choice.
It's tasteless and doesn't get you pissed unless you drink a stupid amount
The most close to water lager I ever tried was Shlitz made in UK on license early 90’s. It was almost like drinking perrier in a can. Was actually quite keen on it during hot summers (remember them anyone?)
Michelob Ultra.
It didn't even taste as strong as fizzy water.
Muller light. Like dish water and you were peeing within 15 mins. Turned me into a water feature between the ages of 16 and 22
As a general question. Can you tell the difference between drinking a bottled beer and a canned beer. I don't like anything out of a can!
Personally I'd pour a can into a glass and leave a minute, but happy to drink out of a glass bottle.
Had some Heineken recently and the bottled was much nicer than the canned.
Bud light is 4 % here in Canada and we have Coors that is 5 % and Coors light that is 4 %.
I never tasted Bud Light before.
I bought some cans of it that were on offer last week. I drank all 4 cans and I still couldn't taste it?
They removed the 'light' from Coors as in 2022 they were planning on launching 'Coors Original' in the UK (think called banquet in the USA). So Coors Light would be coors and Coors Original would be the premium one. But they seem to have rowed back from this and now have no plans to launch the Original in the UK...
good
I personally love bud light. It's very refreshing. So do many other people
It just shows you what the right marketing can do iv seen a few young people now drink coors. But on the other hand the premium lagers in supermarkets eg Stella are probably no better at this stage.
There is one and only one situation where i drink Coors, and that's after I've been for a run or to the gym. An ice cold Coors with a squeeze of fresh lime is such a quencher! Wouldn't touch it if i were down the pub though.
I'm sticking with my local brews: Bragdy Conwy and Cwrw Llyn. Magnificent beer! ❤
A customer brought us a box (Bud Light) as a thankyou, all I can say is that it was fantastic, the slug traps in my veg patch worked very well.
....but now your slugs are insisting on the "correct" pronouns....
You cracked me up with that thumbnail 😂
I just bought a crate of coors light to try something new, hopefully it won't be too bad
It will be. Probably worse.
You bought a crate?!!!! By the time you’ve finished it you’ll have had the equivalent of a whole bottle of wine
Coors light and Bud light brewed in the United States are both 4.2% ABV
Must make those frat parties just motor
Sounds like the most disappointing BBQ ever 🤣🤣
Then someone turns up with Fosters 😮🏃
No that would be the one that also had veggie burgers and sausages...
@@thomasterdington3181 hell yeah
Love your channel Simon but would love it even more if you had the exact same glasses for these comparisons!
Probably the only gentleman on earth, drinking a Bud Light, let alone posting the review on UA-cam 😂. Fair play, very brave 😂
lived in Florida and most of their beers were like tap water, although the strong stuff in the supermarkets was cheaper! drank natural ice 5.9% and steel head reserve 8%
I remember drinking Coors in the early 90s , in a gold colour bottle (before coors light) I remember it was 5% Abv , possibly American and it was fairly decent. You could get (proper) Coors and Coors light at one point , for whatever reason they stopped making the full blooded version , pity because it was better than bud or miller.
Coors was brilliant back then. And was considered "posh" when the other options were either Carling Black Label or Tennents.
They still make Coors Banquet, (the one in the gold can/bottle).
We could get it back then on draught at Stamford Bridge, when Coors sponsored the shirts @'93-94. As mainly an ale drinker I never found even the old version that good, it had a bit of an odd taste compared to things like 1664 and Stella which were still original full strength imports back then, probably?
@@johnp8131 it was still mass produced American lager that used rice. But it had some flavour unlike bud and wasn’t as sickly sweet as miller. Of course now we’re getting spoiled with really good stuff from across the pond .
Coors gold in a can is one of my favourite beers. Can't get them in the UK at all anymore.
Don't know why but, I drank a can of Carling the other day.... Literally like drinking waterered down water.
Coors, I don't mind in the summer on a hot day. I only had Bud Lite once and didn't like it. I think Coors has a wee bit of sentimental value as we visited the Coors brewery in Colorado years ago, so it reminds me of that.
Confusing, which Coors is it now?
Used to drink the original draught Coors at Football back in the mid nineties, because there was nothing else available in the ground! That stuff was a bit stronger back then but still rubbish.
I presume the Coors chemical factory is in Burton on Trent as there's a massive "Coors" advert on the side of the main building there, or at least there was a few years ago?
Drink coors in my local which is good as a summer drink but prefer stout in general especially black heart.
If you can get it, Morrisons Premium Lager's not bad at all for 4.8% cheaper one. I think Cain's brew it for them in Liverpool, or at least they did? Maybe a little sweet for some people perhaps?
You should do a blind taste test, with aldi, lidl and other cheaper lagers! Get Mel to pour the beers and see what is best and worst
budget lagers are generally really good and the best of the supermarket brands are made by some brewery with some kind of status
it's a matter of preference really among the 5% guys, when you do a true test, you should just isolate it on the ones you already prefer by taste profile
it's not that the others are objectively worse, but you can pick them out because you particularly are not as fond of their taste profile, i kind of pick them out by deduction, and the top ones are almost indistinguishable to me because i like their profile as a nice crisp drinker
it's like you almost mostly taste the water quality more than anything else
there are exceptions, of course, like particularly hoppy ones, or some being particularly citrussy/acidic ones, some of them have this almost white beer thing to it because they are particularly not-hoppy too, personally i sense that a bit more with the german cheap lagers :D
then theres beers they put syrup in too, the sugary ones, like amstel, 1 cold one on a summery day is fun, but you can't keep drinking them, heineken is even regular heineken is more refreshing and ultimately dirnkable then
i'm Dutch by the by, for perspective
i also happen to live ~10 kilometers away from the original Heineken factory in Zoeterwoude (they provide a shit ton of jobs around here, since they went big time international in 1971)
the heineken ships go through the rhine canals to the port terminal of my town (of which they funded 80% orso), before heading to rotterdam
so we get to have these extra fresh ones in stores in the viciinity too, they are green bottles, but are brown paper wrapped too, and upsold as a premium product delivered within 24 hours from the production line and has no silly conservatives/additives and the such, so their shelf lifeof being good is way limited to only 2-3 weeks or so too, gotta say, they're really nice and refreshing that way, basically heineken with reinheitsgebot principles :D
@@dutchdykefinger Rheinbacher from Aldi and Perlenbacher from Lidl are the best supermarket lagers!
@@captainmeatsadventures7954 Here in Southern Germany we have only Karlskrone (as an Aldi brand) at Aldi Süd. This could be translated as Charles crown...😂😂😂 Now he finally got it...😂😂😂
@@martinkasper197 I know it and have drunk the odd one but I don't remember where. It wasn't the worst I've had when we lived over there. There were some dreadful local pilsners up in the north-west of Germany thirty odd years ago, that have mostly gone now, thankfully?
They beers are made By tennents
I must admit I am one of these people lol I got onto Coors in my mid 20s in the late 00s coz found it much better than Carling or Fosters, it used to be 4.5% back then too. My palate has evolved now and I drink a lot more different beers now, Krombacher and Singha being my favourites but I do still enjoy a Coors.
Chances are the Coors you back then was brewed in America and was better than the generic dull lager we get in the UK. UK lagers are always to be avoided. Most beers have hugely degraded in quality over the past twenty years.... Many are a shadow of their former selves...so many people just don't notice.. they just stick with the brand... It's strange behaviour.
Saw Krombacher on Draught today for the first time locally near Cambridge. Every other pub used to sell it, as it was one of the main regional pilsners when I lived over in Germany 30 years ago.
@@johnp8131 I used to love Bittburger, that for me was the best German lager... but again in the past 15 odd years it is unrecognisible. It's not just beer, it's also Scotch whisky they do this to. Cut costs and 'soften' the flavours so nothing is too distinctive and everything is just kind of dull and in the middle... nothing too pronounced or striking in the flavour profile, just safe and dull for the consumer. Anyone remember how amazing and distinctive Holsten Pils in the 90's used to be for instance? I think it used to be 5.5ABV.
I like Coors light
I Steer well clear of any lite beer or UK "rubbish" brewed ditch water ,Budvar all the way or lidl Perlenbacher. great video Simon Keep up the good work 👍👍🍺🍻🍻
Beer is very subjective, and for those who like a change from heavy lagers with tons of strong hop tastes and bitter notes........Bud Light is a crisp, refreshing alternative. This is coming from a Geordie who was raised on the original Newcy Broon and I had to stop drinking that coz I was waking up with a red nose and the shakes lol Try drinking fizzy piss, see how bad Bud Light compares to that!
But fizzy piss is just another name for Bud Light!
yes!, Simon do all of your choices of comparisons to these cans of piss, unique reviewing as usual, thanks
This isn't related to this video
Have you reviewed Tucher Rotbier?
I did a blind taste test between coors light and bud light, and they were almost indistinguishable. The coors was slightly drier and less fruity, and had a marignally lighter body. Also, you are incorrect about both being brewed with rice; the coors is brewed with corn. A typical American light beer drinker could switch between the two and wouldn't notice a difference.
You should also know that typical bud light has a higher ABV, 3.5% is for special compliance states that have strict controls about what you can sell. The 3.5% bud light tastes much worse.
For context, in the US these beers are dirt cheap. And it's also ridiculously hot and humid in many areas, so normal beers can be a bit much after mowing your lawn, fly fishing, or watching a baseball game. Spend a summer in Alabama and you'll see what i mean. I could see how this beer wouldn't fly in colder climates.
For a low cal lower carb beer which I don't drink very often due to lack of taste and body but I would prefer Heineken Silver over both of those beers. By the way Coors Light uses corn not rice and here in the states they are both 4.2% abv. Cheers.
Tryed both coors light and bud light don't know why don't like bud light my go to between 2 beers is coors light when I do buy it
What ever happened to Bud Ice? It came in those funky bottles with the weird angles going up the neck.
I actually didn't mind that.
If I've got a 5am start I'll get some "driving" beers, fosters ,corrs or a supermarket own usually
I drink once in 3 months a bottle of Coors Light because i like the bottle and i need a kapsalon with lots of sauce because it otherwise tastes of nothing mister Simon
I would definitely like to see you do a blind taste test off the off the crapy UK largers and rate and then revile what the larger are at the end
Your feeling about Bud Light reminds me very much of my trip to Australia - their mass-brand lagers are utterly flavourless. I mean, ironically I'd rather drink that than Carling, Fosters etc. because better to have something that tastes of literally nothing than something that tastes positively unpleasant.They're not awful in a disgusting sense, they're just a waste of calories going in for absolutely no enjoyment.
In fairness, those beers are for people who want to 'get on the piss' for cheap. If you enjoy a good beer, you don't drink them. We have a very healthy craft industry and just about every local has a decent selection. Too many to name but Simon's reviewed a fair few
We do indeed! Though drinking good beer is getting more and more expensive at a very rapid rate, and breweries are still going bust even after the price hikes - I am somewhat worried about what the damage will be in the next 3-5 years, with the best will in the world not everyone can afford £7.50 a pint down the pub or £4 a can to drink at home.
@@ZX-wy1tw You cant "get on the piss" with beer this weak. You would have to drink a huge number of cans and you'd probably get an upset stomach before you could consume enough alcohol! Lol!
@@peterm7548 I assume he's talking about the mass produced full strength stuff on tap at many of our pubs, and the cheaper slabs of tinnies at the local bottle shop. VB, XXXX and so on. Thanks for the lesson in beer consumption and very respectful comment
@@jackharrison5695 True mate I was just talking with someone about this very topic yesterday. A pint of craft beer will set you back at least $15 here, often closer to $20. Micro brewery runs and special/limited release cans seem to have climbed a bit since last year and you're often not getting much change from a $20.
Wonderful to see you review dirty dishwater.
