Leinenkugel Summer Wheat

[artbrewer]

the worst cough syrup i've ever had!

 

[IrishLass]

Has always reminded me of blueberry pancakes, the kind with the dehydrated blueberries that we took camping when I was a kid.

 

[IrregularPulse]

tried their 1888 bock in a build your own 6 pack deal at my local liquor store, i didn't know bock beers were supposed to taste like a stout hah.

I just bought a 6er of this last week as it was the first time I saw it at Kroger. We have pretty limited selection locally so I grab what ever I haven't seen before. I don't think it's tastes like a stout at all. Apparently you are drinking some pretty weak stouts. The 1888 tastes like a watered down bock to me. I didn't get a noticeable Malt Profile until it was around Room Temperature.

 

[fellbrew]

Thread resurrection... Leinenkugel is brewed by Coors. Saw it with my own eyes at the tour of the Golden, CO brewery. So are Killian's and Blue Moon for that matter, right along side Keystone Light. They all are all awful.

 

[thezepster]

yay for ressurecting it! I love bashing

Thread resurrection... Leinenkugel is brewed by Coors. Saw it with my own eyes at the tour of the Golden, CO brewery. So are Killian's and Blue Moon for that matter, right along side Keystone Light. They all are all awful.

no surprise there.

 

[Pivzavod]

On the side note I posted a few beer glasses for sale a few days ago @ Classifieds and had 2 Leinenkugel Summer Wheat glasses. Emailed a few people off the forum and my manager both these and 2 others I guess I will have to make fun of him on Monday.

 

[joel6615]

Oh, you mean the Mr. Clean from Wiskahnsen? I have no idea what those guys were thinking when they sat around and decided that the summer wheat was worth selling.

 

[MetallHed]

Thread resurrection... Leinenkugel is brewed by Coors. Saw it with my own eyes at the tour of the Golden, CO brewery. So are Killian's and Blue Moon for that matter, right along side Keystone Light. They all are all awful.

leinies has a shared recipe that is brewed by a crap ton of brewers around the US.. it's called something different wherever you go and isn't distributed by leinies. leinies is owned by miller, not coors, too.

as far as i know, actual leinies is only brewed in two places: chippewa falls and milwaukee. the milwaukee leinies is horrible because of the water in the city. all of it. chippewa's brews are from big eddy spring water.

sunset wheat is garbage. shandy is better. bock and creamy dark aren't anything special, they dont taste much different than original.

honey weiss does have real honey in it. it comes in 50 lb buckets from central wisconsin. all the other fruity flavors in their other beers is artificial.

just went to the leinies reunion on saturday. free brats and beer for all. 2 dollar pint glasses too! woo hoo!

 

[GRHunter]

Last year, prior to getting started in home brewing, I drank a ton of it and really enjoyed it. I may have to buy a 6 pack tonight and see if it tastes any different now.

 

[swankyswede]

So the thing with Leinie's is that most of the beers are definitely aimed at mass BMC-market consumption. Here in Boston, we only get the fruity, sweet, damn-near-Smirnoff-Ice-ish beers - summer shandy, sunset wheat, honeyweiss, berry weiss. The thing is, they can brew a damn good beer when they want to, as shown by their Big Eddy series. Check the ratings on beer advocate. I hate to think of the brewers there who obviously know what they're doing having to brew fruity-pebbles-but-alcoholic. Let them run a little wild!

 

[ArtVandelay]

Thread resurrection... Leinenkugel is brewed by Coors. Saw it with my own eyes at the tour of the Golden, CO brewery. So are Killian's and Blue Moon for that matter, right along side Keystone Light. They all are all awful.

They are also brewed by Miller (no suprise since Miller and Coors are now the same). I've seen honey weisse kegs being filled on Miller lines

 

[blizz81]

The biggest flavor profile I get out of Sunset Wheat is crushed up aspirin. It has a medicinal astringency that I would be sad about if it was my homebrew.

 

[motobrewer]

careful, Mr. Leinie's gonna be our new guv'ner and get his revenge on all you bashers.

 

[Boerderij_Kabouter]

Actually he removed himself from the race following the GOP convention. We are all safe.

 

[Mikethepoolguy]

I like the creamy dark (which is not available in NC) and a few others, BUT, they have twist off caps so I have no use for any of it.

