What's the most "interesting" beer you've ever tasted?

[Dave G]

Found "Old Leghumper" to be surprisingly good. Bit of a chocolate/coffee taste with an appealing dark rick color.

[Chas]

I once drank something that was called "Melee Beer". It was supposedly brewed to a medieval recipe. The idea being that it could be drunk all day at a tournament and the drinker would not get drunk.

The only way I can describe it is to say that it tasted like the ghost of a beer - there had been beer in the glass, but it had been washed out a couple of times since then.

Regards

Chas

[Lime]

It has to be one of the very sour Belgian Lambic beers which I had on draft when on holiday in Brussels. The bartender was quite surprised that I wanted one and warned it probably wouldn't be to my (a foreigner's) taste but I had read quite a bit about them and wanted to try so I went for it and genuinely enjoyed... I do generally quite enjoy sour and citric flavours.

I can't remember any of the specific beers I am afraid but I am fairly sure that any genuine Lambic will be "interesting"... hard to get outside Belgium though.

Unlike other beers a Lambic is produced by spontaneous fermentation by being exposed to wild yeasts in the brewery and in the air. There's are some interesting notes on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambic.

[Lyle1]

The most interesting beer we had on the trip was categorized as Smokebeer ..The taste really got better has we drank more. Hummm, that kind of works for all different kinds of beer!

Smoked beer would be my most interesting beer, also. Partially because the taste was a complete surprise, and the fact that it just kept getting better, and partially because it was served with the first course at a pairing of German food and wines.

[biblemonkey]

At the Bullfrog Brewry in Williamsport, PA last Holloween they had a brew named "Gothika" that was AMAZING and blew the hair off everyone who tried it. *sigh* Too bad they change out the brew menu every month.

[biblemonkey]

Certainly the most "interesting" beer I've had in terms of name is He'brew Beer:

http://www.shmaltzbrewing.com/HEBREW...s_messiah.html

The Messiah Bold Brown Ale is quite tasty.

T.

Oh, great...now I have to find a way to get it shipped to PA!ith:

[macwilkin]

Oh, great...now I have to find a way to get it shipped to PA!ith:

Or drive to New Jersey. I always make a "bootleg run" to by Millstream Schild Brau Beer from the Amana Colonies when I'm back in Iowa.

Stupid Missouri beverage laws...

T.

[Redhawk]

I make a "Holiday" beer with Cinnamon and apple that's pretty tasty!

[Cowher]

For "interesting" as in weird I had a peanut butter beer a chocolate raspberry beer, a bacon beer, and a habanero beer.

But to me "interesting" is a good thing. It is tasty but different and it has layers and layers of flavor.
I brew a beer that is half stout half ale. Up front it has chocolate and blood orange flavors yet as it sits in your mouth it slowly melts into a hazelnut and caramel flavor but it's never sweet it's almost floral. As you swallow it and your mouth remains empty you feel the dry grains blow through your nose the roasted nutty flavor of Irish cut oats.
It's soooooooo good I think I'm going to brew it next month.
No I won't publish the recipe. It is the only one I hold secret. It's like my margarita recipe for me only.

Cheers!

[Pyper]

In what seems like a different lifetime I used to be an avid home brewer. One of the most interesting beers I made had popped popcorn as a significant part of the (all grain) mash. It was really good.

Perhaps the most interesting though, was a beer I called Santa's Little Helper. It was an exceptionally heavy barleywine. A large can of malt extract in a one gallon batch, with flavorings of Jamaican cooffee, chocolate, and vanilla extract. Aged for a year. My friends all thought it was going to be a train wreck, but it all came together.