Not a slickly cloy shandy despite overriding lemon-candied tartness, sugary lemon soda fizz and distant lemonade sweetness. Instead, dry ginger herbage, salty Berliner Weisse-like coriander spicing and musty lemongrass musk bring certain bittering to acidic limoncello liqueur likeness. Light minty freshness nips at increasingly sour lemon-oiled finish.
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STIEGL RADLER WITH GRAPEFRUIT
Easygoing summer session malt beverage (in a can) loads sugary yellow and pink grapefruit tang above soda-like spritz. Sparkling water crisping brightens citric lightness. Latent lemon-juiced wisp not far removed from a salted margarita. A worthy grapefruit-derived ale-ternative.
WARSTEINER ZITRONE
Despite contrarian rumors, syrupy soda-like spritzer successfully plies sweet lemonade adjunct to light-bodied summertime radler. Reminiscent of a lemony tea-leafed ginger ale, its explosive carbolic hop thrust adds salty astringency to the citric pleasantries. Deep in the mix are mandarin orange, navel orange and tangerine notions that affix the candied lemon sugaring.
SAMUEL ADAMS PORCH ROCKER
Cloying summery fruit-based malt liquor (inexplicably labeled a golden Helles lager though better defined as a lemon-sugared Bavarian radler) offers sparkling lemonade tartness to spritzy corn-sugared ginger ale likeness. Acidic lime juice pucker fortifies lemon tea backend. Hot afternoon fodder for summer shandy sissies and wine cooler fools.