Strange additions

I was watching a bit of TV today and saw a program that had a section about a brewery in Mersea Island in Essex. The guy was brewing a stout and added some oysters to the boil !!

Here's a link to there web site http://www.merseawine.com/brewery.htm

Now I know brewers can be pretty inventive when it comes to ingredients, I've got an old CJJ Berry book and in it he has brewed a 100 year old recipe called "Cock Ale" (chicken you guys chicken ) where parboiled chicken was added to the FV. The most inventive I've been is using Corn Flakes !

So guys what's the most unusual ingredient you've come across being used in a brew, and have you tried it?

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Just done a bit of searching and Oyster stout was invented in 1929 in New Zealand apparently

I never realised that they we're actually added to the brew! I've always had mine seperately with a pint of Guiness and another pint of Guiness.

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I've drunk an oyster stout before but prefer them natural

On brewing, I'm pretty conservative. Rice is the strangest thing I've added and that's hardly strange at all!

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