ftlstrings

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What's the weirdest brew you have ever made (or thought about making)?

I've seen stouts with lemon juice in them, brewed beer with juniper, and read about ancient gruits.

What have you done? How'd it turn out???

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ben the brewman

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My friend has made a oyster stout, smoked salmon porter, and a bacon porter. All were pretty good but the bacon porter was my favorite. The oyster stout won the local pro-am contest 2 years ago.

Special Hops

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ugg. I guess if that's your thing. but IMO why ruin perfectly good beer.

snowveil

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without experimentation we'd never have innovation

david_42

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A ginger beer with chamomile or maybe the 6% ABV root beer. The latter took a fair amount of back-sweetening to taste right.

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danweasel

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I always wanted to try alcoholic root beer. Recipe, possibly?

Oyster stout. That is blowing my mind.

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SumnerH

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Oyster stout is a pretty common style, actually.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stout#Oyster_stout

They fall under BJCP style 13B, "Sweet Stouts"--the BJCP guidelines list Marston’s Oyster Stout as an example of a sweet stout.

Michael Jackson wrote about them here: http://www.beerhunter.com/documents/19133-001521.html

I've found a few at random bars in the DC areas over the years.

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ftlstrings

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Still, I think I'd put that one right up there with "toothpaste stout"

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blagoe

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Lots of beer with different candy, the red-hot beer was not bad. Candy corn beer not so much. Lucky Charms in stout on St. Patties days seems popular at my local brew pub. One guy made ants on a log beer, which was supposed to taste like peanut butter, raises and celery, was not a fan.
I've always said home brewers will try just about anything, and why not it's just beer.
One of these days I'm going to make a dirt beer, here's the label:

ftlstrings

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love that it's a "permium" brew!

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