Soft Parade by Short's. Pink package with beach girl on it sipping a summer ale with: raspberries, blueberries, strawberries & blackberries. Not your most "masculine" sounding combo, but I luv it!! i call it my, "girly beer". Spending summer vacations on the beaches of Lake Michigan sipping on one (or three) are bliss....
I had Kyoto Maycha IPA at a Sushi restaurant. It was weird - murky green. But I liked it. I subsequently visited their brewery and tried a number of tgeit]r beers and sake. https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/14306/387477/
Indra Kunindra. A now shuttered brewery in my town used to make custom beers for restaurants/bars and made a wasabi beer and a plum beer for a local sushi joint that I remember enjoying. Could’ve sworn that Short’s brewed a pastrami on rye inspired beer years ago but I can only find the one that Pipeworks brewed. Either way, wish I could've tried either one.
Fonta Flora made a beer with ramps that was awesome. I never thought a vegetable related to the onion could produce such nice flavor in a beer. Unfortunately it was just a one-off they did ages ago. Oh, also their Beets, Rhymes & Life saison with beets was great until they changed it to an Ipa and now you can't even taste the beets because the hops overpower them.
Folk are talking a lot about matcha IPAs, and even a wasabi beer. My favorite beer using a Japanese ingredient was Beer Belly's Sansho IPA. It worked really well in what was pretty much a 90s/early 00s east coast IPA. Sansho would be golden in a modern WCIPA, and I messed around with it a lot in homebrewed saisons, which I enjoyed.
That was a great beet beer. I also really liked the carrot IPA. I love me some FF. A top 3 Brewery for me, maybe top 2. Enjoy
That was such an odd one. The matcha worked so well in the beer, and really did look the part (i.e. toxic-looking green sludge).
I liked Spruce Pilsner and drank a fair amount of it until the spruce began tasting more like Pine Sol.
I have not actually been able to find any in maybe 10 years(?). I might agree if I ever had it again.