 

[thezepster]

I agree. creamy dark isnt too bad. its not the best, but its drinkable

 

[FiddleTilDeath]

I really don't think those beers are that bad....

while I was in Germany I had a drink in a can that was half hefeweizen and half grapefruit soda ~ 2.5%abv. It was superbly delicious and refreshing! I forget the brand but it was a reputable delicious one. The Leinenkugels are the only things that remind me of that and as a SODA basically, not a beer, I think they are delicious.

 

[motobrewer]

Actually he removed himself from the race following the GOP convention. We are all safe.

there is a god. not that he had any chance.

 

[fellbrew]

Germany I had a drink in a can that was half hefeweizen and half grapefruit soda ~ 2.5%abv.

I have also heard that in Berlin if you order a Berlinerweisse they ask you if it you want orange or green, which means they mix orange or green flavored syrup in the beer. Also they serve it with a straw.

I have had one or two of the Berlinerweisses that you can get in the States, but none of these have the syrup (or the straw). I will try it when I eventually take my trip to Germany, strange as it may sound.

 

[KCBrewer]

SWMBO Picked me up a sixer of this a while back. I expected a regular wheat beer, which is what I like to drink the most. I was (unpleasantly) surprised when I took a drink. I looked over the bottle and the 6 pack to see if there was anything about fruit flavors, but found nothing. I didn't even finish the beer.

A couple weeks later, my sister brought a blueberry beer over (forget the name), but I was expecting it to taste like blueberry and really liked it.

Maybe it's like getting served the wrong drink at Mickey D's. If I'm expecting it to be a dr. pepper and it's actually coke, I almost want to spit it out. Not that I don't like coke, but my brain was expecting dr. pepper. If Leine's would advertise the fruity flavor on the packaging, I would have expected it and possibly not have been so turned off at the first taste.

 

[drkaeppel]

I don't mind some of Leinie's beers. I'll drink Sunset Wheat or Summer Shandy but it's hard to think of them as beer. Taste more like beer alternatives like Mike's or something of that nature.

 

[thezepster]

b**ch beers

 

[Cornraker]

Fruity pebbles in a bottle... but in a very bad way. Total Crap!

HAHA I thought I was the only one who thought it tasted like fruity pebbles.

 

[CHefJohnboyardee]

First time I had it I liked it(some 9 years ago) then a friend said it tasted like Fruity Pebbles and ever since I haven't been able to drink it.

I can drink their Creamy Dark and I liked their Fireside Nut Brown on tap- not so much in bottle.

I guess they would also make a specialty brew for your a place if asked. The bar I used to go to in Ohio had a pale ale made up for them and it was decent. I'm sure they just have a lot of choices and recipes- you just pick one and they put your sticker on it.

 

[Zamial]

It is Leinenkugels. What did you expect?

This thread is like people complaining about getting shocked when they jam a fork into an electrical outlet...

 

[BrewN00b]

Thread resurrection!

I had to chime in to state how terrible this beer is. A friend of mine picked me up a sampler pack of beer which happened to have one of these in there. I am not really a fan of wheat beer, but there is a time and a place in which one can be pretty good (actually brewed up a Sorachi Ace Wheat with some rye that was FANTASTIC), but this beer has neither a time nor a place. Upon first sip I tasted "something" which does not belong in beer but could not place it, than it hit me; fruity pebbles. Yuck.

I never read a single review on this beer, so I went in with an open mind. God, it's horrible; sickeningly sweet with a cloying aftertaste. I think this is the second beer I have dumped, the first being Leinies Nut Brown (again, cloyingly sweet).

Christ, does Leinenkugel's brew anything worth a damn? Nasty stuff, yo. If you are ever tempted, do yourself a favor and STAY AWAY.

 

[LandoLincoln]

Is this not the worst beer ever produced? This had an almost fake blueberry taste to it with an absolutely terrible malt taste. I must say I have had some terrible beer in my life but this takes the number one spot on my all time worst brew, this beer is atrocious. I have never been one to pour out beer but this one was poured out after two sips.

Worst ever? Far from it. I like that one, actually. Don't think I'd try to clone it, but I still like it.

Red Stripe is probably the worst beer I've ever had. Could not finish one of them.