Beer just got a little weirder, Blogtown… Rogue Ales’ New Crustacean, to be released early next year (if the looming apocalypse doesn’t shut down production for long) grows from the beard follicles of head brewer John Maier. Those crazy brewers down in Newport, Oregon had samples of his beard analyzed as a joke, but apparently the man’s burly face mane produces a strain of yeast perfect for brewing beer.
- Rogue Ales
- Drink This Beard’s Beer
Upper beard, not “lower beard,” right?
It would be vegan… unless they were taking his beard yeast without his consent.
/saying
What next, toe jam beer?
NOPE
I will drink this beer with much gusto. And @2 is right, this is totally vegan. Besides. It’s the YEAST not the beard hair that’s going in. If you’re squeamish about yeast, you have no business drinking beer anyway.
I would drink it, but Rogue is often too cutesy with its (overpriced) weird beers. I’m not opposed to making beard with, say, soba or chipotle, but they make far too much of their supposed eccentricity. Rogue’s verging-on-contrived wacky image kind of makes them the Voodoo Doughnut of beer which, I guess, sort of explains that disgusting pink-bottled abomination from last year.
Would I drink it? Sure. I’m adventurous. I like to put new, exciting things in my mouth. But I’d rather just go to Hopworks or Bailey’s and get consistently good beer that’s not ludicrously priced.
@6: Exactly. They make a great Nut Brown, but so does Sammy Smith for half the price.
This “beard” fixation has now reached it’s climax in absurdity. I declare it dead.