RIP Leinenkugel factory
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There are several of their beers I will take over their shandy. But to each their own...Summer Shandy itself makes up more than half of Leinie's sales. They just made it a year-round beer, and honestly it's a little surprising it took this long.
'This tastes like summer': How Summer Shandy changed everything for Leinenkugel’s
The year was 2006, and the Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Co. was celebrating the launch of Sunset Wheat, perhaps the most successful new beer in the brewery’s history. As Sunset Wheat won over consumers’ tastebuds, Leinenkugel’s drinkers voted to make its summer seasonal, Berry Weiss, a year-round...www.molsoncoorsblog.com
The stuff they have at the lodge is great and it was disappointing to me they don't sell it a lot of other places. I believe they had a lemon IPA that was mixed with the berryweiss and it was one of the best tasting things I've ever had.
The Lemon Haze IPA?
I'm 98% sure I saw that at the Wall to Wall in West Des Moines, which should also have Berryweiss.
A few years back at Costco in MN they have a "mixology" 24 pack of stuff (6 each of Honeweiss, Berryweiss, Dark Lager, and Chocolate Stout?) - found out that mixing Honey and Berry is DELICIOUS. Also enjoyed anything with the chocolate.
I'm not too proud to admit that I prefer the fruit shandies more than I probably should. A while back (5?10 years?) they had a cranberry ginger shandy in the winter months that was one of my favorites.
Sure, but they've been owned by Miller literally my entire life and I'm 36.
I love almost everything about the Leinie's brand, but they haven't been a microbrewery in a long long long time, if technically ever.
Read my post one of the first...didn't say they are now youngster.
I was drinking it in 70's they were a very regional beer. And had varieties back then
Right, I was just saying the time for mourning that facet of their story should have been done decades ago. Although my hunch is they were never technically a microbrewery, but I'm too lazy to look up their historical production volumes right now.
Their market in the late 70's early 80's was pretty much a 50 mile ,radius . Limited supply and production.
They did not sell on a larger scale like other breweries in the area such as Old Style or Schmidt.
Maybe not a microbrew persay but they were very small scale.
For awhile their beer did not use any preservatives, only brewery in the country I believe so that alone limited production
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I knew they were never on the same scale as Old Style, the larger Milwaukee brands, and even pre-prohibition brands like Peerless or the original Heileman.
But I didn't know they were THAT small around that time. I did find they were producing about 80,000 BBLs per year in the mid-80s when they began considering a sale, which is well over the 15k microbrewery definition, but ultimately it's just semantics.
And the Nut Brown was awesome as well
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