Man Serves Fried Beer

wenaway writes "Mark Zable, creator of Fried Beer, brought his creation to the State Fair in Texas. He walked away from the fair with the most creative award and is now gearing up for larger production. The Fried Beer is actually a pretzel dough ravioli injected with beer and then deep fried to perfection. What's next? Fried booze."

and how's it taste?

[fifedrum]

anxiously awaiting the first review from a slashdot user who was there and tasted it...

Fried beer??

[gstoddart]

Man, I was stunned this summer when I saw that someone had invented fried butter [msn.com], and I subsequently heard of fried coke [wikipedia.org].

Fried beer is a special case of fried coke I giess... but, damn, I bet people lined up to get some of that!! It's beer, and it's fried ... in Texas. Bacon wrap that sucker, and I know some people who would crawl over cut glass to taste it.

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[iamhassi]

" I subsequently heard of fried coke [wikipedia.org]. Fried beer is a special case of fried coke I giess"

I'd agree, since fried coke has existed since 2006 [wikipedia.org] and, as far as I'm aware, that's the first fried beverage, I really don't think we need a "first" fried beer, fried pepsi, fried vodka, fried milk, fried mt dew, fried kool-aid, etc.... you get the idea. Claiming to be the "First Fried Beer!" is not really an accomplishment, he just made Fried Coke and substituted beer instead of coke

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[Locke2005]

Like many great discoveries, this one was made quite by accident while the man was up late pondering the question "How can I get my underage cousin drunk so that I can take advantage of her?"

No

[hellop2]

According to your link, "Fried Coke" is just fried batter made with Coca-Cola. It is no more "fried coke" then regular batter is "fried water".

But, this fried beer is beer injected into the centers of a pretzel wrap, so that presumably, when you bite into them, beer pours out. FTA, "the dough is only in the fryer for about 15 seconds – so none of the alcohol gets burned off."

So, it is not true that he simply substituted beer for coke. He made the first actual fried beverage after 2.5 years of

Re:Fried beer != Fried Coke

[RobertB-DC]

Fried beer is a special case of fried coke I guess

No, it's not the same as Fried Coke. Fried Coke is Coke-flavored batter, deep-fat-fried.

This Fried Beer concoction actually has a *liquid* center. When you bite into it, warm beer comes out. I can't imagine how that could possibly be a Good Thing, but there you are.

Note that because the beer is still liquid, it will still contain alcohol -- unlike beer-based batter. As a result, you have to be 21 to order Fried Beer.

(I'm in Dallas, so I've been hearing a

Awards all done before the fair starts?

[pilott]

http://www.bigtex.com/sft/ [bigtex.com] Doesn't start till next weekend

Oh my god!

[NotSoHeavyD3]

Fried beer? That has got to be Homer Simpson's greatest fantasy. The only way it could be better is if it was donut batter.