Beer as an experiment: pubs are poured from algae and beard

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It's time to forget the outdated beer recipe from malt, hops, yeast and water.

Now, ordering a mug of beer in a local pub, you can easily get a foamy drink made from manure, an elephant trunk, or, as in one of the breweries in New Hampshire, the head of a wild boar, writes Boston Globe.

As the popularity of brewing in the United States is growing, developing competition, and consumers are becoming more demanding of the taste of the drink, beer producers are increasingly resorting to non-traditional ingredients to “revitalize” the taste of their product.

An example is New England, where six local breweries are competing to produce beer using water from the Charles River. Last week, the Portsmouth New Hampshire brewery debuted a Scottish red ale made from kelp, a seaweed.

According to the head of the brewing company Matt Gallagher, customers were amazed by the bizarre seaside taste of beer.

And this is not the most amazing recipe for modern ale.

For example, some breweries are developing beer based on tomatoes and onions. But it is even stranger.

In 2015, an Icelandic brewery tried to brew a foamy drink using “salted and smoked” whale testicles. In 2016, the same brewery drew the ire of conservationists for plans to brew a new beer using whale ingredients.

Back in 2013, the Japanese brewery St. Gallen produced beer from coffee beans extracted from elephant excrement.

And perhaps the most bizarre was the beer from Oregon, for which brewer John Mayer used yeast from his own beard.

At the moment, brewers are actively using berries, St. John's wort, wormwood and other herbs to diversify the taste of hops. And in some places they cook “meat beer”, using for it heads of pigs, elks or bear meat, as well as beef and calf entrails.

Even breweries that still adhere to traditional recipes say that using new ingredients would be a good challenge and impetus for their business.

However, there is a minus in these experiments; beer with meat ingredients has a rather small shelf life compared to traditional varieties of this drink.

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