Beer Review: Bud Light (Can)

It feels a little ridiculous to review a beer like Bud Light.  I think almost everyone in American has probably had a Bud Light.  I've personally had at least a few thousand... I'm not sure even how to try to calculate how many I've had.  I'm also pretty sure I don't actually want to know.  Anyway, this eloquent intro is designed to introduce you, my audience, to a key beer concept of mine:  The Pounder. 

A couple of days ago I made some somewhat unkind implications about my cousins from Out East.  Well, it's time to make right with my blood relatives.  We, here in The Corn, had the concept of The Pounder, but we hadn't developed such a perfect term.  We representatives of The Corn were Out East visiting, and as these things come to happen we had a few beers with our kinsmen.  They were drinking a semi-local beer, brewed from somewhere in New York, from a company called Genesee. 

In the cooler, there were a couple of different Genesee brews, but some were in larger bottles.  I picked the large bottle, to which my cousin exclaimed something to the effect of, "Hey!  A Jenny Pounder!"  I inquired after this, and it was explained that the Pounder was bigger and good for heavy drinking.  Pounding, as it were.  I found this knowledge useful, and offered my own knowledge of the concepts of Cornfury and Beanlust by way of trade.  All found it good, and there was much rejoicing.

In any case, we may have modified the term a bit over the years, as a Pounder in local parlance does not need to be bigger.  A Pounder has two key attributes: low cost and drinkability.  One can enjoy the brilliance of a Guinness or the sublime flavor of a Tucher, but most do the volume of their work in the trenches with their favorite Pounder.  And that's what Bud Light is.  One of my favorite Pounders... In fact a Diet Pounder, by virtue of being "light."

Technically speaking, Bud Light is an American-style Light Lager.  American Lagers are very light in color and usually contain rice or corn.  They're characterized by an extremely light body and a flavor devoid of hoppyness or much malt.  A Light version is merely a reduced calorie content... 110 in a Bud Light vs. 145 in a regular Budweiser.  It doesn't relate much to the comparative BEERPOWER!, though there is some reduction (from 5.0% to 4.2% in Budweiser and Bud Light respectively). 

Beer - Bud Light
Company - Anheuser-Busch, Inc.
Delivery System - 12 oz. Can
Origin - USA

Flavor - 64
Aroma - 80
Packaging - 50
Value - 85
BEER POWER! - 50

Final Score - 67 (Recommended)