What Are Your Favorite Summer Beers?
Decatur Metro | June 9, 2015 | 10:00 am
Summer is here, so here are a couple of random beer items and a conversation starters.
It’s nearly time for the Wylde Center’s annual Beer Garden event. Got your tickets yet?
In other interesting beer news, Decatur’s Blue Tarp is going to start canning three of its offerings – Funk Weisse, Bantam Weight Session Ale and Cascade Killa IPA in July, according to Southern Brew News. Cool! I wasn’t able to get my hands on their Hopster the Grouch bottle offering a few weeks back.
Anywho, what are your favorite summer beer offerings these days? Wheats, sessions, sours? Whatcha got?
Photo courtesy of Wild Heaven
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In regular rotation: Orpheus Atalanta (and Serpent Bite when I find it on draft); Creature Comforts Athena; Wild Heaven Emergency Drinking Beer.
Boulevard Ginger-Lemon Radler is a light (4.1), delicious summer session beer. If I could find it all year long I’d drink it all year long.
terrapin recreation ale for the win.
Beer
Lots of fancy-pants beer drinkers around here!
Nothing better than an ice cold bottle of High-Life after some time in the sun — be it on the beach, cutting the grass or whatever else has you out in the sun!
Brad, I’m sure you’re a lovely person, but we will not be sharing six-pack anytime soon.
I’ll drink with you, Brad. All I ever drink anymore is PBR and High Life!
That’s why you’re so much fun after breakfast.
I’ll have to get you to come over, bring some High Life and I will bust out the smoker and handmade sausages.
JC, we are bound to have something else in common. What else do you like besides high-falutin beers?
I’m in. And we will totally make merciless fun of FM Fats and his cheap beer hating, Big Green Egg mocking ass!
Hard liquor?
You’re such a hipster.
I haven’t been able to wear skinny jeans in 20 years, my beard is completely unironic and I could not name a single song that has been released in the past five years without help from the Google. Hipster I am not.
Perhaps. But bear in mind that the original, shall we say “groundbreaking,” hipsters, as with their beards, drank PBR and the like *ironically,* as if to say, “Look at me drink the last thing you’d expect a hip young man such as myself to be drinking!”
As time has passed, however, such consumption is no longer ironic. Of course we expect a hipster to be toting a can of PBR or similar low-brow brew. Thus, to remain ironic, one would now have to drink such beer sincerely. With affection!
You, sir, are charting all new territory: You’re Hipster 2.0!
Here are a few good ones I’ve enjoyed lately:
Second Self Thai Wheat
Creature Comforts Athena
Oskar Blues Pinner
Also if you’re ever up asheville way, see if Wicked Weed has their Coolcumber on tap. It sounds bizarre but it sports a very well balanced cucumber and juniper combo that’s quite refreshing.
A couple of years ago Second Self did a run of Thai Wheat brewed with kaffir lime leaves that is hands down my favorite beer of all time. The current version is quite good in its own right, but if they ever decided to do a limited run of the original I might have to consider camping out in front of Ale Yeah….
Oh wow. Thanks. Sounds great! I’ll keep my eye out in future summers.
just saw this posted by Creature Comforts:
“Cucumber & Lime Tritonia [gose] with Mint! We grabbed some fresh mint from the @westbroadfarmersmarket for a fresh twist on this favorite! Taps at 5″
still time to make it over there!
Oh man…
Been meaning to try the Oscar Blues Pinner, so be sure not to bogart it all. 😉
If there’s a better summer beer than Shiner’s Ruby Redbird, I haven’t tasted it.
Last summer, I really enjoyed 21st Century’s Hell or High Watermelon–haven’t seen it this year, tho.
Victory Pub had it in the can as of last Thursday. Did my best to exhaust their supply, but they might have one left!
Don’t worry. It’s around. I believe I’ve seen it at both Ale Yeah and Sherlock’s this year.
It was at Publix the other day.
It’s 21st Amendment. And Trackside has it!
I need to check some of these back out…I must not be looking in the right places. Or I’m just getting old & blind. *sigh* Thanks, y’all!
Scaldis
Aventinus Weizen Eisbock
Stone’s Go To IPA, Brooklyn’s 1/2 (half) Ale
Agree- Go To is solid.
Allagash White
Monday Night Fu Manbrew
Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier
Hard to beat a Weihenstephaner on a summer day sitting outside the Marlay.
Allegash White = favorite beer with Szechuan food, any time of year…
I’ve been super into New Belium’s Snap Shot Wheat. Great mellow spice tones and doesn’t have that slightly sour note that a lot of wheats have.
I’m pretty partial to Three Taverns White Hops this time of year.
Bell’s Oberon is pretty fine. We really enjoyed a six pack of the current Second Self Thai Wheat at the pool Saturday. And I hate these brew threads where the reverse beer snobs proclaim themselves as PBR enthusiasts and Coors Light fans. The only reason they do that is because the crap is marginally cheaper than decent or great beer. If you think that stuff is good, you don’t love beer. It’s like the days when the AJC would ask people to vote on Access Atlanta for Best BBQ or Best Burger and it would take maybe three comments for some wise guy to write “my house”. Okay, I’ll be over for a rack of ribs in ten minutes.
I love craft beer – Blue Moon is one of my favorites
he he.
Hahaha.
PBR makes me happy. Fancy hoppy beers give me heartburn and make my Jager taste funny. And the best bbq and burgers in town ARE in my backyard. I’d say that you could find this out for yourself at my big Fourth of July bash but I have a feeling that your invitation might just get lost in the mail
“If you think that stuff is good, you don’t love beer.”
That’s almost what I thought when I read about the cucumbers, juniper, and kaffir lime leaves above. Hendrick’s covered those flavors years ago, but they make gin.
So it’s okay for one but not the other? Hmm…
It’s all ok by me if it tastes good. I just don’t tend to think of a beverage with cucumber flavor as beer. Frankly I never really accepted Sweetwater Blue, either.
I admit that it’s a very unconventional offering but it’s honestly quite impressive because it keeps the balance and is still recognizable as beer. And if you like it, they also offer an imperial version of the same beer, which was also pretty dang good.
And I qualify all this by saying that I’m am generally a pretty big “hophead” so my definition of good beer is usually quite different.
Founders all day ale for a good session beer
Orpheus transmigration of souls…for everything else
Two opposing types of beers new school and old school but both cut the dry mouth and the sticky days of summer and for different reasons
OLD school a PBR just a notch above freezing
NEW school A Night on Ponce
Night on Ponce is my current go to beer. Paired with a tomato, bacon and cheese sandwich (white Holsum squishy bread coverd in Dukes mayo) eat’n on the back porch – and I am in heaven.
Terrapin has a really good seasonal IPA going now called Hop Selection.
Becks, Stella, Oskar Blues Mama Little Yella Pilsner
All three go great with Jameson
Evil Twin Nomader Weisse, Ayinger Brau Wiesse, Anderson Valley The Kimmie, The Yink, & The Holy Gose
In the summer I go for wheats and sours. And I love to support local.
My summer rotation is
Second Self Thai Wheat
Orpheus Atalanta (Tart plum saison)
Terrapin’s Maggie’s Farmhouse (yup, a peachy saison), and
Westbrook Gose (my standard pool beer last year).
But you’ll still find me drinking strong high gravity ales at the bar when on draft
Ayinger Brauweisse on occasion. For something really light though, the Wild Heaven Emergency beer has kind of grown on me.