skittlebrau (sugar + beer = in the clear?)

It's been ages since I've written, I know.

For a few weeks my work friend had been saying she had to bring leftover Skittles to work because she won't let her kids eat them (the colouring makes them nuts or something), but she kept forgetting. Last week another friend, upon hearing about the Skittles thing, yelled out, "We should go for Skittlebrau next week!" Last night was my last late shift for a while, so we decided to go out this week after work. I sent reminder emails about the Skittles and last night she brought them.

After doing research, we made a plan to go for Skittlebrau and wound up at the cheap crepe place on Granville, the one beside the Orpheum. For those of you not obsessed with the Simpsons, Skittlebrau is Skittles in beer. The best beer, allegedly, is a bitter beer because the sugar from the Skittles cuts the bitterness. We chose our colours (Heidi chose a rainbow of flavours) and dropped them in. The Skittles make the beer foamy (the sugars converting to foam/gas with the yeast?) and cloudy with colour. Two of us had Stella; the other a honey brown. The Skella (Skittles + Stella) was really tasty with Skittles, but the honey brown looked disgusting (Heidi's rainbow) and she said it was terrible. I had orange and Chris had a citrus medly of orange, lemon and whatever red is meant to be. By the bottom two fingers it was pretty sweet, but surprisingly good. And you get the hardened candy at the bottom to chew at the end.

We found that 9 Skittles per glass is probably optimal; a pint will require more. We stuck with the original flavours, but any other Skittle would probably work. Though we all agreed the green ones might be disgusting. It's hard to tell if I was just tired or if all that sugar and beer hit me hard. There's a leftover package so we might go again in the coming weeks.

The only real disappointment was that the candy didn't float.

Currently watching :
Six Feet Under - The Complete Fifth Season
Release date: 28 March, 2006