Letter "Q" brewing ingredients

Quinoa?

Does it have to be the ingredient, or could you make a Quiche beer that includes ingredients that make it like a Quiche?

Quince

 

Both quinoa and quince are fantastic ideas. I can't think of anything else.

Quinoa should be a good grain addition, try maybe 1 to 1.5 lb in 5 gallons and be sure it is mashed, not just added raw. Toasted might be interesting as well, I'm not sure, in an oven at like maybe 325 F for 15 minutes or until it smells nice.

Quinoa is a difficult fruit to find except as preserves/jam. It's probably expensive though. If trying this, maybe only do a 1-gallon batch and add like 1.5-2 lb preserves to the batch at flameout, with pectinase as well as I know this stuff is very high in pectin and thus would make the beer cloudy. It still might be cloudy but the pectinase should help break it down. Also I hear that pectinase doesn't work well in presence of alcohol so you'll want to add the quince preserves right at flameout, i.e., the beginning of fermentation, and not wait until secondary. Unless you don't care about haze.

Quince Quinoa Quaffer, Esquire. Heh heh. Could be interesting. Could suck. Don't know until you try!

 

If you don't mind pleading guilty to being a poor speller, you could use kumquat.

 

Quassia for bittering, never used it myself, go for it.

 

Quentao (a Brazilian cocktail drink),





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Quahog? Instead of oyster stout possibly?
there is a beer recipe including a whole chicken floating around the internet, maybe sub out quail? Quisp cereal could be mashed with the grist? Maybe mash some toasted tortillas, throw some cilantro in for a dryhop addition and have quesadilla saison.

 

If @drewbage can do clam chowda saison, quesadilla is feasible as well.

 

If you oak it, you can say that you added Quercus alba

 

African queen hops?

 

Quiche with quail eggs!

 

Or if you have a little cash to spend you could just go ask at London SW1A 1AA, UK, and say that you used The Queen's ingredient.

 

Queen Anne's Lace comes to mind, possibly of use in a saison. Quick oats is also a more likely possibility to be of use.

 

Though I admire the creativity of the posters above, I think the best bet to make something tasty is to get a jar of quince preserves and add it like a fruit addition possibly in secondary.
The flavor of quince if you've never had it is somewhere between apple and pear but not as sweet as either.