{"id":3427,"date":"2012-10-03T16:03:56","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T22:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tombedell.com\/?p=3427"},"modified":"2013-11-27T14:44:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T20:44:11","slug":"the-end-of-the-beer-world-as-we-know-it-part-iv-beer-with-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/golf\/lifestyle\/3427\/the-end-of-the-beer-world-as-we-know-it-part-iv-beer-with-balls","title":{"rendered":"The End of the Beer World As We Know It, Part IV: Beer With Balls"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>(October 3, 2012) — I was just out in Denver and had my share of beer, but sadly did not make it to the Wynkoop Brewery, the state\u2019s first brewpub. If I had, I might have discovered what kind of balls it really takes to be a brewer these days.<\/p>\n

The brewery was started in 1988 by John Hickenlooper, who went on to become Denver\u2019s Mayor and is now the Colorado Governor, an event that did not go unnoticed by those at the brewery (click here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

But now, in what started as an April Fools\u2019 Day joke, the brewery has gone ahead and produced a Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Weirdly, four of us were driving around in Denver this past weekend and the subject of Rocky Mountain Oysters came up. For those unfamiliar with the treat, they\u2019re not seafood.<\/p>\n

The discussion was one of nomenclature. My wife said the treats were known as prairie oysters, while Denver native Jerry Carbone insisted they were Rocky Mountain oysters.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re both right, as they would have been if they had called the morsels Montana tendergroins, swinging beef, cowboy caviar or calf fries, which begins to suggest what they really are\u2014bull testicles.<\/p>\n

Marty Jones, who serves as Wynkoop\u2019s Conductor\/Idea Man, said he was doing a radio show in March, tasting an oyster stout from the Odell Brewing Co. of Fort Collins, made with real oysters of the seafood variety in collaboration with Jax Fish House.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was riding home, thinking about Wynkoop\u2019s efforts to brew with local ingredients, and something hit me. I made a note.\u201d Jones is clearly not the Idea Man for nothing. \u201cOne of our servers is a videographer, so we put together the spoof for April 1.\u201d<\/p>\n