Beer is an incredibly versatile beverage. Using only minimal ingredients familiar to the brewing and culinary arts, brewers are able to craft spectacularly varied beers that run the gamut of flavors and aromas.
Sometimes though, these few ingredients seem to make some brewers claustrophobic and they chafe under any cries for “purity” in beer. These 10 wacky brews throw the Reinheitsgebot and usual kitchen ingredients out the window and embrace some highly unorthodox approaches.
Here’s our top ten of the weirdest beers and their ingredients.
Precious – Do you enjoy drinking beer but worry about aging prematurely? Do you like your light lagers laced with anti-aging ingredients?
Well, you’ll love Precious, a beer that actually has collagen as an active ingredient. Yes, the most abundant protein in the human body now has a tasty way to be replenished.
This brew, first crafted in Hokkaido, Japan by Suntory Holdings Limited, is marketed heavily towards women, with one of its chauvinistic taglines making that blatantly obvious: “Guys can tell if a girl is taking collagen or not.”