It could be
the tipple of choice for those who love getting completely trunk – a beer made
from elephant dung.
A brewery has
created the beverage using coffee beans that have passed through an elephant’s
digestive system – and the first batch has sold out within minutes.
Japanese maker
Sankt Gallen
has called it Un, Kono Kuro – a play on the Japanese word for ‘crap’.
A contributor
who tasted the beer for website RocketNews24.com said: ‘Usually people talk
about aftertaste when drinking beer but with Un, Kono Kuro the word afterglow
is much more appropriate.
‘After downing
the last drop, slowly rising from my throat and mouth was that afterglow. The combination
of bitter and sweet stayed fresh and lingered in my head. It was a familiar
aroma that accompanied me through the entire beer.’
The coffee
beans used in the beer come from elephants at Thailand ’s Golden Triangle Elephant
Foundation. Just 35g of the ingredient cost £65 – the high price reflecting the
difficulty of getting a usable quantity from the animals.
The creation
follows last year’s launch of elephant dung coffee, the ