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 Bellys 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 Bellys German ancestry, the company matched the taste of the candy to a Hefeweizen ale but dont add Draft Beer jelly beans to the cocktail bar just yet.
(Excerpt) Read more at today.com ...
micro brew?
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.
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!!
well, they aleady offer the classic cocktail jelly belly... 5 classic cocktail flavors...
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!
Jelly Bellys are my favorite.
At the Reagan Library gift shop, they have all sorts of Jelly Belly/Reagan packets for sale...it appears they move pretty well.
We loved the library, but spent too much of the day in traffic getting there from the Riverside/San Bernardino area.
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?
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i want them to be RoundTable pizza jelly beans, not Dominos
Portrait of Reagan---made w/ jelly bellies.
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...
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...
Its not important until they come out with Bacon flavor!
Don’t know about the beer flavor, but the peach, pear and lemon-lime flavors are like crack :-)
Beer-flavored Jelly Beans doesn’t sound that appetizing.
Maybe Jelly Belly flavored beer is better?
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.
sorry about the double posting, I was thinking about those beans...
but of course! i want them to come out with a cabernet to go along with my Round Table pizza!
i saw this at his museum in Simi Valley :)
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