Sand Creek Hard Lemonade

Brewed by Sand Creek Brewing Co. (Pioneer/Wisconsin Brewing Co.)
Style: Fruit Beer
Black River Falls, Wisconsin USA

12oz bottle. Why is this in the DB and more importantly, why am I rating it? Poured a weird cloudy golden, yellow color with a small sized head. Aromas of, drum roll please, lemonade. Some graininess and lemon pledge too. Tastes of sugary sweet lemonade. Now how to put numbers to a Lemonade in a beer site...

Both Friggin’ Hell!?! and WTF?!? to this questionable beverage. Okay, so I read & read JPDIPSO’s comments from when he added this, and I was convinced that it should be on the RateBeer.com database. But nothing will convince me that this is something to drink a second time. It has a dirty yellow body with a fizzy head that vanishes before one can get a good look at it. The aroma smells like ginger ale gone bad, having a scent of a dust rag soaked in Lemon Pledge and whatever you might’ve been cleaning at the time. It tastes like a depressed lemonade, sad at the addition of a sugary sweetness. The finish is like a spoiled soda pop. Spoiled and bitter, needing a bar of soap in its mouth. Nasty crap.

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It has been reported that Mark Knoble from the brewery states it is a all malt pale lager brewed with pure lemons. So it IS a beer. So if it is learned that I have been duped so be it. Cloudy light straw color with a nearly instantly vanishing white head. All that is left is a white ring around the edge of the glass. Heavy lemon aroma, not overly sweet, but certainly lemons. Hints of dry grains, similar to granary filled with oats. Light lemon grass as well. Sweet lemon start that has a quick side diversion with soap, cardboard and grain. Very little malt presence. Finish has more lime than lemon flavors. Very small amount of malt noted in the linger, yet the sweet somewhat sticky lemon juice remains. Don’t know the marketing aspects, but I would rush into the fruit beer market at this time.

Bottle shared by shigadeyo. Poured hazy brown color with a moderate frothy white head that mostly lasted with fair lacing. Moderate lemonade citrus aroma. Medium body with a stlicky texture. Moderate sweet citrus flavor with a medium sweet finish of moderate duration. Sweet lemonade with alcohol.

Picked up single 12-oz bottle from Flanagan’s Liquors in Appleton, WI. Pours a semi-cloudy pale yellowish straw brew with a fizzy white head that has some good retention and lacing. Aroma of sweetened lemonade, some corn syrup, light bready malt and no detected hop character. Taste is medium bodied, smooth, well-carbonated with a more decent lemonade flavor than most other lemon fruit beers I’ve tried. Finish is slightly tart lemon flavor that is a decent summer refresher. According to the brewery this is a multi-grain malt lager brewed with real lemons.

Bottled. Poured a slightly hazy pale golden with nothing going on for head. Aroma picked up a whole lot of lemony notes with very little "beer" presence. Flavor picked up the same lemon notes.. but came across as real lemon juice.. definitely a pale malt backing to it.. tasty, but not very much of a beer. Light-bodied on the palate with some lemon tartness. This was actually a decent offering.

Courtesy of Skyview. Slightly cloudy yellow color with no head. Strong, tart lemon aroma. Plenty of lemon flavor. Not very tart. A sweet but light malt backbone. Some mixture of flavors give almost a green pepper bite. Not as horrific as I would have expected.

12 oz bottle. Poured a hazy pale yellow color. There wasn’t really any head. Aroma was of sugary lemonade. Very sweet on the tongue. Tasted like a sweet lemon soda. Not my thing, but if you like CO2 and alcohol in your lemonade this is your drink.