I’m a tad late with Sunday Beer but to make up for that I’m also drinking gin. Why yes! Tonic beer by ‘Doctors OrdersBrewing’ suggests adding a shot of gin to this beer – so I did.
I lived to tell the tale.
To be honest the net effect was oddly neutral. It didn’t taste particularly gin-like but post beer burps did.
It did mean I could transport the house under the crust of the Klingon homework’s though.
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Hmm, I like beer and I like a G&T, but combining them sounds wrong to me.
This weekend’s alcohol adventure was a friend demonstrating the correct way to drink absinthe, which involves a special glass with the absinthe in a reservoir in the bottom, adding water by pouring through a spoon with a sugar cube on it, pausing while it all goes cloudy, then taking a judicious sip that confirms that absinthe isn’t really that nice and why the heck did people ever drink it?
I’m not a big fan of adding things to beer. The only bad beer I ever found in Germany was a Berliner Weisse mit schuss grün already added (some kind of nasty green syrup). It was vile.
I was going to say I never had a shandy, but I remembered I’ve had Leinenkugel’s Summer Shandy. Wasn’t bad, but I never bought it again.
I do have to admit that I like a well-done fruit beer. Typically this involves adding real fruit right as fermentation begins; artificial flavors generally just don’t work (unless you like that cough syrup flavor). Boon Kriek and New Glarus Belgian Red are examples of this that I think work well.
I had an unfortunate encounter with shandy as a teenager:
My oldest sister’s friend offered me a beer I didn’t want (incipient migraine, hot day, weirdness).
I asked for a lemonade, but, without telling me, he got all smirky and brought me a shandy instead.
And proceeded to prod me into saying I liked it, and watched to make sure I actually drank the damned thing, before the Big Reveal.
Being a polite child in the presence of adult sister’s adult friend who had bought me a gift, of course I said that yes I did like it (although, in fact, I thought it was icky then, and I think I’d find it icky now).
And I did manage to drink some appreciable amount of the thing.
The creep spent the rest of the evening patting himself on the back with frequent I-told-you-so’s that politeness (and crabbiness of aforementioned sister) required that I not contradict.
I did not publicly barf.
But I would never, ever, do that to a beer.
I was once unexpectedly sick in the restroom of a tour bus in England in 1997. The water in the sink wasn’t working, so I bought a shandy from the driver to wash it all down, not wanting to leave it like that. I may have had a sip from the can to get the barf taste out, but then again, I might not have seen it as an improvement. I don’t recall now. Ya do what you have to do.
Well, ’96 or ’97. Anyway, the first time we went to England. It’s true, though. I put in thousands of miles on buses, and the only other time I recall being sick, I was able to get out and find a secluded spot to put my breakfast. I remember the year of that one as well, because that one was the worst trip I ever took. Fire ants, defective gas gauges, and a hurricane were involved.
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13 responses to “Sunday Beer: Tonic Witbier & Gin?!?!!”
Hmm, I like beer and I like a G&T, but combining them sounds wrong to me.
This weekend’s alcohol adventure was a friend demonstrating the correct way to drink absinthe, which involves a special glass with the absinthe in a reservoir in the bottom, adding water by pouring through a spoon with a sugar cube on it, pausing while it all goes cloudy, then taking a judicious sip that confirms that absinthe isn’t really that nice and why the heck did people ever drink it?
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I don’t care for either, so thinking about the combination makes me rather nauseous.
Putting gin in that seems to ruin what might be a refreshing fruity beer.
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I bought two cans so I can try it without the gin.
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For Science!
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I’m not a big fan of adding things to beer. The only bad beer I ever found in Germany was a Berliner Weisse mit schuss grün already added (some kind of nasty green syrup). It was vile.
Although the gin has to be better.
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There’s nothing wrong with a good shandy (beer and lemonade).
And not exactly an “additive”, but I really like the sort of beer that’s aged in used bourbon barrels.
I can’t drink gin, though. One small mixed drink containing gin is the only thing that has ever given me a bad hangover. I’ve avoided gin ever since!
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I remain firm that hard liquor shouldn’t be added to beer. Flavors are fine.
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I was going to say I never had a shandy, but I remembered I’ve had Leinenkugel’s Summer Shandy. Wasn’t bad, but I never bought it again.
I do have to admit that I like a well-done fruit beer. Typically this involves adding real fruit right as fermentation begins; artificial flavors generally just don’t work (unless you like that cough syrup flavor). Boon Kriek and New Glarus Belgian Red are examples of this that I think work well.
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I had an unfortunate encounter with shandy as a teenager:
My oldest sister’s friend offered me a beer I didn’t want (incipient migraine, hot day, weirdness).
I asked for a lemonade, but, without telling me, he got all smirky and brought me a shandy instead.
And proceeded to prod me into saying I liked it, and watched to make sure I actually drank the damned thing, before the Big Reveal.
Being a polite child in the presence of adult sister’s adult friend who had bought me a gift, of course I said that yes I did like it (although, in fact, I thought it was icky then, and I think I’d find it icky now).
And I did manage to drink some appreciable amount of the thing.
The creep spent the rest of the evening patting himself on the back with frequent I-told-you-so’s that politeness (and crabbiness of aforementioned sister) required that I not contradict.
I did not publicly barf.
But I would never, ever, do that to a beer.
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I was once unexpectedly sick in the restroom of a tour bus in England in 1997. The water in the sink wasn’t working, so I bought a shandy from the driver to wash it all down, not wanting to leave it like that. I may have had a sip from the can to get the barf taste out, but then again, I might not have seen it as an improvement. I don’t recall now. Ya do what you have to do.
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I love how you know the exact year you got sick on a bus. 🤢🤭😉
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Well, ’96 or ’97. Anyway, the first time we went to England. It’s true, though. I put in thousands of miles on buses, and the only other time I recall being sick, I was able to get out and find a secluded spot to put my breakfast. I remember the year of that one as well, because that one was the worst trip I ever took. Fire ants, defective gas gauges, and a hurricane were involved.
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John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.
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