Short’s London Fog

Bottoms Up

By Lynda Wheatley | April 18, 2020

Short’s Brewing Company’s Soft Parade Shandy has officially hit store shelves (an event the Short’s gang heralded by adding it to the beers available for direct delivery to residents in Antrim, Grand Traverse, and Kalkaska counties).

Normally, we’d be salivating for this early taste of summer, but the at-home decree and late-April rain put us in a melancholy mood last week, so we opted for something a little darker, Pip: Short’s London Fog, a English brown ale steeped in Earl Grey tea and a malty-sweet creaminess that comes courtesy of vanilla and milk sugars. (6.8%ABV)

Were it not in a long-neck, we’d have put a pinky up and sipped; as it was, we slugged it down. And believe it or not, before we’d finished our first bottle, the sun came out. A sign of spring’s promise if ever we’d tasted one.

Though it’s not one of the brews Short’s delivers locally, you can find a list of dozens of local shops that carry Short’s at www.shortsbrewing.com. We found ours for $14.99 at Saco’s, 542 W. Front St. in Traverse City.