New style category (Radler/Shandy)?

Ha! For a while, I was on a kick of drinking Grapefruit juice, just to confirm I was tasting that in certain IPA/DIPAs. I think now that I'm hooked on GFJ more than OJ.

 

That's the only Radler I've tried and I really enjoy it. Tastes like fresca. Super enjoyable on a hot day.

 

yeah, but when compared to Sucks, it well,.... you get the idea. I just famously down intense DIPAs instead. They also tend to be off-puttingly sugary to me because of the soda component.

 

I'll be glad when Sucks returns. Damn hop shortage.

 

Don't hit them, that's stupid. You should drink them.

 

because it's beer mixed with lemonade, etc.

i spike beer with bourbon all the time. if you spiked a keg with bourbon, it wouldn't make much sense to review it as a new style.

notably, if a brewery was half-assed enough to just add some bourbon to a keg and serve it as "bourbon [name of beer]" (maybe even add some oak chips and make it "bourbon oaked [name of beer]" and you reviewed the beer, it would be the same style as before they put the bourbon in, just a new beer. maybe it would go from RIS to american double stout, but that's just b/c that category distinction is silly.

 

Really they should not be reviewed on this site, just as Meads are no longer allowed. However, some breweries make them, and put them in kegs, bottles, and/or cans, and so users add them to the database and review them.

I agree though that either they should all be deleted, or they should be all be dumped into some kind of category. Having them in "Fruit Beers" is a disservice to real fruit beers, but there is not another style where they can be lumped (you would not want a Shandy/Radler subdivision of every beer style).