Sunday Sips: Strawberry Wheat

Beer Name:  Strawberry Wheat

Brewed By/In:  Lancaster Brewing Company / Lancaster, PA

Beer Style:  Fruit Beer, Lager style (Not the same as Sour/Lambic style)

Best Served In:  Stein glass

ABV:  4.7%

Characteristics:  As soon as the cap was removed, I could smell the strawberry elements mixed with the malts.  Low bitterness in both smell and taste.  Pours with ruddy copper color.  The light, sweet strawberry helps soften the lager flavor to provide a complex flavor without feeling too heavy on the palate.  Not quite the intense effervescence of other fruit beers but is perky and crisp.  Usually these kind of flavors fade as you continue through the glass, but the strawberry essence kept kicking!

Food-pairing:  Milk chocolate, white chocolate, fruit-based desserts

Overall:  8.8 - Ultra refreshing even on this cool spring evening.  As their website reads, this is a must have for anyone who enjoys fruit beers.  I finished my stein of LBC's Strawberry Wheat in less than 20 minutes and I wasn't even trying to do so!  I hope that as you continue to enjoy your first sunburns of the year, that you pick up a pint of this specially brewed beer.  So let's raise our glass to some fruit-fused lagers.  Slainte!

(Photos provided by author)