Help me find this beer

Discussion in 'Mid-Atlantic' started by TrashMax, May 26, 2025.

  1. TrashMax

    TrashMax Initiate (195) Jun 6, 2020 New Jersey

    Not too much offer, but it was colorless (looked like sparkling water). Had a lemon/citrus IPA flavor I think.

    I really liked it but couldn't find in my area. Now been a couple of years and got.me thinking of it again, but I can't remember what it was.

    Suggest some clear/colorless IPAs please.
     
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  2. steveh

    steveh Grand Pooh-Bah (4,174) Oct 8, 2003 Illinois
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  3. TrashMax

    TrashMax Initiate (195) Jun 6, 2020 New Jersey

    Yeah, it looked like sparkling water. Not sure if that translates into clear or colorless!
     
  4. PapaGoose03

    PapaGoose03 Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,057) May 30, 2005 Michigan
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    You're not thinking of Zima are you?
     
  5. Spankyrightus

    Spankyrightus Pooh-Bah (2,879) May 4, 2024 Maryland
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    Maybe this?
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  6. jesskidden

    jesskidden Grand Pooh-Bah (3,145) Aug 10, 2005 New Jersey
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    Remember that that was the era when Miller's discount brand, Meister Brau was "a beer with bite" that went down "like razor blades" (:rolling_eyes: according to some), so...

    When I was a kid, a local NJ pop bottler (maybe Frank's?) made a clear birch beer. I guess it wasn't that odd since lemon-lime 7 Up and its imitators were clear but I was fascinated by it. I wondered why a company didn't come along and make all their flavored soft drinks clear (I ever created a brand name for them - KLEER. Yeah, could have been a floor cleaner, too.)

    Where you drinking on the patio, with dark sunglasses on?
     
  7. chipawayboy

    chipawayboy Pooh-Bah (2,181) Oct 26, 2007 Massachusetts
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    That’s all u can offer? Colorless water? Need a few more bread crumbs brother - you trolling us ? :beers::thinking_face:
     
  8. Giantspace

    Giantspace Grand Pooh-Bah (3,043) Dec 22, 2011 Pennsylvania
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    Not been in a bunch of years but our yearly trip to knoebels I always looked forward to a clear birch beer and the white broccoli pizza.

    I remember MB being quite bitting from the bottle. I remember it being very carbonated to add to the bite. Odd creaminess to it as well.


    Enjoy
     
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  9. Resistance88

    Resistance88 Grand Pooh-Bah (3,462) Apr 9, 2015 California
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  10. dcotom

    dcotom Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,637) Aug 4, 2014 Iowa
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    Good call. OP might have run across a straggler from the 2017 re-release. My notes indicate that this didn't have much flavor at all until I dumped in a shot of creme de cassis. For better or worse, I haven't seen it since.

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  11. Todd

    Todd Founder (13,518) Aug 23, 1996 Finland
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    If it was Zima, then we can lock this thread down and get back to beer.
     
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  12. beershrine

    beershrine Pundit (819) May 29, 2004 Idaho

    I had a dream the water was clear and tasted like beer then they turned into wine.
     
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  13. PapaGoose03

    PapaGoose03 Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,057) May 30, 2005 Michigan
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    Well excuuuse me! :wink::wink::wink:
     
  14. MistaRyte

    MistaRyte Pooh-Bah (2,681) Jan 14, 2008 Virginia
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    ZiPA... I mean Zima. Zima is a non-IPA alcopop. Mass marketed flat Sprite in a bottle
     
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  15. zac16125

    zac16125 Grand Pooh-Bah (3,432) Jan 26, 2010 South Carolina
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    I kinda liked Zima……


    Granted I was like 12, I mean allegedly!
     
  16. zac16125

    zac16125 Grand Pooh-Bah (3,432) Jan 26, 2010 South Carolina
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    Also wasn’t there a run of clear Pepsi or coke at some point. I think Pepsi.
     
  17. Hockeyguy

    Hockeyguy Aspirant (243) Jul 9, 2021 Texas

    Actually, the most popular additive for Zima in the 90s was Jolly Ranchers. When it made it's comeback in 2017 I put up a display of the 40 cases I was shipped and had my GM manager order in extra Jolly Ranchers to go with it. I sold out both Zima and the candy in less than a week. Phil Dunphy would have been proud.
     
  18. Hockeyguy

    Hockeyguy Aspirant (243) Jul 9, 2021 Texas

    Crystal Pepsi and Tab Clear
     
  19. spicoli00

    spicoli00 Pooh-Bah (2,305) Jul 6, 2005 Indiana
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    Lagunitas hop water
     
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  20. MistaRyte

    MistaRyte Pooh-Bah (2,681) Jan 14, 2008 Virginia
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    Anyone remember the "Crystal Gravy" skit from SNL? Yeah... it looks like what you think it looks like...
     
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