What the Heck Is Beer Salt?

The supermarket assumed I knew

Photo: Francisco Galarza on Unsplash

It’s been a while since I shopped inside a supermarket, but I didn’t expect entirely new foods to appear! In the beverage aisle, above the stacked cases of beer, were shelf displays of “Beer salt”.

I had no idea if it was salt you put in your beer, or salt made out of beer, or salt with no relation to beer at all except that the salt…