Supposedly Bud Light has rice or some kind of rice product or rice derivative as part of its brewing recipe that maybe reduces the total calories per serving, but has an unavoidably negative effect on the taste of the beer? Not sure how it works.
I am generally not a beer drinker (or wine) for the taste of it, so I have never developed a palate for those things. There are mixed drinks I greatly enjoy, but not straight up.
Never developed a taste for any hard liquor straight up. But beer, wine, and liquor, I enjoyed the effects greatly!
LOL, my wife and I were on a road trip on the Blue Ridge Parkway some years back, and saw a winery with tastings going on, so we stopped in.
Minutes after we got there and began tasting, I wanted to leave...the wine tasted fine, but to my palate, they pretty much tasted all the same no matter how hard I tried to discern the boquet, described as “nutty” or “fruit-like”...it all tasted the same to me!
I felt like a total fraud sitting there...:)
Budweiser itself uses some ‘brewer’s rice’ (different from typical food rice) to make a lighter flavored, clearer beer, a practice adopted from Europe.
I’ve never heard that the goal was reducing calories. No likely a historical concern until recent decades.