On the nose, Mustard Beer is tangy and full of fruit, with notes of lemon and grapefruit citrus, into tropical fruit that struck me more as mango/papaya than passion fruit necessarily. You’ll excuse me if I chuckle at the phrase “stoked on bold flavors,” but that assessment of the beer really is right on the money. “With French’s Mustard Beer we elevated the Classic Yellow Mustard flavor with tangy lemon and lime to create a tropical wheat ale I’d pair with a loaded hot dog on the hottest day of the year.” “We’re stoked on bold flavors at Oskar Blues Brewery and we never shy away from a challenge,” said Oskar Blues Head Brewer, Juice Drapeau in the press release.
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Directly from the press release, it is “infused with key lime, lemon, tangerine and passion fruit to create a tart, refreshing match for the bright and bold zip of Classic Yellow Mustard-perfect for summertime backyard barbecues.” Mustard Beer is a lightly tart wheat ale of some kind, in the neighborhood of Berliner weisse or gose, brewed with both fruit and mustard. The reality is ultimately much more congruous with the concept, I can happily report.
“Tropical wheat beer?” Is it fruited? How? Is this like an American pale wheat ale? Or more of a weizen? What are we looking at here. Mustard Beer describes itself on the mustard yellow (of course) can as “tropical wheat beer brewed with French’s mustard and other natural flavors,” which does not exactly fill one with confidence when you have no further information. Little did I know that they would be very much surpassed by a beer that frees itself quite handily from its own marketing tie-in. My expectations, suffice it to say, were low. It’s a concept that seems designed to entice easy clicks and “ew, that sounds gross” curiosity, but damn it if I couldn’t resist sampling that sort of thing for myself. You know the one? That beer made with yellow mustard? Oh yeah, Mustard Beer! Sorry, I was thinking of Ketchup Beer for a moment, my mistake. In collaboration with French’s, Oskar Blues presents Mustard Beer. That’s the official name of this new product from Oskar Blues, by the way. Because that’s what I’ve got for you this morning: MUSTARD BEER. Gimmicks and craft beer go together like hot dogs and mustard, do they not? Still, even with that being the case, one rarely expects one’s similes to collide in such a literal way.
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