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bmwracer wrote:
Yup. :beaten:

Well then...all that is left is for you to drink up! :drink:

Tu_triky wrote:

Great description. An apt one most definitely. I believe they employ some yeast that's normally reserved for sake in the fermentation process in order to convert the red rice into alcohol.

So your niece basically hit it on the nose. :)

red rice ale eh....
does it have less calories as your typical made beer, with the barley hops etc...
i know beer sometimes can pack a calorie-punch!

this rice red ale is pricy, but does sound interesting, is there a link on the web i can read up on, or just found at Bev-Mo stores?

We got toasted on mojitos last night.
-Rum
-Mint
-Limes
Tasty, you must try it! :dancing:

qilver wrote:

red rice ale eh....
does it have less calories as your typical made beer, with the barley hops etc...
i know beer sometimes can pack a calorie-punch!

this rice red ale is pricy, but does sound interesting, is there a link on the web i can read up on, or just found at Bev-Mo stores?

Go here:

http://www.kodawari.cc/?en_home/products/hitachino-nest-beer.html

If you do a search for Hitachino Red Rice Ale you'll find quite a bit of discussion about it on various websites.

Don't know about the calories though because the info isn't on the bottle.

Itazura ichiban wrote:We got toasted on mojitos last night.
-Rum
-Mint
-Limes
Tasty, you must try it! :dancing:

My friend had a Blood Orange Mojito when I met her for lunch at Charlie Palmer in Costa Mesa.

Itazura ichiban wrote:We got toasted on mojitos last night.
-Rum
-Mint
-Limes
Tasty, you must try it! :dancing:

My ex could drink unlimited quantities of those when we'd vacation in Mexico. Vry tasty. :victory:

Tu_triky wrote:Go here:

http://www.kodawari.cc/?en_home/products/hitachino-nest-beer.html

If you do a search for Hitachino Red Rice Ale you'll find quite a bit of discussion about it on various websites.

Don't know about the calories though because the info isn't on the bottle.

At those prices, I doubt I'd be knocking 'em down on any regular basis, so calorie count isn't much of an issue.

bmwracer wrote:
At those prices, I doubt I'd be knocking 'em down on any regular basis, so calorie count isn't much of an issue.

Yeah cuz it will knock out all the cash in your wallet first. :)

Tu_triky wrote:Yeah cuz it will knock out all the cash in your wallet first. :)

Darn tootin'. :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:
Darn tootin'. :sweat:

I'm trying to get the guy who owns the local liquor store to stock it so I don't have to go far if I want to try it again. :P

Tu_triky wrote:

Go here:

http://www.kodawari.cc/?en_home/products/hitachino-nest-beer.html

If you do a search for Hitachino Red Rice Ale you'll find quite a bit of discussion about it on various websites.

Don't know about the calories though because the info isn't on the bottle.

thanks for the link, i'll read it over now. :victory:

Don't be queer, drink green tea beer.

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Stone Starts Putting Green Tea in Your IPA
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Introducing The Baird/Ishii/Stone Japanese Green Tea IPAPhoto: Stone Brewing Co.

July 20, 2011

We've all become pretty jaded to green tea's infiltration into everything, even those rare things we don't put in our mouths. There's green tea soda, ice cream, soap, gum, candles, diet pills, and linen spray crowding the shelves these days as the ingredient continues to chart a path for fellow trendy, reported anti-oxidants like kombucha and goji berries to follow. Now green tea has made its way into your IPA, courtesy of Stone Brewing Co. in a collaboration with fellow brewers in Guam and Japan.

The San Diego-based company tells us via press release that their brew-master, Mitch Steele, joined forces with a former intern-cum- brewer of Stone's named Toshi Ishii, who now owns Ishii Brewing Co. in Guam, along with Bryan Baird of Baird Brewing Company in Japan, in order to create a beer that would benefit the Japanese Red Cross Society following the country's recent earthquake and tsunami disasters.

Seeking to endow the beer with a Japanese character, the trio based Baird/Ishii/Stone Japanese Green Tea IPA around the flavors of the tea, employing Sencha whole leaf green tea from Japan, new bitter-leaning Aramis hops from Alsace in the dry-hopping stage, and embracing the late infusion of Japan-originated Soraci Ace hops, among other hop varietals, to create a 9.2% abv, 70 IBU India pale ale with a green tea flavor noticeably forward. Steele promises that it "won't be the typical, citrusy West Coast IPA flavor," but something with a spicier, grassier, and more herbal profile.

2,966 cases of the Green Tea IPA have been produced for sale and all proceeds are headed for the Japanese Red Cross Society, with a goal of raising a minimum of $50,000. Like a lot of Stone specials, it may be as tricky to find than ingredients from the Noma cookbook, but the company assures us it's out there on shelves now across the U.S. Stone is not the first company to put green tea into a beer. We see that Wisconsin's BlueCreek Brewing carries a green tea IPA of their own and that Great Lakes Brewing in Ohio has done it. However, given its track-record, Stone just might be the first to make green tea popular with hop-heads nationwide.

Source: grubstreet.com

^ Hopefully it'll be easier to obtain than Red Rice Ale. :beaten:

bmwracer wrote:^ Hopefully it'll be easier to obtain than Red Rice Ale. :beaten:

Goodness. Probably just as expensive though!

Red Rice. No Lice.

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Darn thing actually is red.

Tu_triky wrote:Red Rice. No Lice.

Darn thing actually is red.

Not surprised.

Knocked down another?

bmwracer wrote:
Not surprised.

Knocked down another?

Hehe. Yeah, I actually did a little grocery shopping at Whole Foods and picked up a cold bottle. This is only my second time trying it. I wanted to take a pic in a mug as opposed to the just the darkly colored bottle. It's so expensive as you know, I took my time with it this time. :beaten:

Tu_triky wrote:Hehe. Yeah, I actually did a little grocery shopping at Whole Foods and picked up a cold bottle. This is only my second time trying it. I wanted to take a pic in a mug as opposed to the just the darkly colored bottle. It's so expensive as you know, I took my time with it this time. :beaten:

I was going to ask the waitress at my regular sushi joint, but she was out today: appendectomy. :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:
I was going to ask the waitress at my regular sushi joint, but she was out today: appendectomy. :sweat:

Dayem. :sweat:

Tu_triky wrote:Dayem. :sweat:

According to her mom, the procedure went through without a hitch: she was home in a day. :)