Beer Made Just for Dogs 50
Every dog owner knows there is nothing more pathetic than watching your dog beg for a sip of your delicious beer. Now, thanks to some forward thinking brewers, you can finally drink with your dog. Australian pet deli and boutique Paws Point, and American brewer Dog Star Brewing Company, have designed beers especially for dogs. Both beers are non-alcoholic, non-carbonated, and infused with meat flavor, making them less than ideal for all but the most troubling family Christmas.
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I've never seen a dog beg for beer.
You haven't met many dogs. Animals, in general, *love* alcohol, and many dogs love beer.
Hell, a friend of my has a green-cheeked Conure that absolutely *loves* wine... you have to watch your glass while the little bugger is flying around, lest she climb in head-first.
Second how exactly do you call it beer at all.
In the same way you can call any non-alcoholic beer "beer".
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In the same way you can call any non-alcoholic beer "beer".
I don't.
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Well, if I recall correctly non-alcoholic beer is designed to imitate the taste and texture of beer. It is at least an attempt to be designed so that short of not getting a buzz, you are supposed to think it's beer.
Non-carbonated liquid that tastes like meat dosn't sound like it's even attempting to imitate beer. It's attempting to be a liquid steak.
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Non-carbonated liquid that tastes like meat
That's not what it said. Read the words, don't read into them. I know, it's tough... Slashbots often find it tricky. But it can be done!
What they said was that it was *infused* with the flavour of meat. You know, the same way a Kriek is infused with the taste of cherries. Or a chocolate stout is infused with the taste of chocolate.
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You're the one who's got this wrong. From the article:
"But if you’re thinking of trying a swig yourself, be warned. It’s beef-flavored. Yes, that would mean flat, alcohol-free, meat-infused beer."
Read the words, don't read into them. I know, it's tough... Slashbots often find it tricky. But it can be done!
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You're the one who's got this wrong.
Uh, no, you are. What part of:
Don't you understand? Seriously, get a dictionary, learn the definition of the term "infused", and then go back and try reading that sentence again. You can do it! Come on, just try!
I mean, really... do you think cherry-flavoured Coca Cola tastes like cherries? No. It tastes like Coca Cola, with cherry flavouring. Similarly, this beer would taste like beer with meat flavouring.
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Mmm, Kriek. /me gratuitously links to http://tuxera.be/lkw [tuxera.be] .
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Then show up, won't you :-p
Oh, and if you've only had Belle-Vue, you've never had kriek at all. The LKW is about the real thing, smalltime breweries and manual labour. Belle-vue is, well, think of it as McKriek.
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While it's clear eating raw or spent hops is deadly to dogs, I can't find any evidence to indicate that beer is dangerous, nor any reference to hops toxicity as a result of beer consumption (just because hops is used in brewing, doesn't mean beer is necessary dangerous... it may be that the compounds responsible aren't water soluble, or the amount of hops used in a batch of beer means overall toxicity is fairly low in the final product).
I don't suppose you have any evidence to support your claim?
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> In the same way you can call any non-alcoholic beer "beer".
Yeah, alright, but dogs already love beer, so why go through the bother, and even make it meat-flavoured ? Just give your dog a bowl of N/A. Probably a lot cheaper, too.
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I've never seen a dog that _didn't_ love beer, though they're rarely exposed to it naturally (if you consider accidentally to be natural).
My boxers are partial to malty octoberfest and ipa styles, but FWIW they've also been known to lick their own orifices.
Not beer (Score:1)
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a) Non-alcoholic beers are numerous.
b) Some beer styles have little to no carbonation (heavy stouts, for example).
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Now *that* is twisted and bizarre... and I'd totally try it. :)
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Cock ale (not that kind of cock) pervert
An medieval recipe for chicken flavored beer http://www.brewery.org/cm3/recs/13_23.html [brewery.org]
Dogs love chicken. We only just got them to quit eating them.
