Samuel Adams Summer Ale

My wife had a buy-one, get-one coupon for Ruby Tuesday's, so we took the opportunity to go out.

Ruby Tuesday's lists Yuengling as one of their selections, but alas, it is only available in their east-coast establishments. Crap! Fortunately, this heartbreak was known to me in advance, so I knew that I had to select a reasonable alternative.

Samuel Adams to the rescue!! Summer Ale on tap!!

Summer Ale is a mildly cloudy wheat beer. The SA web site says that it has some lemon, along with "grains of paradise" (a pepper). I certainly picked up on the spice flavor - nutmeg or cinnamon comes to mind. The lemon is there, too, although not over-the-top. The fruit overtones the website mentions are there, too, but this isn't one of those sweet beers. It is a nicely balanced, smooth finishing wheat beer.

For dinner, I got the "top sirloin" steak, which comes with fried onion straws, mashed potatoes, and broccoli (I can't stand broccoli, so I doubled-up on the mashed potatoes).

For the record, SA Summer Ale goes VERY well with steak. I think it would go well with damn near anything!