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Leinenkugels Summer Shandy

Leinenkugels Summer Shandy

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A Fruit Beer brewed by
Leinenkugel Brewing Company (SABMiller)

Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin USA

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3162.47/5.02.47/5.0Summer4.2%28.9 Flute P  Stats

Commercial Description:
Beer with natural lemonade flavor.

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General66 (91), Streator, Illinois, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/56/103/58/20

Mar 30, 2008  
12 ounce bottle. I picked up a six pack of this to drink on a Friday night. I was not in the mood for a typical beer, so I thought I would give this a shot. I almost feel bad rating this one as a beer... reminded me of a strange carbonated lemonade-soda. I didn’t even bother pouring this one into a glass. Tasted like carbonated lemonade with a slight taste of beer. It was refreshing and definitely different. It is sessionable if you do not like "real" beer...

 Hinez57 (112), Clinton, Mississippi, USA
1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/103/51/102/51/20
Aug 19, 2008  
Not suprised by the fact that Imaena’s, just below my rating, description is EXACTLY what I was thinking when I poured 2/3rds of this beer down the drain! The only reason this didn’t get a .5 is because of a citrus aroma and good look in the glass. I’d rather drink a Budweiser. Leinenkugels continues to disappoint!


 Imaena (218), Portland, Maine, USA
1.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/53/102/55/20
Aug 19, 2008  
Bottle 08’. Somehow a case of this ended up at my girl freinds parents house (I might have reccomended it because they liked fruity beers) and they did not drink it. So I sampled some. I have had quite a bit of proper shandy when I lived in the UK and this is not a sparkling lemonade lager mix. This is corn syrup fermented out and mixed with lemon flavoring. Gross. Thin body, sweet and bitter lemon, and astringent finsish.


Bella68 (6), Alabama, USA
does not count click to see why this rating of Leinenkugels Summer Shandy does not count
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/55/102/58/20
Aug 16, 2008  
I think this is one of those that you either love it, or you don’t. Recommended to me by some friends. As I poured this into my glass, my first thought was, "this looks just like lemon juice from concentrate". The aroma was very much there I kid you not...pure lemons. Flavor was similar to lemon drops and thin bodied. Actually, I thought it was kind of a refreshing change and would be nice to occasionally enjoy, but not regularly (thus the limited edition).


pope_phred (90), Plainfield, Illinois, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/102/55/103/59/20
Aug 14, 2008  
Poured from the bottle into a pint glass. Pour produced a cloudy, pale yellow body, topped with a large white head of foam. Aroma is strongly of lemons (as expected) and wheat. This is a light-bodied beer with a light wheat palate and a moderate lemon finish. It is what it purports to be: beer and lemonade. Certainly a summer beverage. It took a bit to grow on me, and, like the other seasonal brewed by Leinenkugel, "Apple Spice" seems like they used the entire fruit, seeds and all, giving it a bitter seed like aftertaste.


kosko20 (73), Bemidji, Minnesota, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/102/56/104/513/20
Aug 13, 2008  
Good refreshing light summer beer. Aroma of lemon, lime and wheat. Pretty pleasant, not over powering. Looks like a cloudy piss yellow with no head. Flavor is lemons with some wheat. Palate very smooth and full. Overall, pleasantly surprised and will repeat drinking for summer occasions. And a nice example of this style.




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