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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsOn Iceland’s dung-smoked whale testicle beer
http://draftmag.com/icelands-dung-smoked-whale-testicle-beer/Whats special about the beers you brew?
We have four kinds of beerdark, lager, ale and strawberry fruit beer. We also have seasonal beers like our Christmas beer that uses raw licorice as an ingredient, our October beer that includes red barley and pumpkin seeds, and our Easter beer that is brewed with cocoa and Icelandic seaweed. The theme is always to include something Icelandic.
You also brew beer made from fin whale testicles
We started last year with our first whale beer, Hvalur 1. The health department didnt want us to produce it at first, but we were allowed to. The beer used whale meal as an ingredient, and it was something new for Iceland. It sold out almost immediately. This year, for Hvalur 2, we wanted to keep the concept, but use a different whale ingredient. We decided to use fin whale testicles.
How, exactly, do you brew with whale testicles?
We get the testicles frozen from the whaling company, and we have a licensed butcher chop it up for us to use. The testicles are cured according to an old Icelandic tradition. The testicles are salted, and then smoked with sheep dung. A whole testicle is used in every brewing cycle, and then the beer is filtered and pasteurized. We put a lot of effort into this, and its a long process.
"The health department didnt want us to produce it at first, but we were allowed to."
Throd
(7,208 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Is that anything like session IPA?
Them's fightin' words around here (Bay Area)!
Throd
(7,208 posts)There are some good IPAs to be found, but most taste like shit beer with soap shavings added for no apparent reason. It's a fad that I hope is on the wane.
Idiots.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,106 posts)Xyzse
(8,217 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)"I'd give my left nut for a good sheep dung-smoked beer."
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)But I'd try it.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)olddots
(10,237 posts)Tea baggers consume mass quantities of Coors Lite .
rurallib
(62,508 posts)some traditions are best left to die, methinks.
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