What's the weirdest ingredient?

[Muss]

What's the weirdest ingredient you've ever heard of added to a beer?

 

[magno]

chicken.

- magno

 

[Torchiest]

I know someone that made an onion beer. Heard it was terrible. Also, New Belgium's Springboard has Wormwood in it. I made a beer with peanut butter, and it's pretty tasty.

 

[homebrewer_99]

The Cock Ale definitely, but also garlic beer.

 

[gonzoflick]

1 can raw Oysters. To my oyster stout... gave it a slightly salty taste

 

[Chrus]

What about that dood that put pizza in his beer... thats pretty damn odd...

 

[Yuri_Rage]

Dude made a Mountain Dew beer a while back. He said he wouldn't do it again.

 

[Schlenkerla]

When you think of it, its not too weird. Wrights Liquid Smoke: Fur mein Rauchbier.

 

[david_42]

Many old farmhouse ales call for meat, but I've never actually made or tasted one. I always strain out the bees. After seven years of brewing, it's hard to think of what else might be considered odd.

 

[RedSun]

I've been very close to making a bacon brew. I think I'll have to take the plunge

 

[dibby33]

Not beer, but wine. My dad used to add weetabix.

 

[Muss]

Every year Sweden has a festival where they eat "surströmming" (Fermented fish). I wonder how disgusting fish beer would be.

Peanut butter beer sounds interesting

 

[Ó Flannagáin]

Mmmmm, surströmming

 

[Torchiest]

Every year Sweden has a festival where they eat "surströmming" (Fermented fish). I wonder how disgusting fish beer would be.

Peanut butter beer sounds interesting

Yeah, it's pretty good. The recipe is a brown ale with some chocolate malt in it, as well as a few other specialty malts to give good head retention to combat the oil in the peanut butter. It came out pretty successfully, and I'll definitely do it again. Check the Big Brother Brown recipe in my sig if you're curious.

 

[Schlenkerla]

I never tried this but I thought of using rosemary. I like the smell. I think it would make something like a spruce beer.

Basically hop with rosemary.

 

[zoebisch01]

I think it would make something like a spruce beer.

I think it would as well. I know some folks here have, I think....


Wierdest. Nothing to date really. I do sour mash on occassion. And added Sour cherries to one....it is clearing now, so I don't know how it turned out...yet.

 

[ftlstrings]

Ive made both rosemary and spruce. Not too similar actually. (albeit i did use diff yeast) rosemary was VERY herbal and took forever to carb up. Spruce (i went pretty light on the spruce in the boil and used small branches to strain through) was pretty refreshing, but still strange.

 

[fineexampl]

Dead Indian flies.

I've brewed with jaggery a couple times and i use it in tea as well. I've found dead fly bodies in my tea on occasion. I just pick them out and drink it anyway.

The beers give a pretty nice buzz.

(couldn't resist. sorry.)

 

[Reelale]

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/content?oid=23587. The strangest I have heard of.

 

[Monty420th]

I was at the LHBS this weekend and one of the people in there was doing a chipotle scottish ale, sounded wonderful

 

[friday]

I did a brew with wheat germ. That didn't work out so well.

 

[Ohio-Ed]

I have a brew I named "Rusty Wrench Red Ale"... can you guess the secret ingredient?

 

[strat_thru_marshall]

I had a buddy that "dry-hopped" with black peppercorns. He said it came out terrible.

 

[suprchunk]

I have a brew I named "Rusty Wrench Red Ale"... can you guess the secret ingredient?

Red? Or maybe Ale?

 

[stageseven]

Weird things I've added so far... none of these batches are ready yet so don't ask me how they turned out lol.

Tea leaves
Tomato paste
Garlic

I'm thinking about doing something with parmesean cheese at some point.

 

[steinsato]

Here in New Mexico Red Chile Porter and Green Chile Ale are popular. I find them to be quite nasty personally.

 

[Brewin_the_goods]

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/content?oid=23587. The strangest I have heard of.

P*ssy beer

 

[BlueSunshine]

P*ssy beer

Tuna beer? Nevermind.

 

[Monty420th]

I have a brew I named "Rusty Wrench Red Ale"... can you guess the secret ingredient?

monkeys?

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[stageseven]

P*ssy beer

My first reaction to reading that was to throw up a little in my mouth.

My second thought was, "how the heck did she culture that sample and keep it sanitary"