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Jelly Belly Debuts BEER-Flavored Jelly Bean (NOT satire)
TODAY.com ^ | 1/21/14 | Amy Eley

Posted on 01/22/2014 9:27:25 AM PST by hoagy62

For more than 100 years, Jelly Belly has been a leading name in the jelly bean industry, with flavors like Buttered Popcorn, Toasted Marshmallow and Bubble Gum. And now? Beer.

Jelly Belly debuted Draft Beer as its newest flavor on Saturday. While the news comes only one month after the December release of its Tabasco Dark Chocolate flavor, the latest addition to the Jelly Belly family is one that has been three years in the making.

“Our fans have been asking for a beer Jelly Bean for years,” Rob Swaigen, Jelly Belly’s vice president of marketing, told TODAY.com. “It took a few years to perfect, but we think we got it right.”

To pay homage to Jelly Belly’s German ancestry, the company matched the taste of the candy to a Hefeweizen ale — but don’t add Draft Beer jelly beans to the cocktail bar just yet.

(Excerpt) Read more at today.com ...


TOPICS: Food; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: beer; hefeweizen; jellybean
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I don't know whether this is a major advancement in food....or a sign that we're getting closer to the Apocalypse.
1 posted on 01/22/2014 9:27:25 AM PST by hoagy62
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To: hoagy62

micro brew?


2 posted on 01/22/2014 9:30:47 AM PST by showme_the_Glory (ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
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In a previous life, I worked for the company who distributed Jelly Belly products in Japan. They are a great company and fine people to work with.

This was the brand of jelly beans which President Reagan kept on his desk to share with visitors . . . and one of the few I've eaten which doesn't taste like flavored sugar. They really are good.

And, who knows? A beer flavored jelly bean might get someone to give up real beer. I took the no alcohol pledge the day BO was sworn into office. I wasn't even close to being an alcoholic, but was genuinely afraid I was on the road to becoming one unless I took the pledge.

3 posted on 01/22/2014 9:34:42 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: hoagy62

a terrific advance in culinary science!
(do they have a pizza-flavored jelly bean, too!??? THAT”s the one I want!)

ps: that company really makes some wonderful tasting jelly beans!!


4 posted on 01/22/2014 9:35:30 AM PST by faithhopecharity (C)
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To: hoagy62

well, they aleady offer the classic cocktail jelly belly... 5 classic cocktail flavors...


5 posted on 01/22/2014 9:35:43 AM PST by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: faithhopecharity
do they have a pizza-flavored jelly bean, too!??? THAT”s the one I want!

for some reason, i always get a kick out of the buttered popcorn Jelly Belly... it really tastes like buttered popcorn... once they come up with the pizza-flavored Jelly Belly, you can have it with the beer-flavored Jelly Belly!

6 posted on 01/22/2014 9:38:00 AM PST by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: hoagy62

Jelly Bellys are my favorite.


7 posted on 01/22/2014 9:39:55 AM PST by Obadiah (I Like Ted.)
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To: Vigilanteman

At the Reagan Library gift shop, they have all sorts of Jelly Belly/Reagan packets for sale...it appears they move pretty well.


8 posted on 01/22/2014 9:42:24 AM PST by ErnBatavia (The 0baMao Experiment: Abject Failure)
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Thanks! I've got to get there again soon. The last time we went was in the summer of 2009 when we were in town for a nephew's wedding.

We loved the library, but spent too much of the day in traffic getting there from the Riverside/San Bernardino area.

9 posted on 01/22/2014 9:47:37 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: latina4dubya

yes, that is exactly the plan...to have the beer jelly beans with the pizza jelly beans

I guess i was a bit obvious about that, wasn’t I?

smile
smile

i want them to be RoundTable pizza jelly beans, not Dominos


10 posted on 01/22/2014 9:50:42 AM PST by faithhopecharity (C)
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Portrait of Reagan---made w/ jelly bellies.

11 posted on 01/22/2014 9:53:22 AM PST by Liz
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I agree w/you, I don’t like jelly beans but go nuts for Jelly Bellys, a candy store just down the street sells them, when I drive by I can hear them calling me...


12 posted on 01/22/2014 9:54:31 AM PST by Exeter (A government that doesn't trust its people is a government that shouldn't be trusted.)
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I agree w/you, I don’t like jelly beans but go nuts for Jelly Bellys, a candy store just down the street sells them, when I drive by I can hear them calling me...


13 posted on 01/22/2014 9:54:33 AM PST by Exeter (A government that doesn't trust its people is a government that shouldn't be trusted.)
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To: hoagy62

Its not important until they come out with Bacon flavor!


14 posted on 01/22/2014 9:54:53 AM PST by Rich21IE
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Don’t know about the beer flavor, but the peach, pear and lemon-lime flavors are like crack :-)


15 posted on 01/22/2014 9:55:24 AM PST by Fast Moving Angel (It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
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Beer-flavored Jelly Beans doesn’t sound that appetizing.

Maybe Jelly Belly flavored beer is better?


16 posted on 01/22/2014 9:56:58 AM PST by Liz
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To: latina4dubya

I went to JB’s website and they have a line of flavors likely inspired by the ‘Harry Potter’ universe’s ‘Bernie Botts All-Flavor Beans’. Basically, they’re marketing it as a game of sorts....you dare your friends to try one to see if it’s the ‘real’ flavor or it identical counterpart that tastes like....well, to give you an idea, here’s their offerings:

Lime/Lawn Clippings
Berry Blue/Toothpaste (might not be TOO bad)
Peach/Puke
Caramel Corn/Moldy Cheese
Chocolate Pudding/Canned Dog Food
Coconut/Baby Wipes
Juicy Pear/Booger
Tutti Frutti/Stinky Socks
Buttered Popcorn/Rotten Egg
Licorice/Skunk Spray

My question: How on Earth did they come up with the proper way some of the joke beans taste???? The mind boggles.


17 posted on 01/22/2014 9:56:58 AM PST by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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To: Exeter

sorry about the double posting, I was thinking about those beans...


18 posted on 01/22/2014 9:57:04 AM PST by Exeter (A government that doesn't trust its people is a government that shouldn't be trusted.)
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To: faithhopecharity
i want them to be RoundTable pizza jelly beans, not Dominos

but of course! i want them to come out with a cabernet to go along with my Round Table pizza!

19 posted on 01/22/2014 9:59:36 AM PST by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: Liz
Portrait of Reagan---made w/ jelly bellies.

i saw this at his museum in Simi Valley :)

20 posted on 01/22/2014 10:00:48 AM PST by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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