A Short Guide to Exotic Beer

A Short Guide to Exotic Beer

Many people get bored with drinking the same beer over and over, and are looking for something new to delight their taste buds. With regional breweries springing up virtually everywhere, there are more and more choices for one-of-a-kind beers practically every day. So, what do people really mean when they talk about an exotic beer? Does it have to come from another faraway continent or foreign country?

Take a look with us at some types of exotic beer. A beer can be foreign to be exotic but it doesn’t have to. For instance, if you live in Indiana, an exotic beer could come from Africa or it could just be an interesting or unusual beer that comes from a nearby state. Keep this definition in mind as we survey some beers that qualify until the description “exotic.” 

There is a new beer from Japan that is brewed in Hokkaido. It’s quite unusual because it is a low-malt beer that uses milk. In fact, it might be something that U.S. milk producers should consider. Having too much leftover milk with no good way to use it, one Japanese farmer convinced a nearby brewery to make milk beer. It is appropriately called Bilk. Because a full one-third of the brew is milk, it uses a surplus that otherwise might be destroyed. The taste is fruity and said to complement sweet foods.

Champagne Lager is what could probably be called a hybrid. That’s because it does the unthinkable and combines grapes and hops in the same beverage. The cross-beer has met with approval at beer festivals. In the United States it is distributed by the name Champagne Beer.

It may be debatable if it is exotic or not, but the popular Boston Beer Company has trumped all of those high-alcohol Asian beers with one of its own. They named it Samuel Adams Utopias and it is among the most expensive in the world at around $100 U.S. per bottle. What you are getting for that price is one of only 8,000 bottles to be produced of a special edition beer that is a full 25% alcohol.  It is sold in a copper kettle.

Mongozo beer is an exotic African beer that comes in a number of flavors. The word “Mongozo” means “to your health.” Mongozo Banana Beer is not only African, but it’s the traditional beer of the Masai people of Kenya and Tanzania. It is known as a Fair Trade White Fruit Beer, and its alcohol content is 4.5%. Not only is banana beer an exotic treat, but Mongozo also comes four other flavors--coconut, mango, palmnut and quinua.

A beer from the Philippines, Vitamin Beer has been one of the most popular beers at recent international brewer get-togethers. Created by Billy L. Lalang, the beer has been fortified with vitamin B, which is meant to replace the vitamin B that is lost when people drink too much alcohol. The point of replacing your vitamin B is to enable you to wake up in the morning without a hangover.

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