Anchor Summer Beer (because it's almost summer)

One Woman doesn't want to complain about the weather. We (in the US) have it much better than the folks stuck at European airports for days and days.

Besides, the state of California could always use some rain. Still in this rainy-sunny-windy-cloudy season of schizophrenic weather, I couldn't really wait for the summer for too much longer, so with or without the sun hat (more like, rain boots), the beer of the evening was Anchor Summer Beer.

One Woman's wishes for summer became true for a moment of sun 

before the Earth moved on to let the sun shine on other places in the world...

One Woman wants to think of the Anchor Summer Beer as a lighthearted American wheat beer. Crispy, crispy, crispy and clear with a slight orange tinted yellow color, it tastes subtly of malt balls, hay, and homemade sandwich bread. Maybe the tiniest drop of lemonade too. Even though it's not as crazy as that Lucky Hand Cali Common, the head is big, fluffy, and energetically airy, rushing up the glass and fading quickly. It's the kind of beer you could drink all afternoon at the park on a Sunday afternoon. Food pairing -- anything, really, if you consider it a malted sparkling water, but I bet it would go well with some crunchy, lightly battered tempura, or a maybe meal of assorted crazy fruit and veg sushi rolls like avocado and pomegranate?!

Musical pairing: "Helelyos" by Zia on the compilation, Pomegranates: Persian Pop, Funk, Folk and Psych of the 60s and 70s (click on the link above to listen). This is the good funk (like sushi) finding many glorious manifestations around the world. Plus I'm a sucker for comps from the 1960s and 70s.