[Joe T]

I think the reason bacon tastes so good is because it contains the big three of flavor: salt, sugar, and fat. No matter how much bacon taste you get in your beer it will never be anything better than fat-free bacon. FAT-FREE BACON!

[S. cerevisiae]

Bacon beer =     But I could be wrong.

I don't think you are! 

I concur!  I watched the bacon beer episode of Dark Horse Nation, and my stomach was queasy the entire time.  Beer is not supposed to be a stunt.

[reverseapachemaster]

I had a brown ale on cask with bacon added to the cask. I have long eschewed the idea of bacon beer but there it was and I figured I should try it at least once. It was pretty good. Not the kind of beer I would drink pint after pint. Very assertive bacon flavor.

[denny]

Beer is not supposed to be a stunt.

So much THIS^^^^!  While I applaud creativity in homebrewing, to my mind there's a fine line between innovation and "WTF were you thinking".

[HoosierBrew]

Beer is not supposed to be a stunt.

So much THIS^^^^!  While I applaud creativity in homebrewing, to my mind there's a fine line between innovation and "WTF were you thinking".

  Yep.  Also a (not so) fine line between meat and beer.      

[erockrph]

I had a brown ale on cask with bacon added to the cask. I have long eschewed the idea of bacon beer but there it was and I figured I should try it at least once. It was pretty good. Not the kind of beer I would drink pint after pint. Very assertive bacon flavor.

This is what I think of Rauchbier. Sounds like an interesting idea at first. Doesn't taste horrible. But after about 3 sips I'm done. If I was at a beer festival and a brewery didn't have anything else more interesting on tap I may try it, but I'd never spend money on it. And I would never waste the time or grain to brew even a 1 gallon batch that I would be dumping about 125 ounces from.

[EHall]

they also make a bacon flavored coffee sryup, you could try that. I personally wouldn't waste bacon in the beer, its for eating... if you want the flavor find an extract.

[e-dubb]

creatively thinking...i would smoke a slab of bacon and some malt in the same smoker at the same time..

[DukeBrohnston]

Hey all!
Thank you for your suggestions. I ended up not adding salts to this batch. Despite an additional pound of smoked malts the smokiness is nonexistent. In my secondary I added roughly 3 lbs of Grade-A Maple Syrup (Yes Canadian) giving me about an 8% final alcohol. 2 months post-bottling the alcohol burn is not powerful but it is still present. I am hoping that it will mellow out by January/February so I can enter it in a competition.

Stay thirsty amigos!

[JT]

A local brewery, Listermann's, does a smoked bock called Friar Bacon.  You'd swear it has bacon in it, but they swear it doesn't!  A good beer for a cold winter morning maybe.  It is good, but I couldn't drink much of it in one sitting.  At any rate, save the real bacon for your cast iron.   

[69franx]

A local brewery, Listermann's, does a smoked bock called Friar Bacon.  You'd swear it has bacon in it, but they swear it doesn't!  A good beer for a cold winter morning maybe.  It is good, but I couldn't drink much of it in one sitting.  At any rate, save the real bacon for your cast iron.

JT, I love Listermann's, get all my supplies there. And just joined the Bloats last week, see you around

[JT]

A local brewery, Listermann's, does a smoked bock called Friar Bacon.  You'd swear it has bacon in it, but they swear it doesn't!  A good beer for a cold winter morning maybe.  It is good, but I couldn't drink much of it in one sitting.  At any rate, save the real bacon for your cast iron.

JT, I love Listermann's, get all my supplies there. And just joined the Bloats last week, see you around

Prost!