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For the past couple years, I’ve been a bigger fan of Leinenkugel’s summer offerings than their other year-round productions.\u00a0 For a long time, the only thing I could get other than M-B-C macros on draft while visiting family in Clare, Michigan was a lonely keg of Leinie’s Sunset Wheat.\u00a0 For a beer that tastes like Fruity Pebbles, it ain’t bad. Thus, it holds a sentimental place in my heart, tho I’ve moved on to other Leinie’s libations.<\/p>\n

This changed when they introduced their Summer Shandy, which instantly took the place of the Sunset Wheat as semi-major-brewery fruit beer of choice when necessary.\u00a0 When I knew I was going to be hanging out in the out of doors drinking in the sun, I happily deferred to the Shandy as a quality session brew when I could find it.\u00a0 However, despite the brewery calling it the perfect Summer Refresher, there was always something a little sticky, a little cloying about the flavors coming out of the dark brown bottle with the shockingly bright yellow label.<\/p>\n

All this changed when Leinie’s decided that what the Shandy really needed was an introduction to the canned-beer market.\u00a0 Fishermen rejoiced, as did I – because this is a happy instance where this canned beer is better <\/em>than the bottled brew.<\/p>\n

\"Summer<\/a>

Via BaysideBeverage.<\/p><\/div>\n

I’d have an actual image of us drinking shandys but they went down just a little too fast, resulting in forgetting the camera and I was teaching 3 people archery basics anyways.\u00a0 I am a terrible rangemaster but at least I’m a better beer buyer.<\/p>\n

So with that, if you can find yourself a 12’er of Shandy Cans (a beer whose name I imagine being beloved by the late lamented Vegas performer Danny Gans) this holiday weekend, and a few hours camped out in a lawn chair with a baseball game on the radio, please do yourself a favor and give it a shot.<\/p>\n

Why, you ask?\u00a0 Because it is exactly that which is disdained in other beers that makes the Shandy Can so quality: its excessive watery-ness.\u00a0 The mouthsmacking film that the bottled Shandy retained has been neutralized leaving nothing but a refreshing, thirst-quenching and light-drinking beer with tarter lemon flavor, fresher honey taste and the weiss beer base beneath.\u00a0 It just works<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Not to mention that you can get the aluminum can screamingly, headache-inducingly cold.\u00a0 Perfect for those 80+ degree afternoons.\u00a0 (Note:\u00a0 Always enjoy afternoon beers responsibly.\u00a0 I always ensure that I have everything I need for the rest of the night before starting afternoon beers, or at least have a good pizza place on speed dial.)<\/p>\n

Could I make my own shandy with a better weiss beer and some lemonade?\u00a0 Sure.\u00a0 But I usually don’t want to.\u00a0 Could I find a better fruit beer while north of the Cheddar Curtain?\u00a0 Based on all our coverage of New Glarus<\/a>, the answer is an overwhelming yes<\/em>.\u00a0 Is Leinie’s Summer Shandy in cans still going to have a hallowed place as part of our Memorial Day weekend celebrations?\u00a0 You bet it will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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