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07-07-2016, 07:54 PM | #1 |
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Watermelon beer.
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07-08-2016, 05:15 AM | #2 |
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I keep seeing the New Belgium watermelon offering in stores. Have even seen several people carrying out 12-packs...Has anyone actually tried it? I can't imagine I would like it, but I'm very curious.
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07-08-2016, 05:36 AM | #3 |
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Watermelon beer is really nice for summer. Remember the Belgians have a long tradition of making fruit beers. Fresh fruit is used.
They may not be to everyone's liking but they can me well made beers and nothing at all like the disgusting malternatives that are out there.
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07-08-2016, 07:00 AM | #4 |
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That sounds disgusting. And here I thought that pumpkin beer was awful
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07-08-2016, 07:01 AM | #5 |
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Just when I thought Humbolt hemp brew was as bad as beer could get (think beer brewed with bong water), they come up with something that sounds worse. I despise watermelon.
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07-08-2016, 09:36 AM | #6 |
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Its incomprehensible to me. Watermelon and beer. The two things, hoppy, fizzy, etc, all with the funk and sweetness of melon on top, just makes e think about sewing my lips together. If it was, as said above, just one of those wet fizzy malt brews that had no taste at all, and it turned out to be like watermelon soda with a shot of vodka in it, even that sounds pretty hideous, but it sounds like it would work.
I just choke on the entire fruit beer phenomenon. The other day when I was at hell mart, I saw something new. They have a big cooler at the back full of cases, and a smaller open shelf with the sixes. A third or so was devoted to the spritzers, root beers, etc. Another third was taken upwith lambics, fruits, etc. Then there were a big line of 20 and quart singles. There was less than ten feet devoted to quality beers, and by that, I am including MICHELOB. there were maybe 6-10 premiums/imports. Corona, heineken, modelo, guiness draft, etc. Not the stuff I'd buy. booze is all about the flavored and sweetened stuff for a huge portion of america. If we would just legalize pills and pot, can you imagine what would happen to the liquor industry? |
07-08-2016, 09:55 AM | #7 |
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"Michelob" and "quality beer" in the same sentence is incomprehensible to me.
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I tried this watermelon beer, and it is truly awful. However, I think craft brew jumped the shark with this one. Gose style ale, as if that isnt bad enough, with cactus and grapefruit.
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07-08-2016, 12:03 PM | #9 |
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amen to that
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07-12-2016, 05:52 PM | #10 |
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Watermelon beer?
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