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If you weren’t an avid IPA drinker and someone asked you to describe the beer’s flavor, you’d probably say “bitter.” And… maybe not much else. But while that makes sense for those unacquainted with IPAs, we think that’s a fairly narrow look at this complex, flavorful beer style.

Sure, we agree that many IPAs (especially some West Coast IPAs) border on aggressively and sometimes uncomfortably hoppy, dank notes, there are others that feature more nuanced flavors as well. We’re talking about bright floral hints, grassy notes, fresh hay, tropical fruits, and our favorite vibrant, sweet, and sometimes tart citrus flavors. Especially grapefruit, lemon, lime, and tangerine.

Don’t get us wrong, we can throw down an in-your-face bitterly hopped banger with the best of them. But we prefer our IPAs to be more balanced and drinkable, especially in summer.

In order to find the best IPAs for fans of bold, tart citrus flavors, we went to the pros. We asked a few well-known craft beer experts, brewers, and beer professionals to reveal their favorite IPAs for fans of citrus. Keep reading to see their picks!

Rockford HopLust

David Ringler, director of happiness at Cedar Springs Brewing Company in Cedar Springs, Wisconsin

ABV: 7.1%

Average Price: $11.99 for a six-pack

Why This Beer?

I’m a huge fan of Rockford Brewing Company’s HopLust IPA. They’re a past Great American Beer Fest Brewery of the Year and they hit a home run with this beer. It has a hearty backbone and a blend of big citrus and pine bitterness that begs the next sip.

Trillium Farnsworth Street

Thomas Reese, brewer at Ghost Harbor Brewing Co. in Elizabeth City, North Carolina

ABV: 7.2%

Average Price: Limited Availability

Why This Beer?

Farnsworth Street from Trillium Brewing in Boston. What flavors make it great? This beer blew me away and really opened my mind to the possibilities of where IPA can go as a style. Bursting with flavors of pineapple, cantaloupe, and mango. Smooth, full-bodied with restrained bitterness lends an orange creamsicle character.

It’s my all-time favorite beer.

Kane High Head

Kevin Beachem, head brewer at Taproot Brewing Company in Newport, Rhode Island

ABV: 6.6%

Average Price: $12.99 for a four-pack of 16-ounce cans

Why This Beer?

I’ll have to be biased and rep my old brewery on this one and say Kane Head High. They were the brewery that got me into drinking beer, and I was fortunate enough to work for them for over three years in both the taproom and production side. Their IPAs were just an awesome riff on your classic west coast IPAs but with an east coast twist.

Head High is their flagship and just bursts with flavors of pine resin, Cara orange, ruby red grapefruit and has a nice lingering hop bitterness that keeps you wanting more. It was the IPA that got me into IPAs. We delve more into the juicy New England style IPAs but would love to do more west coast inspired beers like this one down the road.

City Barrel Rad AF

Eric Martens, founder and owner at Border Brewing Company in Kansas City, Missouri

ABV: 6.4%

Average Price: $17 for a six-pack

Why This Beer?

There are so many great options for citrus-forward IPAs, but one of my favorites has become Rad AFfrom City Barrel Brewing in Kansas City. It’s a hazy IPA that is light, easy-drinking but still packs a huge citrus-bursting hop character that makes it very enjoyable to drink.

Community Beer Citra Slice

Hector Cavazos, owner and head brewer at Rebel Toad Brewery in Corpus Christi, Texas

ABV: 7%

Average Price: $10 for a six-pack

Why This Beer?

Community Beer Citra Slice. It tastes like lemon and orange peel. This bold, bright, vibrant, 7% ABV IPA is brewed with Citra hops to give it an authentically citrus flavor. It’s only heightened by the addition of lemon and orange peel.

It’s definitely a citrus bomb of an IPA.

Deschutes Fresh Squeezed

Kevin Smolar, production and quality lab manager at Sun King Brewery in Indianapolis

ABV: 6.4%

Average Price: $10.50 for a six-pack

Why This Beer?

Deschutes Fresh Squeezed IPA. The first time I had this beer it took a lot of convincing for me to believe there wasn’t actually fruit added to it. It has such bright pineapple, grapefruit, tangerine, and passionfruit flavors that I crushed the first beer and immediately ordered a second. I’ll always reach for one of these when I have the opportunity.

