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Cheers everyone!!!

Was curious if anyone on here has brewed some odd combination brews? was it successful? Weird flavor profiles?
I am currently brewing my second brew ever...it is a curried pumpkin ale.
I am a cook by trade so I am excited to try some odd favors/combinations. I only brew in 1 gallon batches in case it comes out bloody awful!

Interested in hearing some ideas, outcomes,stories!

Salute.
 
I have done a few Gruits some of which turned out alright, but not very beer like. Got a Habanero Stout in the secondary that smells awesome, as well as a spiced Graff style (apple beer) conditioning. Both of those smell awesome, but not sure how they will taste in the end.

Made a few beers with Grape-nuts cereal in the mash that turned out so fantastic I now commonly use it as a specialty 'grain' in many of my home brews.
 
zabuza is right. mad fermentionist does a lot of cool mostly funky beers. the most out of the ordinary beer i've done other than all kinds of funky or sour beers is a 1/2 gallon experimental batch of swedish fish pale ale
 
I just did an imperial sweet stout a few weeks ago that I fermented with hefeweizen yeast. The end goal is to have a beer that is reminiscent of banana split. I just added a vanilla bean/vodka tincture and 4 oz of cacao nibs last weekend. I'll be bottling on Friday probably, so we'll know how this going to turn out in a couple months.
 
nukebrewer said:
I just did an imperial sweet stout a few weeks ago that I fermented with hefeweizen yeast. The end goal is to have a beer that is reminiscent of banana split. I just added a vanilla bean/vodka tincture and 4 oz of cacao nibs last weekend. I'll be bottling on Friday probably, so we'll know how this going to turn out in a couple months.

This sounds likes really cool idea.

Also, I would say for the time involved in brewing, I would want at least a keg. I've done one half batch of a beer I ended up loving and when it was prematurely gone I was really sad
 
This sounds likes really cool idea.

Also, I would say for the time involved in brewing, I would want at least a keg. I've done one half batch of a beer I ended up loving and when it was prematurely gone I was really sad

Yeah, when I was teaching a friend of mine to brew, we brewed a 3 gallon batch of RIS. It went pretty fast and now I only have 1 bottle left that I am trying to age until it's 1 year brewed on date. It's very tempting to crack it, though, so I feel you.
 
I just did a heather tip ale that came out amazing. Smelled and tasted very floral and beautiful. I'm also planning a lime and basil hefeweizen for next spring. The one I'm super excited to try and brew was a green olive ale.
 
Oaked coconut rum porter, peanut butter and jelly ale, chocolate mint stout, sweet potato porter, a beer with zest from 18 pieces of fruit... lots of stuff.
 
I did a graham cracker ale. It didn't taste good or bad just tasted like an ok beer. The head on it bubbled like blowing bubbles in milk. And it sounded like a glass of rice crispier in milk snap crackle and popped away. Think I still have 1 or 2 in the back of my brew closet. Will have to see how it aged. 8-9months old by now.
 
is a triple decoction 80%6-row/20% corn flakes, all cluster hops "odd"?

I got some odd looks opening the cereal boxes.
 
Nice. A lot of these sound pretty cool.
I'm pretty strict with writing y recipes down so if I need to go from a1 gallon to a 5 itll be an easy task.
 
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