It can be argued that Coors Light tastes more like water than beer, so this shouldn't be much of a stretch. The Molson Coors folks announced today that they are unveiling a new, iced-tea flavored version of the Silver Bullet. Looks like macros are pulling out all the stops to stem their hemorrhaging consumer base. This unholy abortion does, however, raise a question that I have: what do you call the marriage of tea and beer? Is it a spiced beer? Is it a shandy? And is there a craft brewer that does this tea/beer thing well?
Off the top of my head, Stone did a Japanese Green Tea IPA and Rush River did a version of their Lyndale Brown with Pomegranate and Green Tea... never tried the latter, but enjoyed the former.
the Stone collab was incredibly complex, had tons of flavor, and every drink was different than the last. imo. It honestly was one of the more interestingly tasting beers I had last year. Mochino has a couple of tea inspired/flavored beers as well.
I have heard of an IPA that had tea, sounds interesting, but I think that the tea really would need be paired with something hoppy to have appropriate flavor balancing.
its the grean tea, with the more herbal characteristics. It gives it a very easy middle taste that smooths out all of the flavors. It was a very delicious beer.
I really wanted to try that Stone Green Tea IPA, I hope the combo is something that is played with in the future more often.
I brewed a black tea double IPA with a little honey (ala hopslam) and it turned out great. Citrusy hops and tea go well together.
Tea goes well with beer, in my experience. However, tea added to bad beer just makes tea-flavored bad beer.
Pretty sure tea-bagged surly beers are just extra hopped versions of said beer. The tea bagging refers to the bag of hops dipped in like a tea bag. Dunno for sure though. I didn't taste much tea flavor in them.
that is true, I was merely replying to the person saying that had seen "tea bagged Surly" I should have clarified that tea was not actually involved.
