Re: New beer, the "Pisner", is made from human urine

On Sun, 14 Jan 2018 09:09:40 -0500
Ubiquitous <[email protected]> wrote:

> Gee whiz!
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> Get ready to discover your new favorite beer, =93Pisner,=94 made with the=
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> urine of drunk festivalgoers.
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> Sounds like the opposite of hygge.
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> Two years ago, 50,000 liters of urine were collected from the Roskilde=20
> Music Festival in Denmark for the purposes of crafting a new type of=20
> recyclable beer.
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> Pisner, on sale this year, doesn=92t actually contain any human waste.=20
> Rather, the barley used to make the beer was fertilized with the urine.=20
> Beer is typically fertilized with animal manure or synthentic plant=20
> material. (This Belgian beer is made by extracting water from urine.)
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> The microbrewery that produces the lager is N=F8rrebro Bryghus, also of=20
> Denmark, which says it draws inspiration from American, Belgian, German=20
> and Czech brewing traditions.
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> The Danish Agriculture & Food Council calls it =93beercycling.=94
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> =93The huge amount of urine produced at festivals was having a negative=20
> impact on the environment and the sewage system,=94 DAFC representative=20
> Leif Nielsen told the Guardian in 2015. =93But beercycling will turn the=
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> urine into a resource.=94
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> The plan is the serve the beer at Roskilde 2017 (June 24 through July 1)=
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> and at various stores in Denmark. This year, acts including Nas, Foo=20
> Fighters, Solange, The Weeknd and Lorde can order a pint of piss-beer=20
> before they get on stage. But there are no plans to replicate the=20
> experiment at Roskilde 2017.
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Happy days.=20


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Bah, and indeed Humbug.