Summer Heat

Summer Heat is a Mexican style lager brewed with jalapeño and raspberry by Short's Brewing Co., entered from its Elk Rapids, Michigan production facility.

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Specs

Brewery Description

The brewery's dedicated beer page is now readable:

What do you get when you combine the sweetness of raspberry and the essence of jalapeno?

Source: Short's: Summer Heat

Tasting Notes

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Ingredients

The only published ingredients are jalapeño peppers and raspberry on a Mexican lager base, from the BeerMenus listing. No malt, hop or yeast is named.

Hop Profile

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Brewing Details

Style Context

As category context only, the Brewers Association guideline for Specialty Beer covers beers made with an unusual carbohydrate source and sets no ABV, IBU or color limits. The published ingredients (chili and fruit) do not name an unusual carbohydrate source, so the fit cannot be judged from published specs.

Awards History

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Brewery Context

Short's Brewing Co. is in Elk Rapids, MI. Brewery type in Open Brewery DB: Regional brewery.

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Related

• Brewery: Short's Brewing Co.

Links

• Short's Brewing Co.
• BeerMenus: Short's Summer Heat
• Brewers Association: beer style guidelines
• Short's: Summer Heat

Gaps

• Not Found: Tasting notes, Color (SRM), Original gravity, Final gravity, Hops, Hop form, Hop use, Hop lot or farm, Malts and grains, Yeast, Water, Process. Checked beermenus.com, shortsbrewing.com, web searches recorded in the research notes, shortsbrewing.com.

Research Notes

• The official winners list prints the brewery as "Short's Brewing Co. (Production Facility)"; BeerMenus lists the brewery in Bellaire, MI, its pub location.
• The brewery website returned HTTP 403 for the home page, beer list and an event page whose search snippet described Summer Heat as a Mexican style lager brewed with jalapeño peppers and raspberry; that page was not read.
• No IBU, malt, hop or yeast was found.
• Researched 2026-10-13.
• Field pass 2026-10-13: The brewery's dedicated Summer Heat page publishes 25 IBU; no hops are named. ABV conflict: this brewery page lists 5.3%, while the existing BeerMenus source lists 5.4%; the existing ABV is retained.
• Catalog.beer 2026-10-14: Catalog.beer: Summer Heat lists 5.3% ABV, style "Lager: Mexican" (entry last modified 2026-09-23). Where it differs from the brewery's own published value, the brewery's value stands.
• Deep dive pass 2026-10-14: the brewery page refused this pass's reader; the earlier pass read 25 IBU there. No tasting notes or hops were recorded.