In my quest for more cans for my collection I crafted up another
Six-Pack from Binny's, consisting of 5 cans and one bottle. I got lucky with these, with only one being bad, enough to pour out even, called Old Fashioned Shandy from Leinenkugel's which tasted like a Summer Shandy but with nuts and maple sugar in there. Wow, a really bad tasting combination!
But enough about that, let's talk about something good! Contact High from 4 Hands Brewing in St Louis. Maybe its because our summer was so cool and wet I really didn't get to enjoy the beers a hot summer usually provided for me. Besides only small amounts of Oberons, Gumballheads and SA Summer Ales I really was missing out, and I totally did not even see this one at all. Maybe it didn't matter, since some talk from some St Louis folks says they didnt see it on the Chicgao area shelves until august anyway. This is so much unlike the other summer beers around here I mentioned, since we often see Oberon early and often just about everywhere, and if not for the new Half Quart variety we might not have seen hardly any at all.
Wheaty and yeasty, but with a hint of orange, this one really does remind me of an Oberon, but it is a little lighter in color and unlike Bells products, it is filtered. But it has more of a hop quick to it than those others mentioned, which really balances it out well. Crisp finish but also a thrist quencher this one does the trick.
In this day and age when the shandies are being thrown at us from everywhere, and not only Leinies.We are seeing Radlers in grapefruit flavors from Warsteiner and Stiegl and Fosters and American beer makers which I try to be fair with with but they are just alcoholic juice boxes as far as I am concerned. So when I read near the bottom of the can "made with orange zest" I was a little apprehensive, thinking it might follow the radler/shandy path, but it did not. It was a winner and a really good beer after all.
Poured from the can into a Pint Glass, rather cold.
CBC Rating: 5.
ABV%: 5.
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