At first I thought it was beer, even though WINE is big and repeated several times. It is for guys. It is not for your wife. It features a “sexy devil girl on the label.” I would not have wanted to bet on whether it would be a huge success, or a huge flop, but I am astonished that there is no trace of it whatsoever on Google, more than four months after approval. Maybe the focus groups showed that it is not for men after all. Wine for Guys is/was made by Clos La Chance Wines, Inc. of San Martin, California.
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This post will start short but is likely to grow long over time. Very long. We will try to show the enormous range of foodstuffs from which wine is produced. With each post we will add to the list, and I predict it will grow way past 50. Today we add Jasmine fruit wine to the list.
- Avocado wine
- Banana wine
- Cantaloupe wine
- Dandelion wine
- Grape wine
- Jasmine fruit wine. This wine is produced by Crimson’ N Scarletts Vineyards, of Dawsonville, Georgia.
- Kiwi wine
- Linden flower wine
- Lychee wine
- Mangosteen wine
- Marionberry wine
- Onion wine
- Pomegranate wine
- Pear wine
- Pepper wine
- Pineapple wine
- Rhubarb wine
- Tomato wine
- Watermelon wine
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KBS Gives No Relief
Back when we saw the Scurvy label, we were a bit surprised to see much discussion about disease, on a TTB label. This one goes quite a bit further in the same direction. It mentions “rheumatism, neuralgia, sciatica, lame back, lumbago, contracted muscles, toothache, sprains, swellings, and all manner of distress” — after emphasizing that this will “give relief” from none of those. Instead, it’s “good for everything a stout ought to be good for.” It is tough to judge whether this is funny and playful, or among the types of messages that TTB ought to block. This breakfast stout is brewed with chocolate and coffee, by Founders Brewing of Grand Rapids, Michigan. We could not find the approval here, but did find it here.
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Cantaloupe Wine
This post will start short but is likely to grow long over time. Very long. We will try to show the enormous range of foodstuffs from which wine is produced. With each post we will add to the list, and I predict it will grow way past 50. Today we add Cantaloupe wine to the list.
- Avocado wine
- Banana wine
- Cantaloupe wine. Made by Lone Maple Farm, of Binghamton, New York.
- Dandelion wine
- Grape wine
- Kiwi wine
- Linden flower wine
- Lychee wine
- Mangosteen wine
- Marionberry wine
- Onion wine
- Pomegranate wine
- Pear wine
- Pepper wine
- Pineapple wine
- Rhubarb wine
- Tomato wine
- Watermelon wine
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Nut Beer
First there were Beer Nuts. Now there is Nut Beer. Uber Goober is beer made with “roughly a handful of peanuts in every glass.” It is made by Short’s Brewing of Elk Rapids, Michigan.
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