Unusual ingredients

[Waterlogged]

So, I am just finishing up my first solo 46 litre brew of a Galaxy APA.  I have renamed the beer to Yellow Jacket to reflect on of the uninteded ingrediants in todays brew.  When I put the first runnings of the mash in the boil kettle I went to Read's to grab a coffee.  When I got back and poured the sparge water in, a drowned yellow jacket hornet was floating around the kettle.  I swear to God he had a smile on his face .  I decided to put the lid on the kettle when I saw a leaf from my butternut tree rolling around in the boil. 

[jamie_savoie]

did you left the hornet there for the boil? lol

[Roger]

did you left the hornet there for the boil? lol

Yea for added flavour!

[Kyle]

A buddy of mine back in the Coopers kit days used to do open fermentation on all of his beers... and he had four cats.

[Chris Craig]

A buddy of mine back in the Coopers kit days used to do open fermentation on all of his beers... and he had four cats.

I can't imagine that worked out well.  Did he at least cover the bucket with a towel?

[Roger]

A buddy of mine back in the Coopers kit days used to do open fermentation on all of his beers... and he had four cats.

P---y Juice!

[Chris Craig]

Nasty

[Roger]

 

[Roger]

How's this for an unusual ingredient. The leftovers from a roasted chicken! I've got a recipe for Cock Ale. It calls for the carcase and leftovers of a roasted chicken to be put in a muslin bag and added after fermentation begins and left in the fermenter for three days. Then removed and left until fermentation is over. I haven't had the balls to try it yet but you never know I might get brave and try it.     

[Chris Craig]

You had the cock, but not the balls

[Roger]

 Yea something like that! 

[Waterlogged]

Roger, that just sounds so wrong.

[HappyHax0r]

Great, another thing that tastes like chicken...

[Richard]

Yay salmonella!