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My bud and I went down to southern Illinois for some camping and hiking. We saw some amazing stuff--50ft watefalls and roaring cascades, huge sandstone bluffs, and rivers running through rock. All this hiking made us thirsty, and we ran through our stash of Fat Tire and Duvel we hit the Shawnee Mart in Eddyville to resupply.

It came down to Leinenkugel vs. Red Stripe. We chose poorly. Yuck. One would think some knuckleheads from Wisconsin would know how to brew a decent beer.

According to Altavista's Babelfish translator, "Leinenkugel" means "linen ball" in German.

There's the answer to your mystery.

Hungary Jack wrote:My bud and I went down to southern Illinois for some camping and hiking. We saw some amazing stuff--50ft watefalls and roaring cascades, huge sandstone bluffs, and rivers running through rock. All this hiking made us thirsty, and we ran through our stash of Fat Tire and Duvel we hit the Shawnee Mart in Eddyville to resupply.

It came down to Leinenkugel vs. Red Stripe. We chose poorly. Yuck. One would think some knuckleheads from Wisconsin would know how to brew a decent beer.

How bad was the flooding down there?

I'll prob. head down next week and was there 2 weeks ago, I know by Rend Lake, it was getting close to I-57.

There was lots of water running through the creeks around Bell Smith and through Hayes Canyon, but it was running clear. You could see the high water marks from the flooding the week before, and I'll just say I am glad I wasn't anywhere near the bottom of Bell Smith. It would have been a raging torrent. Burden Falls was flowing really nicely, and there was enough water in Double Branch Hole to push down the rock sluice.

I put it in the same category as Bud/Miller, it's a mass produced beer with a different flavor. I buy it up in Wisco sometimes because of the cost, around here a case is the same cost as Bud/Miller but up there it's priced more like Busch. Then again, up here Busch is priced like Bud.

But, do stay away from the Summer Shandy from Leiney's. It's lemonade beer basically.

Leini's is good.

It's one of my favorite mass-produced beers mostly because I like so much of what's in their line.

-Leinie's Red
-Creamy Dark
-Original
-Oktoberfest

They've also got a nice little Autumn Ale or something. They really started going downhill once Miller bought them. That's when they started putting an emphasis on their Homey Vice, Berry Weiss, and now the Summer Shandy. But their originals, the ones that have been around pre-Miller, get the Fancy Beer Boy stamp of approval.

We had bought a six of the "Sunshine Weiss" (or something akin to that name) and it tasted nothing like weiss beer. It had a strawberry flavor that could not mask a thin and bitter body that made me wonder what I was drinking. It was horrible. We didn't even finish the pack.

RC21* wrote:It's one of my favorite mass-produced beers mostly because I like so much of what's in their line.

-Leinie's Red
-Creamy Dark
-Original
-Oktoberfest

They've also got a nice little Autumn Ale or something. They really started going downhill once Miller bought them. That's when they started putting an emphasis on their Homey Vice, Berry Weiss, and now the Summer Shandy. But their originals, the ones that have been around pre-Miller, get the Fancy Beer Boy stamp of approval.

I like the Honey Weiss, Berry Weiss and Summer Shandy. They aren't my favorites, but they're OK by me. Something different, I suppose.

But I also like original and Leinie's Red too. I haven't had them all, but I've liked the ones I've tried except for the Oktoberfest...then again, that's not the kind I usually go for either.

Hungary Jack wrote:We had bought a six of the "Sunshine Weiss" (or something akin to that name) and it tasted nothing like weiss beer. It had a strawberry flavor that could not mask a thin and bitter body that made me wonder what I was drinking. It was horrible. We didn't even finish the pack.

Stay away from that stuff. I bought a six pack of Leiny's summer shandy last summer. I was building a fence, it was probably mid 80's and humid and I was using a gas powered auger driling the holes. The heat that thing was throwing out plus the ambient temp and humidity and I was caked in mud from the digging combined with sweating. I needed to run into town to pick something up, and somehow ended up in a gas station and saw this. The marketing worked - it looked like the perfect summer time hot afternoon refreshment. Huge mistake - weirdest concoction I have ever drank - and weird in a bad way.