According to historians , beer has subsist for at leastsix millenniaand has been savored on every continent ( evenAntarctica ! ) . With credential like that , it ’s no admiration that brewer have occasionally twist to some extremely strange techniques and factor to make their drinkable brook out . Here are eight of the left .
1. Dead Whales
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Last year , an Icelandic brewing company called Steojar made newspaper headline when password of their make a humiliated - fat beer with processed whale meat ( get from beached carcasses ) got out , move outragefrom conservationist . Steojar ’s official website boasted that those who drink it would become " on-key Vikings , " but their product wassubsequently bannedby Iceland ’s wellness department .
2. Elephant Dung
Dubbed " Un , Kono Kuro " ( a play on the Japanese word " unko , " meaning " horseshit " ) , this Nipponese intermixture was made " using coffee beans that have snuff it through an elephant . " How did it taste ? Onebrave recipientsaid " there was an initial bitterness that got washed over by a wave of sweetness . "
regrettably , this limited variant treatsold outwithin minutes ( even at the sound price of $ 100 a bottle ) , so if you want to get your hands on some elephant poop beer , you ’re going to have to get your hand dirty and start from dent .
3. Human Beards
Plenty of brewers claim to put a footling bit of themselves in their bottles , but onlyRogue Ale ’s The Beard Beertakes that estimation so literally . As the name imply , the beer is createdthanks to a whiskers — specifically , the beard of the company ’s master brewer , John Maier . The Oregon - based society was looking for a new source of yeast when someone joke Maier ’s whiskers might be a perfect place to maturate it . certainly enough , it worked . " John has had the same honest-to-god emergence byssus since 1978 and for over 18,000 brews , so it is no bang-up surprise that a natural yeast ideal for brewing was discovered in his beard,“Rogueproudly boast .
4. Dead Christmas Trees
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Spruce - based beers have been around for 100 , a exercise some believeshould be revivedto help curb the wastefuldiscarding of Christmas treesen masse shot after the holiday .
5. “Rocky Mountain Oysters”
6. Actual Oysters
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respite assure , seafood fans : you may also find beer thatcontain material oysters . Their meat and shell have been used in stouts since the 18th century , present the beer a silky , salty finishing and becomingregional favoritesin countries such as Belgium and New Zealand .
7 . cannabis
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Two drugs for the price of one ! Flavoredwith hemp seed , Joint Effort beer is , as Washington ’s Redhook brewery call it , " a doubtful quislingism between two buds . " Made to celebrate the legalization of marijuana in the res publica in 2012 , the beer pat was fittingly mold like alarge yellow bong .
8. Frankincense & Myrrh
Fittingly called the Gift of the Magi , this gold - coloredseasonal alefrom The Lost Abbey is flavored withfrankincense barkand " the smallest amount of gum myrrh . "
