Edme makes a kit to brew a dark lager called Dogbolter. I've made a few batches of it in the past and it was quite good.
Just talking about it makes me want to brew another batch. Here's what others have to say:
"But there seem to be more colourful tales involving beer-drinking dogs than you can poke a stick at. One such story revolves around the origin of the term “dogbolter” for an extra-strong English ale. Here in Australia, Matilda Bay Dogbolter is currently a dark lager of average strength (5.2 per cent A/V) but, in the early days of the pioneering Fremantle boutique brewery, the name, indeed, belonged to an ale of legendary potency. For some bizarre reason, this blockbuster brew was renamed Iron Brew while Matilda Bay Dark Lager inherited the Dogbolter moniker.
But don’t let facts get in the way of a cracking yarn, as they say. The origins of “dogbolter” apparently come from a certain English country pub and involve a customer who always arrived accompanied by his dog. He would invariably order a pint of bitter for himself and a bowl of the same for Rex or Rover or whatever the pooch’s name was. One day the publican announced that they had a new, potent brew on tap. “We’ll give it a whirl,” said the customer and while he sipped his pint cautiously, the dog greedily licked the bowl clean. Instantly, his tail went rigid, he let out a frightening yelp and bolted out of the pub and away over the hills, never to be seen again. And from that day onwards the strong ale became known as Dogbolter.
In the north of England, Newcastle Brown Ale is affectionately known as “the dog”. They say that on most evenings there, you can hear the men leaving their house for the local pub telling their wives in the local Geordie accent: “I’m just going down the road to take the dog for a walk.” (And some of them don’t even own dogs!) "