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Do you think there is enough alcohol in pee collected from pub urinals to recycle and process into a fine tasting brew?

https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/z4j4yw/this-beer-is-made-from-pee

Posted - April 20, 2018
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  • 5354
    If it could be made fine tasting, why do the beer in pubs taste like beer ?
      April 21, 2018 12:16 AM MDT
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  • 5354
    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.
      April 21, 2018 12:26 AM MDT
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  • 13395
    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.


      April 21, 2018 1:14 AM MDT
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  • 5354
    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.
      April 21, 2018 1:36 AM MDT
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  • 5835
    Why not? After all, you don't buy beer, you only rent it. It goes through you so fast because it doesn't have to stop and change color.
      April 21, 2018 3:27 AM MDT
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  • 5391
    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
      April 21, 2018 6:20 AM MDT
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  • 5354
    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.
      April 21, 2018 7:59 PM MDT
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  • 5391
    Yeah, thats kinda where I was going with it. The sanitation issue. Not to mention it’s really creepy too. 
      April 21, 2018 9:48 PM MDT
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  • 44232
    Only a Canadian would come up with a question like that. Crazy Canucks. Here we make moonshine out of pee.
      April 21, 2018 9:39 AM MDT
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  • 6477
    Ewwwwww :P
      April 21, 2018 11:19 AM MDT
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  • 44232
    What...you don't like hockey?
      April 21, 2018 1:46 PM MDT
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  • 5835
    Every time I post that picture I get the same reaction from women: something like "She could kick a cow over with those legs!"
      April 21, 2018 2:46 PM MDT
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  • 7280
    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.
      April 21, 2018 1:20 PM MDT
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  • 7776
    For you maybe, but not for the rest of us.
      April 21, 2018 8:03 PM MDT
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  • 16262
    Would add an entirely new dimension to the Aussie or Brit term "getting pissed".
      April 21, 2018 8:07 PM MDT
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