Leinenkugels Cranberry Ginger Shandy
Did you know that Wisconsin produces more cranberries than any state in America? Our hometown pride inspired us to brew Leinenkugel’s Cranberry Ginger Shandy. The combination of wheat beer, cranberry and ginger is as refreshing as a toboggan ride Out Here.
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168 reviews
Chippewa Falls, United States
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12oz bottle someone left at my house. Because that’s what you do when someone leaves a crappy shandy at your house, you pawn off all but one and tick the last one. Pours a clear amber with frothy, off white head. Nose, yeah, it has cranberry, but really just some muddled berry, cheap malt, not much else. Flavor has the same, the cranberry is more distinct here - but not in an authentic way, cheap malt, some candy, perhaps some crystallized ginger. Finishes too spritzy. Just not good.
Refrigerated 12 oz. aluminum can poured into a glass. Hazy orange with medium/small white head. Aroma is ginger with a little cranberry, medium body, medium carbonation, and good small-bubble lacing. Taste is ginger and some cranberry.
Can - pours orange - nose/taste of ginger, light cranberry sweetness and lemon. A bit soapy - lighter medium bodied
12oz bottle (courtesy of Headbanger) poured into a Shaker at 41°. Color is a hazy orange yellow with light carbonation and a thin tight head. Aroma is a little sweet with a hint of ginger and cranberry, it comes across like a scented dish soap. It has a lighter medium body with a smooth mouth feel. Flavor has cranberry, a little lemon, and just a hint of ginger. In the after taste the lemon and ginger stand out but leave it with a slightly soapy taste. Overall it’s good but not great, their grapefruit is much better.
12oz can at welcome home party. Cranberries, tart and sweet. Ginger throws more sweet, and the selzer-y big carbonation makes it more wine cooler-y. Shrug? Not bad on a hot day although the flavor blend is not the best of the group. 12
12 oz bottle. Bought this single out of the markdown bin. Cloudy yellow color with a small white head. Aroma of berries. Taste is more berries which are very sweet plus some vegetable-like off flavors. The palate is light bordering on being watery. Finishes long and sweet. Overall: Tastes like a soda pop, or a flavored wine cooler, I’d call this a chick drink.
Bottle. Pours hazy golden with lively carbonation and medium off-white head. Aroma of ginger, citrus, and cough drops. Taste is high sweetness. Light body, active carbonation, ginger aftertaste. Smooth but too sweet for me, tastes like a lot of fake fruit.
Tap - good size foamy head, mildly murky light brown color with lots of effervescence, definite cranberry and ginger aroma and flavor right off the bat, mild malt backbone, fizzy finish, not bad overall for a shandy
DATE: April 16, 2016... OCCASION: having spent a night with the Morgans at Lehigh Valley’s Iron Pigs stadium, I pull out a beer gift from way back... GLASSWARE: Hoegaarden tumbler... APPEARANCE: unfiltered, hazy golden body that can’t hide trails of white bubbles that build a two-finger white head that fizzes but holds itself reasonably... ... AROMA: the cranberry and ginger meld to a spruce-like suggestion... a bit candied, as expected... a perfume-heavy, medicinal impact--not welcoming.... PALATE: fizzy, light bodied, and drinkable... something like soda, with a lingering aftertaste... TASTE: somewhere between candy and medicine, this beer puts the ginger root in an awkward relationship with the berry... light wheat presence... sweet, almost puckering as a Wonka candy... OVERALL: in addition to creating a gassy exit, this beer simply becomes another in the long line of shandies that doesn’t really invite another attempt... the aftertaste is obtrusive.. . only slightly refreshing...
12 ounce bottle into pint glass, best before 2/29/2016. Pours lightly hazy golden orange color with a 2 finger fairly dense off white head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice dense soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a good amount of streaming carbonation retaining the head. Aromas of lightly tart cranberry, lemon, orange, grapefruit, pear, apple, ginger, light clove, wheat, cracker, light honey, herbal, grass, and yeast earthiness. Nice aromas with good balance of cranberry, ginger, bready malt, and light-moderate yeast ester notes; with good strength. Taste of lightly tart cranberry, lemon, orange, grapefruit, pear, apple, ginger, light clove, wheat, cracker, light honey, herbal, grass, and yeast earthiness. Light herbal bitterness/yeast spiciness on the finish; with lingering notes of cranberry, lemon, orange, grapefruit, pear, apple, ginger, wheat, cracker, light honey, herbal, grass, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice robustness and balance of cranberry, ginger, bready malt, and light-moderate yeast ester flavors; with a great malt/bitter/spiciness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Light-moderate dryness from carbonation. Medium-high carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, crisp, fairly creamy/bready, and slightly acidic balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with zero warming present after the finish as expected of 4.2%. Overall this is a very good shandy style. All around good robustness and balance of cranberry, ginger, bready malt, and light-moderate yeast ester flavors; and very smooth, crisp, and refreshing to drink. A very enjoyable offering.
Bottle thanks to Ben. Pours a cloudy orange copper with small white head that lasts. The aroma is strong berry, cereal, wheat. Thin mouth, wheat, boo berry cereal, light tart finish, ok.
