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[shaundesjardins]

Check out the Mott's Red Eye. It basically Mott's Clamato (clam juice and tomato juice) mixed with with a "premium lager". Never tried one and don't really intend on trying one...

MOTTS CLAMATO RED EYE - The Beer Guy

 

[shaundesjardins]

I have absolutely nothing against fruit or spices or chocolate or anything added to beer as long as it creates a good beer.
Basically, I like good beer. Period.

 

[brewthunda]

I'm not a fan of fruit in my beer . . but I'm ok with beer in my fruit!. Case in point - a good shandy on a hot day - 70% lager and 30% lemonade.

Or the best damn margaritas I've tasted:
1 can frozen limeade concentrate (the size that says to add 54 oz water)
mix up limeade using 4 12 oz light lagers instead of water
add 12-16 oz tequila
serve in pint glasses over ice

Most people won't even know they're drinking beer. They'll just be raving about how good they are. You'll catch yourself thinking "jeez, why does this margarita taste so good?! Oh, because I'm also getting to drink a beer!"

 

[SkewedBrewing]

I'm not a fan of fruit in my beer . . but I'm ok with beer in my fruit!. Case in point - a good shandy on a hot day - 70% lager and 30% lemonade.

Or the best damn margaritas I've tasted:
1 can frozen limeade concentrate (the size that says to add 54 oz water)
mix up limeade using 4 12 oz light lagers instead of water
add 12-16 oz tequila
serve in pint glasses over ice

Most people won't even know they're drinking beer. They'll just be raving about how good they are. You'll catch yourself thinking "jeez, why does this margarita taste so good?! Oh, because I'm also getting to drink a beer!"

This sounds awfully close to something we made in college (especially great for pi phi socials) called Electric Lemonade. We substituted the tequila for 110 "vodka" of course, that **** was lethal... Awesome, but lethal...

Also, I know there is no way to say this without sounding like I'm up me own arse but I was in Bavaria for a long time and never had a beer with lemon in it, that is some craziness (in a good way)...

 

[SpanishCastleAle]

Also, I know there is no way to say this without sounding like I'm up me own arse but I was in Bavaria for a long time and never had a beer with lemon in it, that is some craziness (in a good way)...

Maybe they saw us coming with our white shoes and thought we'd want it. It surprised me too...first time it happened one of us said that we didn't order a hefe and the beer wench said it wasn't a hefe it was...whatever they had ordered (can't remember but it wasn't cloudy). We hit a LOT of pubs and only a few did it. It was kinda refreshing though...had they squeezed a lemon wedge into it it would have been too much but just a thin half-slice with the beer poured over it was actually kinda nice. The lemon dance was just a bonus.

 

[PavlovsCat]

I'm not a fan of fruit in my beer . . but I'm ok with beer in my fruit!. Case in point - a good shandy on a hot day - 70% lager and 30% lemonade.


I went to an Octoberfest party two years ago, thrown by a guy who lived in Munich for a few years, and there was a cooler of lemonade there, right next to the beer keg -( Paulaner.) He told me that this was common in Germany. I thought the Shandy idea was English.

 

[FireBrewer]

You can't be a brewer (or a distiller, or vintner) and say the water doesn't matter. Water sources are extremely important to breweries all over the world and some of the oldest will refuse to move because they would lose their water. Now does that go for Coors? I have seen the water running into Golden, and I hope not. But Fresh Rocky Mountain Tap Water does have a special place in my heart

Sure, absolutely water matters. But the whole Coors water pitch is nothing more than marketing. A megabillion dollar brewery like that has the water filtration and modification capabilities (expensive RO systems) to make that water taste like anything they want...Munich, Burton, urine, etc.

 

[MNBugeater]

This sounds awfully close to something we made in college (especially great for pi phi socials) called Electric Lemonade. We substituted the tequila for 110 "vodka" of course, that **** was lethal... Awesome, but lethal...

Also, I know there is no way to say this without sounding like I'm up me own arse but I was in Bavaria for a long time and never had a beer with lemon in it, that is some craziness (in a good way)...

Sounds like a pitcher of "Strip and go Naked" that my wife and her friends mix up on the deck in the summer

 

[wildwest450]

Sounds like a pitcher of "Strip and go Naked" that my wife and her friends mix up on the deck in the summer

That sounds like fun! Any pics or video?

 

[MNBugeater]

Somewhere...but don't think they qualify for the boneyard.

 

[zoebisch01]

I have absolutely nothing against fruit or spices or chocolate or anything added to beer as long as it creates a good beer.
Basically, I like good beer. Period.

I have done some off-the-wall stuff indeed, but really only recently. Some are just excursions, others use a commercial idea as a springboard (like Young's DCS). These all get bottled though as the intention is not to be a session beer, but something unique and interesting.

However, I like to experiment and can nail pretty much any 'style' I want to. I honestly feel as brewers, technique should be first and foremost so that out of this creativity can flow unimpeded. That all being said I am not a fan of adding things post fermentation in terms of flavorings, etc.

I also really dig using 'normal' brewing ingredients to get the "wow, what's in that" factor. Like the Brewer's Gold hops that came of age this year which I used in my Oatmeal Stout. Tastes like I added Black Currants. Amazingly addictive and rich flavor.