40 - Franziskaner Weissbier

I am not sure what I expected with this beer, but it was not a golden, thick, cloudy wheat beer. Maybe it's because I took a beer vacation and after a few weeks drinking pitchers of Yuengling I am just excited for high class beer again. But I liked this beer. I liked its color, I loved how cloudy it was, it tasted great and I am genuinely glad that I can find it around in most coolers in town.

I found the bottle sort of misleading. I assume something that understated would not have the bright flavor or thickness. Good beer.

I give it 3 out of 4 surprise Franciscan Monks.

Strawberry Wheat Beer, Lancaster Brewing Company

Imagine if you were eating a bowl of fruity pebbles, and then all your pebbles are gone. No problem, all that sugar milk is left over to slurp up. Bonus! But in "Kelly Land" that sweet sugar milk was actually beer. This is what you taste when you try Strawberry Wheat Beer made by Lancaster Brewing Company. Lately is seems as if Bill and I are in denial of winter ever happening. I keep gravitating to these lighter brighter brews. Strawberries, bananas, tomorrow we should sample a beer that tastes like wicker, then we've drank almost an entire fruit basket in just a few short days. Fantastic! This wheat lager is a dry, crisp and sweet tasting gem. If I still owned my strawberry shortcake doll from childhood I would sniff it's hair right now. It definitely did not taste syrupy, or sugary, but naturally sweet, flavor infused, hand crafted and delicately enhanced, sweet and wheaty. I look forward to picnics this summer, or finding a bar with this one on tap. I would give this one a full pint of strawberries out of a pint sitting on a market shelf.