Seasoned beer drinkers might have a frosty reception to the hail ale trend — but open-minded imbibers are cool with iced brews.
Gen Z has seemingly cornered the market on oddball food trends, from dry yogurt to ketchup-slathered Kit-Kat bars. Now, culinarily quirky zoomers are dividing social media users with another gastronomic taboo — putting ice in beer to create an extra “cold one.”
A quick TikTok search pulls up dozens of videos of epicurean experimenters serving everything from Michelob Ultra to Modelo on the rocks. 3
“This is the most refreshing way to drink a beer,” TikTokker @IsabelaEats gushed in the caption to one of the viral “cold brew” tutorials.
In it, the foodfluencer tosses a few cubes in a chelada, a Mexican cocktail of lager and lime juice that’s served i