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Who cares? Unless you're subject to German purity laws, experimenting with unusual ingredients is one of the joys of brewing. The world would be a much more boring place without Kriek, Framboise, etc.
Now, would *I* drink a bacon-flavoured beer? Probably not. But I'm sure some would.
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http://www.gq.com/blogs/the-q/2010/02/something-to-brighten-your-week-bacon-beer.html [gq.com]
http://gothamist.com/2009/08/12/bacon_beer_will_rule_them_all.php [gothamist.com]
Smoking the malt like you would for an isle malt, except with bacon smoke, seems to be the method.
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Smoking the malt is a neat idea, so I'm not going to discount that, but it's not the only option on the table. I won a Maple Bacon Cider competition (!), partly due to the bacon flavor I got into my hard cider, and did it by making bacon extract. Fry up some bacon, eat it, and put the leftover grease in just a little bit of vodka. Steep and occasionally swirl for a few days, and you will end up with the most deliciously-smelling vodka you've ever experienced. Strain it to remove the grease and add it to
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I just want to note, this comment is bookmarked, mainly so I can make bacon shots.
What a wonderful idea.
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Yes but do any of them have /meat/ flavoring?
From the summary:
...and infused with meat flavor,...
You didn't even have to read the article for that information.
non-alcoholic? non-carbonated? (Score:1, Funny)
Where's the fun if I can't see my dog drunk and burping with me?
nothing new to me (Score:2, Funny)
Old news (Score:4, Funny)
They've had this for years. It's called Pabst Blue Ribbon. You can't tell me that's actually made for human consumption.
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No, it's an objet d'art [newyorker.com].
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Sounds like a good recipe for a cold (Score:1)
Non-carbonated, non-alcoholic and beef flavored (or infused, if you must.) Sounds like I could accomplish the same thing with a pot of water and a bouillon cube. It's broth, right?
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That's not beer, that's broth (Score:3)
flat, non-alcoholic beef flavored liquid is called broth. Save your money.
Here's a more beer-like recipe:
Dry malt extract and water; experiment to get about 1.02 starting specific gravity--we're trying to be non-alcoholic here. Herb it up with wheatgrass and or other dog friendly herbs [natural-do...medies.com] (NOT HOPS!!!). Boil, cool wort, pitch yeast, and bottle immediately. Let carbonate 1-2 weeks.
I'm going to experiment with this recipe, one gallon batches, different herbs, taste it to see how nasty (or tasty?) it is before giving it to my dog.
He seems to be content with water, though, as long as I toss a ball for him while I'm tossing back a cold one.
What kind of mental disorder... (Score:3, Insightful)
The very case for this stuff is like listening to the logic of the Vizzini from the Princes Bride. [youtube.com]
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I'm trying to figure out the mental disorder necessary to actually buy this for your dog. Not only do you have to have the dreadfully increasing psychosis that makes people get confused between dogs and humans, but you also have to think this anthropamorphised animal would want to drink beer and not get drunk. Regular non-alcholic beer is for humans with a mental disorder. Even if you accept peoples disorder that makes them think dogs are children, you would have to deal with the secondary disorder that they think their dog is an alcholic that needs something that looks and tastes like beer, but want's to 'protect' them by giving them some that is non-alcholic. quote>
Excuse me, but my d-o-g-s are the ones with the psychosis. They have absolutely no idea that they are d-o-g-s, the same with my c-a-t. Now if you will excuse me I have to take my anit-psychotic meds.
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Regular non-alcholic beer is for humans with a mental disorder.
If you think that to be true a priori, then I suspect you are just somebody who doesn't like beer. It's actually the test I use. If someone made a non-alcoholic beer that tasted exactly the same as an alcoholic beer, would you drink it? If you say "no", then you don't like beer, you just like alcohol.
Personally, I'd drink non-alcoholic beer (and whiskey and gin) if it met this criteria. Sadly, most commercially-available non- and low-alcohol beers are less tasty than their full-strength counterparts. This i