Favorite Summer Beer?

[mmlipps]

What's your favorite summer beer? Both homebrew and purchased.

Mine would be this lemon lime hef I just made off this site

And Sam Adams porch rocker.


Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

 

[Teromous]

For homebrew it can be anything. I change things up pretty frequently so I wouldn't say I have a beer that I always make in the summer. Variations of wheat beers are pretty common, as are hoppy beers. For commercial beer it's Abita Strawberry Harvest Lager. By the summertime it's usually long-past being sold out, so I try to hold on to them for as long as I can.

 

[mmlipps]

I do love Abita! Favorite Abita is purple haze. Favorite seasonal Satsuma.


Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

 

[ericbw]

For homebrew, either a wheat or other blonde. Light, refreshing, and carbonated.

Commercial it's Brooklyn Summer Ale and Newcastle Blonde. And, of course, PBR.

Something with light flavor and low alcohol.

 

[podz]

Erdinger Kristallweizen, without a doubt.

 

[JonM]

New Glarus Dancing Man hefeweizen. Bell's Oberon is a close second.

 

[timrox1212]

I really like Belgians during the summer. Specifically Belgian wit and pale ales.


Sent from my iPhone

 

[JonM]

And of you haven't made a patersbier, I'd highly recommend it for the summer. Pilsner up to about 1.045, mashed at 149, light hops, and - here's the cool bit - fermented with Trappist yeast.

I did Northern Brewer's recipe kit with Wyeast 1214 and it was pretty spectacular for being such a simple recipe. Perfect summer sipper.

 

[ktblunden]

I'm a pretty big fan of berliner weisse in the summer. Wish there were more commercial examples. Golden Road makes an excellent one, but they don't can it.

 

[unionrdr]

Commercially, anything from a pale ale to a hefe. So far as home brew goes, this year it's my Dampfbier & my 1st saison. Also have an ESB & a red ale for BBQ's.

 

[estricklin]

I do love Abita! Favorite Abita is purple haze. Favorite seasonal Satsuma.


Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

I like the hurricanie one...don't remember the name of it now. Recontruction maybe?

My favorite summer beer is Shiner's Ruby Redbird, just freakin AWESOME! As for homebrewing a simple pale ale does just fine.