Oddest Beer of the Week (or, indeed, any week)

[rpadam]

Crema, from Siren Craft Brew, which is according to the blurb is:


4.9% Deceptive Sweet White Coffee Stout

"Crema is a white stout with German Whiskey Barrel aged coffee, which builds on our continuing experiments with the ageing of coffee beans. We steeped Tamp’s coffee in a fermenter at both 21°C and 0°C to accentuate the low notes of the coffee, whiskey, wood and vanilla. Then we took 25kg of German Whiskey Aged Coffee and added vanilla and cocoa nibs to create a sweet white stout that completely defies the way it looks."


Never had such a divergence between look and taste...

[Oggwyn Trench]

Oddest one i have had recently was Blue Bee - Ginger Beer , like drinking a chinese takeaway :confused: very strange.

[Mobyduck]

Strangest concoction I've recently tried is Lime in the Coconut from Arbour, logic says it shouldn't work but it seems to.

[london calling]

Had a beer that was made with coffee beans that had been eaten by a Civit cat then retrieved from its poo. Most expensive coffee in the world supposedly (or should that be suppository ) Mighty fine beer though.No shit.

[london calling]

Crema, from Siren Craft Brew, which is according to the blurb is:


4.9% Deceptive Sweet White Coffee Stout

"Crema is a white stout with German Whiskey Barrel aged coffee, which builds on our continuing experiments with the ageing of coffee beans. We steeped Tamp’s coffee in a fermenter at both 21°C and 0°C to accentuate the low notes of the coffee, whiskey, wood and vanilla. Then we took 25kg of German Whiskey Aged Coffee and added vanilla and cocoa nibs to create a sweet white stout that completely defies the way it looks."


Never had such a divergence between look and taste...

I have had a couple of white stouts and even with my eyes closed I could not get anything stout about the beer.That beer was on in a bar I was in last week but was not tempted £3.70 for 2/3 rds.

[Mobyduck]

Had a beer that was made with coffee beans that had been eaten by a Civit cat then retrieved from its poo. Most expensive coffee in the world supposedly (or should that be suppository ) Mighty fine beer though.No shit.

Not for me.

[Aqualung]

I have had a couple of white stouts and even with my eyes closed I could not get anything stout about the beer.That beer was on in a bar I was in last week but was not tempted £3.70 for 2/3 rds.
I had a Brass Castle Pale Stout in the Sarah Hughes Beacon Hotel over 18 months ago. At 6.4% it made a good palette cleanser after the SH Snowflake. I can't remember if it tasted like a stout!

[london calling]

Wierdest beer for me actually was Budweiser -chelada which is a blend of lager and clamato(tomatoes and clam juice ,bit like a bloody mary).Horrible,couldnt drink it.Tried it about 10 years ago in Florida and just checked Ratebeer and its still available in America.Cans only not draught.

[Thuck Phat]

Dark Star Not Into Yoga

Bizarre. Tastes just like a pina colada with tropical fruit and coconut and yet has a bitter, beery finish. Sounds all wrong and yet it really does work.

[Mobyduck]

Dark Star Not Into Yoga

Bizarre. Tastes just like a pina colada with tropical fruit and coconut and yet has a bitter, beery finish. Sounds all wrong and yet it really does work.

Yes , quite liked this in the Nags Head (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/1691/)last Sunday .

[london calling]

Dark Star Not Into Yoga

Bizarre. Tastes just like a pina colada with tropical fruit and coconut and yet has a bitter, beery finish. Sounds all wrong and yet it really does work.

Not sure that it worked for me. Couldn't work out if it was great or crap but did finish my half. Sitting on the fence about this one. Coconut dominates.

[Thuck Phat]

Not sure that it worked for me. Couldn't work out if it was great or crap but did finish my half. Sitting on the fence about this one. Coconut dominates.

Managed a pint without any problem and may have gone for a second had the next clip along not been Marble Dobber. Agree on the coconut, which I don't mind, and I also found plenty of tropical fruit. I'm not convinced that it would pass the three pint test.

[Mobyduck]

Tiny Rebel Mojito Sour, only 3.5 % but strong flavours of Lime and Mint, I kind of liked it but three pints would probably be beyond me.

[rpadam]

Tiny Rebel Mojito Sour, only 3.5 % but strong flavours of Lime and Mint, I kind of liked it but three pints would probably be beyond me.
Managed a third (as one of three on a plater) in Cardiff the other week, but that was quite enough...

[sheffield hatter]

Coconut dominates.

I'm coming across more and more beers with coconut in them. This is WRONG on so many levels. (Sorry for shouting.) Also the prevalence of milk stouts. What is it with sweet flavours in beers that don't originate in the malt? It's come to the point where I'm (almost) relieved to find an IPA made with American hops and tasting of mango.

Pint of beer, please, barman! British, if possible.

[Bucking Fastard]

Buxton / Omnipollo collaberation Original Lemon Meringue Ice Cream

At 6% I just had to sample this on keg in Red Willow,Macclesfield but soon regretted the decision.The lemon was overpowering,and if that's all there is to this beer,then the Meringue Ice Cream part of the description was probably added to con hipsters and old fools like me into buying it.A victory of style over substance ,which happens all too often in the world of keg ,and at wallet busting prices.

However Northern Monk Neopolitain did exactly what it said on the keg tap,so generalisations may be dangerous.