Leibinger Seeradler classik:
Greetings, salutations and general hellos to all of you and welcome to yet another summer beer review.  Today we jump the pond and look at this years new addition to the beer trade, the shandy (or Radler in German), a blend of beer and lemonade that seems to have about half of the major brewers in this country and is apparently a common staple in Europe.  Today’s brew,  Leibinger’s Seeradler is not only a beer that comes with it’s own pull tab but tastes like cheap beer combined with good lemonade.  The beer pours well giving up a decent looking white foamy head that dissipates very quickly and very little carbonation.  The nose is of a cheap lager smelling o sour malts and hops and no real hint of lemonade.  The first taste is almost immediately of really bad beers in tall cans that are bought in corner convenience stores by those with questionable beer tastes (and not those who did a month of these beers…who shall remain nameless).  The lemonade kicks in after this initial taste bud slap and it does salvage the beer to drinkable adding a very sweet lemonade flavor to the beer but really there is no variety of flavor after the initial two tastes are introduced and there is no after taste to speak of what so ever.  Not really enjoyable to me, there is no real variety in the flavor profile to speak of and it’s just a bit on the sweet side as well.  Next beer!