Though different forms of beer smoothies and slushies can be made at home using a blender, this iteration requires its own brewing process. New drekker slang de jour smoothie it’s so good from Smoothiebeerīeer smoothies, slushies and milkshakes (yes, you read that correctly) have become increasingly popular over the last few years, particularly among breweries looking to create completely unique products. If it all sounds like some kind of stoner fantasy beverage, that’s because it is. Often, the cans are covered in trippy, cartoon-y imagery. Typically called beer slushies, the product is akin to a regular beer, if regular beer was ultra thick and tasted like a tangy orange creamsicle. Independent breweries across the country have been concocting these beer -and-fruit combinations and selling them to thirsty (hungry?) craft connoisseurs like Ricky, who special order them from limited releases online and usually pop them in the freezer right before consuming. When I questioned what he meant by that, he said the beer had fruit in it. Instead, he told us, he was allowing the beer to freeze just slightly enough so that it could be served in perfect slushie form.

While he was definitely high when he did this, it wasn’t the weed making him shuffle his beers from a cold location to an even colder one. Last winter, ahead of a late-night home screening of Dude, Where’s My Car?, my best friend’s boyfriend, Ricky King, had us wait for him to relocate a beer from the fridge to the freezer.

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