hey what's up. my name is bird and I got a email sayin I should probably post. I've been reading a lot on this forum so Its about time I say something. There are a bunch of us who collectively brew beer in my town. It's so fun and tasty. we have recently tried some good ingredients. We have been using lavender in some beers. we brewed a lavender I.P.A. and we just had a stout come in. It's really yumy. we put baking cocoa in the brew and dry hopped some lavender later. lavender cocoa stout. It Is realy good. one thing about lavender we have found is that you don't need very much. We also had a belgian style come in and it was good too. We put cinnamon in the brew and dry hopped fresh apples in it. This beer is sooo good. It was really light and had a cider like feel to it. I recently made my own hazelnut extract and put it in a hazelnut brown ale. not sure if the hazelnut is going to come through but I hope it does. some other things I'm going to try is chapolte powder and also soaking oak chips in whiskey to make a bourbon stout. Any of ya'll got some interesting ingredients that have/havn't worked well?