This Hard Seltzer Is Brewed with Leftover Hot Dog Water, A Texas brewery will unveil the beverage during a local hot dog festival.

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[mylife]

Hot dogs are an integral part of summer – whether you're firing them up on your grill or watching competitive eaters shove them down their throats on the Fourth of July. But a brewery in Fort Worth, Texas, may be pushing the boundaries of summer hot dog consumption: They're releasing a hard seltzer brewed from leftover hot dog water.

Martin House Brewing Company has, in large part, built their reputation on bizarre products, like beers made with salsa verde and mustard pickle. They also make plenty of regular beers, too, and like many other breweries, they've recently jumped on the hard seltzer trend – launching a line of Awesome Sauce Hard Seltzers. And, so, next month, they're combining these two things into one wild drink, Awesome Sauce: Bun Length – a 5.2-percent-ABV hard seltzer made with the leftover water from 52 pounds of boiled frankfurters, according to The Dallas Morning News.

Shugg Cole, the brewery's marketing director, told the paper that Martin House had joked about using hot dogs in a beer in the past, but hard seltzer actually seemed like the right format. The results will apparently taste exactly like it sounds: a boozy hot dog.

Bun Length will be officially unveiled as part of Glizzy Fest – a five-hour "Celebration of Hotdogs" – on July 16 in the backyard of the brewery. According to Facebook, the event will feature three food trucks (two hot dog and one sausage/BBQ), a hot dog eating contest, weiner dogs (aka dachshunds who will be provided with their own puppy pool), other craft vendors, and, of course, a John Cougar Mellencamp cover band. (No word if the songs he recorded under just the John Cougar or John Mellencamp names will be off the table.)

But the star of the show is Awesome Sauce: Bun Length, which will be available on draft along with a limited-run of just 420 cans selling for $4 each. The brewery says they'll also be tapping a special batch of the aforementioned Best Maid Pickle Mustard Beer because, yeah, it's a perfect pairing. Finally, for the less adventurous, about 25 other beers will also be on tap.

For drinkers, Glizzy Fest will cost $15 at the door, which includes a souvenir "Suckin on chili dogs" glass (that's a Mellencamp reference) and four pours of beer or seltzers. Non-drinkers can attend for free.

[ConservativeInPA]

Next up: sauerkraut beer.

I’m not feeling it. I like a lot of styles of beer, but typically they have been around for a very long time. Sometimes things get pushed too far for my tastes, but it might work for others. More of the good stuff left for the rest of us.

[V_TWIN]

“My son once brewed a batch of beer with oyster shells in the wort”

AND????

Don’t leave us hangin’

[Yo-Yo]

And in an ironic twist, local street vendors are steaming their hotdogs in beer...

[crusty old prospector]

After all, we are just renting beer.

[ryderann]

Put a bottle of beer in your next pot of chili...good.

[Rebelbase]

See #25 above.

[dixie1202]

Limp Bizkit had an album called Chocolate Starfish and Hot Dog Flavored Water.

[Manic_Episode]

In the 80s I was at a party where one of the room mates had a 5 gallon carboy about half filled with pennies. Someone broke a Jack Daniel's bottle and stuck the neck into the carboy to be used as a funnel whereupon everyone at the party took turns filling it up all the way to the top.

A few hours later the coin collector was due home from work and the room mates started to discuss how mad the guy was going to be, so they decided to empty the jug into the toilet, however they dropped and broke the carboy!

5 gallons of piss and pennies flooded the bathroom floor.

The room mate says "I'm getting out of here!" and runs for the door with about a dozen of us right behind him.

The clueless carboy owner was parking his car as everyone was scrambling to leave as fast as they could.

I understand he moved out shortly afterwards.

[A thermonuclear marshmallow]

Definitely bad sounding beverage.

Combine this with Tamworth Distillings green crab whisky for a puke fest.

TM

[Organic Panic]

And being Texas they will find a way to deep fry it.

[mylife]

thats for the tourists

[StAntKnee]

Love that image.

I boil my dogs extra long to rid them of some fat and salt. Boil them till they split is best.

Then drink the crap I boiled out of them? As beer?

Insane.

[mass55th]

"Combine this with Tamworth Distillings green crab whisky for a puke fest."

Makes me glad I don't drink alcohol of any kind. I used to like the occasional Bloody Mary, and Margharita, but haven't had any alcoholic beverages since I was diagnosed with Type II diabetes 24 years ago.