# Chicken Beer?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-beer/216684>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 3, 2003, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-beer/216684 "2003-12-03T08:25:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![dave\_au](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@dave\_au](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dave_au)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-beer/216684/1 "2003-12-03T08:25:05Z")

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Hi all,

A few years back a friend was telling me about this recipe that he had seen in a brewing book from the 1920’s or 1930’s that included chicken in the brew.

At the time I tried to get a copy of this from him (more for interest sake than out of any desire to actually brew it) but it never happened, and now I am not in touch with him anymore.

Does anybody here have this book, and if so could you please post a copy of the chicken beer recipe.

Thanks!  
Dave T

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**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-beer/216684/2 "2003-12-03T08:58:34Z")

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I hate to say it, but Google is your friend. Try doing a search for “cock ale”.

[Recipe.](http://brewery.org/brewery/cm3/recs/13_23.html)

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**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-beer/216684/3 "2003-12-03T12:35:00Z")

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Chuck Papazian in his first Joy Of Home Brewing book also quoted a recipe for Cock Ale, may be the same one…

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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-beer/216684/4 "2003-12-03T13:38:31Z")

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The Straight Dope on Cock Ale: [What’s the origin of “cocktail”?](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mcocktail.html)

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**Author:** ![dave\_au](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@dave\_au](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dave_au)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2003, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-beer/216684/5 "2003-12-04T02:27:47Z")

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Excellent. Thanks all. 🙂

I’ll let you all know what a stomach pump feels like in a few weeks.