Inventive brewery are go to wild remnant in their attack to make beer better ( or at least , weirder ) . We ’ve tell you about anice cream - flavored beer , one made with real Sriracha , beer that ’s been to blank space , and eveniced coffee that tastes like beer . But this latest offer , fromOxbow Breweryin Newcastle , Maine , pushes the bound of what you want wetting your whistle . Their new brewage , called Saison dell’Aragosta , is made using resilient lobster .
Tim Adams , carbon monoxide - owner and point brewer at Oxbow , excuse toBoston.comthat the kinky beer was part of a coaction with Giovanni Campari , the brewmaster at the Italian brewery Birrificio del Ducato . According to Adams , the initial plan was to create " an esoteric German beer that was low in alcoholic drink and used wheat along with barleycorn . " But first , since they were in Maine , they went for lobster paradiddle .
" Giovanni turns to me and say , ' We got ta put some lobster in the beer we ’re brew , ' " Adams said . " I was somewhat need aback and hesitant , but I could n’t say no to him . The guy travel all the way from Parma to Maine . "
They purchase a dozen bouncy lobsters and cooked them in the simmering wort — the pre - fermented mash of scratch and barm that ’s created at the start of beer brewing .
" We cooked the 12 lobsters until they were done , and then we pull them out and we eat them , " Adams tell . And if you have some boiling wort lie around , you might want to consider making lobster because he attests that , " I grew up in Maine and I ’ve eaten plenty of lobster . But this was the best lobster I ’ve ever had in my life . "
But what about the beer ?
After finishing it with some Maine sea Strategic Arms Limitation Talks , the flavor profile featured " a balance between the sweetness of the lobster , the asperity of the acidity , and the salinity of the salinity . "
If you ’re interested in this crustacean - inspired brewage , about 3,000 feeding bottle - deserving is usable at Oxbow ’s brewery in Newcastle , their Portland storefront , and select Maine bars and restaurants .
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