When we think of beer, we normally associate it with varying shades of yellow, amber and brown. Porters and stouts can even be an opaque black, but we have an expectation of color and sometimes, even a taste that we associate with the color of our beer. Some places on St. Patrick's Day color their beer green, but it is more of a novelty then anything else. Beer is not meant to be green, or blue, or bright red - is it?
There is a brewer in Japan who is out to change our perception of all that. They are brewing beer in different colors. (It's from the same brewer that invented "Bilk")
From Weird Asia News:This beer is brewed using water that has melted from icebergs in the sea of Okhotsk, an arm of the North Pacific Ocean bordered by Japan and Russia.
The blue color is like no other anywhere in the world. The brewery did not stop there and began to utilize seaweed, which rendered the blue icy in tint.
Well that piqued my curiosity and I did a little Googling and found the brewer's website and they just don't do blue, they also do a red and a green.
I'm guessing they use some kind of flower to color the red and some sort of plant leaf (based on the pictures on the bottle) to color and maybe flavor the beer.
I'm a bit of a purist when it come to beer color, but I'd have to give all of these a try if I ever found my self up in Northern Japan.
Cheers!
VW
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