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If you needed yet another reason to love Wisconsin, I've found one.
Last year, I had the good fortune of trying Leinenkugel's Sunset Wheat. It's a wheat beer that tastes of orange and coriander and is great for a hot summer day. It became my favorite beer of last summer, and I got most of my friends hooked on it as well. I immediately did some research on the family-owned brewery based in Chippewa, Wisconsin, hoping that I could find out if they sold other varieties of their beer here. But I didn't have any luck, that is, until now. This past weekend on a "beer-finding" mission in Massachusetts, I literally stumbled across Leinenkugel's Berry Weiss and Honey Weiss. Both are wheat beers sold year-round. The Berry version includes loganberries, elderberries and blackberries. If you aren't a big beer drinker and instead lean toward wine coolers, you may dig this. It is very sweet and fruity. If you are used to a porter or stout, or are an ale drinker, this may not be up your alley. Try it with some frozen berries at the bottom of the glass like I did for a sweet treat. The Honey Weiss is what you think it is. It's a Wheat Ale with Honey added. As opposed to the Berry, this is not very sweet and is close in profile to the Sunset Wheat. And I haven't tried this yet but I found out if you can't decide, you can mix the Berry with the Honey to make a "Honey Bear" or mix the Sunset Wheat with the Berry for a "Sunny Bear." The brewery makes several other beers including a seasonal, Summer Shandy, which the company bills as a lemonade flavored beer and Big Butt Dopplebock, a dark beer made with dark chocolate malt and sold January through March.
I always call it the Froot Loopy beer! Posted by: JenO | March 26, 2008, 14:11Add commentThe ContributorsNews editor Vanessa Palange will try anything once and most more than once. There are very few items on her do-not-drink list. Copy editor and page designer Emily Reily enjoys a drink now and then and likes a nice bottle of Moet for special occasions. Photographer Grant Morris has never been one to turn his nose up at anything... except tequila. Copy editor Jason Sparapani likes a good whiskey. Region editor Melanie Hitchcock is happiest when she is drinking a good witbier or riesling. Lifestyles editor Deidre Ashe thinks you can't go wrong when chocolate and alcohol are combined. SearchArchives
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