Enough with the citrus-flavored beers!

Brewers - once you've had one citrus-flavored beer, you've had them all - so STOP with the endless iterations!

I feel the same way about flavored bourbon.

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Originally posted by MWC:
Enough with the citrus-flavored beers!

Can we maybe keep one or two around?

I'm not a big beer drinker but once every couple months I feel like stopping in at World Of Beer when I finish re-supplying the stores that are my customers. I't usually about the time that my wife leaves her office and I ask her to join me, relax for a half hour or so. She does not like beer, but she will sip a lime-flavored one, so let's keep one or two of those around for her.

Don't you dare take away my Summer Shandy.

Why do they have to stop making it? Why can't you just not buy any more citrus flavored beer?

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Originally posted by Paten:
Why do they have to stop making it? Why can't you just not buy any more citrus flavored beer?

Because finding a non-citrus flavored beer amongst all the ridiculous choices of citrus flavored has become an epic task in my neck of the woods.

Last night I went to dinner at a local brewery. None of their regular IPAs or lagers were available, but I could choose between 4 citrus-flavored IPAs and 3 berry-flavored Lagers.

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Originally posted by ulsterman:
I feel the same way about flavored bourbon.

Same here. At the most, the only thing a good whiskey may need is a splash of water or an ice cube. For some whiskeys, even that is overkill

I don't really care for most beers that have citrus juice/flavoring added, like Shandys or Citrus IPAs.

However, Belgian Witbiers, which are a style of wheat beers brewed with orange peel and coriander seeds, are excellent summertime beers. The citrus taste isn't as overpowering/cloying in these.

Domestic Busch/Miller/Coors copies of Witbiers, like Blue Moon or Shock Top, are pale imitations of a real Belgian Wit. (And keep the fruit salad off my beer glass, please.)

My personal favorite Wit - at least of the ones that I'm able to find regularly around here - is Blanche de Bruxelles. It's one of my go-to summertime beers. Light and crisp, with excellent flavor, and a nice hint of refreshing citrus. Plus, it's also available in pint cans, which makes it easy to take along to the beach/pool/river.

Hazy, juicy Northeast IPAs are the new fad and they aren't going away anytime soon.

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Originally posted by ulsterman:
I feel the same way about flavored bourbon.

Oh good lord YES!! I had some Crown Royal Regal Apple at my bro's and nearly puked.

Seriously folks - what's next, mango/pomegranate, kiwi/lime,strawberry/passion fruit?

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Originally posted by MWC:
Seriously folks - what's next, mango/pomegranate, kiwi/lime,strawberry/passion fruit?

Liennies Watermelon? I do not kid you.

Beer should be beer - Ale should be ale - whiskey should be whiskey - Rum should be rum - Girls should be girls - Boys should be boys - Guns should be Sigs. Enough already. Chris

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Originally posted by ulsterman:
I feel the same way about flavored bourbon.

I take minor satisfaction in that if flavored, they can't legally call it bourbon.

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Originally posted by erj_pilot:

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Originally posted by ulsterman:
I feel the same way about flavored bourbon.

Oh good lord YES!! I had some Crown Royal Regal Apple at my bro's and nearly puked.

Crown isn't bourbon, but I get what you're saying. Crown apple is good in certain mixed drinks, but not by itself.

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Originally posted by reflex/deflex 64:

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Originally posted by MWC:
Seriously folks - what's next, mango/pomegranate, kiwi/lime,strawberry/passion fruit?

Liennies Watermelon? I do not kid you.

Tried it. It's awful. Still have five left that I'm not sure what to do with.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
Don't you dare take away my Summer Shandy.

Ugh. Awful. Too many of these beers taste like what I imagine it would taste like if a fruit were to vomit.

IME, real hefeweizen and witbier are awesome glass after glass. However,

fruit beer (cherry, lemon, raspberry, blueberry, orange) tends to be enjoyable at first, but by the end of the bottle it's either quit drinking or get a real beer.

beer with grapefruit just plain sucks.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
Don't you dare take away my Summer Shandy.

Summer Shandy was a fantastic lemonade beer before Miller/Coors bought them and went nationwide. Most of Leinenkugel's offerings are far worse after the transition.



I was at a bar with 60-something beers on tap. No free tastes, but they had half-pours of everything priced well enough.

Of the 8 I had maybe one was a proper example of the beer it was called. No Hefeweiss, no proper Wit, no Weiss, only one lager and one pilsner.

Everything was trying to be loud in some way, it had a catch or a fruit, or extra hops, or something.

I almost asked if they had a Miller Lite. It may be piss water, but it's nice to have a few in the sun with a friend vs trying to figure out what some of the beer descriptions mean.

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Originally posted by zoom6zoom:

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Originally posted by ulsterman:
I feel the same way about flavored bourbon.

I take minor satisfaction in that if flavored, they can't legally call it bourbon.

Indeed, which makes it easy to avoid entirely.

If it doesn't say Straight Bourbon on the bottle, amongst other indicators, I skip it.

Unless it's Rye, of course.