Horrible Ideas: Pizza Beer with Real Pizza Bits
14 Comments Published by Joel May 15th, 2007 in Beer. Share This
Right over my shoulder sits a copy of Randy Mosher’s Radical Brewing, my very favorite homebrewing book and one of the only ones I’d recommend to those uninterested in brewing but interested in beer. Besides serving as a great tour of the more esoteric styles, Mosher also gives some examples of brewing with strange ingredients—chicken and mushrooms are the ones I always mention when my goal is to turn someone’s nose into a knob of confusion.
But the thing about those weird brews is that they actually try to put together a beer that highlights and complements the flavors rather than just chucking the strange ingredients in and seeing what happens. Chucking is what Illinois brewer Tom Seefurth seems to be doing with his new “Pizza Beer,” in which disgusting globules of pizza ingredients float unprocessed in a bottle of beer.
“It’s pizza and beer in a bottle,” Seefurth, a self-proclaimed beer nut, says.There are actually real pieces of pizza stirred into the mix.
The kettles and tubes of Seefurth’s tiniest of breweries all come together beside the hundreds of beer cans in his collection.
Hey guys want to come drink something I made as a joke?
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looks like homeless man vomit. That seriously is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.
I’m actually surprised they’re serving this at Walter Payton’s Roundhouse. Their beers are really good (well, the ones they brew, probably not the pizza beer).
I would never. I like to think I’m open to trying new foods and drinks, but I don’t think I could drink this since I already know it will taste like cold vomit. Bleh.
You Knuckleheads! Pictured is MASH MASH MASH. If you actually take the time to view the video, you will see a very clear straw colored beer with no chunks. The Pizza is simply a wheat based bread with Tomato, basil oregano & garlic. No Oil, No Cheese.
The beer has won numerous BJCP awards including Babble 2007 3rd place best of show. and is simply a great base beer with a spiced finish of basil, oregano & a hint of garlic. Crummy beer (no pun intended) does not go on to win gold medals. This one is a proven champ, that’s why the Roundhouse World Cup gold medal brewer teamed up with me to enter this BJCP award winning beer in the Great American Beer Festival’s Pro Am competition. It is a beer that can be paired with a number of foods, Pizza being the best thus the name “Tom Seefurth’s mamma Mia Pizza Beer”
Give up the Green Eggs and Ham attitude, hasn’t anyone ever had a spiced belgian beer or a lambic brewed in a brewery that makes The Munster home look good???
Try it try it you will see.
Lies.
I’m with Susie.
Not a good idea indeed. With all the fine beers available at bars, who would want to try their Pizza beer? I guess the real pizza bits changed everybody’s perspective about the drink.
the concept of delicious garlic and cheeziness in my beer intrigues me
the fact was cleared up that the red shit is not the actual drink
so i think it sounds like tasty beer
you peabrains, theres no chunks floating in it. its a flavored beer
ive been drinking @ paytons for a long time & they dont brew just any shit that comes along.its actually pretty good.dont knock it till u try it.now go get a life
Hi Tom!
Long time since the selling VCR’s days…….
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read the truth
http://www.kcchronicle.com/articles/2007/05/21/news/local/doc465168d5be770248988046.txt
Campton man brews up fame
By KARTIKAY MEHROTRA – kmehrotra@kcchronicle.com
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CAMPTON TOWNSHIP – Tom Seefurth says his pizza-flavored concoctions will have him rolling in the dough in no time.
The real-estate agent turned brewmaster says the local publicity that he received after putting his Mamma Mia Pizza Beer on tap at Walter Payton’s Roundhouse in Aurora has both beer drinkers and newsmakers nationwide, and even internationally, looking for a swig of his most recent brew.
“I can’t even describe what the feeling is,” Seefurth said, citing his emotions after hearing that “Tonight Show” host Jay Leno made reference to his pizza beer during a recent show.
“Close to 20 radio stations across the nation have called, Albany called this morning. … [WLUP DJ Jonathon] Brandmeier, he was a naysayer.”
Seefurth said his beer would be talked about between 6 and 8 a.m. today on Brandmeier’s show.
Seefurth’s pizza beer is a combination of tomatoes, garlic, yeast and herbs, which, when purified, strained and fermented, comes out a pale orange and tastes, as advertised, like pizza.
Despite a few reports on one of about a half-dozen Web logs, the beer is not a chunky stew of tomatoes and toppings, although some of his key ingredients are in actual pizza.
“This is better than anything you’ll put in your mouth with any kind of Italian dish,” Seefurth said during the beer’s recent unveiling at Walter Payton’s restaurant on Route 31.
Seefurth even has Canadian talk shows calling in to find out how he came up with the pizza beer.
“They said, ‘Who knows, Mr. Seefurth, maybe it’ll be the first beer that Canadians actually like,’” Seefurth said.
While pizza beer might take pizza parlors around the country by storm this summer, Seefurth’s entrepreneurship isn’t stopping there. Just last week, Seefurth signed a contract with an area cheese manufacturer for pizza-beer cheese.
“We went up and packaged our own half-pound packages of Wisconsin cheese, we’re going to make this and sell it to the brew pubs,” Seefurth said.
Seefurth has turned his beer making business into a family affair, using has wife, Athena, as his quality control technician and his 14-year-old daughter Suzanne’s drawing skills to create emblems for the beer and cheese.
Seefurth’s next ambition to gain some publicity? Tossing a pizza into a brew-pot from a New York City rooftop.
You guys just got called out! LOL … for making comments about a beer you don’t know anything about. Joel, you might want to do a bit more research on the topic you’re about to “dethrone” before you dish on it in your article. Geez. Mr Seefurth appeared to clearly and intelligently respond to what were uninformed and judgemental comments. I bet he has to fight a lot of crap like that. I see on his website that he has other products that sounds great..
Would you care for some crow with your pizza beer, folks?
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