Lagunitas IPA

Kyle Park, director of marketing at Neshaminy Creek Brewing Co. in Croydon, Pennsylvania

ABV: 6.2%

Average Price: $9.99 for a six-pack

Why This Beer?

I tend to gravitate towards the classics and Lagunitas IPA checks all the boxes for classic IPAs with bold citrus flavors. They load it up with all the classic ‘C’ hops and continue to show the rest of us what an IPA can and should be. What could be better?

Cigar City White Oak Jai Alai

Chris Elliott, chief brewing officer at Wild Leap Brew Co. in LaGrange, Georgia

ABV: 7.5%

Average Price: $10.99 for a four-pack

Why This Beer?

I feel like I have hundreds of favorite IPAs, but one classic regional IPA that is citrusy and juicy, with traditional IPA bitterness and a unique oak character is White Oak Jai Alai by Cigar City. This was a beer that I used to chase the beer truck for when Cigar City was first available. I really love the combo of wood and hops and this one never disappoints.

North Park Hop Fu!

Douglas Hasker, head brewer at Puesto Cerveceria in San Diego

ABV: 7.5%

Average Price: $19.99 for a four-pack of 16-ounce cans

Why This Beer?

Hop Fu! from North Park Beer Co. The 2022 World Beer Cup Gold Medal winning IPA, Hop Fu! is bursting with bright orange and grapefruit zest underpinned by a solid malt foundation that is anything but a second thought. An old-school West Coast IPA at heart, everything about this IPA is bold and flavorful while remaining eminently drinkable.

Civil Society Fresh

Marshall Hendrickson co-founder and head of operations at Veza Sur Brewing Co. in Miami

ABV: 6.2%

Average Price: $16.99 for a four-pack of 16-ounce cans

Why This Beer?

Civil Society Fresh. It is packed with all of the amazing citrus fruit flavors for IPA lovers. Even before your first sip, the aroma hits you hard with full grapefruit, lemon, and lime aromas. This beer is truly one of my favorites, so delicious.

The Fermentorium Juice Packets

Chris Wittemann, area sales at Specher Brewing Company in Glendale, Wisconsin

ABV: 6.6%

Average Price: Limited Availability

Why This Beer?

Juice Packets IPA by The Fermentorium). Every brewery and beer drinker is overly familiar with the Citra hop. Every brewery makes a Citra IPA, juicy IPA, or something similar featuring the Citra hop. What really distinguishes a good IPA is if you can use the hops to create a balanced beer. The citrusy flavors of Juice packets is top notch and brings out a nice piney flavor compliments of the double dry-hopping.

Bob Saget always had many sides. To some, he was the patient dad on Full House and amiable host of America’s Funniest Home Videos. To others, he was also one of the filthiest stand-ups on the circuit. After his sudden passing in early January, at only 65, tributes poured in, some of them appropriately blue. We also learned he’d become more reflective, particularly about death, dying, and the afterlife, with age.

Now we have further proof of that. As per People, an unreleased episode of the podcast This Day with Radio Rahim, recorded eight months before his death, will be made available on Luminary, broken into three parts and released over the week. In the first part, Saget can be heard delving deep into how he’d come to think about mortality a lot over the years, and how the death of loved ones helped him “grow.”

“I’m proud of myself because I’m onto a new thing,” Saget explained. “At 65, I’m different than I was. We’re all rethinking what we said 20 years ago, 10 years ago, four years ago. I’m not even rethinking it, I just don’t have the same way of doing humor or conversation.

“I guess therapy, having three kids, watching people pass away in the past few years, mortality, all that stuff has fortunately changed me,” he added. “My kids tell me, ‘Dad, you’re different. It’s so nice to watch you grow.’”

Saget also discussed how he’d been surrounded by death growing up — how his father wound up outliving all his siblings, and how he even helped write a funeral speech one late night when he was only nine. That wound up driving him into the arts, first by obtaining a 16mm camera, all in an attempt to help him cope. Later in life, he lost both his sisters, including one to the disease Scleroderma. He wound up helping make a TV movie about the disease and spent the next three decades doing benefits and raising money for a foundation that researches it.

“It’s one of my life’s works because my sister died at 47,” Saget said. “That’s the best part about being an only child, man. You don’t have to worry about losing a sibling.”

