New beer, the "Pisner", is made from human urine
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Gee whiz!
Get ready to discover your new favorite beer, “Pisner,” made with the
urine of drunk festivalgoers.
Sounds like the opposite of hygge.
Two years ago, 50,000 liters of urine were collected from the Roskilde
Music Festival in Denmark for the purposes of crafting a new type of
recyclable beer.
Pisner, on sale this year, doesn’t actually contain any human waste.
Rather, the barley used to make the beer was fertilized with the urine.
Beer is typically fertilized with animal manure or synthentic plant
material. (This Belgian beer is made by extracting water from urine.)
The microbrewery that produces the lager is Nørrebro Bryghus, also of
Denmark, which says it draws inspiration from American, Belgian, German
and Czech brewing traditions.
The Danish Agriculture & Food Council calls it “beercycling.”
“The huge amount of urine produced at festivals was having a negative
impact on the environment and the sewage system,” DAFC representative
Leif Nielsen told the Guardian in 2015. “But beercycling will turn the
urine into a resource.”
The plan is the serve the beer at Roskilde 2017 (June 24 through July 1)
and at various stores in Denmark. This year, acts including Nas, Foo
Fighters, Solange, The Weeknd and Lorde can order a pint of piss-beer
before they get on stage. But there are no plans to replicate the
experiment at Roskilde 2017.
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