Twin Cities Beer Geek

If you read the style guidelines for an “Lite American Lager” (an example of which would be say, Miller Lite), you’d find things like the following:
“Hop Aroma: low to none”
“Malt Aroma: low to none”
“Hop Flavor: low to none”
“Malt Flavor: low to none”

If you were to read further in the guidelines for fruit beers, you’d find that fruit character in a beer should be balanced with the “base” style. So, if the base style were an American Light Lager, you might expect the fruit character to be — you guessed it — low to none!

By this analysis, I have to say that Miller Chill hits the mark (and reluctantly give it a great score). The salt and lime reportedly in the beer is more of a suggestion than an actual flavor or aroma. The latter, incidentally, is a suggestion more of Sprite than of an actual lime.

I picked up this beer to participation in “Session #6” on fruit beer. I was curious about it. And, Ms. BeerGeek’s coworkers were claiming it was the greatest thing since sliced bread (see post on Beer like Wonderbread).

If it were a hot day and I’d just mowed the lawn…sounds a like an okay beer. If I were at someone’s house and they handed me a bottle…I probably wouldn’t ask for water.

Will I eagerly consume the next 5 bottles of Chill I own? Nope.