Leinenkugel’s Brewery makes pretty decent beer, at least that’s what I have assumed based on picking up a case of their variety pack a few weeks back. A friend of mine asked me to grab a case of their Sunset Wheat for him and in doing so, I decided to check their other stuff out. The variety pack included four beers, below are my brief thought on each.

Sunset Wheat is a blueberry wheat ale. Their wheat ales are in the American style, meaning they are not Belgian wheats (ala Blue Moon) or German wheats (ala Franziskaner). Sunset Wheat is a very good wheat ale from my estimation, in fact it may be one of the best I have had… which only says a lot because I don’t typically like blueberry very much. I do, however, like blueberry pancakes and if blueberry pancakes were beer, they’d be Sunset Wheat. It’s a hearty yet not heavy beer. One that will likely become a summer staple of my beer fridge. …more… »