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[Optimus Prime]

Would you drink some of these craft beers?

I’m an adventurous eater and I like weird flavor combos

So I’d at least sample most of them
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Anyone for steak and onion Kolsch? Or a macaroni and cheese pale ale?

Those were among the flavors at the Strange Brew Festival in Reno, Nevada, this month, where competition for attention has intensified as craft beers have boomed.

Brewers have always experimented, from the medieval Belgians who stirred sour cherries into their beer to newer varieties like the white IPA, a marriage of Belgian and American styles that was developed about a decade ago.

But today’s brewers have kicked it up a notch as they try to distinguish themselves from everyone else trying to distinguish themselves.

Visitors at the festival in Reno could sample a peanut butter and pickle pilsner, a tamale lager and a smoked carrot stout.

There were concoctions from big brewers like Sierra Nevada and smaller local brew pubs, sweet beers brewed with Jolly Ranchers and spicy ones that tasted like garlic bread or mango salsa............

As craft beer market grows, so do wild flavors

Anyone for steak and onion Kolsch? Or a macaroni and cheese pale ale? Those were among the flavors at the Strange Brew Festival in Reno, Nevada, this month, where competition for attention has intensified as craft beers have boomed.

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[Saint_Ward]

Strange Brew?

Take off, ya hoser!

 

[faceman]

The obvious reply

 

[LonghornSaint]

Me and a buddy collaborated on a brew trying to shoot for a crawfish boil flavored ale. Turned out bad. Really bad. About 3.5 gallons of bad. Useful however for cooking, but not so much for drinking. The sulfates from the garlic in the cajun seasoning blend is what did it in, we think...we used Prudhommes salt free blend. We named it Crabs (as in "I got Crabs", or "here, have some Crabs").

 

[LonghornSaint]

Craft spirits will be the next big thing. I purchased a bottle of hops-infused gin a few years back that was incredible.

 

[LonghornSaint]

In response to the OP, yes I would try some of those crazy brews, but I would not hold my breath on liking them very much. There are some crazy over-the-top flavors out there, and I have learned to avoid the fruity ones.

Watermelon Dorado from Ballast Point is disgusting. However, Within Reach Peach Wheat Ale from Half Full is really good.

I also like Sweet Baby Jesus! which is a chocolate peanut butter porter from DuClaw (and possibly the greatest name for a good beer ever).

 

[buzd]

Somebody local (Parish, I think?) made a boudin beer recently. It wasn't terrible (it wasn't good either) and I didn't get much boudin flavor at all.

I don't like too many exotically flavored beers, except for some of the fruit variations of the sour/gose beers that have been hitting the market. Chandeleur's Love Bug (Passion Fruit/Mango sour) is really good.

I do have a couple of bottles of a pickle beer (PKL FKR out of Austin) that is just OK for drinking but is really good for Bloody's or Micheladas.

 

[insidejob]

Visitors at the festival in Reno could sample a peanut butter and pickle pilsner, a tamale lager and a smoked carrot stout.

There were concoctions from big brewers like Sierra Nevada and smaller local brew pubs, sweet beers brewed with Jolly Ranchers and spicy ones that tasted like garlic bread or mango salsa............

Just no.

 

[Devildog]

Last year I went to a Texas Rangers game and they had a banana bread ale that was pretty good, but I cannot remember who made it.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Strange Brew?

Take off, ya hoser!

 

[St. Widge]

I recently rediscovered beer in my life. I, like most people from the New Orleans area, drank a lot of beer (cheap beer) in my late teens and twenties. But once I got a real job and some money I switched mostly to bourbon and some scotch because at some point I realized I didn't like the taste of beer.

I resisted the whole craft beer movement as a hipster fad. But I recently tried some and I realized it's not that I don't like the taste of beer, it's that I don't like the taste of sheetty beer. The craft beer stuff is all very interesting and tastes nothing like the crap Budweister, Rolling Rock, MGD and Natural Light that I grew up drinking.

Anyway, I welcome the different tasting and strange taste combinations. I started back on beer mostly with stouts. So many interesting flavors with chocolate nibs, coffee, bourbon barrel aging, peanutbutter, etc. Buteven the IPA's are interesting. At least to me since I kind of missed the start of that revolution.

 

[St. Widge]

Somebody local (Parish, I think?) made a boudin beer recently. It wasn't terrible (it wasn't good either) and I didn't get much boudin flavor at all.

I don't like too many exotically flavored beers, except for some of the fruit variations of the sour/gose beers that have been hitting the market. Chandeleur's Love Bug (Passion Fruit/Mango sour) is really good.

I do have a couple of bottles of a pickle beer (PKL FKR out of Austin) that is just OK for drinking but is really good for Bloody's or Micheladas.

I haven't seen the Boudin Beer and I don't know if they made it, but I know Parish Brewing does some good and interesting stuff. I also have recently seen some kind of Founders Watermelon Gose which looked interesting, but it only came in a 12 pack and I don't really feel like taking the chance on buying a 12 pack of crappy beer.

 

[buzd]

I haven't seen the Boudin Beer and I don't know if they made it, but I know Parish Brewing does some good and interesting stuff. I also have recently seen some kind of Founders Watermelon Gose which looked interesting, but it only came in a 12 pack and I don't really feel like taking the chance on buying a 12 pack of crappy beer.

I think the Boudin beer was a small batch they released at the brewery. I agree that most of Parish's beers are very very good. The double dry-hopped Envie is on the market now which is really good if you can find it.

The Founder's watermelon gose tends to be cloying in an artificially flavored type of way. I really don't like it. The Terrapin watermelon gose is much better.

 

[Saint_Ward]

There's a great Dennis Leary joke about beer flavored beer being a problem to find.

I'll try some flavors, but I'm not too interested in weird stuff. However, my wife is an old man, who only drinks bud lite, Coors lite, etc. Except she'll do various Abita beers. Purple haze being her go to.

So, compared to her, I drink weird beer.

 

[St. Widge]

I think the Boudin beer was a small batch they released at the brewery. I agree that most of Parish's beers are very very good. The double dry-hopped Envie is on the market now which is really good if you can find it.

The Founder's watermelon gose tends to be cloying in an artificially flavored type of way. I really don't like it. The Terrapin watermelon gose is much better.

I had some a couple weeks ago from Dorignac's. It's very good. I also got their Ghost in the Machine which I think is even better. They make a double dry hopped Ghost in the Machine, but I have not seen it in stores yet.

And it sounds like a good think I didn't try the Founder's Watermelon Gose.