The microbrewery company called 21st Amendment in San Francisco has recently created the first pop-tarts flavored beer.
The microbrewery has already delved into non-conformist brews before, with their one-of-a-kind flavors such as the Hell or High Watermelon beers. However, this is reportedly the first time that the company has thought of sinking their palates into the breakfast-foods-as-beer arena.
The San Francisco Gate first announced 21st Amendment Brewery's Pop-Tart-themed red India pale ale. Based in San Leandro, California, the microbrewery says their joining into the sudden breakfast-flavored beer trend, which it calls Toaster Pastry, is a commemoration to their moving into their first brewing facility, formerly a Kellogg's factory.
According to Food Beast, beer makers are using more of their thinking caps with the recent introduction of new breakfast flavored-beers An example is the upcoming Wheaties cereal beer or HefeWheaties and the soon-to-be rereleased Cerealiously Count Chocula. However, Grub Street reports that these beers are simply beers with breakfast names as far as taste goes.
With 21st Amendment's pop-tarts beer, they say the taste is actually pretty much like pop tarts. It remains unclear though how much of a tie-in they have with Kellogg's.
The brewery said they used buscuit malt to create the pastry taste of the beer. They also used several crystal malts to give the booze a strawberry-like flavor.
The strawberry toaster pastry booze will reportedly come in one size, but a strong one - a large 19.2-ounce can with a 7.6 percent ABV.
"Biscuit malts give the beer a slightly nutty, crustlike flavor, while pale and dark crystal malts create the mouthfeel and flavors reminiscent of strawberry jam," the brewmaster said, describing the taste of their pop-tarts beer to the SF Gate.
The official release of the pop-tarts beer by the Bay Area brewery will be on August 29.
