Bud Select 55 continues to make waves across the country. And while we here at Drink Update think the low-calorie craze is another disturbing trend for beer, we understand why people are attracted to the watery fizz. Because Select 55 is only available in some test markets, I haven’t had the chance to try it myself.

But we have review from our friends at Hoperatives:

If Perrier and Bud Light had a baby, you would have SELECT 55. This new Super Ultra Light American Style Lager has not only taken calories to a new low aroma, appearance, and taste have also suffered the same fate.  What you end up with is barely yellow, highly carbonated, lightly malty, white bread scented beer with a finish that elicits memories of those times when the soda fountain runs out of syrup.  “Excuse me, sir. . . I think your beer tap is out of syrup. All I’m getting is carbonated beer flavored water”.

It was unremarkable in a very well rounded kind of way. The normal rating system I use to review beer would fail this beer before I even made it to the overall impression category, however I’m not going to fail it.  I’m going to give it a D- and recognize that there is a niche of people who want a beer but don’t want calories, taste, or perhaps just want to drink a nice ultra light fizzy beer after they finish a 5K.

Check out the whole post at Hoperatives.

Here’s another early Bud commercial featuring Ed McMahon and Frank Sinatra. Now I’m sure Frank didn’t mind having a Bud, but I think we all know that he would rather have a Jack Daniel’s, his favorite. Anyway, cool video. A full minute long – you don’t see commercials that long anymore.

Sad news today that Ed McMahon has died. Not only was he Johnny Carson’s sidekick, and on a ton of commercials, he used to be the Budweiser Ambassador. I have a cool Bud tin sign of a much younger Ed hanging on the wall of my men’s bathroom at the bar (some pipeline worker tried to rip it off the wall last week). In honor of the man, here’s a cool video from Ed pitching for the King of Beers.