My wife, Rahne, came home from shopping just a few minutes ago with a beer she thought I might like. This has got to be the weirdest brew I’ve ever tried-Pumpkin Ale from Buffalo Bill’s Brewery in Hayward, California. Good ale, with a nice pumpkin pie aftertaste, with just a hint of cinnamon and nutmeg.
What strange brews have you tried, or even heard of?
I’m never going to try pumpkin, that’s for sure.
I do like cinnamon liquor. Tastes like Red Hots candy.
From Belgium:
Lindeman’s Kriek, Peche and Framboise. Cherry, Peach and Raspberry respecively. They use real fresh fruit rather than syrup or flavorings, so the taste is just phenominal.
I’ve also had Gluhkriek, which is a cherry beer meant to be seved hot. That’s right, I said hot.
Also from Belgium is Rodenbach, a sour red beer that smells like old sweat socks and is <understatement>an acquired taste</understatement>. :eek:
I grew up in Hayward CA! I can’t count how many pints I’ve had in that brewery. Nothing really of value to add, its just not everyday that you hear about the hole in the earth that is your home town mentioned on your favorite msg board.
How about Apricot Ale from Pyramid Brewing?
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…
That one was actually quite good!
Hmmmm…Are there any chocolate brews out there? 
Youngs in London do one - it’s a seasonal kind of thing. I think it’s just called “Chocolate ale” (I can see the label in my head, just can’t remember exactly what’s written on it).
Small point though - it is absolutely revolting. Bleeeurgh. Even if you could get hold of it, I wouldn’t bother.
You can get a summer ale in Devon (southern england) that is brewed with strawberries and is very refreshing with a real strawberry taste.
Mrs pergau swears that a stout brewed by a microbrewry in dublin (The wrassler from the porterhouse) tastes like Guinness ice-cream
Youngs Chocolate ale doesn’t taste like chocolate - it tastes a bit like burnt treacle, which is a bit like chocolate but not so much as you’d buy a bar of it.
I used to read Creem magazine, which always advertised Boy Howdy! beer.
Was it real? Did anyone ever try it?
Vanilla:
I used to read Creem too (now THERE was a music mag!) and unless it was highly limited to the Michigan shelves, I’m pretty sure Boy Howdy was not a real beer. They probably had some six-packs made for promotion purposes like a lot of bands do (such as Cult beer! howls like a wolf-child), but I never recall seeing Boy Howdy for sale to the general public. And trust me, I looked, at least as best that a 12-year-old could cruise the beer aisles…
Cheers,
R-n-R
Oh as as not to hijack this too far, Finland is known for its fruit-flavored beers. The cherry one is lovely, but the grape- it’s white grapes - doesn’t work a’tall.
Yeah, me too. I thought slythe was going to tell us how he found a mouse in a bottle of Elsinor.
I feel like such a mook! The most exotic beer flavor I’ve ever had is Sam Adam’s Cherry Wheat.
Ah, Elsinore…another fictional beer I wish existed.
Ya know, I wonder if the beer stores in Canada still have that conveyor belt type apparatus that rolls the cases right out to you? “Your beer is on the way, sir, that’ll be twenty-five fifty” RUMBLE RUMBLE RATTLE RUMBLE WHOOSH…
What an almighty wonderful feeling that must be!
In my best Doug McKenzie voice “Aw geez, I…I hijacked this thread again, eh? Ah…aw no!”
I’m not sure if this name is right, but it was something like ‘Ed’s Cave Creek Chili Beer’. It was a light lager, in a clear bottle, and each bottle has an actual jalapeno pepper in it! The ones with big peppers were so hot I needed a beer chaser with my beer!
Yep, the rollers are still there. Mind, some stores have been converted over to self-serve, but they still have the rollers up by the cash so you don’t have to lift as much as you might otherwise.
As for fruit-flavoured beers, I once had Blueberry Beer from a brewery in Maine. It was good–I’d gladly drink it again.