The first part of the episode is now available on Luminary. The other two will be released throughout the week. The star-studded A Tribute to Bob Saget will be released on Netflix on June 10.

(Via People)

Ever since being arrested last month on charges of racketeering, Young Thug has received plenty of support from the rap community — even from unexpected sources, like YFN Lucci‘s lawyer, who called the RICO case against Thug “racist.” The latest of Thug’s peers to weigh in on the ongoing case is The Game. The Compton rapper appeared on Complex with Speedy Morman where he discussed a number of topics, including the case against Young Thug and YSL Records and the use of lyrics as evidence in it.

“I think it’s bullsh*t,” he said, with no equivocation. “Because when Sylvester Stallone plays Rambo, and he’s shooting up motherf*ckers, get in trouble in real life, they not gon’ bring up Rambo 1 through 5, and be like, ‘You’ve been violent your whole career.’ It’s entertainment. And these days, a lot of rappers are cappin’ in their music — I’m not saying that Gunna and Thug are — … but there needs to be a law passed where they cannot use rappers’ “entertainment” lyrics in a court case.”

There’s good news for him on that front; the state of New York is getting nearer to passing a law limiting the use of lyrics in criminal trials — and others, from Jay-Z to Bobby Shmurda, support its adoption nationwide.

Young Thug is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Despite the fact that Netflix is pulling out all the stops for the fourth season of Stranger Things, the show still has another season left. It will be the final one, though, so expect the fifth season to break even more streaming records. While the fifth season has yet to begin production, the writers are aware that it needs to happen soon, mostly because the fans love it, but also because six years have passed in real life, though in the show it’s been more like three. Realistically, most of the cast would have already graduated college by now (looking at you, Charlie Heaton). So, the final season has to happen soon, and those kids need to get out of high school.

Of course, the show could follow in the footsteps of One Tree Hill and Riverdale and do the good, old-fashioned teen TV show time jump once the show resumes, whenever that may be. “I’m not sure we’re ready to say yet a start date for shooting,” co-creator Matt Duffer told TVLine. “But a lot of it is pretty well mapped out.”

Duffer adds that a lot of planning goes into the very complex seasons and they are extra careful when it comes to the ending. “We learn a lot every time we make a [season],” Duffer says. “We’ve learned a lot just working with all of our new actors and the ones that we’ve worked with for a long time over this year [making Season 4], so I’m sure it’ll change a little bit from that outline.”

The other Duffer brother, Ross, added, “I’m sure we will do a time jump. Ideally, we’d have shot [Seasons 4 and 5] back to back, but there was just no feasible way to do that.” Season four was famously halted for over a year due to COVID restrictions, along with every other TV show and movie at the time.

For now, the brothers are actually still perfecting the rest of the fourth season, which hits Netflix in July. Ross adds, “So these are all discussions we’re going to have with our writers when we start the room up,” he continues. “Believe it or not, we’re still working on Season 4. We’re trying to finish the final two episodes, they’re so massive.” So very massive!

(Via TVLine)

Post Malone dropped his new album Twelve Carat Toothache, Lana Del Rey’s manager confirmed that the pop star has an album coming soon, Solange’s son posted some of his music on social media and received not-so-great reactions, Muna covered “Sometimes” by Britney Spears — this is just some of what went on this past week in the world of pop. There was also a deluge of great new music, ranging from Remi Wolf to Panic! At the Disco, detailed below.

Each week, Uproxx rounds up the best new pop releases. Listen up.

Vance Joy – “Every Side Of You”

Vance Joy’s new song “Every Side Of You” is a refreshing, heartwarming love ballad. Against a twinkly acoustic guitar, his voice is soft and clear as he expresses his yearning and gratitude: “I don’t know when we’ll be here again / So I memorize / Every inch of your body / Show me every side of you,” he croons on the chorus. It’s gorgeous from start to finish.

Maggie Rogers – “Want Want”

With her second album Surrender coming out soon, Maggie Rogers is hooking in listeners with bombastic singles. “Want Want” is a rock-tinged “sex + sensuality + desire anthem,” as she put it on Twitter, and that rush of endorphins is evident in the excitement of the track.

