Ideas for a strange brew

[americanabroad]

Hi everyone. Local town is having a beer festival in january called the Strange Brew festival. I want to enter and need 2 different brews. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I am already thinking of a sea water beer and or maybe an oyster beer. Let's get the creativity flowing! Thanks!

 

[pdxal]

You could make a blonde stout by making a blonde and dry hopping it with coffee beans. Light colored beer with stout/coffee flavor surprises people.

 

[Wolfhound180]

I made an extract beer once where I used MT Dew instead of water.

 

[pdxal]

I made an extract beer once where I used MT Dew instead of water.

Now THAT's strange!

 

[bucketnative]

I made an extract beer once where I used MT Dew instead of water.

A college girlfriend used to drink half Mountain Dew, half Old Milwaukee.

 

[Rosmucman]

How about bananas in the mash tun in a hefe,supposedly they convert no problem and leave a big banana taste.

 

[Wolfhound180]

A college girlfriend used to drink half Mountain Dew, half Old Milwaukee.

Redneck radler.

 

[MolecularBrewologist]

Mushroom beer! I was reading an article today that mentioned Chanterelle mushrooms, extracted in vodka and added when bottling. Age it on oak for a full forest flavor

 

[ong]

Blue cheese saison.

 

[ChemErik]

Saison so seem to come out well with a wide variety of fruit. Pick something unusual like kiwi, star fruit, kumquats, etc.

 

[GHBWNY]

You could make a blonde stout by....

...feeding her lots of fatty foods?

 

[bigplunkett]

Ive got sn idea i was toying with still havent done it. Make standard wheat beer idk 5 # 2 row 5 wheat bitter and hop with tettnag to 20 ibu the toast some cherry wood chips instead of oak it should imoart cherry woodynes into the beer like it would smoke pork.

 

[TX_Brewing]

A college girlfriend used to drink half Mountain Dew, half Old Milwaukee.

Does she have a sister??😉

 

[TX_Brewing]

Saison so seem to come out well with a wide variety of fruit. Pick something unusual like kiwi, star fruit, kumquats, etc.

Or go full funk with durian.....

Google it if you dare....

 

[americanabroad]

All good ideas. Really like the chantrelle idea

 

[GPP33]

See water? I'll pass. Oyster? Interesting...I think flesh in beer is a completely under explored segment of brewing. Blood sausage works, why not blood beer?

You could also drink a bunch of bud light, collect your piss, purify it and brew something good. It'd be recycled beer.

A fun thing to do could be to brew a couple batches of the same beer and ferment them using yeast harvested from historic structures around your town.

 

[pdxal]

See water? I'll pass. Oyster? Interesting...I think flesh in beer is a completely under explored segment of brewing. Blood sausage works, why not blood beer?

You could also drink a bunch of bud light, collect your piss, purify it and brew something good. It'd be recycled beer.

A fun thing to do could be to brew a couple batches of the same beer and ferment them using yeast harvested from historic structures around your town.

Nah, old news, that's been done for the last 3 years here.

http://pamplinmedia.com/pt/9-news/322291-201951-from-sewage-to-brewage-

 

[SirHC_]

Or something totally local. I've got a crabapple pils going now simply because I have crabapples in the front yard and was tired of stepping on them.