Beer Abomination

DaveHo

Just a fruitless rant. Porch rocker, summer shandy. Who drinks this crap? What's more atrocious is that they are included with the summer styles from each. I was last minute picking up beverages for a gathering. Sam's summer ale was sold out, so I got stuck with a sixer of porch rocker in a variety pack. Yeah,bad on me for last minute shopping. Barf!

aprazer402

How about a Dirty Herbie, a Nebraska brewed Strawberry Wheat?

I've never had one. So many great craft beers out there.

DaveHo

I can get on board with that. Locally, Lancaster Brewing has a strawberry wheat. Very tasty!

mhardy6647

beer = (malted) barley, hops, and water.
(and wheat, in Bavaria)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36110288

maxward

So many good choices at the stores! It’s why I stopped home brewing.

msg

Is that a Big Red soda?

aprazer402 wrote: »

How about a Dirty Herbie, a Nebraska brewed Strawberry Wheat?

I've never had one. So many great craft beers out there.

aprazer402

msg wrote: »

Is that a Big Red soda?

aprazer402 wrote: »

How about a Dirty Herbie, a Nebraska brewed Strawberry Wheat?

I've never had one. So many great craft beers out there.

Sure look's like it. I generally enjoy a wheat beer.
I'll have to try one of these if I get a chance.

Reviews tend to be favorable.
https://untappd.com/w/hwy-14-brewing-company/411762

I've never been to Albion, NE (close, but not quite there).

Jstas

Porch Rocker is a "Radler" style of beer.

https://germanfoods.org/recipes/radler/

Typically, in Germany, it's a light lager mixed with a fruit soda. Often lemon/lime soda. However, Porch Rocker is not a true Radler because it is not mixed with lemon soda. It is brewed with ingredients that mimic a lemony profile. Certain people with certain sensitivities to hops strains will not necessarily get a lemony profile out of it.

It's like how some people taste cilantro as being a spicy, peppery, herbal flavor and other taste a soapy, sour flavor.

Anyway, Porch Rocker is a love it or leave it beer because of that. I find that people who hate Sam Adams Porch Rocker are fans of Leinenkugel's Summer Shandy which I'm really not a fan of.

Personally, I love it and the only reason I don't get it often is because I will drink an entire 6 pack in one sitting.

Porch Rocker is a Radler style, though, not a Shandy. A Shandy is an English concoction and it was often an ale, not a lager, mixed with ginger ale or ginger beer and some fruit juice like a lemonade. The ginger beer/ale is often left out now due to cost and market considerations. Additionally, Shandys here in the States use lighter, sweeter beers than the original pub style ales in England to cater towards Americans' tastes.

Despite what many self-proclaimed beers experts say on the Internet, Radlers and Shandys are different.

aprazer402

Anymore I tend to drink what ever someone offers. Getting older I don't frequent as many
bars, pubs, other venues as often as I could I guess. Like maxward posted, plenty of beers in most local stores.

I usually avoid IPA's, especially the real sour ones, and some odd brews. I like stouts, porters, Chimay Ales, crisp lagers and pilsners. I used to like the older Newcastle (but it has tasted different for several years), not as good. I like Pilsner Urquell and Guiness too. I had a wonderful beer in 1981 in Toronto it was Carlsberg, it was fantastic. Not sure if it was Canadian brewed then or if it was from Denmark.

I was just telling my brother a few weeks ago, when we had the beer in Toronto, we were walking in downtown. We were half a block away from Massey Hall. Didn't even think of it then.

Cheers!

Gerres26

Dang man, I love Sam’s porch rocker beer. It has become my go to spring/summer beer over the last few years. Like a couple posts above stated, it seems to be a love it or hate it drink though as I have a couple of buddies who enjoy it and some others who can’t seem to stand the taste. So I guess ymmv.

Only problem I have is that they seem to go down too quickly on a hot summer day sometimes.

tophatjohnny

Who passed gas in here? I can’t tell it’s so dark! Hang on I think I have a but lite.

machone

Schaefer!
Try one of these and you will never try one again!

aprazer402

^^^^ My youngest brother drank Schaefer Light for a while in the 1990's. I probably had one, can't really remember it.

The only American Adjunct Lager's of my distant past that I really didn't care for were Budweiser, Old Style and Schlitz. Pretty much many of the other major brands of the past I could tolerate at least.
I did not drink a lot, still don't, so I really did't try them all.

When travelling I usually tried a regional beer (Coors etc.), that was new to me.
Falstaff had a brewery in Omaha so I grew up with that. I just got used to it.
In the 70's Miller High Life became popular with a lot of college students. It definitely had a different
taste, but we drank it. Wouldn't drink one again.

Had a neighbor that was always fixing cars, motorcycles etc. He was always giving everyone Olympia.
I was in my mid 20's and it was free. Can't remember it well, but it wasn't the best.

That's all from me in this thread. I've said enough. I can be a bore!

PSOVLSK

Olympia Dry = tasted like a skunk smells
Olympia Gold = tasted like urine smells

My buddy I bought this stuff on our way to a camping trip. We had one and drove 20 miles back to the store to buy something else. And this was back in our early 20’s when we didn’t have any money, thus the reason for buying it in the first place.

mhardy6647

There's a place in East Baltimore that has become known as Brewers' Hill. When I was a kid, there were three different breweries on 3 of the 4 corners of an intersection. One was Shaefers. One was National. The third was... umm... gonna have to google.
well, these guys say there were two... I swear I remember three different ones (maybe three different signs?).
https://www.brewershill.net/about/

xschop

Not my choice, but not bad either...

gudnoyez

Lemon flavored sprudel water or
zitrone sprudelwasser is what the gasthaus down the street would use to make a Radler when I lived in Germany. Here state side I mix 7up with my Warsteiner. I do not care for any shandy type beers however if someone hands me a ice cold Leinenkugels summer shandy I wont turn it down.