Jelly Beans and Beer? You Bet!

Who says children have all the fun at Easter and Halloween? Not me... at least since I discovered that Jelly Belly, the purveyors of jelly beans of darned near every flavor of bean known to man -- and a few flavors better left unmentioned (snot, vomit...) -- has concocted beans that are draft beer flavored! I kid you not!

As befits candy, they are of course, non-alcoholic (not to mention having no gluten, peanut, or tree nut in their makeup), so you're not going to get a buzz from a bottle of the little darlings. Except, perhaps, a sugar high.


Beer aficionados being beer aficionados, someone has naturally come up with beer pairings for your bag o' beans.  Apparently he's from out west somewhere, 'cause you can't get Ballast Point or Deschutes in my neck of the woods (man, I do miss that Deschutes Obsidian Stout!)

You can get your beer-flavored beans in 1.5-ounce ersatz beer bottles, a replica of a 12-ounce can or an ordinary 3.5-ounce bag. If you're a real beer- and bean-aholic, you can buy the little guys by the pound, but you probably want to taste them first...

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