According to topfive.com scientists have recreated a stone age recipe for beer that includes animal dung. They have GOT to be kidding! Is there any truth to this? What kind of animal dung is used? (Can you imagine the ingredient label? Water, malt, hops, horse droppings. Shudder!) Why on earth would anyone put dung in beer? Anyone know anything about this?
Yuck. The list of beers I won’t drink is very short, but I’ll add something like this to the list.
I think I met a guy who would try it though. Alcohol and Horse shit, together at last!
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=80564
The dung of non-ruminant grazers (horses, rabbits etc) is chock full of microbes that ferment the grass to make it digestible. They’re pre-adapted to living in anaerobic, highly liquid conditions and are obviously non-toxic (they don’t kill their host). A pinch of horse dung would be much like adding yeast to a modern beer. It gets the reaction going faster and ensures that the wrong, pathogenic microbes aren’t likely to take hold.
This is horse shit.
I think I’ve had it… doesn’t Anheuser-Busch make it?
No, Crafter-Man, you’re thinking of piss-water.
Personally, I’ve always thought beer tasted like shit.
“Miller Pleistocene. The taste of hand-brewed prehistoric beer made in clay pots with only the finest baked horse droppings.”
I’d drink some. It probably goes real good with Limburger Cheese.
Yes, I like Limburger cheese.