Brewing with baked goods...

In the end, there are better ways to get cherry pie flavors into the beer than throwing in an actual cherry pie

 

Right Brain Brewing makes beers that have whole apple, cherry, blueberry and pecan pies in them. I recently had a sample of the Apple Pie Whole Ale, and it wasn't anything so earth shattering to make it worth taking a chance of a ruined batch becoming a drain pour while you experiment. If you choose to try it, I'm pretty sure that this brewery throws the pies into the boil, but I don't know at what point. You can try calling them and ask the question, or maybe there is some extra info on their website if you search.
http://www.rightbrainbrewery.com/pages.php?tabid=2&pageid=482&title=Beer+Descriptions

 

Agreed. OP, you should try and replicate the flavor as opposed to just throwing in a whole pie. There are a lot of in pie that may not be good for your beer (butter in the crust, for instance)

 

The best pie crusts are made containing leaf lard, which comes from the fat around the pig's kidneys. Not good for head retention I think.

 

Wyeast Brett Lambicus, fuck the pies

 

Yeah I had the Evil Twin donut beer (delicious!), it purportedly was made with 1000 glazed donuts. I was also wondering when the pastry should hit the pot. And what about all the fry grease?

 

Try it the other way around. Add beer to food recipes. Chocolate stout brownies, for instance, as opposed to brownie chocolate stout. Or better yet, work on serving parings: let's have another cup of coffee stout, and let's have another piece of pie. This way, people can opt for the nut brown ale or the vanilla cream stout (already a risky beer, in my book) with their apple brown betty. Once you put the donut in the fermenter, there's no way to get it out of the beer.

 

Not entirely true. Before Thanksgiving last year a poster was determined to add a whole pumpkin pie to the fermentor (or maybe it was the boil?) and asked for technical advice. A couple of brewers here brought up the difficulty and suggested another course of action but his mind was made up. Said he would toss a pumpkin pie in and post about how good it was . . . that was almost a year ago and I don't recall the results. You might search for "pumpkin pie" in this Forum around September 2013, maybe try sending him a private message.

 

Two cherry pies.

 

True story.... Looks like they "dry donutted" the bright tank!

 

I really like the idea of throwing entire baked goods into the boil. Maybe even entire dinners.