{"id":20789,"date":"2016-08-04T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/?p=20789"},"modified":"2021-08-31T11:49:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T16:49:05","slug":"hot-takes-quick-tastes-aka-summer-beers-of-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/hot-takes-quick-tastes-aka-summer-beers-of-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Takes, Quick Tastes: Mostly Michigan Mid-Summer Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\nS<\/span>ummer is short and so is your attention span. So let’s agree that you don’t need us to waste your time with all the flavor notes and aroma esters and mouthfeel whatnot. What’s good? What maybe kinda sucks? If you’ve got $10 to burn on a sixer or a 4-pack of cans, what should you spend it on?<\/p>\n We’re here to help. Or at least, tell you some stuff and you can decide if it’s helpful or not. You do you.<\/p>\n You know we love this stuff<\/a>. Have loved it for a long time.\u00a0And plenty of other people love it too — in fact, our timing has been off for the last couple years, so we’ve not been able to find a bottle or draft in quite a while. Shortscake sells out so damn fast that if you’re in Michigan a couple weeks too late, you’re shit outta luck. So you can imagine my surprise when the first thing I see in the fridge on a recent weekend trip to Traverse City was the beloved pink-red-white Shortscake label.<\/p>\n Guess what — it’s still pretty good! But it’s not quite as shit-your-pants tell-all-your-friends-about-this-beer-right-now level good. The bright pillowy biscuit dough has toned down and the green tart just-underripe berry flavor has taken a back seat as well to the strawberry and cream. It’s still a damn good beer, and I’m plenty glad to have found it again. I’m glad I didn’t kill myself to get it this year, though.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The above is one of our garbage potato-quality photos from a 2010-era cellphone. It’s the best we got. Deal with it. Here’s our original Shortscake review<\/a>.<\/p>\n Hey, see a northern-Michigan theme emerging? We’ve been making the trip north more than a few times over the last couple months (it’s only like a 5-8 hour drive, depending on traffic and construction and stopping for beers in Grand Rapids) and the last two trips have both seen stops for beers on BTF’s small outdoor patio.<\/p>\n The best thing we’ve found in a while has been a blend of two beers to create this hybrid awesomeness, the My Summer Boyfriend.<\/p>\nShort’s Strawberry Shortscake:<\/h4>\n
Brewery Terra Firma’s ‘My Summer Boyfriend’:<\/h4>\n