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Ch-Ch-Ch-Chia Beer
This beer has a rather uncommon and unlikely combination of ingredients. The peppercorns are no great surprise, but the alcohol beverages with chia seeds seem to be few and far between. Wiki reports that chia is an Aztec word for oily, and these seeds contain large amounts of oil, omega-3 fatty acids, and antioxidants. (Un)Real El Camino Black Ale is also brewed with fennel seed and mission figs. It is a collaboration among several brewers and is bottled by Stone Brewing Co. in Escondido, California.
If you happen to prefer your chia with a little less fennel and alcohol, you will be delighted to know that you can buy a variety of Chia Pets here (including the one showing President Obama). Leaving the purported health benefits aside, if the same seed is good enough for Chia Pets and beer, it deserves more attention.
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Beer with Garlic
Here is Jessenhofke beer “brewed with garlic.”
It is not the only one. Here is another. The Belgian label is also noteworthy because it has a detailed ingredient list.
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Two Products, 24 Flavors
Here are two recent spirits products with an unusal and unusually large assembly of flavors. On the following list, the first 13 flavors are on the Root label, and the next 11 are on the Pink Spruce label.
- Birch bark
- Smoked black tea
- Cinnamon
- Wintergreen
- Spearmint
- Clove
- Anise
- Orange
- Lemon
- Nutmeg
- Allspice
- Cardamom
- Pure cane sugar
- Spruce oil
- Cucumber
- Juniper berries
- Angelica root
- Orange peel
- Lemon peel
- Coriander
- Ginger
- Orris root
- Grains of paradise
- Tangerine oil
The Pink Spruce Gin label also mentions that the product is made with “free range coastal water,” it is “Seasoned in Oregon Pinot Barrels,” and distilled from grain. The Root product strangely does not mention the commodity from which distilled and probably should. It was “inspired by a potent 18th century… recipe. … It is an alcoholic version of what eventually evolved into Birch or Root Beer.” There is almost no overlap in the list of flavors from one to the other.
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Theobroma and Taquamari
These guys would not be content with a bit of lime flavor.
Theobroma has all these ingredients rarely combined into one beer:
- Honey
- Cocoa nibs
- Cocoa powder
- Ancho chilies
- Ground annatto. This is derived from the achiote tree, and can be used as a flavor with a taste of nutmeg and pepper, and as a red color. Because of the color, it is often used in lipstick such that the achiote is sometimes called the lipstick tree.
Taquamari is not far behind, with:
- Tapioca. This is a starch extracted from yuca or cassava root. Cassava is the third largest source of carbohydrates for human food in the world.
- Quinoa. Wiki explains that this is a grain-like pseudocereal closely related to spinach, beets and tumbleweeds.
- Amaranth. This is also known as pigweed. The grain was one of the staple foods of the Incas, and the leaf is widely consumed in many parts of the world.
- Basmati rice
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Beer with Peppercorns
There are plenty of beers with jalapeno-type peppers. Cave Creek Chili Beer goes back at least 17 years. Here is an early approval, and a recent one.
But we think beers with peppercorn-type peppers are less common. Here are two. Allagash is practically a meal because it’s made with grain, sweet potatoes and black pepper. Lip Stinger is Ale Fermented with Peppercorn.
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