Discussion»Questions»Food and Drink» Do you think there is enough alcohol in pee collected from pub urinals to recycle and process into a fine tasting brew?
By the way, if you read the article it say the pee was used to fertilize a barley field an then the barley harvested on that field was brewed into beer in the usual way. Just to create something for people to talk about.
My friend started doing a bit of bootlegging and I sometimes go to pick up her supplies then I got the idea to have a label printed just for a joke that says 'URINE BEER .. recycled and processed from urine collected from pub urinals -something like that. People might buy 1 or two extra bottles just to have fun with. Then I googled 'beer made from urine' and that was what I got.
Well, PIS is the danish word for urine, I think it is used that way in the US too ("dont piss on my back and tell me it is raining"). Anyway, I doubt I can get any for you, what can be brewed from one field, is hardly enough to keep pubs stocked for long.
Alcohol is not what makes beer taste the way it does. There‘s an art to that. There is no need to recover “used” alcohol anyway, as it is a inherent product of the beer-making process.
Identify that some pub is collecting it’s customers’ urine, and we’ll see how fast the pub gets shut down.
This post was edited by Don Barzini at April 21, 2018 7:42 PM MDT
Well, there are rules about how organic fertilizer should be applied to a Field, as long as the pub know (and follow) the rules I dont see any legal reason to close down a pub for having a midden. Things like "must be applied no closer to harvest time than 40 days" (giving sun and weather a fair chance to break it down). Off course urban pubs would also have to follow city rules about sanitation and stinks.
It doesn't seem to be very practical... From the Internet---
after drinking a moderate dose of alcohol, only 0.7-1.5% of the amount consumed is excreted unchanged in urine. Ethanol-induced diuresis is most pronounced for the first 1-2 h after drinking (rising BAC). The production of urine returns to normal during the post-absorptive state.
JakobA the unAmerican. 