Brew Brain Blog

Okay, I said I’d never drink another fruit beer, and I certainly wouldn’t review one. Well, screw it. Fruit beers are here to stay and I wanted to know if i’d just picked bad a whole bunch of times in a row. Can this selection from Shmaltz Brewing Co. change my mind […]

but if anything I thought worse of it this time. I drank about half of it straight from the bottle and I think it was a stronger sour flavor that way. I dumped the last half out and may very well be dumping my remaining bottles. Lesson learned, never buy 12 of a new brew […]

Summer Ale is a seasonal brew from Samuel Adams. The label on the bottle describes it as “refreshing, crisp and tangy”. It is a wheat beer with lemon zest and Grains of Paradise, which, according to that same label, is a “mysterious brewing spice used by Renaissance brewers centuries ago”. How did it do?
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