Booze Reviews: Leinenkugel’s Sunset Wheat
You know wheat beer is hot when Budweiser decides to get in on it. But it's not who does it first, it's who does it best and the best wheat beer I've so far is Leinenkugel's Sunset Wheat. You might have noticed that the boozebloggers just aren't that into the dark beers. But we're still trying to develop a taste for it, so bare with us. I really just don't like the idea of coffee in my beer. Now coffee with alcohol, that I can get behind. But for me I'm really just more comfortable with something I don't have to try to like. That's Leinenkugel's in a nut-shell.
So what does it taste like. I can state confidently that this beer bares an uncanny resemblance...to fruitloops. That's right. The sugary childhood cereal we all loved now comes in beer form! It's actually not that sweet, just sweet enough really. What I can't get over though is the drinkability. It's smooth and goes down easy but its not like your average corporate light-beer without any kind of distinctive flavor.
You see, when you're marketing a beer all across the country you have to try to formulate it so that it makes everyone happy. But the thing is, regardless of what you were told in school, not everyone's opinion matters. We all know some very, very stupid people who should not have a say in how beer tastes. This is the downfall of the big three brands: Budweiser, Coors, and Miller. They have to make everyone happy so they have to make their beer taste like nothing. As a consequence the most distinctive flavor you're going to get out of a Bud-light is a just a hint of "bar-o-soap." That's fine if your aim in drinking beer is to get drunk at a frat party. Personally though I like to enjoy my beer.
When out-n-about I'm usually a hard-liquor guy. I scan the bar for the whisk(e)y's I haven't tried yet and order the oldest one they've got. As a result I'm more focused on my $10-a-shot booze, plus I tend to get buzzed faster than my friends. I just don't have a great fondness for beer. But with Leinenkugel's Sunset Wheat I feel like I've got something worth ordering. So support the little guys - even if it costs a little more. Otherwise all we'll have left to drink is Bud-Lite-Soap-Weiser.
A - $8 - six pack
