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The beer named
"Pisner" - a word-play combining pilsner with local slang for
urine - contains no human waste, but is produced from fields of
malting barley fertilized with human urine rather than
traditional animal manure or factory-made plant nutrients.
"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," said
Henrik Vang, Chief Executive of brewer Norrebro Bryghus.
Using human waste as fertilizer on such a scale is a novelty,
said Denmark's Agriculture and Food Council, which came up with
the idea for what could be the ultimate sustainable hipster beer
and has already named the concept "beercycling".
"If it had tasted even a bit like urine, I would put it down,
but you don't even notice," said Anders Sjögren, who attended
Roskilde Music Festival in 2015.
The 50,000 liters collected from that festival resulted in
enough malting barley to brew around 60,000 bottles of Pisner
beer.
(Reporting by Julie Astrid Thomsen, editing by Terje Solsvik and
Ralph Boulton)
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