As we all know, Japan has been the main source of weird stuff since… forever.  Now they’re up to something ridiculously weird. Japan’s Abashiri Brewery is well on their way to offering us blue beer. It’s called Okhotsk Blue (also known as Ryuho Draft):

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Abashiri is a microbrewery located on Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido. Owned and operated by the Takahashi Company, Abashiri has been turning heads (and possibly stomachs) for some time now with its unusual beers – and by “unusual” I mean Scallop Beer and Bilk. The latter, an incongruous combination of beer and milk meant to appeal to females.

In any case, Okhotsk Blue Draft stands out for its cool color and interesting ingredients. The brew is made using water melted from icebergs that float each year onto Hokkaido beaches from the chilly Sea of Okhotsk, an arm of the North Pacific ocean bordered by Japan and Russia. They also used seaweed to give their brew and icy blue tint. As for the taste… reports state that it isn’t at all bad as beers go, and if you didn’t know there was seaweed in it, you likely wouldn’t guess there was.