Panic! At the Disco – “Viva Las Vengeance”

Las Vegas-native hitmakers Panic! At the Disco are back with a bang with this theatrical “Viva Las Vengeance.” Frontman Brendon Urie’s vocals are sonorous and strong, and his words are clever and funny: “I don’t wanna be a diva / I just wanna be free / On a sofa with Sativa / Living the dream,” he belts.

Post Malone, Doja Cat – “I Like You”

Post Malone’s new album Twelve Carat Toothache is here, and this collaboration with Doja Cat is definitely a highlight. His knack for catchy melodies is obvious with this chorus: “Oh girl I like you, / I do / I wanna be your friend go shoppin’ in the Benz,” he sings.

Remi Wolf – “Cake”

Eclectic singer Remi Wolf kicks off “Cake” with a great quip: “I think I’ll get a cake tattoo / remind myself that I can’t have it and eat it too.” The hyperpop-tinged sound gives the song a texture of infectious chaos, and her vocals are powerful, convincing belts that add to the intensity.

Aespa – “Illusion”

South Korean girl group Aespa are unabashed and volatile on this new track “Illusion,” which booms with bass. Their gang vocals are unmatched against the clubby beat; it’s an instant hit that will both make the listener want to get up and dance and hit repeat when it ends.

Christina Aguilera, Tini – “Suéltame”

“Suéltame” by Christina Aguilera and Argentine singer Tini is a collaboration we never knew we needed. Their vocals together are gorgeous and alluring against a buoyant rhythm; it’s a perfect summer song.

Betty Who – “Blow Out My Candle”

While Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” climbs the charts once again, ’80s vibes radiate from this new track “Blow Out My Candle” by Betty Who. “I won’t stop running down that road / I’ll keep dancing ’til I die / You can blow out my candle / But you’ll never put out my fire,” she sings, and it’s as inspirational as Bush’s timeless hit.

Sub Urban – “Bandit”

This off-kilter song “Bandit” by Sub Urban attracts with its eerie atmosphere off the bat: “I need to move, sicced on me / Dogs on the loose, soiled knees,” he whisper-sings, Billie Eilish style. The track moves with this unsettling feeling, but it only makes it more addictive.

Clinton Kane – “14”

On “14,” 23-year-old singer Clinton Kane is already reflecting on his younger years and proves to be wiser than most people his age. He sings, “I’ve been fighting with who I am inside my head / And I don’t know me anymore,” but you get the sense that he’s not alone.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Physicality marked Golden State’s victory in Game 2 of the NBA Finals. Boston enjoyed a barrage of three-point looks in Game 1 and made the Warriors pay for their tentative rotations by knocking down 21 three-pointers in Game 1. All of that changed in Game 2 when Draymond Green decided to ramp up the defensive pressure and play like the omnipresent defensive force he has been throughout his career.

Green’s fingerprints were all over this matchup whether it was pressuring Al Horford, locking down Jaylen Brown, setting screens that would make a left tackle blush, or calling Grant Williams a bozo. His energy had a cascading effect on the Warriors’ defensive disposition that clearly bothered the Celtics.

After the Game 2 victory, former NBA players Gary Payton and Cedric Maxwell talked about Green’s physical performance and joked that would have been knocked out if Green had played that way in the 80s. Green was asked about those comments after practice, and as always, gave a delightfully sharp response.

“One thing that baffles me about the 80s or 90s when basketball was so much more physical, some of the guys that be talking were not the guys that were punching people. They act like guys were walking around the court like I’m going to hit this guy in the nose. There were a few guys back then that would lay you out, knock you out, that would foul you and get you out the game: Bill Lambier Rick Mahorn. But everybody walking around like they were that; y’all were getting bullied.”

The constant references by former NBA players on the physicality of the 80’s and 90’s have begun to fall on deaf ears. Draymond rightly pointed out small minority of players who would actually throw a punch on the court and the relative lack of consequences for doing so. Green toes the line as much as any player but notes the punishment system from the league is as much a deterrent as anything, as a punch now might cost him $1 million. The on-court physicality is just enough for him, as he’s proven time and again.

The Los Angeles Sparks will have a new head coach moving forward. According to multiple media reports, the team has decided to part ways with head coach Derek Fisher, who has served in that role since 2018. Fisher has likewise held the position of the Sparks’ general manager since December of 2020.

The news of Fisher’s ouster originally came from Bobbi Mullis of HoopSocial, and was confirmed by Howard Megdal of The Next.