If you think Bud Lite is bad I believe in the States you can get Bud Ultra Lite - say no more. If memory serves me correctly from a few visits to the USA the abv on lite beers is about the same as regular beers around 5%. In the US lite means less calories not less alcohol. This is especially important if you are driving as some people thing lites are not as strong as regular beers. This piss being brewed in the UK is it any wonder they have reduced the abv - that's normal isn't it.
Overtone did a 3.5% beer Small Works and it was a great session beer..
When you held up the two beers together it reminded me of a sample my doctors ask for every six months. I still think you are too generous with your scoring, I was expecting a 2 and a 3 maybe. I do have a small pike pure for fishing that is a small model can with a Coors label on it, but no pike has ever taken it. Perhaps even the pike have more sense.
when German brewers arrived in the US in the 19th century, they found that american malts produced cloudy beers, so they turned to rice and corn to get the clarity which is why US beer is flavourless
The only low abv beer worth drinking would be a decent dark mild.
Yes!
I agree 100%@@Heaven-dy9lj
Trouble is it's as rare as "Rocking horse sh!t" where I live! I think there's one pub six miles away the sells Elgoods "Black dog" and another over ten miles away that occasionally has the very rare Greene King XX mild?
You get some decent 4% session hazy IPA
The etching in the coors glass are called nucleation points.
I’m normally a staunch real ale / strong Belgian ale drinker but on a hot day a pint of draft Bud Light ( in Spoon’s) to start off with is genuinely really refreshing. Obviously I then switch to something else.
You can't go wrong with a normal bud, and light ones ok too hmmm lol. Cools is nice too. i like the long hair too, why not?? Also we all know drinking from the bottle is better 💯. Alcohol free drinks are great for so many reasons, or light one's.
I too generally much prefer something with a little more body and guts in it, however sometimes, especially if you need something lighter (as in I am driving) I will have a Coors, rather than an alcohol free alternative
Would never even try Bud Light due to the fact that it is only 3.5% compared with 4.2% rest of the world. Same reason I ditched regular Budweiser as it went from 5% to 4.8% to 4.5% in the UK yet is still 5% everywhere else.
good video. absolutely true, even though I watch this sipping my bud light lol
My partners brother drinks Coors, he drinks it for the calorie content so that's a different look at it I guess but he can go through near enough a pack of x20 a night.
It's quite odd in US vs UK same beers. Here in the USA Bud light, Coors light, Miller light, Michelob Ultra,they're all 4.2%. Your Fosters is 3.7% in the USA it's 5% ABV. Seems like the large beer manufacturers screw over the UK consumers.
Taxes, higher ABV, higher tax so brewers are encouraged to brew crap cheap low abv beer for the same or higher prices than they did before to keep their profits up. Just buy imports, plenty of sites do them.
They're very similar beers but I give the edge to Coors Light.
Tot mai bine un csiki sor
I'm in Australia and don't ever remember seeing Bud lite.Coors sits in friges at pubs with advertising on the walls but you don't see anyone drinking it. There's lots of lite beers out there that are good so no need to drink rubbish.
I do question your mindset sometimes and your thought process. The beer companies aren’t trying to fool anyone mate. They’re aimed at people who might be watching their alcohol consumption or people who might be driving and don’t want to go over the limit but might fancy a drink. The light part of the beers name being the give away. Light beers never taste great no matter who brews them. Much like session ipas don’t have the character of a dipa etc. they don’t have the abv and therefore complexity so they always taste watered down in comparison. Sorry mate but you don’t half talk s*** sometimes.
