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| A Briny Brew |
 Master Brewers at Shepherd Neame Brewery have come up with a whole new way to make you seasick. Not content to rest on their laurels with making traditional stouts and beers, they have pushed the envelope to create Scallop Stout.
"There's a hint of smokiness and a slight taste of the sea but no fishiness," brewer Stewart Main told Metro.co.uk. "I can find no scientific reason for why it works, but it does."
Main's idea for the stout germinated upon visiting a scallop festival. He watched people washing their scallops down with a pint of brew and, like a bolt from the blue, Scallop Stout had been born.
Creamy like a Guinness, the 3.7 percent alcohol stout is brewed through traditional methods, only adding scallops for about an hour of the process. The brewery has plans to add a crab and winkle ale, too.
This is not actually the only beer that has an association with the deep. Ale is made clearer by finings, a substance culled from the swim bladders of fish.
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