Megdal went on to report that Fred Williams — who has served on the Sparks’ staff since 2019 and has experience as a head coach in the league with the Utah Starzz, Atlanta Dream, and Dallas Wings — will take over in the interim. It is unclear how long he will spend with the team, as he was hired as the associate head coach of the Auburn Tigers last month and was expected to join the program in “mid-summer.”

After starting the 2022 WNBA campaign 2-0, the Sparks have gone 3-7 over their last 10 games and currently sit in fourth place in the Western Conference. Coming into this season, Fisher recorded a 49-39 career record, but the team struggled last season — Los Angeles went 12-20 and finished in sixth place in the West, which led to them missing the postseason altogether. It marked the first time in a decade and the fifth time in franchise history that the Sparks failed the qualify for the playoffs.

When it comes to the hierarchy of warm weather beers, American wheat beers are situated at or near the top of the heap. Lighter and closer to lagers or pilsners than their European counterparts, the American wheat beer is still often unfiltered and hazy, but tends more towards thirst-quenching and refreshing, less reliant on spices like cloves or coriander or the banana-like malt German hefeweizen fans are used to.

With summer weather already upon us, the time is right to stock up on these approachable, highly drinkable, hazy, refreshing summer beers. While you can go to your local beer or grocery store and ask a clerk for help, we prefer to use online experts whenever possible. That’s why we turned to BeerAdvocate and its massive index of beers to find the list of the site’s most popular.

Of course, we had to try them. We blindly tasted and ranked eight of the most popular beers of the style on the site (with the occasional retired beers removed for obvious reasons) and got to work nosing, sipping, and rating. Keep scrolling to see how everything turned out.

• Bell’s Oberon (most popular)
• 3 Floyds Gumballhead (second most popular)
• Samuel Adams Summer Ale (third most popular)
• Goose Island 312 Urban Wheat Ale (fourth most popular)
• Boulevard Unfiltered Wheat (sixth most popular)
• Leinenkugel’s Honey Weiss (ninth most popular)
• Modern Times Fortunate Islands (12th most popular)
• Breckenridge Agave Wheat (14th most popular)

Part 1: The Tasting

Taste 1

Tasting Notes:

I was greeted by a nose of bright orange and lemon as well as bready malts, yeast, and slight banana. The flavor follows suit with tangerine, lemon curd, lime, banana bread, floral hops, and slight spices. The finish is dry and lightly bitter. Overall, this is a multi-dimensional, highly flavorful, summery beer.

Taste 2

Tasting Notes:

The nose is filled with notes of earthy wet grass, freshly baked bread, floral hops, wheat, and slightly fruity aromas. The flavor continues this trend with sweet wheat, yeasty bread, lemon zest, ripe tangerine, and a slightly spicy finish that ties everything together nicely.

Taste 3

Tasting Notes:

On the nose, I found biscuit malts, lemon zest, tangerine, grapefruit, and earthy, grassy hops. The palate is centered on more grapefruit, lemon curd, orange peel, cracker-like malts, yeast, and earthy, herbal, slightly bitter hops at the finish. All in all, a very well-rounded wheat beer perfect for summer drinking.

Taste 4

Tasting Notes:

I really had to try hard to find anything on this beer’s nose. Slight caramel malts and maybe some honey. Otherwise, nothing discernible. Luckily, the palate has a little more going on with it. There’s some sweet wheat, slight spices, and overly sugary, sweet honey. It’s not horrible, but it’s a little too sweet for my liking. Not the kind of beer I’d order twice.

Taste 5

Tasting Notes:

The nose is all citrus peels, bready malts, yeast, tropical fruits, and bright, floral hops. Drinking it brings forth notes of biscuity malts, honey sweetness, orange peels, passion fruit, mango, and slight, floral bitter hops at the finish. When it comes to the style, this is a great beer.

Taste 6

Tasting Notes:

On the nose, I found slight wheat and some utterly indiscernible fruit flavors. Something tropical. Maybe mango? It’s very mild and bland though. Sipping it revealed a slightly sour, sweet beer with more mystery fruity flavors and a dry finish. Honestly, this beer was okay but weird.

