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I’ve been drinking Beck’s Green Lemon for a while now—bright, citrusy, nothing complicated. When I saw Beck’s Ice on the shelf, I grabbed it without thinking, except it was clear. Actually transparent. You could see straight through it in the glass like it wasn’t beer at all. The label said lime and mint, so I figured why not try.

The taste is sharper than expected—lime and mint punch harder than the Green Lemon, less sweetness. It tastes the way it looks, which is deeply weird for beer. Most beer has that amber thing going on, that color that makes it feel old or traditional or something. This is bright and vaguely unsettling, like you’re drinking a memory of a flavor instead of the thing itself.

It’s a novelty that actually works, which is rare. Most weird beer experiments taste like effort. This one just tastes good and looks strange, and that’s apparently enough. I grabbed another one the next time I was at the store.