If you have friends over this weekend, and a buddy asks for a PINT GLASS for their beer, they may be a SERIOUS beer drinker. Or, they may just want to pour a bunch of ICE into it.
There’s a new TikTok trend of people wanting a beer, on the rocks. It’s apparently catching on among Gen Z, and the idea is that adding ice is the “most refreshing way to drink a beer.”
This isn’t the first time people have been passionate about ICE COLD beer, especially in the summer. But adding actual ice is controversial. Someone in the comments said, “Literally ANY chilling method is fine. Except ice cubes.”
Some “influencers” are taking it a step further by “crafting” their iced lager, making it a “chelada,” with lime juice and a salted rim, maybe with some tajin.
In a recent poll, nearly one in three young adults admitted to putting their pints on ice, and 20% said they find the idea of adding ice to beer and wine “refreshing.”
It seems like most people are doing this with “light” beers, for better or worse. So, you don’t have to worry about MELTED ICE making your Michelob Ultra taste watered down. That’s the factory default.
(Not everyone is going to the dark side. There’s one TikTok of a woman joking that ice in beer is her “final straw” on a date.)
(Of course, if you just ran out of cold beer, you could pop a few in the freezer for a bit. Or keep some chilled pint glasses in there.)