Taste 7

Tasting Notes:

The nose is light with some floral hops and citrus zest, but really not much else. Fairly bland overall. The palate has a lot of citrus with lemon, orange, and grapefruit, but mostly one-dimensional. Slight hops presence, but not enough to make up for the lack of balance. Overall, a very boring beer.

Taste 8

Tasting Notes:

A complex aroma of yeast, lemon, orange peel, wet grass, and slight malts are prevalent on the nose. The palate is highlighted by bready malts, more citrus peels, earthy grass, wheat bread, and some lightly bitter, spicy hops. All in all, a well-balanced take on the classic wheat beer style.

Part 2: The Ranking

8) Samuel Adams Summer Ale (Taste 7)

ABV: 5.3%

Average Price: $11.99 for a six-pack

The Beer:

A summer staple, Samuel Adams Summer Ale is a citrus-centric American wheat ale. It gets its zest, tart, citrus flavor from the addition of malted wheat, orange, lime, and lemon peels as well as a slight hint of spice from the addition of grains of paradise.

Bottom Line:

I can’t remember the last time I had a Samuel Adams Summer Ale. It’s still easy to drink and crushable, it just lacks the flavor I require in an American wheat beer I’d actually buy.

7) Leinenkugel’s Honey Weiss (Taste 4)

ABV: 4.9%

Average Price: $8.99 for a six-pack

The Beer:

Leinenkugel’s seems like the kind of brewery that has a beer for any summer drinker. One of its most popular is its Honey Weiss. This award-winning beer is known for its slightly citrusy, refreshing flavor that’s highlighted by the addition of real Wisconsin honey (hence the name).

Bottom Line:

You know what you’re going to get when you crack open a beer from Leinenkugel’s. They’re easy-drinking, fairly muted beers. Besides the honey sweetness, this one is no different.

6) Breckenridge Agave Wheat (Taste 6)

ABV: 4.4%

Average Price: $8.50 for a six-pack

The Beer:

The light, refreshing flavor profile of American wheat beers is well-suited for the addition of other flavors. In this beer’s case, the flavor is agave. Specifically, it’s an unfiltered wheat beer with sweet agave syrup added to it to give it a unique, summery flavor.

Bottom Line:

I had no idea what to expect with this beer. It wasn’t horrible by any means. But it also wasn’t that good an idea. It rated a big “meh” from me.

5) Boulevard Unfiltered Wheat (Taste 8)

ABV: 4.4%

Average Price: $9.99 for a six-pack

The Beer:

Kansas City’s Boulevard is a well-known name in the US beer marketplace. It makes a ton of noteworthy beers, but one of the best summery offerings is its Unfiltered Wheat. Brewed since 1990, it’s known for its fruity, malty, slightly bitter flavor.

Bottom Line:

If you’ve been crafting the same beer since 1990, there’s a decent chance you’ve perfected it. Boulevard Unfiltered Wheat is well-balanced and has a nice hit of hops that will appeal to non-wheat beer fans.

4) Goose Island 312 Urban Wheat Ale (Taste 2)

ABV: 4.2%

Average Price: $8.50 for a six-pack

The Beer:

Goose Island is well-known for its iconic IPA and its highly coveted Bourbon County Stout. But the Chicago-based brewery also makes a popular wheat beer called 312 Urban Wheat Ale. Brewed with 2-row malt and wheat as well as Millenium, Cascade, and Hallertau hops, it’s known for its crisp, fruit-filled flavor.

Bottom Line:

I didn’t know what to expect with Goose Island 312 Urban Wheat Ale, but I was pleasantly surprised. It’s a very complex, well-balanced, flavorful wheat beer.

3) Modern Times Fortunate Islands (Taste 5)

ABV: 5%

Average Price: $12.99 for a four-pack of 16-ounce cans

The Beer:

Modern Times Fortunate Islands is a complicated beer. It’s listed as a pale ale, but it’s listed as an American wheat beer on BeerAdvocate because it’s brewed with Citra, Amarillo hops as well as two-row and Caravienne malts, and wheat malt. The result is a crisp, tropical fruit-filled wheat-centric pale ale that bridges the gap between multiple styles.

Bottom Line:

It’s no surprise that Modern Times Fortunate Islands landed so highly on this list. It’s a complex, flavorful beer that splits the difference between a pale ale and wheat beer. Two great beer styles for summer in one isn’t a bad thing.

