Leinenkugels Summer Shandy

Bottle 08’. Somehow a case of this ended up at my girl freinds parents house (I might have reccomended it because they liked fruity beers) and they did not drink it. So I sampled some. I have had quite a bit of proper shandy when I lived in the UK and this is not a sparkling lemonade lager mix. This is corn syrup fermented out and mixed with lemon flavoring. Gross. Thin body, sweet and bitter lemon, and astringent finsish.

I think this is one of those that you either love it, or you don’t. Recommended to me by some friends. As I poured this into my glass, my first thought was, "this looks just like lemon juice from concentrate". The aroma was very much there I kid you not...pure lemons. Flavor was similar to lemon drops and thin bodied. Actually, I thought it was kind of a refreshing change and would be nice to occasionally enjoy, but not regularly (thus the limited edition).

Poured from the bottle into a pint glass. Pour produced a cloudy, pale yellow body, topped with a large white head of foam. Aroma is strongly of lemons (as expected) and wheat. This is a light-bodied beer with a light wheat palate and a moderate lemon finish. It is what it purports to be: beer and lemonade. Certainly a summer beverage. It took a bit to grow on me, and, like the other seasonal brewed by Leinenkugel, "Apple Spice" seems like they used the entire fruit, seeds and all, giving it a bitter seed like aftertaste.

Good refreshing light summer beer. Aroma of lemon, lime and wheat. Pretty pleasant, not over powering. Looks like a cloudy piss yellow with no head. Flavor is lemons with some wheat. Palate very smooth and full. Overall, pleasantly surprised and will repeat drinking for summer occasions. And a nice example of this style.

Pours gold/straw with a thin white head. Smells of wheat, lysol. Tastes like lemon candy with some beery hints. Alcopop.

Tastes like someone accidentally dropped a Lemon Ricola cough drop in it. Has a nice aroma due to the lemon zest in this brew, but that’s about all it has going for it.

I had a few sips of this. Why on earth would anyone drink this? If you like Lemonade, drink a Mike’s Hard. If you like beer, drink that. It’s awful, and I couldn’t finish it.

good summer beer... Not great. Nice clean lemon flavor if you like that. I would have again. Serve very cold: avoid during winter months!