Friends, let me be frank. I don’t much care for Becks. It is a prosaic beer in the German style. OK, a prosaic German beer (it is imported… it can have that much from me). As most of you know, good ol’ Captain Beer isn’t one for light beers. If you want to cut calories, put down the pastrami sandwich. If you want to drink beer, drink beer! I’ll get off my soapbox now.

OK… so… Beck’s Premier Light:

Meh. Not so hot. Very light malt flavor, the littlest bit of floral-bitter hops in the finish. I mean, the beer has 64 calories—where is the flavor going to hide? It’s refreshing, it’s extremely “drinkable”* meaning… refreshing. That’s about it. But… when you add..

Hooooooowee that’s good sippin’! So the other day (OK like three weeks ago) it was some, oh, 80 degrees in January. So Mrs. Beer and I went for a long bike ride and worked up a summer sweat. Some of our neighbors had just moved out and while they will be missed, they left us beer. Beck’s Premier Light beer, to be precise. So in keeping with a tried and true German tradition, we took said lager and introduced to the beer a goodly dram of lemonade. OK look, no one is saying this was the least bit original or magical or anything… I’m just saying it was delicious. This process will kind of work with your garden variety cheap beers (not Natty cheap—think Coors or Miller) but in order to be really tasty, you need to use a real German beer. Or its American equivalent. Or beer from any other country that makes a similar beer.

But if you want a guaranteed good refreshing beverage, go with:

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Uh…

Well, it’s damn good.

Captain out!

*When did that become an issue? This whole Bud Light “DRINKABILITY” campaign makes me vomit with rage!