Guest Post: Don from Beer and Whiskey Bros. Please visit and subscribe to their site!!!!
Let me first start off by saying that I did not buy this beer. It was a birthday gift as a part of a bunch of singles I was given by my sister-in-law. There, at least I think my man card is safe with that explanation. I wasn’t real excited about this brew, and I actually gave a lot of brews away that I received, because so many of them were very light lagers as part of some sort of international 10 pack that was put together by Cost Plus World Market. But this one looked at least a little interesting so I figured I would give it a try. Since I had been hanging on to it for about 6 months, it seemed that this particular “Sip with Us Saturday” would be the ideal time to crack it open and give it a try.
So to review like you do at THFB…
The Pour
It poured a golden orange with a pretty serious head on it, about two fingers when the photo was snapped, and it was almost a pure white color and had good retention and a lot of lacing from it left on the glass. Not overly complex but what do I expect for a Lager.
The Nose
Wow! The bottle says this is a lager with a Kiss of strawberry flavor. Well, you couldn’t tell it was just a kiss from the nose, this was more like heavy petting and foreplay. It actually smelled a lot like the shampoo my sister used to buy in the seventies. With a sickeningly sweet aroma of strawberry jam. I was leery. But I decided to carry on with the tasting and the review.
The Flavor
Well, you might expect what I’m going to say, but here goes. OK as for that Kiss of flavor, I’m sorry, this was full on intercourse! The strawberry flavor was so pronounced it was hard to tell I was drinking beer. The smell just enveloped my olfactory senses, and the flavor was almost a foregone conclusion. It was sweet like strawberry compote and the lager didn’t do anything to save the day. It was almost like someone put strawberry flavoring into a Budweiser, but I would have rather had a Budweiser. This stuff was vile and repulsive. Pete’s Wicked Strawberry Blonde Lager does for beer what Bartles and James did for Wine! This was a 12 ounce bottle and I drank about half of it before I couldn’t make myself drink any more. I kept trying it to see if there was something I was missing, some redeeming quality. I drank it slow, I drank it fast, I drank it cold, I drank it…Guulahh, warm. Nothing helped. I poured it out, and that was probably a mean thing to do to my poor sink.
Conclusion
Run away! Never, ever, ever, EVER buy this beer! I was trying to figure out who was their target audience, and near as I can tell it is toddlers, tweens, and teens. I suppose if you wanted to get a little kid into beer (not that anyone would ever want to do that) this would be the beer. Nuff Said!
Thanks Don! My kids have a strawberry shampoo that I think smells disgusting…no every time i wash their hair I’m going to think of Pete’s wicked Strawberry Blonde.
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@Nate, that will be especially hard, since your kids are all Blonde too! But I’m serious this beer is awful!
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I’m going to try it out just to taste the awfulness…you know…like looking at an eclipse. you know you shouldn’t but you just can’t resist.
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You’re a brave man, Don. I’m with Nate – I’m now curious to try it too, just to experience the awfulness first hand. And besides, full on intercourse with strawberries sounds like something I could really get into! (Eww – there’s a visual for you…)
Anyway, nice review, bro. It’s good to see you doing your best work on other peoples’ sites!
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@ Nate, I get it, its like looking at a wrick on the highway, you are pretty sure you will regret it, but you just can’t help yourself!
@Jim, You’ve been watching too many American Pie movies. I usually save my best stuff for others, that is why our site sucks so much.
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@ Don. That explains a lot.
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If it is anything like Leinenkugel’s Berry Weiss, I think I will be like Pink Floyd and run like hell.
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I actually did a comparison between this beer and a Lancaster’s Strawberry Wheat. I didn’t use as harsh language as Don did, but I think the feelings toward the beer(s) are mutual!
http://thebrewclub.com/2009/07/09/petes-strawberry-blonde-vs-lancaster-strawberry-wheat-beer/
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