What's the weirdest ingredient?

[lazybean]

a friend of mine makes bacon bourbon. he renders the fat off a lb of bacon and pours it in a fifth of bourbon and lets it sit at room temp for about a week. then he puts it in the fridge to congeal the bacon fat and strains it off.

i think a bacon porter or stout might be good.

the latest issue of BYO's cover is about brewing with breakfast. How-to for everything from Coffee, Bacon to fruity pebbles. it is a good read, at first the bacon sounds horrible to me, but now i might give it a try.

 

[passedpawn]

the latest issue of BYO's cover is about brewing with breakfast. How-to for everything from Coffee, Bacon to fruity pebbles. it is a good read, at first the bacon sounds horrible to me, but now i might give it a try.

This must be James Spencer's article because he just had a Basic Brewing podcast on this.

If you've ever smelled Briess' cherrywood smoked malt, you can probably get all the bacon you want from that.

 

[Torchiest]

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

I must've missed this back when. I think this is the winner!

 

[Heckle]

I made a batch using Goldenberries. Was not too bad, definitely had a different taste.

 

[ftlstrings]

Don't want to spend too much time thinking of stranger ingredients than vaginal yeast. Seems kinda wrong, but i guess if you culture it out, then it's no different from any other yeasts...

 

[Schlenkerla]

I made an imperial pilsner where I mashed with a variety of canned swill as the hot liquor. So I used cheap add beer to make expensive beer. It turned out good too. I have thread somewhere on this site. It's a entertaining read.