A new Danish beer has been made from festival-goers’ urine rather than the typically used animal manure or factory-produced fertilizers.
Nørrebro Bryghus, a craft brewery in Copenhagen came up with an innovative plan to add a novelty beer to their current 16 on the market. The unique approach involved collecting urine at the Roskilde Festival in 2015—one of the largest music festivals in Europe.
Around 54,000 litres of the special ingredient was collected from the festival and then sprayed in the fields of malting barley. The result: an impressive 60,000 bottles of Pilsner—aptly named ‘Pisner.’
The micro-brewery teamed up with Denmark’s Agriculture and Food Council and together set up the special urinals on the festival grounds. The idea that came about—due to the large amount of waste accumulating at the festival—has been referred to as ‘beercycling’ by the organisers.
According to Reuters, Chief executive of the brewery, Henrik Vang said,
“When the news that we had started brewing the Pisner came out, a lot of people thought we were filtering the urine to put it directly in the beer and we had a good laugh about that.”
Well thankfully that’s not the case and the finished article will be ready for consumption in Denmark this June—right on time for Roskilde 2017. We wonder will The Weeknd or Solange give it a sip?
