The Brew Site
When it comes to summertime beers, it’s hard to beat a radler for refreshing drinkability—if you don’t mind your beer blended with lemonade, soda, or other alcohol-free juice-like drink. Traditionally, radlers (and shandies) are mixed with a lemon-lime beverage, typically a soda or a lemonade. But the one I received … Continue reading
Right now with a record-breaking heat wave gripping the Pacific Northwest, if we’re not drinking water we’re looking for refreshing, thirst-quenching, sessionable beers to help cool off. Sure, light lagers and weizens are typically the first ones to come to mind, but how often do we think of radlers? If … Continue reading
I received a big package of beers from Bolide Communications last month, and among them were two German-origin beers: Schöfferhofer Grapefruit and Pomegranate Hefeweizens. Despite being labeled as hefeweizens, I’m calling these radlers since they are blended with their respective fruit juices to achieve low-ABV (2.5%) tipples that I found … Continue reading
The next beer to appear in cans from Deschutes Brewery isn’t really a beer at all, but a kombucha radler, Humm Zinger, a collaboration with Bend’s Humm Kombucha. Humm is among the largest kombucha brewers in the state (though I don’t know if anyone is tracking commercial kombucha barrelage to … Continue reading
StormBreaker Brewing hosts the first annual Portland Radler Festival today, taking place from noon to 8pm. The fest, which focuses on the beer and citrus soda blend whose popularity is on the rise in recent years (check out my recent article here), features 22 breweries and cideries pouring their own … Continue reading
My latest print article for our local paper is out: Try a shandy this summer. I delve into what I consider great summer styles/mixers, shandies and radlers, and touch on snakebites a bit. And though I didn’t plan it, the timing was good: June 22 was National Radler Day. I’d encourage … Continue reading