🤪 Weird Brews: A Toast to the Unexpected 🍺

Let’s face it—beer has gone rogue. These aren’t your granddad’s suds (unless your granddad was a dessert-loving, salsa-dancing, cherry-aging experimentalist with a flair for fermentation). Each of these brews is a head-scratcher in the best way, and we’re here for it.

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🍰 Dessert City Pastry Stout – German Chocolate Cake

Devil’s Canyon Brewing Co. (San Carlos, CA)

This stout is what happens when a bakery and a brewery make eye contact across a crowded room. It’s got all the decadent flavors of a German chocolate cake, like toasted coconut, dark chocolate, and a touch of rum-barrel-aged mystery—except instead of chewing, you’re sipping and rethinking your entire relationship with cake. Smooth, bold, and likely to make you question whether frosting belongs in more beverages (jury’s still out).

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💃 Zapatos de Baile – Mexican-Style Lager

Oakland United Beerworks (Oakland, CA)

Named after “dancing shoes” and brewed to make your mouth feel like it’s doing the cha-cha, this lager is refreshingly odd in the best possible way. With notes of corn chips, lemony grass, and what can only be described as a crisp handshake from a summer breeze, it’s brewed with Zappa hops (yes, that’s real) and flaked maize, making it taste like a polite taco party in a glass. No actual dancing required, but it may help.

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🍒 Funky Foeder Cherry

Russian River Brewing Co. (Santa Rosa, CA)

This one is aged in massive oak foeders, which are basically wooden beer hot tubs where cherries go to reinvent themselves. Tart but balanced, with notes of rhubarb, wild berries, and possibly the whisper of a haunted orchard, this sour saison manages to be both funky and refined. It’s the kind of drink that wears a monocle unironically and listens to theremin jazz on purpose.

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🍻 Fun Fact: A foeder (pronounced “FOOD-er”, and definitely not a rejected Star Wars character) is a giant wooden tank used for aging beer. Some of them are so big you could park a compact car inside—but please don’t. They’re used in traditional brewing to add complexity, funk, and fermentation magic to wild and sour ales.

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So if you’re feeling brave, bored, or blissfully bewildered, give one of these beers a try. Weird never tasted so good.

🍛 Weird Condiments: Meet Zeisner Curry Ketchup 🥫

If regular ketchup is the friendly neighbor who waves from their porch, Zeisner Curry Ketchup is the mysterious cousin who shows up on a motorcycle smelling like paprika and adventure. Hailing from Germany and infused with curry spices, this condiment is here to ask one very important question: “What if ketchup… but dramatic?”​
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🌭 A Brief and Saucy History

Zeisner started making ketchup in the 1930s in Bremen, Germany—but it wasn’t until post-WWII that the curry ketchup craze kicked in. After British soldiers introduced curry powder to Germany, a resourceful Berlin woman named Herta Heuwer combined it with ketchup and Worcestershire sauce to create the now-iconic Currywurst sauce. Zeisner bottled that magic, added their own spice blend, and gave the world something we didn’t know we needed—but now can’t live without.
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🍟 What’s It Good For? Spoiler alert: basically everything.

• Fries – Like ketchup, but with a smoky German accent.
• Bratwurst or hot dogs – This is its natural habitat.
• Burgers – Makes regular ketchup taste like it forgot to do its homework.
• Scrambled eggs – Go ahead, break all the rules.
• Grilled cheese – Yes. Dip it. Trust the process.

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🤯 Unconventional Uses That (Somehow) Work

• Mac and cheese – Add a swirl for a smoky, tangy, curried glow-up.
• Pizza crust dip – Better than ranch. Yeah, we said it.
• Roasted cauliflower – Roasty, spicy, and way more exciting than it should be.
• Tofu marinade – Adds instant “Hey, I’m delicious now” energy.
• Meatloaf glaze – Grandma would not approve. But also, she might ask for seconds.
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💡 Fun Fact: Zeisner doesn’t just make curry ketchup—they also make spicy, mild, and yes, even banana curry ketchup 🍌. We’re not saying you need it… but you kind of do.

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Final Verdict?

Zeisner Curry Ketchup is bold, spicy, and a little weird—but in that cool way that works. Add it to your snack routine, your dinner experiments, or your emergency condiment stash. Just be warned: once you start, regular ketchup might taste like it’s holding back.

🥭 Weird Fruits: The Backwards Rind Kind 🍎

You’ve been doing fruit wrong. While the rest of us have been politely peeling apples and bananas, RIND Snacks said, “Nah—that’s the good part!” These fruit renegades keep the peel on, turning what most people toss into crunchy, chewy, vitamin-and-fiber-loaded goodness. Health-high-five! ❤️🙌

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• 🍎 Apple Chips
  ​Made from Fuji and Honeycrisp apples—peels and all—these chips are naturally sweet, crisp, and totally snackable. Ideal for cheese boards, purse emergencies, or that moment when you want to feel healthy but also gorge on an entire bag of something.
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• 🍓 Straw-Peary Blend
  ​This chewy, jammy mix of strawberries, Bosc pears, and apples tastes like a fruit salad that wandered into a granola rave. It’s juicy, no-fuss, and keeps its skins on, like the confident, takes-no-BS snack that it is.
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• 🍑 Orchard Blend
  ​Featuring persimmons, peaches, and red apples, this blend tastes like crunching through autumn leaves while wearing flannel pajamas. The peels give it an earthy twist that screams “nutrition,” but like, in a totally chill way?
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• 🍍 Piña Colada REMIX
  ​A tropical mash-up of pineapple, coconut crisps, and cocktail-flavored cashews, this mix tastes like a tiki bar crashed into a trail mix bag. It’s sweet, salty, and dangerously good—like vacation, but without the sunburn, or weird airport passengers (you know what I'm talking about).

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⚠️ Peel With Caution: Once you’ve embraced the power of the peel, it’s hard to go back. You might find yourself staring at a kiwi, wondering, “Do I dare?” Or peeling a banana, tossing the fruit, and lovingly placing the skin into a Bento box.
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RIND isn’t just a snack—it’s a zero-waste snack revolution. Bold, flavorful, and just the right amount of strange, it dares you to eat what others throw out—and love every bite. 🍎🍍🍑🍓