2) Bell’s Oberon (Taste 1)

ABV: 5.8%

Average Price: $9.99 for a six-pack

The Beer:

This is one of the most eagerly awaited beers each spring as it’s only available from March until September. Brewed with simple ingredients like water, barley, wheat, hops, and a house ale yeast, it’s known for its slightly hazy appearance with a nice mix of citrus, tropical fruits, and floral hops.

Bottom Line:

Bell’s Oberon is a highly coveted beer and it shows. It’s a great, balanced, flavorful summer beer that I’ll go back to again and again.

1) 3 Floyds Gumballhead (Taste 3)

ABV: 5.6%

Average Price: $11.99 for a six-pack

The Beer:

3 Floyds is a popular name in the craft beer world. While some of the Indiana-based brewery’s beers are difficult to find, that’s not the case with the summer wheat beer Gumballhead. This 5.6% ABV, year-round offering is brewed with white wheat and is dry-hopped with Yakima Valley hops.

Bottom Line:

After blindly trying 3 Floyds Gumballhead, I’m not surprised that it’s one of the most popular wheat beers. It’s fruity, filled with citrus flavors, but has a nice malt backbone and earthy hops presence to tie everything together well.

Part 3: Final Thoughts

After blindly tasting these eight American wheat ales it’s quite clear that I prefer well-balanced beers without any additional flavors. If I’m going to spend my summer drinking a beer, it better have a vast flavor profile, nice balance, and be crushable on a hot, humid, sunny day.

Young Thug has had a rough go of it in recent weeks. He was arrested and charged as part of a huge criminal conspiracy involving his Atlanta-based crew, YSL (Young Slime Life), and label, YSL (Young Stoner Life) Records, along with 27 others, including labelmates Gunna and Yak Gotti. Prosecutors called him one of the group’s commanders along with Gunna, despite mostly having lyrics by way of evidence. A search of his home yielded additional charges, though, and last week, a judge denied him bond, citing flight risk and potential witness tampering.

In spite of all that, though, Thug seems optimistic, according to one of his Atlanta-based contemporaries. Lil Baby, who has previously said he owes his entire rap career to Thug’s encouragement (and generous payments, which convinced Lil Baby to leave the trap behind for good), tweeted that he was recently in touch with his former benefactor and has good news to report. “I talked to @youngthug,” he wrote. “He in great spirits.” Unfortunately, he didn’t — and probably couldn’t — say much more than that, but it’s nice to hear that being stuck in jail hasn’t brought the “Ski” rapper down too much.

Meanwhile, the Fulton County District Attorney’s office has drawn criticism for its use of lyrics as evidence of crimes. Even rival rapper YFN Lucci’s lawyer called the application of the RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) Act “racist,” despite those lyrics also suggesting that Thug had Lucci’s mother shot. That’s solidarity.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Apparently, Kid Rock and Tucker Carlson aren’t done bro-ing out. The two appeared in a new episode of Tucker Carlson Originals on Fox Nation where the rocker doubled down on his 2019 drunken on-stage rant that infamously blew up on TMZ. While Rock refused to apologize for the part of the tirade that targeted Oprah Winfrey, and Joy Behar, he did admit to feeling bad about including Kathie Lee Gifford because, as it turns out, that last part was an honest (drunken) (kind of hilarious) mistake. In Rock’s defense, Gifford’s name does sound a little similar to his intended target. (Again, kind of.)

Via Entertainment Weekly:

“I was trying to go after Kathy Griffin you know, for holding up Trump’s head, but I’m so out of it I’m like ‘f— Kathie Lee Gifford.’” he said. “When it comes back on TMZ or whatever a few weeks later I’m like ‘oh man, I like Kathie Lee Gifford.’ We’ve been kind of friendly throughout the years… now I feel a little bad.”

Rock did not reveal whether he apologized to Gifford for the mix-up or not, but his declaration that “I don’t apologize to anybody” doesn’t bode well. In fact, Rock still seems proud of the whole thing.

“A drunk man’s words are a sober man’s thoughts, I own what I said,” Rock told Carlson. Like he said in the on-stage rant, he’s just a “cowboy” and a “honest guy,” and if a few names get mixed up when he’s had a few too many, them’s the breaks, apparently.

(Via Entertainment Weekly)