# Lemons in Beer - Portland Oregon **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 28, 2001, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lemons-in-beer-portland-oregon/95730 "2001-11-28T16:44:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lemons-in-beer-portland-oregon/95730/21 "2001-11-29T00:14:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Floater \* > \*\*Talking about beer customs in Oregon: A friend of mine once said that he had met someone from somewhere in Oregon (could have been Washington, on the West coast anyway) who had added tomato juice to his beer. His explanation for this was that it was a custom among the fishing population where he lived. If you were waiting around the harbour to get a hire on board a boat you didn’t want the captains, who might employ you, to see that you were drinking beer, so you hid it with tomato juice. > > Is there any truth to this? \*\* In the small town in South Dakota where my grandmother lives. People order beer with tomato juice in it. As has been noted elsewhere in the thread it is called red beer. Hefeweizen is the only beer I have seen with lemon just to agree with everybody else except the OP. ---
**Author:** ![peepthis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@peepthis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peepthis)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lemons-in-beer-portland-oregon/95730/22 "2001-11-29T00:40:57Z")
The only time I’ve put lemon in beer (or even been asked to) was working in Paris, and then only in _les bieres blanches_ (white beers). Hoegaarden and such. It actually makes that swill taste better, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lemons-in-beer-portland-oregon/95730/23 "2001-11-29T02:24:42Z")
Oh my. Peepthis. . .witbier as ‘swill’? You just made me sad. I’m going to go to bed or something. ---
**Author:** ![Shyabrick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@Shyabrick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shyabrick)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lemons-in-beer-portland-oregon/95730/24 "2001-11-29T03:47:35Z")
When I was in Lawrence, Kansas, I had this great beer drink that is half beer, half lemonade. Good stuff! Can’t recall what it is called. I have a had a drink before that was a mixture of vodka, lemonade and beer. Very tasty, especiallly on hot summer days around the water. We called them Man Overboards and also Skip and Run Nakeds. They make me dizzy. ---
**Author:** ![Shyabrick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@Shyabrick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shyabrick)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lemons-in-beer-portland-oregon/95730/25 "2001-11-29T03:50:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tiburon \* > \*\*My girlfriend orders lemon in any beer she orders. If we don’t have lemons, she puts lemon juice in her beer. > > When I was in Lawrence, Kansas, I had this great beer drink that is half beer, half lemonade. Good stuff! Can’t recall what it is called. > > Tibs. \*\* Sorry, that was Tiburon’s quote in my previous post but I screwed it up. ---
**Author:** ![peepthis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@peepthis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peepthis)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lemons-in-beer-portland-oregon/95730/26 "2001-11-29T03:53:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shyabrick \* > **When I was in Lawrence, Kansas, I had this great beer drink that is half beer, half lemonade. Good stuff! Can’t recall what it is called.** They call this shandy in England. It is traditionally drunk on lots of occassions: after a rugby match here, for example, both teams guzzle a mug of shandy together (before heading to pubs for less diluted drinks!). Sorry to offend your beer drinking sensibilities, **capybara** ;); I’ve just never gotten into white beers. ---
**Author:** ![Smashed\_Ice\_Cream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Smashed\_Ice\_Cream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smashed_Ice_Cream)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lemons-in-beer-portland-oregon/95730/27 "2001-11-29T04:19:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ferrous \* > \*\*I am gonna visit your bar sometime soon, **Smashy**. Do you have Jubelale on tap? \*\* Oh yeah. Jubelale… along with anywhere from 15-20 others. I don’t like Jubel, or any of the other seasonals around, but Mirror Pond and Dead Guy Rouge are excellent… Another Portland thing is weird-named beer, IMO. Smashed ic (i’m off work a lot lately with trips and my other job responsibilities. Definitely try a mon. or thu. night) ---
**Author:** ![Osakadave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@Osakadave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osakadave)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lemons-in-beer-portland-oregon/95730/28 "2001-11-29T04:40:00Z")
An Aussie friend regularly has a lemon in his lager here because “Jap(anese) beer is too sweet”. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lemons-in-beer-portland-oregon/95730/29 "2001-11-29T05:12:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Smashed Ice Cream \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Ferrous \* > > \*\*I am gonna visit your bar sometime soon, **Smashy**. Do you have Jubelale on tap? \*\* > > Oh yeah. Jubelale… along with anywhere from 15-20 others. I don’t like Jubel, or any of the other seasonals around, but Mirror Pond and Dead Guy Rouge are excellent… > > Another Portland thing is weird-named beer, IMO. > > Smashed ic (i’m off work a lot lately with trips and my other job responsibilities. Definitely try a mon. or thu. night) \*\* So, tomorrow night then. What bar is this? Maybe I’ll drive up from Salem…Be a nice change from Buttface Ambers at the Ram. Justin ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lemons-in-beer-portland-oregon/95730/30 "2001-11-29T05:13:20Z")
Smashed-- for curiosity’s sake, where do you work? Not the Hallowed Horse Brass, no? Dubliner? Who has a swank selection like that? Actually, a number of places there could be nice like that. Southern California is sucking my will to live. I’m tired of choosing between Sierra Nevada and Bass as the only possible beer in the neighborhood. ---
**Author:** ![ryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@ryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryan)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lemons-in-beer-portland-oregon/95730/31 "2001-11-29T12:31:24Z")
**NYC Bartender checking in** I have always served Hefeweizen with lemon: wipe the rim of the glass, then drop the wedge in before pouring the beer. That’s just the way I was taught to pour them. Corona’s always get a lime wedge jammed in the mouth of the bottle, and I occasionally get requests for lemon wedges with some imports, such as Heineken and Amstel. As for the OP, If the customer didn’t like the beer as served, I would gladly get one to his liking. It’s just good service. As for having a beer thrown in my face…well…I also work at a couple of nightclubs as a bouncer, lemons in his beer would be the last of that customers problems! ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lemons-in-beer-portland-oregon/95730/32 "2001-11-29T12:54:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ryan \* > \*\* > Corona’s always get a lime wedge jammed in the mouth of the bottle… > \*\* A Swedish landlord, specialising in beer, once wrote in a newspaper how he had served a Mexican colleague a Corona (or some other Mexican beer) with a wedge of lime jammed down it. When the Mexican had stopped laughing he explained that the reason you get some lime **beside** the bottle in Mexico is that the bottlecaps are of very low quality and you are supposed to clean away the rust with it. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lemons-in-beer-portland-oregon/95730/33 "2001-11-29T13:22:25Z")
I think I detect a trend here. The only Australian beer you get lemon with is Redback. Yep, a wheat beer. ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lemons-in-beer-portland-oregon/95730/34 "2001-11-29T13:45:42Z")
Tomato juice and beer is common in Saskatchewan, where it is called a Calgary red eye…I don’t know the origin of that but it is fairly common among older drinkers here…I have never had the guts to try it though… Keith ---
**Author:** ![Ferrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lemons-in-beer-portland-oregon/95730/35 "2001-11-29T17:08:19Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by capybara_ > \*\* > Smashed-- for curiosity’s sake, where do you work? Not the Hallowed Horse Brass, no? Dubliner? Who has a swank selection like that? \*\* **Lady Smashed** has informed me in another thread that she works at McDuff’s, which is apparently on or around SE 7th near Hawthorne. > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by JSexton_\*\* > So, tomorrow night then. What bar is this? Maybe I’ll drive up from Salem…Be a nice change from Buttface Ambers at the Ram.\*\* Actually, I wasn’t planning on going tonight, on account of my raging Survivor addiction. But if it’s going to turn into a mini-Dopefest, I might just have to set the old VCR. Sure you’re gonna show? Anybody else? ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lemons-in-beer-portland-oregon/95730/36 "2001-11-29T18:11:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ferrous \* > [B > > > [@](#): > > > > _Originally posted by JSexton_\*\* > > So, tomorrow night then. What bar is this? Maybe I’ll drive up from Salem…Be a nice change from Buttface Ambers at the Ram.\*\* > > Actually, I wasn’t planning on going tonight, on account of my raging Survivor addiction. But if it’s going to turn into a mini-Dopefest, I might just have to set the old VCR. > > Sure you’re gonna show? Anybody else? \*\* D’oh! Is there an embarassed smilie? As it turns out, today’s my birthday, and I’ve got plans, unsurprisingly. Good lord, I’m an idiot. Maybe we’ll try again before Christmas… Justin ---
**Author:** ![Ferrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lemons-in-beer-portland-oregon/95730/37 "2001-11-29T18:35:49Z")
Another time, then. That’ll give us time to notify more Dopers. Maybe I’ll go post a proposal in MPSIMS, and we can invade **Smashy** ’s domain _en masse_. Oh, and Happy Birthday, Justin! ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lemons-in-beer-portland-oregon/95730/38 "2001-11-29T19:19:35Z")
[hijack] I’m intrugued by this ‘Shandy’ (any connection to Tristam?) lemonade and beer mix. Any suggestions on which beer for those of us keen to try at home? [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![budmancjm3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@budmancjm3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/budmancjm3)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lemons-in-beer-portland-oregon/95730/39 "2001-11-29T19:27:11Z")
Carib (a beer from Trinidad, but widely avbl here) makes a Shandy Beer, San Miguel (Philippines, also widely avbl) makes a Shandy, many microbreweries make a Shandy beer. If you like lemon in your beer, you’ll like this. I don’t care for it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lemons-in-beer-portland-oregon/95730.md?page=1)