Favorite Summer Beers

[ribeyeguy]

After mowing the lawn and working up a bit of a sweat, chilling on the deck with an ice cold Blue Moon Belgian White is about as close to heaven as it gets.

[xaugievike]

My fav

I suffered a can-ring failure on this brew and it was leaking.....im happy to report that the beer was salvaged with minimal loss.

[Old Glory]

[Surly Viking]

Surly, Todd the Ax Man. If I am driving, something with less bite.

Also really like a lot of the various Hazy IPAs out. Fair State had a crushable Milkshake ipa that surprised me.

However, for "Summer Beer", I want cold first, and cheap if at a ballgame. Free is even better. If I am paying I will usually look for something new.

[radshop]

In hot weather, water is the best thing to drink. So I choose Coors Light, which is basically the same.

[smokin fool]

Wasaga Beach 1 Cerveza is my crush right now

[gcdmd]

This thread has been quite an education.

However, I hate to be plebian, but summer means Budweiser. It takes me back to college days sitting with my dad and watching beisbol on TV.

[smokin fool]

I get what your saying but I've become disillusioned with monster breweries million liter products and I used to drive for MolsonCoors. Free beer was in the contract depending on full/part time.
For better or worse, I've gone to smaller local craft brewery products.
Have a few favs Wasaga Beach, Port Credit, Mill Street, Creemore Springs to name a few.
At the end of the day they all end up some kinda golden hue again anyway....

[gcdmd]

smokin fool How right you are. In goes the good beer; out goes the bad beer.

[IrondeQuer]

This will work in the Summer, although Blue Moon Belgian White would too. Or a Shocktop. But really, I'm not all that picky.

[IowaGirl]

Of Leinie's shandy lineup, the lemon is my favorite. The grapefruit is okay, but the watermelon is nasty. It goes down okay if cold, but don't let it warm up -- it's near undrinkable. But Blue Moon with a twist of orange is da best.

[Richard Chrz]

I am a Loyalist to Pearl Street Brewery here where I live. from their line up I will drink mostly, their:

Linalool IPA
Rumpshaker neIPA
Me Myself and IPA
Pale Ale
Rubber Mills Pils
That's what I am talking about Stout
Barrel aged oat stout
Smokin Hemp porter and a few others, but damn, then there is Vodka and gin drinks, and wine, and single malt scotch, and.. I have a problem.

[Flavorsavor]

Red Oak Hummingbird and New Belgium DayBlazer!

[HawkerXP]

+1 on DayBlazer, now in 15 packs! Sweet.

[Flavorsavor]

It's a great lawnmower beer.

[Bkhuna]

Kölsch
Pils
American Pale Ale (Sierra Nevada)
Dortmunder
Yebisu
Anything that doesn't taste like diluted Pine-Sol.

[MBMorgan]

My taste in beer isn't very seasonal. Top four for me are always Guinness Extra Stout (although Murphy's will do, too), Fat Tire, Anchor steam, and Alaskan Amber. After that, I'm pretty easy to please ... unless somebody sticks a piece of fruit in the bottle neck (I'll likely send it back if that happens).

[Murdy]

When I was stationed in Germany, my German friends would ask me to bring Bud when we would do something outdoors on a hot summer day. They said American beer was good summer beer.

[MBMorgan]

That's funny ... when I was in Huntsville, Ala. (still in high school), there were a bunch of German military stationed at Redstone Arsenal and living near us. The military thought American beer was so bad that they would import good German or Dutch beer to keep their soldiers from suffering too badly while in the States.

[Bkhuna]

But in Germany you can get the authentic Budweiser from the Budvar brewery in Czechoslovakia. Enjoyed that one immensely when I was there.

[Murdy]

I drank my share of Budwar too. Actually, my go to was Licher, which I've never seen over here. It was one of the cheaper beers, probably Germany's answer to Old Milwaukee, but it was better than most American beers.

My German friends' fondness for American beer was limited to very hot, summer days, when engaged in outdoor activity.

I also remember Germans cutting German beer by mixing it with a little Coke, which they called a Trekkich (Dirty, I think) Beer.

[daveIT]

These are both very thirst quenching:

Dogfishhead Seaquench (session sour with lime and sea salt - margarita-ish)

New Belgium/Cerveceria Primus (collaboration) Mural (watermelon, lime, hibiscus, agave)

I'm not one for crazy beers normally, but these are both really good!

[grantgallagher]

im generally not much of a beer guy but when i am its yuengling lager or black n tan or a real solid sour like cuvee des jacobins.

IPAs can go in someone elses belly, lol.