Your Ultimate Summertime Beer?

[Shawn, the Beer Philosopher]

Tell us your ultimate summertime beer! Could be a specific beer, from a specific brewer, or a particular style ...

So what beer gets you through the "dog days"?

[Smitty]

Blue Moon is still my guilty summertime pleasure. Pressed for a less obscure answer, I'd lean toward the Gordon Biersch Marzen that I've tried a couple times lately. As for an ultimate summertime beer, I suppose if a particular taste were involved it would be a light citrus flavor. Certainly nothing too heavy with temperatures hitting 110 here the last week or more!

Great topic by the way.

[Bradimus Prime]

I would have to go with Blue Moon as well if we're looking for "refreshing." However, I'm a year-round dark beer drinker...I enjoy a nice CW Satin Solstice on the Summer Solstice :)

[Smitty]

Yeah, I'm with you on the dark beer...if I can sit in the shade and don't have to mow the lawn! Here in the desert SW the term summer beer has real meaning, but I don't neglect the stouts and porters either and your reference to the solstice gives new meaning to "seasonal" beer, really!

[Bradimus Prime]

Absolutely! Ironically though, the Satin Solstice would be considered by most to be a "winter solstice" beer...to hell with that! I'm in the frozen tundra of Wisconsin anyway.

[gisbrewmaster]

I think the ultimate summer time beer is a Kolsch. It is crisp, clean, and flavorful. I also can go with an IPA.

[Chipper Dave]

I'll drink to that. A good Kolsch works well for me. I'd suggest a Steamworks Colorado Kolsch - one of my favs. Another is Summer Fling - a new brew from Fort Collins Brewery - a Blonde/Kolsch mix.

[BrewDudes]

This summer, it's all about the hefeweizens. Although it's a non-traditional version of a hefe, I am a fan of Long Trail's Hefeweizen.

Allagash White works for every summer, so that's my ultimate summertime beer.

[Eddie Glick]

On a hot summer day, the only thing I can think of that I would reach for over a traditional Bavarian hefe (Sprecher's version is nice, so is Two Brothers' Ebel Weiss) is a Bell's Oberon. What a fantastic beer.

[Dan Leithauser]

I have to admit... after a long ride in Moab or a simple lawn mowing... ice cold "none of that mamby bamby let's get the right temperature", Spaten Pils. Refreshing and much better than water or any of the imitating products.

Recently I did a bit of a tasting of Mexican lawn mower beers... to my surprise, in a field of DosEquis, Tecate, Corona, and Pacifica, I thought that Sol, in a clear bottle, was the best. No Modela available, but the "Negra" product is darker than I might like for super quick refreshment, 6 oz at a swallow. Maybe my taste was upset--and I definitely would not put these products against Spaten... but... if nothing else was around. Sol.

[Deuane]

Single Beer(s)---Bell's Oberon or Troeg's Sunshine Pils

Single Style(s)--Berliner Weiss or Saison (such a wide open style though)

[Matt Peters]

Normally I like a nice Pale Ale such as: Sierra Nevada, Bell's, Dale's, A good Lager such as: Brooklyn, or a hoppier Pils such as: Victory Prima Pils, Troegs Sunshine Pils. Lately, I've gotten into Saisons though, such as Clipper City's Red Sky at Night

[Eli the Mad Beer Man]

Can't possibly narrow it down to ONE beer. A style... piece of cake: American Wheats /German Hefes. All day everyday.