Technnologizzy
Skittle-Tech Ain't Mopey About Pabsk Blue Skittles
By Brian K. White
Jan 10, 2004, 16:29

Experience has told me that before mixing any notoriously cheap and/or nasty beer with candy I should first prep my taste buds with some of the Skittles. I did so only to discover that the tropical variety kind of sucks. For one thing, blue and pink are the only new flavors*. I can't figure out what the hell blue is supposed to be, but pink is watermelon, because as you know, watermelons are tropical... well, perhaps if they are of the migratory sort.

Round One
Pabst does have a nice golden tone and a rich yet subtle head, two things I imagine will soon be altered irreversibly. Uncommonly, foaming did not increase. Uncommon, however, was that the center of the head promptly turned blue. Just the center, nothing else. The beer itself became green, then a deep blue green, then pretty much just dark blue. Hey man, I think I put like eight of them little buggers in there mistaking the glass for being bigger than it was.

The taste ain't half bad. Honestly, I don't recall Pabst Blue Ribbon tasting especially good, though I do remember all the experiments tasting somewhere between rancid and foul. This just looks odd. Pardon me, another sip. A little odd but nothing too remarkably strange. The fruit taste hasn't really come out and there's no non-beer aroma to it.

Round Two
Having been allowed to steep until no more reaction was seen, I dug giddily into round two. Still no flavor and still not bad. The blue Skittles are faded lavender at this point, but my zipper is broken so I'm really no one to point a finger. The last sip was, as all last sips are, completely ass. Not sure if the sugar helped or hurt. All in all though, this isn't so bad.

My pioneering disposition demanded I eat the leftover Skittles at the bottom. Oh yeah, now I remember, I don't like Tropical Skittles. That's right.

Bonus Round
I figured, why not, I'm here, let's mix in some other flavors in low doses.

Green looked like post-modern 70's wallpaper and tasted like the glue. This one got bitter on me somehow and I'm not too pleased. Not sure I'll finish it. Okay, what the hell, why not? As far as brews go, that was about a 3. As far as Skittlebrau's go, it was perhaps a 7.

Watermelon with a touch of orange made me exclaim. Seems all the pink went ahead and separated itself and was hanging out in a murkey cloud at the bottom. Nothing a quick stir can't fix... my mistake, it is indeed nothing a quick stir can not fix. This one is also bitter. Whooo, that was my first shudder of the bunch. Oh well, it's science, let's finish it off. HEEYA! Don't. The murke is best left clouding the bottom. Don't disturb the murke.

Orange & yellow had a similar cloudiness about the bottom. Perhaps this time I won't make the mistake of drinking it, then again perhaps I will. Again with the bitter! Do I deserve this? This is a noble cause and it does not deserve such punishment? Can the cloud redeem me? Oh God, it didn't... I reiterate my point about not drinking the cloud.

Summary
This is by far the best tasting Skittlebrau experiment I've tried to date. Not repulsive, I didn't gag, and nothing was really too unsitely. That's a winning situation all around no matter who you ask.

* Later on I tried the yellow all by itself to discover that it is actually banana. Hmm... that may throw a wrench into my study, but I say it with special emphasis on “may”… though I guess I could have just used bold.

Other Skittlebrau articles;
The Art of Skittlebrau
Skittlebrauing Mach II; Skirnoff Icekittles
More Skittlebrau Experimentation; Boones Farm Skrawberry Hill
Continuing the Skittle-Beer; Boones Farm Skuzzy Naval
Brewing Up Candied Malt Liquor; 211 Skeel Reserve
Skittlebrauology Continued; Goldsklager Skinnamon Schknaps
Skittlebrauing More Disaster; Baskardi Skuperior Rum

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