God Is a Florida Brewery

Funky Buddha Brewery out of Florida made a porter with maple syrup, coffee, and bacon in it. Six point four percent alcohol. Apparently this is real and you can drink it for breakfast, which I choose to interpret as a spiritual statement.

The idea of a brewery committing to a beer that smells like a Saturday morning diner is either visionary or insane, and those categories overlap more than people admit. I’m not precious about beer—I like dark, I like weird, I like when someone clearly had a stupid idea at 2am and then actually built the infrastructure to see it through. This qualifies on all counts.

Their lineup apparently extends to chocolate, peanut butter, and pumpkin variations. At a certain point the product stops being beer in any traditional sense and becomes a philosophy: take every flavor that should never ferment, ferment it anyway. I respect the commitment. I’m not sure about the peanut butter one, but I respect it.