Nova Scotia craft brewery is ready to offer a lobster-flavoured beer

MAHONE BAY, N.S. -- A Nova Scotia craft brewery has put together two East Coast favourites to brew up something new: lobster-infused beer.

Saltbox Brewery in Mahone Bay is now fermenting its first batch of Crustacean Elation -- a creation that involved the use of whole lobsters early in the brewing process.

Spokesman Patrick Jardine says an experienced lobster eater should be able to quickly recognize the flavour.

Jardine said the first batch should be ready soon, and staff and patrons of their taproom are anxious to sample it.

If it's a hit, it may become an annual offering during the lobster season.

Other breweries have experimented with adding shellfish flavours, including Maine's Oxbow Brewing, but Jardine says it's the first time their fledgling brewery has tried.

Lobster Crawl is coming....and so is Crustacean Elation Ale! Crawl a’ Board Nova Scotia’s first-ever Lobster Crawl on Nova Scotia’s South Shore, February 2 – 19, 2018!

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It's going to be a cracking good time! pic.twitter.com/kreqMz08rz
— Saltbox Brewing (@saltboxbrewery) January 17, 2018