Fancy some whale genitalia in your beer, sir?

Fretwired

Icelandic microbrewery Steðji Hvalur 2 beer is 5.2 per cent alcohol and is made from the highly-unappetising sounding "sheep shit-smoked whale balls”.

Dagbjartur Arilíusson, the brewery's co-owner, explained "We smoke the testicle by the old Icelandic way, with dryed sheep shit, and this method gives the beer a really unique smoke flavour," he said. "At Thorrablot we eat ram´s testical, rotten shark, soured whale fat etc, as we did in the old days. We think this product will suit this festival really well."

http://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2015/01/ballsy-brewer-crafts-whale-testicle-beer/

Bucket

Still better than Foster's.

joeyowen

Fretwired said:

 We think this product will suit this festival really well.

What on earth does that say about the festival?

hobbio

joeyowen said:

Fretwired said:

 We think this product will suit this festival really well.

What on earth does that say about the festival?

That it's one to miss?

Fretwired

joeyowen said:

Fretwired said:

 We think this product will suit this festival really well.

What on earth does that say about the festival?

The ancient Viking month of Thor, commemorating the Norse god of Thunder, falls between January and February each year. The Vikings celebrated this mid-winter month with plenty of dancing, singing, drinking and merriment, as well as consuming as much of their traditional food as possible.

Typical Vikings ...

Kebabkid

I said MOBY Dick not MOULDY!!!

randomhandclaps

Absolutely gross.  I hate my whale balls smoked in sheep shit.

Paul_C

I prefer to dunk them.

chillidoggy

joeyowen said:

Fretwired said:

 We think this product will suit this festival really well.

What on earth does that say about the festival?

A load of old bollocks?

thecolourbox

I wonder if the balls are from a sperm whale

imalone

This stuff is actually quite good though:
http://einstokbeer.com/

hugbot

Bucket said:

Still better than Foster's.

Fosters is poor but to me it just doesent taste much of anything. Carling on the other hand is nigh undrinkable.

Bucket

hugbot said:

Bucket said:

Still better than Foster's.

Fosters is poor but to me it just doesent taste much of anything. Carling on the other hand is nigh undrinkable.

I don't like any form of beer really, Foster's was just the first that came to mind.

Fretwired

imalone said:

This stuff is actually quite good though:
http://einstokbeer.com/

Majestic stock it .. will try a few bottles and report back .. :-)

Hootsmon

Fretwired said:

imalone said:

This stuff is actually quite good though:
http://einstokbeer.com/

Majestic stock it .. will try a few bottles and swim the channel .. :-)

sorted

littlegreenman

Bucket said:

I don't like any form of beer really

Time to sell all those guitars and give up any hope of a career in Rock'n'Roll then! :P

imalone

Fretwired said:

imalone said:

This stuff is actually quite good though:
http://einstokbeer.com/

Majestic stock it .. will try a few bottles and report back .. :-)

Warning, they're small bottles. Nice, but terrible value, as you'd expect importing beer from iceland might be.

suspiciousminds

Fair play though, theyve got some balls to sell this.

imalone

imalone said:

This stuff is actually quite good though:
http://einstokbeer.com/

Thank you to whoever gave me a wow for that, can only assume accidental as not sure it warranted one!
It is at least a great website "No, I have not yet earned my horns."

stickyfiddle

I'd give it a try. Obviously a novelty but you never know. Most icelandic beers are really good

WezV

I really like smoked beers so I would probably give it a go

hugbot said:

Bucket said:

Still better than Foster's.

Fosters is poor but to me it just doesent taste much of anything. Carling on the other hand is nigh undrinkable.

yep, Carling is undrinkable for anyone who regularly drinks most other mainstream lagers.  As you say, fosters is pretty much just sweet and tasteless.   Carling (and similarly Grolsch) are both old school lagers which have more of a bitter flavour, less sweetness and a bit more hoppy (grolsch is more malty).  

 

The truth of the matter is that most people don't actually like lager.   they like artificially sweetened lager drinks that need to be served super chilled to ensure any actual lager flavours are totally masked

 

Most brewers are trying to hit the sweet spot these days.   drinkers want sweeter drinks with less actual flavour and many brands have had ABV lowered purely based on these taste tests.  not just in the UK (Tax reasons), it even happened to corona brewed in Mexico.