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.

11 - Saranac Black Diamond Bock Dark Lager

Before I get balls deep into this review...The banana beer from last night was not banana-y at all. I was straining my taste buds to even catch the faint inflection. I mark yesterday as the beginning of my quest for a banana beer, and I will make my own if I haven't had one by the end of this year.

Anyways the Saranac Black Diamond Bock Dark Lager is crisp, tasty beer with the zesty zing of the Bock...I chose the bock because I wanted some bock perspective. And out of the past few bocks this one is solid...maybe a bock can only get so good, cause this seems better than some, but not much different. Kelly notes hints of pepper...like the banana, I do not catch this hint. I need something with some flavor and this one tastes good and definitely drinkable. But nothing more vibrant or exciting...just solid....wait for it...solid as a bock.

While I am hoping for a beautiful banana beer in 09, I am also feeling destined to find a bock that transcends the typical run of the mill everyday hard working bock.

Sarnac gets the double black diamond out of a possible quadruple chair ski lift.