Jul 21 2009Blue Beer From Melted Icebergs, Seaweed
The Japanese, in their unending quest to make the awesomest stuff on the planet (minus robots), are manufacturing blue beer made from melted icebergs (take that you Titanic sinking bitch!). And, not to toot my own horn or anything, but I have already had colored beer on St. Patty's day before. It made my throw up green!
Okhotsk Blue Draft stands out for its cool color and interesting (yet not off-putting) ingredients. The brew is made using water melted from icebergs that float each year onto Hokkaido beaches from the chilly Sea of Okhotsk, an arm of the North Pacific ocean bordered by Japan and Russia.
Then Abashiri went one step further and used seaweed to give their brew and icy blue tint. Perhaps not the greatest selling point but it does make Okhotsk Blue look, well, different. As for the taste... reports state that Ryuho isn't at all bad as beers go, and if you didn't know there was seaweed in it, you likely wouldn't guess there was.
Abashiri also manufactures red and green beers (picture after the jump) because, honestly, what better way to teach your children their colors? Son, fetch daddy another purple one. I said purple, this is blue -- YOU WILL NEVER BE A PAINTER!
Hit the jump for a shot of the other colors and a commercial for the beer.
Feeling Blue? Japan's Got a Beer for That [inventorspot]
Reader Comments
1. /Eyeroll - July 21, 2009 12:26 PM
I WILL DRINK THIS
2. Pew³ - July 21, 2009 12:28 PM
I always thought yellow beer was overrated (no I didn't)
3. naas likes japanese robots!! - July 21, 2009 12:29 PM
YUUUmm...er EEW
yeah I'd try it. MINUS THE ROBOTS nothing GW, SUCK IT!
4. wess - July 21, 2009 12:29 PM
2nd.
No fancy beer for me. I keep it cheap.
5. 2mechanicalArms - July 21, 2009 12:30 PM
Excellent now no one will notice when I slip anti-freeze in their drink.
6. pez dispenser - July 21, 2009 12:32 PM
blue beer is blue
@4 .......not even close
7. Freddy K - July 21, 2009 12:33 PM
Kinda want to try it. But what I'm really wondering is how a black and tan would look. Answer awesome.
Nothing like rainbow beer. Cuz you know, I support the gays.
8. STOMPY (just discovered what kit kat shuffle means) - July 21, 2009 12:33 PM
okay, i'll hold him down, mike hunt, you punch his nuts, you'll feel better i swear...
and as far as beer, I'd drink beer if I had to do body shots out of GFS polinodial cysts!!!
9. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - July 21, 2009 12:35 PM
@7
It would be a black and blue.
@naas
Welcome aboard, son. Here's your pleasurebot manual, your "robot rock" pledge pin, and a case of gear oil. Enjoy!
10. Pew³ - July 21, 2009 12:37 PM
the label would look better if it had a novelty eagle head on it.
if you pour it in a glass your gonna need a pretty big drink stirrer if it was made from an iceberg. Now who has a big drink stirrer?
11. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - July 21, 2009 12:37 PM
@STOMPY
It closed up. Now it'll slide down past the hole of eternal poopage and over my nuts. You're gonna love my nuts.
12. /Eyeroll - July 21, 2009 12:38 PM
I've never understood buying cheap beer for yourself to drink.... I mean, when I throw a party I'm not buying anything nicer than a couple dirty thirties but if I am drinking beer to enjoy it why would I buy watered down piss? Most yellows are low alcohol content, taste horrible and send you to the bathroom off and on all night. Hell... Wheats are better than the piss yellows. I say its worth the extra cash for a beer that doesn't take more than 10 to get started...
P.S. I don't mind getting burned for this post but if you try arguing citing MGD or Bud Select I'll lawl my way to lunch.
13. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - July 21, 2009 12:40 PM
I'd try it.
14. naas - July 21, 2009 12:40 PM
@8 fûćking gross
@GFS mMmm gear oil
15. Pew³ - July 21, 2009 12:43 PM
naas, I'm afraid your pledge to SPASPCR included Japanese robots.
http://www.geekologie.com/2009/05/society_for_prevention_of_crue.php#comment-103031
I'm afraid you're going to have to make a choice.
@/eyeroll. I prefer a good Widmer Brothers hefeweizen or Karl Strauss amber lager myself.
