What adult beverage are you enjoying tonight?

Jim Beam Devils Cut and coke!

 

Sam Adams summer has been out for a little while now. It's a seasonal beer and my favorite of all the seasonals. I had a couple last night at dinner.

 

Bump.

 

Coffee tonight. Maybe go a little crazy and do some tea later on.

 

So I was in the grocery store with my wife Friday and saw "Not Your Father's Root Beer" and picked up a six pack. While my wife was trying to tell me that root beer doesn't contain alcohol (this one does @ 5.9% ABV) 2 other shoppers overhead our conversation and stopped to tell me how delicious it is. Then at the checkout the clerk asked me if I had it, and he, the bag boy, and the clerk in the next lane had a conversation about how good it is and how they can't keep it in stock. Later that evening we were out at dinner and when I asked for a beer list the waiter told me they just got Not Your Father's Root Beer in stock and I should try it, but since I already had it at home I went with something else. Regardless, I was pretty stoked to sit down and drink a bottle last night since 6 separate people had told me how great it was in the past day!

Well, it does taste exactly like root beer, and I typically like root beer, but this has an overpowering vanilla taste. And by the end of the bottle I was getting a hint of a nyquil/black licorice aftertaste. I reckon I'll just give away the remaining 5 to people who come over and want to try it, because this certainly isn't for me. It's certainly not a beer (even though it says it's an ale). But if you really like root beer it might be worth a try for the novelty of it.

 

I tried it for the first time. Just took a sip because the sweet stuff usually isn't for me. I thought it wasn't very good, but It is certainly targeted for the non-beer drinkers.

 

Then it's definitely Not for me , I drink Beer

 

Speaking on non-beers, my sister had a Shipyard Melonhead... gross. I find many of their beers on the sweet side - pumpkinhead and the gingerbread ones stand out. I have taken a sip of each and that's as far as it goes.

 

I really like German beers but oddly enough I had never had St. Pauli Girl until last night. Pretty darn good stuff.

 

Lenienkugel Summer Shandy last night.

 

Good stuff. I'm down to one bottle...have any extra?

 

Actually finished off the first 12 pack of the summer. Time to resupply!

 

If I'm not drinking beer, I sip whiskey in the winter and gin and tonic in the summer...or something with tequila in it. I learned long ago to not even try the trendy stuff.

 

Same here. My wife loved it, but I prefer a nice hoppy IPA. It was too sweet for me.

 

I like it chilled good with a slice of lemon in it.