oyster stouts?
why yes, apparently brewers do put oysters in beer! and i think i might just want to try some... provided to me by alison but actually from the huffington post "Brine in Your Brew: Sampling Oyster Stouts Sep 13 2010, 9:02 AM ET Though the Germans would like us to believe otherwise, beer has long been made with ingredients other than barley, hops, and water. Of course, there's a reason 16th-century German brewers were kept to such a strict recipe regimen—you can add a lot of nasty stuff to beer to make it more potent, to make it last longer, or to stretch ingredients. These days, though, brewers usually add extras to improve their beer, not degrade it: coffee, pumpkin, tea, spices; there's beer made with chilis, beer made with hemp, beer made with beet sugar (called, cleverly, the Kerouac), and even, according to a Seattle performance artist, beer made with her own ... well, yeah. With that in mind, is oyster beer really all that weird? Although it's a bit...