The weather is hot and the girls are dressing less
Though there is a strange shared conspiracy to create deliniations of the seasons that are official by some imagined authority, weather is a fickle, fluid thing, and to declare a particular day the start of summer for all the hemisphere is absurd. But still we search for a clean, static delineation of the four seasons experienced in temperate climates, and in America we’ve settled on the four major solar events for these gateways, which, due to the lag between increased sunlight and increased temperature, does fit the seasons roughly into the times of maximum, minimum and in-between temperatures. Other cultures have other dates, with the Irish perhaps the most optimistic. Despite the blaze of summer passing over the emerald isle, or maybe because of this murkier idea of summer’s heat, the first of May is held there as the transition from not-summer to summer. So it’s summer somewhere.
#30: Anchor Summer Beer
There isn’t a lot to say about this beer. It’s a pale wheat ale, and it tastes light, sweet and a little bitter from mostly grassy, slightly floral and slightly citrus hops. It’s crisp, it’s refreshing and it’s really kind of boring.