Thursday, April 21, 2011

The Quest for a new Summer Beer

Sam Adams Summer Ale was once my beer of choice for summer drinking, its now become lemon flavored dish soap.  Horrendous!  I thought I got a bad 12 pack and maybe the bar had a bad batch on tap...I was wrong, it's just plain bad.  So now i've decided to search for a new summer brew by sampling as many as I can until I find a new standby.

So I decided to take a trip to Austin Liquors at lunch to see what I could find.  I've been searching for Bells Oberon and Three Floyds Gumballhead and apparently neither are distributed to Massachusetts.  Oh well.  As I'm browsing the beer aisle the "beer guy" asks if he could help me.  I ask him about the Bells and Three Floyds and he confirms what I thought, or did he.  I explain to him that I'm a fan of wheats and then he hits me with "have you tried Blue Moon?".   Um.  Not to come off as a pretentious asshole and a complete beer snob, I say yes kindly and laugh a bit.  At this point I picked two six packs, one of Troegs Dreamweaver and one of Southern Tiers Hop Sun.  I'm pretty sure "beer guys" next suggestion was going to be Bud Light Golden Wheat.

1 comment:

  1. Bells is from my homeland (Michigan). We have countdowns to when the summer batches are released. Makes me miss drinking.

    I might be driving back home for a weekend trip in June, I'm happy to bring you back a few six packs.

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