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Hop Profile
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Beer Details
Description
Not all lime lagers are created equal. Our crisp lager is balanced with lime flavors and bright sea salt to deliver the most explosively drinkable experience. Refresh responsibly.Source wickedweedbrewing.com
Tasting Notes
Our crisp lager is balanced with lime flavors and bright sea salt to deliver the most explosively drinkable experience.Source wickedweedbrewing.com
Research Notes
Lime Drop is a crisp lager flavored with lime and sea salt from Wicked Weed Brewing of Asheville, North Carolina.
Not all lime lagers are created equal. Our crisp lager is balanced with lime flavors and bright sea salt to deliver the most explosively drinkable experience. Refresh responsibly.
The brewery names only lime flavors and sea salt; the what's on tap listing calls it a "Crispy lager with lime and sea salt" (Wicked Weed: what's on tap). Hops, malts and yeast are not published.
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Style Context
As category context only, the Brewers Association guideline for American-Style Fruit Beer calls for fruit aroma from subtle to intense that is not overpowered by hops, bitterness from 5 to 70 IBU in balance with the fruit, and 2.5 to 12 percent ABV. Lime Drop's published 4.8% ABV fits; its IBU is not published.
Awards History
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Medal
2026
Great American Beer Festival
American Fruit Beer
Silver
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Brewery Context
Wicked Weed Brewing is in Asheville, NC. Brewery type in Open Brewery DB: Large brewery.
Style, ABV, lime and sea salt verified on the brewery's beer page and its what's on tap listing; both give 4.8%.
IBU, hops, malts and yeast are not published by the brewery; an Untappd search did not surface a Lime Drop entry.
The page gives no availability window beyond a link to the brewery's beer finder.
No 2026 GABF announcement from the brewery was found.
Researched 2026-10-13.
Field pass 2026-10-13: The Brew Pub listing and BeerAdvocate listing provide no IBU or named hop varieties. BeerAdvocate reports 4.9% ABV, compared with the existing brewery value of 4.8%; the existing value is retained.
Deep dive pass 2026-10-14: the tasting notes are the sensory sentence of the brewery's own description; a web search found no hop, malt, yeast or IBU detail.
Brewery site scrape 2026-10-14: found nothing new; 5 pages tried (robots.txt obeyed, one request every few seconds per host).
Second deep dive pass 2026-10-14 (brewery Toast menu (403), web search): found nothing new; 2 pages tried. Nothing new. Toast order page returned 403; searches return only homebrew and other breweries' lime lagers (excluded). No IBU, hops, malt or yeast published.