Wheat beers can be hit or miss. When they hit, they have a flavor like fresh bread with a twist of lemon, if you can imagine such a thing; when they fail, they taste like American grocery store bread, basically sweetness with a hint of grain in the background.
Kronenbourg 1664 Blanc tends toward the former, with a very understated citrus note and hints of fresh flour and wildflower honey, sort of like Michelob if they cleaned the tanks and did their best batch ever. It goes down easily and barely has any alcohol.
It has hints of the second category however. After years of hipster IPAs, it is hard to go back to a beer this sweet, but if you drink soft drinks or like two cubes in your tea, this will not strike you as all that weird. On the whole, a nice clean beer with the wheaty harvest notes perfect for summer sipping.
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Wheat beer is for — uhhh, the urban market, I mean. Real people drink barley beer. Out here in the suburbs they drink nothing but rice and corn beer. But if you have the money, get the real thing, and leave the wheat beer for the uhhh ghettos.
Always liked the packaging on this one, easy on the eyes. Beer itself is meh but rather this than any Ameribeer.
I think it’s cleaner digestively than American beers, which seem to be designed to blast your gut microbiome out the sunroof.
Weed makes me paranoid when taken as is, but when combined with alcohol it’s a match made in hell.
I used to think weed made me paranoid, then I realized that it simply uncovered my normal paranoia, which arose from the complete instability of everything. However, auditory hallucinations are unnerving and sometimes are a gateway to schizophrenia, so follow your gut! Weed is a very powerful drug despite appearances and is not necessary for anything.
French wheat beer!? -from a can! I know times are bad, there are supply chain problems and that continent-connecting German wheat beer pipeline never materialised… but the best beer buzz comes (with or without weed) from German wheat beer (approx 5% strong) (=’White beer’), bottled, brewed according the German Beer Purity Law [only ingredients allowed: wheat, hop and water]from 1516 [the last niche where a reference to any kind of purity is still deemed acceptable] ideally showing a fat monk or a label saying “Erdinger” or “Paulaner” on it. Great for micro-dosing, too.
Even during Germany’s current brutal de-industrialisation still affordable and not as pointlessly expensive as Belgium variants which cost as much as a bottle of good wine and are almost equally strong, too strong that is)
Wheat beers inherently run afoul of the purity law. The purity law only allows *barley*, hops, yeast, and water. Not wheat.
Haha, yes, you are right! -that’s funny I, as hardened user, got this so wrong…must have been already on the wrong side of micro-dosing.
Paulaner? Oh yeah, I know that one. I have consumed quite a few and I will not lie I have no regrets.
Paulaner! A French friend of mine once *he swears it’s true) worked in a top Hotel in Munich. A celebrity guest, actor Charles Bronson, had ordered a PAULANER and my friend brought it to his room. Being French and inexperienced with German beers, he opened it and it gushed in Bronson’s face and over his upper body. Luckily, Branson started to laugh…