Totally agree with you. He's a bit ignorant when it comes to assuming everyone likes the same type of beer and considering some of the drinks he has I wouldn't drink if he paid me. I'm not a big drinker but I find bud light to be very refreshing and it suits me fine. Many people will agree with his take on this but I bet just as many think he's talking out of his arse again
Bud Light is brewed very differently in the US mate. Almost completely different in taste
For some reason I don’t get why in America bud light seems to be the most famous beer in the brand over the regular one. I mean there’s probably better beers than the OG as well but how can you (if you wanna stay in the same brand) not just go for the regular one instead of that water stuff
These are my favourite beers lol
Millions of American beer drinkers would disagree. If you gonna drink pissbeer in the US a trashy beer like PAsbt BlueRibbon is a better choice, tastes bad, but it least it has a taste, that was my preferred beer as a teenager. I’ve been in Germany nearly 30 years, so I know what beer SHOULD taste like. Love your take on these two brands of overpriced water. Review is spot on.😅
Coors reminds me of the Claude van damme adverts with him in the ice and the all
Can you review the newly packaged Rheinbacker in a can. German looking and sounding name that's brewed in France? It's a no from me
He's reviewed that on more than one occasion I believe.
I quit drinking Bud and Bud light 15 years ago and havent looked back. Bud Light is 4.2% in the USA but its not one i buy.
😂😂😂Please Don't Hold Back!!! Tell Us How You Really Feel!!
Let em have it!!💥
I'm an amateur home brewer, and can say what I produce in my garage is far superior, even on my worst day, compared to the US mbev beers.
I once drank the swill till I discovered craft beer. Understood how it was made and what beer was supposed to taste like.
When Beer becomes rocket science this is what i looked up as i thought how the Heck can etching make more carbonation ? The etching is called a nucleation point (or a widget in the UK) and helps the release of carbonation and can create a steady stream of bubble emanating from the etched portion of the glass. This works by CO2 releasing (dissolving into gas) when it comes in contact with the rough surface of the nucleation points
You should do a top ten beer list for people who aren’t interested in beer 😂 1. Bud light 2. Coors 3. Fosters 4. Any other uk brewed lager. 🤢🤮
Spot on, 2 poor drinks like drinking filtered urine. Horrible stuff especially Bud Light. I'd rather drink squash than that stuff 😮
Was stood in my living room once ranting at a coors light TV advert saying how shite it was etc. My flatmates old mate from uni was sat there listening while I meandered over to the kitchen only to find the fridge full of the stuff that he'd brought 😅
Can’t believe he said,don’t know who’s drinking these.when I’ve got 10 bottles of empty coors on my windowsill 😂😂
They have X 3 heat version of those buldak noodles now Simon, please try some
I have, check out my review
ok well yo arnt drinking coors lihrt as its meant to be drank, when i traiend wit hthe head of SIBA he gave me this advice, about coors ligth, he said, coors light is NOT designed to be drank on its own, its designed to be drank with really salty snacks, which activates the flavour of the coors which you wouldnt npormally taste. its designed with that in mind. to pair with salty snacks such as pretzels, a bit like how you use a sour beer to cut through fatty food or with fish
Only time I’ve ever had bud light was a cheeky half whilst waiting for a friend in spoons. And my god was it tasteless. Non alcoholic lager has more flavour than it. Will be interesting to see how the new 3.4% abv carlsberg compares. I expect it will also be dire
Love the title
Both beers are 4.2% in the U.S., and here, Coors is brewed with corn syrup, not rice
i was a comercial brewer and after changing professions around 6 years ago ive started to drink coors just for a refreshing drink i must add you have to get the 330ml bottles the taste out of the bottle is just on another level and now im totally addicted to coors in teh bottle onistly i cant help it but i love it not keen of it out of can and even worse from the pump on the bar
I would love to watch you review Busch Light Peach! You'd be mighty confused! Lol
The only thing I can think of with the appeal of these, pretty good if you're driving? Even then I prefer a bitter shandy. To me they taste of nothing
The T-shirt is great way of trolling;)
Get it in ya and get it working!
You should do fosters vs something as that’s dropped down to 3.7% now as well
Here in America people drink these beers all the time especially the coors
I like both beers. Coors is best
I love this drink! I don't drink Guinness anymore. I have been on a pilgrimage to the Bermondsey tap house. Truly amazing stuff!!
You reviewed the American tribute Coors light on the channel 12 years ago Simon by Molson Coors