16. Madgame - July 21, 2009 12:45 PM
Screw the color, I just want a beer I can keep and not have to recycle. No matter how much you drink, you can only rent it ='(
17. Tenshi - July 21, 2009 12:45 PM
@5 I like your style
18. naas - July 21, 2009 12:50 PM
Pew³ I'm against the minus the robots part & still against being cruel to them. I voted pro-robo on last years' galactic ballad for the initiation of robots working with humans (GBFTIORWWH) but it may have not been counted
19. /Eyeroll - July 21, 2009 12:50 PM
@ Pew - Well done sir, Widmer Bros. reminds me of Bell's. Bell's makes some decent stuff. If I get into ambers or wheats though I looove Dragon's Milk... the bars here limit it like hard drinks, lol. 2 pints and you're cut off... Wait... that one is actually a dark that tastes like a wheat, Dragon Mead makes a great strong wheat though. Mmmm.... beer
20. Dishy Dishyington - July 21, 2009 1:02 PM
PBR - pure bubbly ralph
21. babborama - July 21, 2009 1:03 PM
@eyeroll i prefer a nice aventinus, or a nice natty light!
22. Pat - July 21, 2009 1:03 PM
C'mon, they couldn't even get a desperate American celebrity to do the commercial?
23. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - July 21, 2009 1:04 PM
@19
http://christianmoerlein.com/
I strongly recommend the Barbarossa or the Emancipator.
24. -JH- - July 21, 2009 1:06 PM
I would try it, I will try just about any beer.
Beer of Choice though is and will always be Amber Bock.
25. /Eyeroll - July 21, 2009 1:17 PM
@23 the site is down :o
Where is that out of though? I'm always down for a new beer to taste.
26. Timbo - July 21, 2009 1:19 PM
...naas...I'm afraid Pew has given you an ultimatum...
27. Freddy K - July 21, 2009 1:21 PM
@ /eyeroll - Agreed.
I prefer a dark beer over a "piss yellow" any time. I don't think the "piss yellows" actually qualify as beers.
28. TastesLikeBRAAIINNSS - July 21, 2009 1:27 PM
Finally! All the fun of drinking blue toilet water with all the flavor of beer!
29. naas - July 21, 2009 1:27 PM
@26 yes & I've spoken
30. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - July 21, 2009 1:38 PM
@25
Cincinnati, the American home of real german beer.
http://christianmoerlein.com/site.php
31. /Eyeroll - July 21, 2009 1:43 PM
@GFS - Well hot damn... that isn't too far from me. Sounds like I'm taking the jeep on an epic adventure of toll booths, breweries and undeserved moving violations...
32. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - July 21, 2009 1:45 PM
@31
While you're here check out the Hofbrauhaus. It's like heaven on earth.
http://www.hofbrauhausnewport.com/
33. XerkoFlash - July 21, 2009 1:57 PM
"Son, fetch daddy another purple one. I said purple, this is blue -- YOU WILL NEVER BE A PAINTER"
HAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
34. Jerry - July 21, 2009 2:11 PM
Considering most beers look like piss, this is an improvement.
http://bootelicious.mybrute.com
35. mintjellie - July 21, 2009 2:56 PM
@eyeroll
In defense of yellow beer, I would never bring up MGD or Bud Select. I'd bring up Brooklyn Pilsener.
36. Watch-303 - July 21, 2009 3:47 PM
COOL!
37. Daisy - July 21, 2009 10:24 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max stole the waste fat from a liposuction clinic, made it into soap, and sold it in a botique.
38. Stimpy - July 22, 2009 2:48 AM
You do know it St. Paddy's day and not St. Patty's day right?. I only ask cos I think my sarcasm detector is on the fritz.
39. Lyanna - July 22, 2009 4:06 AM
where can i buy those O.O
40. Jaded Icon - July 22, 2009 7:14 AM
Always up for trying new beers, so I would give this a go. Still......my fav is Fat Tire and Leinenkugel.
41. GrimreapeR - July 23, 2009 11:06 AM
did anyone else notice that @0:15 it sounds like she said scooby doo?
42. Coco Beans - July 25, 2009 8:05 PM
It looks like the stuff they test sanitry towels with on TV. Having said that I'd still drink it.
43. hans - October 24, 2009 6:24 AM
This is the same brewery that combined beer and milk to get "bilk"
http://japansugoi.com/wordpress/hokkaidos-abashiri-brewery-has-colorful-beers/