"Fancy a Pint of Bacon Beer?"

This is pretty much the perfect beverage for my household, bacon for me, beer for the bf.

The Guardian, out of the UK, ran an article in their Life & Style section on Friday about the world of unusual beers. With crazy combos like a Shellfish Stout and a Barley Tikka Vindaloo, you know that some inspired souls have gone the pig route and tried bacon-beer combinations. Whether imitated, or created with actual bacon right in the recipe, these brews sound good enough to eat...drink?

History has seen many different ingredients added to beer but more unusual ingredients are starting to find their way into brew pots and bottles around the world. Bacon beers have seen a strange increase in popularity in the US, some using smoked malt and others using actual bacon. Goose Island brewed Maple Bacon Stout with maple syrup and bacon and the appropriately named Uncommon Brewers in California have Bacon Brown which has a faintly smoky aroma and flavour which adds an interesting complexity to the beer.

Read the whole article here.