What kind of liquor is in Mike's Hard Lemonade?!
What kind of liquor is in Mike's Hard Lemonade?
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Mike's hard lemonade is technically a flavored beer. Normal beer is made with a malted grain, yeast, water, and hops. The hops are what add the bitter flavor. Malternatives like Mike's are made using a malted grain, yeast, water and sugar. There no hard liqour, in it. Mike's runs about 5.0% abv while the Mike's light runs 4.1% abv
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bartending experience
Mike's Hard Lemonade, which in the United States is a mixture of beer and lemonade (with more alcohol content than most U.S. beers). Outside of the U.S., MHL is made with vodka, lemonade and carbonated water
Jack Daniels I think.
I would guess some type of malt beverage...
According to Wikipedi Mike's Hard Lemonade is
is a Canadian-based manufacturer of alcopop beverages, also known as "malternative" or flavored malt beverages. It is named after its flagship and original product, Mike's Hard Lemonade, which in the United States is a mixture of beer and lemonade (with more alcohol content than most U.S. beers). Outside of the U.S., MHL is made with vodka, lemonade and carbonated water. For a full discription see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mike's_hard...
Believe it- it's alcoholic derivative isn't liquor, but its a malt beverage-like beer.
Most cooler-type beverages have switched over to a malt-base in order to pay the lower tax rate on production that is available for malt-based beverages. The bottlers must pay a per-gallon tax that is highest for distilled liliquors, then less for fermented wines according to their proof, with the cheapest route being malt alcohol. I used to work for Gallo who bottled tons of Bartles and Jaymes Wine Coolers-originally with wine in them, but then the switch was made to malt sometime in the late eighties/early 90's as tax changes made it cost-prohibitive to continue to use wine. You'll notice the cost of any actual liquor containing beverages (These feature well-known brand names, like Jack Daniels) is higher an/or the bottle is less than the standard cooler's 12 oz., cause the distillers/bottlers must fork over more in taxes to Uncle Sam.
The grain alcohol, by the way, is the same alcohol regardless its source. The difference you taste is in added flavorings alone.
i think its beer........
malt liquor???
It's a malt liquor - lemonade flavored beer.
mikes hard lemonade is a wine cooler its got like less than 3 percent alchol