Gag-Inducing Ingredients: Yeast from a man's beard In the Venn Diagram that attempts to explain exactly what hipsterism looks like, there must surely be two overlapping circles labeled "craft beer" and "beard fungus." When searching for an exclusive type of yeast to make their next beer extra special, the brewers at Rogue Ales tried and failed several times. On the cusp of giving up altogether, someone joked that brewmaster John Maier's luscious beard might be the perfect host for some high-quality yeast. Then they took that joke too far by sending samples of Maier's beard to a lab to have it cultured and verified as a solid yeast-growing environment. So now, Beard Beer exists. And every bottle has a little bit of John Maier's beard fungus in it. And you can't un-learn that.
