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Beer Brewed With Lucky Charms? Lobster? It’s Possible—and Delicious
Craft breweries are getting crazy with adjunct beers, using bizarre ingredients during the fermentation process—think pizza, tobacco, even hay—and you should hunt them down while you can.
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The “German Beer Purity Law” (Reinheitsgebot) of 1516 codified that beer could only be made with barley, hops, and water (updated to include yeast a few hundred years later, when French microbiologist Louis Pasteur discovered what had been responsible for fermentation all along). There’s no such dogma in the contemporary world of craft brewing, however, where producers have been perversely pushing the envelope with adjunct ingredients into the infinite.
Here are seven delicious examples of uniquely bizarre beers that incorporate unorthodox ingredients into the fermentation process, including bacon, tobacco, frozen pizza, and even money.