A surprisingly refreshing beer, a subdued aroma of ginger and cranberry. Cloudy caramel color with a lasting white head with decent lacing. A slightly sweet cranberry, taste with a hint of ginger. Watery finish, with a mildly tart finish.
Poured from a bottle. Clear golden color, small white head. Strong metallic nose. Medium body with a sweet flavor and a medium finish with cranberry undercurrents.
A white head sits over a fogy yellow body. Smells of cranberry and ginger; reminds me of pop. Tastes of non-sweet cranberry and ginger.
Poured from bottle into a pint glass
Appearance – The beer pours a clear golden amber color with a billowy white head. The head has a good level of retention, slowly fading over time to leave a good level of streaky lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma of the beer is rather strong of a cranberry wheat smell mixed with a little bit of a lemon smell. Along with these aromas comes some light ginger and a little bit of hay.
Taste – The taste begins with a sweet cranberry juice taste mixed with a bready wheat taste. As the taste moves on the sweet fades just ever so slightly all while a bit of a grassy and hay taste come to the tongue. Even though the sweet fades a bit, the cranberry remains, just taking on a slightly more sour lemon and bitter taste. While the taste bitters, the taste is still overall sweet, and with a little bit of ginger coming at the very end of the taste one is left with a sweet cranberry wheat taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the beer is on the thinner side with a carbonation level that is rather high. For the sweeter and fruited wheat flavors of the brew the feel is rather nice and makes for a easy drinking brew overall.
Overall – A bit too sweet and fruity for a winter style brew in my opinion. I think I would like this more as a summer style brew, sipping it outside in the warm weather. OK, but nothing too exceptional here.
Tart aroma with cranberry and slight ginger spice. Fruity like normal shandy. Full flavored. Bit of the wheat beer funk in the finish. Ginger and cranberry are mild. It is a good shandy though. Enjoyable.
Pours an orangeish color with a thin white head. Aroma is cranberry and ginger. Flavor is cranberry and ginger. Mostly sweet, a touch tart. I like this better than I thought I would. Refreshing.
Thanks to my sister for bringing this back from her holiday.
Pours a orange beer with a white head.
Smells fruity, sweet, candy like, small hint of ginger.
Tastes sweet.
Okay beer if you have a sweet tooth.
For my its to lemonade like.
Hazy orange pour, head of foam good with the nitro mix.
Lightish smell of ginger and cranberries.
Cranberry and ginger taste brings sweet and tart notes. Good mouthfeel and very easy drinking. I am enjoying it.
Pours hazy with little head. A mild wheat beer with a hint of ginger but three times more cranberry. It's refreshing and he cranberry Mel's it sort of holiday-ish. It's a bit too soda like for my taste.
Can. Pours hazy golden orange with a white head. Sweet and juicy, definitely ginger, and some lighter fruity notes. Soda.
Got a case for Christmas as a gift. I am presently surprised, as this is better than I was anticipating it to be. A nice blend of cranberry and ginger. A decent radler. I might even buy some next Christmas season. However, not sure I would drink this at any other time of year.
Cloudy appearance. Mild cranberry aroma. Ginger hints can be discerned from the initial taste, but smooth cranberry is overpowering here.
Fantastic orange, ginger, pine, bubble gum nose. Hazy amber, medium yellowish head. Cranberry and ginger turning to strong wheat malt and bubble gum. Medium body, easy carbonation. This is actually good, really, really good. It may not be "cool" to say so, but Leinenkugel’s makes some really neat beers. This is one of them.
12 oz. bottle. Cloudy yellow with an amber or pink hue, no head. Aroma is a light lasting cranberry, nothing more.
Flavor is a moderate tart berry without any acidity or astringency. Mild note of a wheat backbone. Weak notes of ginger in a thin watery body. Is this totally undrinkable? No. But I’m not rushing to the supermarket to stock up on 6 packs.
From the 12. fl. oz. bottle. Yellow pour with fizzy head. There is a notable cranberry and ginger aroma as to be expected. Light champagne-like body. Overwhelming fruitiness in the taste with a tart ending.
Clear gold with a fizzy thin white head under an aroma of candy ginger and a touch of cranberry, and a touch of herbal alcohol note. Muddled flavor with lots of pale lager grainy notes, a bit of fleshy dry cranberry, a bit of artificial ginger, and a lager backbone with just a hint of lemon zest.
Bottle poured a clear gold with a small lingering white head. Aromas of wheat, cranberry, lemon zest and light ginger. Palate was light bodied and smooth. Flavors of wheat, cranberry, light vanilla and light ginger with a smooth finish.
Exactly as stated. Nice cranberry aroma. Ginger was light, more an afterthought. Refreshing as a fruit beer. Kind of a mixer. But easy to drink. Light yellow color, slight orange tinge.tap
Bot. Mouth watering cranberry aroma, not artificial. Almost clear pale. Very good initial impressions, very fresh and fruit like without too much sugar. Again, not artificial; lots of fruit but its not quite a fru-fru-fruity beer like so many artificial tasting versions. Palate is quite refreshing with its cutting co2. Good job at a radler. No real impressions of alky, simple fruit covers it well. Ginger? What ginger? Well, maybe just a hint if you look for it.