Spicing may be enhanced to include paprika, peppercorns, and even tomato sauce.
There are regional variations in spicing and in the ingredients.
Preparations include splitting, peeling, grinding, soaking, sprouting, cooking and spicing.
Most contain more alcohol than the brewery's other types of beer and may also contain spicing.
Such dishes are called by specific names that refer to their ingredients, spicing, and cooking methods.
There may be some effects when consumed in the small levels that typify culinary spicing, and some herbs are toxic in larger quantities.