Favorite summer beers
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Do you know why they call it blue ribbon? Learned that when I took the tour after moving here.
I usually drink stouts and porters in the winter. Summer is usually lighter beer.
Though it doesn’t really matter here cause it’s pretty much the same temp year round aside from September and October it gets a tad warmer.
QUOTE="AWilli6995, post: 24786334, member: 5616"]Never heard of a summer beer but I'm a Heineken man all day every day.[/QUOTE]
Oberon is only released March through august so it is a Spring/Summer beer. When I think "summer beer" I think of refreshing beers.
Oberon is only released March through august so it is a Spring/Summer beer. When I think "summer beer" I think of refreshing beers.
Back in the early late 1800s / early 1900s they marketed the battles by tying a blue ribbon on each one. At the time it was called Best (or Pabst) Select. The ribbon was fancy for the time and customers started calling it the blue ribbon beer.
You lames and your grapefruit "beer". Grapefruit is nasty to begin with and certainly doesn't belong in beer.
I once almost burnt my 'stache off making flames out of my mouth with Everclear.
Our summer cheap beer of choice is High Life. We prefer to think of it as tough water, as opposed to weak beer. We use it to hydrate.
Back when Stone's Brewing finally made it to NC, it was summer and the first one I encountered was smoked porter draught. I had it just b/c it was Stone's despite the season, and it was great. It drove home the point for me that good beer is good no matter what time of year it is. It's kind of like movies transcending their genre. "The Notebook" may be a so-called chic flix, but it's a great movie regardless. Even dudes should be able to enjoy it.
I like sours and bourbon-barrel aged beers. In the summer I gravitate more in the former direction. Sours, wits, kolsches, saisons... lighter flavors.
Don't we do this thread every summer? I feel like my answer is probably almost identical every year. What can I say? When I find analogies that work, I run w/ them. Our most obsessive archivist troll could probably get their hands on it pretty quickly... but only if it served their agenda...
Back when Stone's Brewing finally made it to NC, it was summer and the first one I encountered was smoked porter draught. I had it just b/c it was Stone's despite the season, and it was great. It drove home the point for me that good beer is good no matter what time of year it is. It's kind of like movies transcending their genre. "The Notebook" may be a so-called chic flix, but it's a great movie regardless. Even dudes should be able to enjoy it.
I like sours and bourbon-barrel aged beers. In the summer I gravitate more in the former direction. Sours, wits, kolsches, saisons... lighter flavors.
Don't we do this thread every summer? I feel like my answer is probably almost identical every year. What can I say? When I find analogies that work, I run w/ them. Our most obsessive archivist troll could probably get their hands on it pretty quickly... but only if it served their agenda...
Those of you on the west coast, have you had Lush IPA by Fremont? A little heavy for summer at 7% but damn is it refreshing.
It's my favorite right now (well except for the inherent bias of my own brewery's beer).
It's my favorite right now (well except for the inherent bias of my own brewery's beer).
If you posted a 12 pack, you would have been put on ignore.
When I was in grad school there was a liquor store two blocks from our apartment that would sell six-packs of PBR tall-boys for $3.99. Became our de facto pregame beverage for those two years.
Kentucky bourbon barrel ale is a good one, by Alltech out of Lexington. They also make a bourbon barrel stout which is one of my favorites and a bourbon barrel blackberry porter (haven't had that one).
