Your most bizarre brew...?

[BreadMurderer]

So I asked the question last time with regards to people fitting the brewing stereotype - got some great responses! (I should make a graph...)

Anyway...

My query today is - What is the most bizarre concoction of brew you have either deliberately set out to make or made accidentally?

I'm interested in experimenting quite a bit but wondered what had all ready been done. :)

Dan
Beer Scientist

 

[RobWalker]

there's a few on here that certainly fit the bill by others...milk wine, beer with a chicken carcass, etc...

i'm quite reserved with my whacky bonkers recipes, I've made a rum and raisin vanilla sweet stout (very nice,) a light beer with curry spices (not bad, too dry,) a chocolate orange porter (failed because of cocoa fat) and a beer with about 40% of the bill being honey, the other 60 DME and all goldings hops. my yearly brew is a christmas ginger nut brown ale, the original recipe used ginger nut biscuits in the actual mash, but I broke down the ingredients instead and brew it that way. it's a cracker, lovely malty body, caramelized sugars and hops have ages to blend together cause I brew it in may!

 

[wezil]

About to start a brussel sprout wine! Before that it would be my peach, carrot and fuggles hops with a dash of chillie wine (near to bottling time for this) Or the 3 jars of jalapeños I used in an apple wow! (almost undrinkable)!!

 

[Stu]

About to start a brussel sprout wine! Before that it would be my peach, carrot and fuggles hops with a dash of chillie wine (near to bottling time for this) Or the 3 jars of jalapeños I used in an apple wow! (almost undrinkable)!!

Now that WOW sounds awesome. I'd try some of that.

I think the weirdest ones on here are the cereal killer or the bacon one.

 

[calumscott]

Didn't I see a sprout wine a few months ago...?

Ah Ha!!! http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/viewt ... 39&t=35090

 

[fbsf]

Where's BrotherMalice when you need him...?

 

[calumscott]

or ScottM with his "interesting" alcopops!

 

[bobsbeer]

I'll reserve judgement on the Bacon Beer till after the Spring Thing, but early sippers tasted promising. While bacon sounds whacky I don't think it's quite in the league of Chicken Beer. :grin:

 

[sam.k]

Back before my brewing break I made a cabbage beer, that was pretty rank TBH.
I have however drunk a homebrew that was flavoured with something else that was green if you catch my drift.... That was also pretty rank.

 

[31bb3]

There was a Tomato wine challenge we did a while ago

 

[Swazi]

Erm... in my younger days when I was still stupid, I dry hopped a gallon of IPA with an ounce of cannabis. I never had the courage to try it but got positive reports from some of my adventurous friends. :nono:

 

[Hirsty]

The most odd brews I've heard of are a stout with bulls testicles (originally an April Fool's prank then they did it for real) and a beer brewed with yeast cropped from a brewer's beard. That and Carling - bizarre what people will drink.

 

[calumscott]

That and Carling - bizarre what people will drink.

:rofl: :rofl:

 

[JKaranka]

I'm still waiting for a green tomato wine to mature until drinkable...

On a more tasty note, I have a braggawd in the fermenter that is around 50/50 honey and malts, with a big addition of special b, and once fermented I'll stick some vanilla and cinnamon in. Worth giving it a go. Only had one braggawd before (by Brains Craft) and it was very interesting but maybe more of an interesting style / idea than a great pint.

 

[RobWalker]

I'm still waiting for a green tomato wine to mature until drinkable...

On a more tasty note, I have a braggawd in the fermenter that is around 50/50 honey and malts, with a big addition of special b, and once fermented I'll stick some vanilla and cinnamon in. Worth giving it a go. Only had one braggawd before (by Brains Craft) and it was very interesting but maybe more of an interesting style / idea than a great pint.

these kinds of things are, mark my words, absolutely amazing if you make them strong, give them lots of time to mature and drink them in the winter by a nice roasty fire after a hard day's graft. goes down like flippin' liquid gold. the trick is to make sure there's plenty of body despite the dry honey, and enough malt to bring it to say, 5% will give it plenty of punch. :

 

[JKaranka]

so it's good I was aiming for 7% abv then! :
seriously, I'd call medium strength stuff around 4.8-6% abv... and my first search for recipes and ideas on this one were American recipes in the 8-11% abv range!

 

[BIGJIM72]

Back in my kit days I made a thai spiced lager (lime leaves,coriander,ginger & a few other odds & sods)-nice but one was enough.

I have a dehydrator indoors & keep toying with the idea of a banana beer ( I know that banana bread beer is produced by strict temp control & the flavour is produced by the yeast not from fruit). As the bananas are dried & not fried like the banana chips you can buy there would be no problem of any oil getting into the brew. I am hoping that they will add a crystal malt type sweetness as they have that same kind of fudgey sweetness to them.

 

[Scott]

there's a few on here that certainly fit the bill by others...milk wine, beer with a chicken carcass, etc...

i'm quite reserved with my whacky bonkers recipes, I've made a rum and raisin vanilla sweet stout (very nice,) a light beer with curry spices (not bad, too dry,) a chocolate orange porter (failed because of cocoa fat) and a beer with about 40% of the bill being honey, the other 60 DME and all goldings hops. my yearly brew is a christmas ginger nut brown ale, the original recipe used ginger nut biscuits in the actual mash, but I broke down the ingredients instead and brew it that way. it's a cracker, lovely malty body, caramelized sugars and hops have ages to blend together cause I brew it in may!

Funny you should mention the chicken beer, I was reading the recipe in Ben Turner's book this morning, it's called Cock Ale and I was intrigued!

 

[ScottM]

I haven't really done any mental beers, although I did do a Bud lime extract recipe which some would consider bonkers.

My "ciders" though, I've done a few daft things there.

Bongo Brew - Um Bongo fermented dry, in the congo, then back sweetened to umbongo levels and fired into a sodastream...

Irn Bru Chew - Irn Bru fermented dry, made from girders, then back sweetened to Irn Bru levels and fired into a sodastream...

Tangtastic TC - Apple Juice, Asda Five Fruits Juice, Asda Exotic Juice Drink fermented dry and primed in the bottle...

Random TC - Apple Juice, Pressed Grape Juice, Ribena, Pomegranate juice fermented dry and mistakenly back sweetened with sucralose and binned...

 

[BreadMurderer]

Chicken carcass, wacky-backy, bulls testicles, um-bongo....

All very interesting to say the least! Loving the input so far, and some don't sound that crazy too be honest, rather nice. :thumb: