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Strange beers I've tasted

by:Pox

2008/11/21

In the last year or so, I've had to chance to sample many strange beers. Beer is an amazing product that many brewers try to mix with anything they find lying around. I'm confident in saying that there's more flavors of beers than anything else. These can mostly be found in Quebec so you'll have to imagine the taste.

LA TOUR A BIERE: White Amber Fruit Ale With Mint and Blueberries

ABV: 7%

What's special about it?Mint

Description: Wow, can you cram any more shit in there? This one was going for "World's Longest Name". But it tasted great. Not great as a beer, but great as a weird drink. Imagine your average amber ale with some toothpaste mixed in and with a little fruit roll-up aftertaste.

Drink it?YES

LA TOUR A BIERE: The 1912

ABV: 5%

What's special about it?Smoke

Description: Same company as before. Another red ale but they basically dumped some smoke flavoring in it. Yes, the same smoke flavoring they use to make hot dogs and ham crusts. You can really feel it in the aftertaste, it's like drinking your beer on the porch while the neighbors are burning their leaves like the dumbasses they are.

Drink it?YES

SCHOUNE: Maple Ale

ABV: 5%

What's special about it?Maple

Description: This one is great. A clear, drinkable ale with hints of maple. I don't know why people don't dump caramel, chocolate and maple syrup in every beer they make because it sure beats the hell out of Bud Lite. Also if you live in Quebec, beware every other beer from this company because they taste like what a horse's underpants would taste like if they had any.

Drink it?YES

DIEU DU CIEL: Rosee d'Hibiscus

ABV: 5%

What's special about it?Flowers

Description: An Hibiscus is a flower. This is flower-flavored beer. It was terrible. Why make this? Flowers aren't food. Why not grass clippings and pine cones while we're at it?

Drink It?NO

MICROBRASSERIE DU LIEVRE: The Hare's Carrot

ABV: 5%

What's special about it?Carrots

Description: Well it did taste like carrot juice was mixed in with my beer. Now this begs the question: why carrots? When you want to give an interesting twist to a product, you use a little bit of a strong, flavorful ingredient like vanilla or cinnamon. You don't use the bland juice from a vegetable. There's nothing in this world that is less concentrated than carrot juice, aside maybe from celery juice. But I feel bad ragging on these guys because this is obviously the product of a very bored man's basement production who wants to share his love of ruining cereals with the rest of us.

Drink It?NO

ST-CIBOIRE: Marshmallow Stout

ABV: ???%

What's special about it?Marsmallow

Description: I got this at a bar here in Montreal where they have many local beers. I had such high hopes for this... I had visions of elves pouring Ovaltine and Peeps into a tall, creamy pint of Guiness... but it was just a pretty generic stout...with a marshmawllow dumped in it. That's just cheating. If I put a toy car in your nachos, they're not "Toy Car Nachos". It was good, but I can't recommend it on the basis that they ARE LIARS.

Drink It?NO

SCHOUNE: Ma P'tite Geuze

ABV: 8%

What's special about it?Not sure I want to know

Description: I guess you could translate this one to something like "My little Wench". Here's a description on the label: "The link between beer, cider and wine..." I can't begin to tell you how rancid this thing is. First sip you take, it's a little like Corona, but then things go WRONG. You're hit with a bouquet of aggressive acid fruity flavors that softens you up before the strong table wine aftertaste comes and finishes you off, leaving you gagging and confused.I'm just happy to know most of you will never taste this thing since you most likely can't buy it where you live.

Drink It?NO

ST-CIBOIRE: Ginger Ale

ABV: ???%

What's special about it?Ginger

Description: We all like the soft drink, but who likes the spice? Did you ever bite into a slice of ginger? It's terrible. This beer was a quality brew but they probably had ginger roots soaking in there for months. I don't really know why I bought it at the bar though, I knew exactly what I was in for. I'm a retard.

Drink It?NO

I'll be on the lookout for more awesome weird beers and I will make a crappy article about it.

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