{"id":1700,"date":"2010-09-29T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/?p=1700"},"modified":"2021-08-26T11:29:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T16:29:00","slug":"review-shorts-key-lime-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/review-shorts-key-lime-pie\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Short’s Key Lime Pie"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nShort’s says:<\/p>\n

“Beer brewed with marshmallow and lactose with lime and graham crackers added.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Short’s Key Lime Pie
\nFruit Beer, 5.75% ABV
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Sayeth the Guys:<\/em><\/p>\n

Karl: <\/strong>I\u2019m afraid that Short\u2019s might have shot themselves in the foot with some of their special releases. \u00a0When Ryan told me that he picked up something new from Short\u2019s called \u201cKey Lime Pie\u201d featuring fruit, graham cracker, lactose sugars and marshmallow, the only question to be asked was \u201cWill it come close to the Strawberry Shorts Cake<\/a>?\u201d \u00a0Sadly, I don\u2019t think the answer to that can ever be in the affirmative simply due to the overwhelming awesomeness of the Shorts Cake. \u00a0Even worse – I disliked nearly everything about this beer.<\/p>\n

The Key Lime Pie poured a tan\/orange color with a light reddish head on top. \u00a0As for the smell…here\u2019s where things started going wrong. \u00a0There was a definite and unfortunate funk to the nose, covering up almost everything with its oddness and obscuring any lime, graham cracker or marshmellow that might have been underneath. \u00a0This couldn\u2019t have been right, could it?<\/p>\n

That funk carried through to the taste of the beer, with a sour\/bitter off taste covering everything. \u00a0I got no lime, no creaminess, no sweetness, no tart. \u00a0Just foulness. \u00a0The one part of this beer that I liked shows just how magical beer can be. \u00a0I don\u2019t know how the Short\u2019s guys do it, but this was pretty awesome – after 3 or 4 disappointing seconds on my palate, a huge wave of pure graham cracker came crashing across my taste buds. \u00a0You could probably see the smile on my face develop along with the taste. \u00a0It was pure beer magic. \u00a0I only wish the rest was better.<\/p>\n

As it opened, the marshmallow flavor developed slightly but not significantly. \u00a0That\u2019s about it. \u00a0In fact, I can still taste that sour funk right now – that\u2019s how distinct it was. \u00a0I would like to know if something happened during the bottling process because this is so out of character with Shorts that I can\u2019t imagine it\u2019s intentional. \u00a0I really, really wanted to like this beer. \u00a0My hopes were high. \u00a0It\u2019d be a shame if somewhere along the line a lot of this went bad – but I suppose it\u2019s a reason to try it again to see what happened. \u00a0Otherwise, this beer was a bust.<\/p>\n

Ryan: <\/strong>I’m going to skip past the appearance, smell and taste of this beer and just agree with what Karl said.\u00a0 And I also agree that there might have been something up with this bottle of Key Lime Pie.\u00a0 At first, I tried to stay optimistic.\u00a0 I was trying to force what I was tasting, “is that marshmallow?”\u00a0 I even tried to justify what we were and weren’t tasting, “you know there’s no real precedent for this style.”\u00a0 But in the end I faced the reality that we probably had a funky bottle.<\/p>\n

I emailed Short’s late last week to ask if they had any reports of infected bottles but we never heard back.\u00a0 There is a thread on Beer Advocate on the subject and, if there is some sort of infection issue, this is not the first time Short’s has had that problem.\u00a0 The snippet below is from a February press release after a few of their newly released beers started tasting off.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s come to our attention that some bottles of our special release beers have become defunct in the field. First off, we are really sorry if you had an experience with any bunk beer. As we continue to grow, we\u2019re also learning a lot about production brewing and the challenges it comes with. We take the quality of our beer seriously and want to make sure our best efforts make it into the market. Unfortunately, we have had some stuff slip through that\u2019s not up to our standards.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Short’s was working on getting a fully functional lab up and running this year. The brewery also noted that when you throw off-the-wall stuff in beer you don’t always know how it is going to turn out and how the flavors are going to change over the initial weeks and months.<\/p>\n

I sent a message to a fellow beer blogger in Michigan who suggested maybe we let the beer warm up a bit before we even try sampling it.\u00a0 We have a few bottles left so we are going to do just that and report back in a few days with our findings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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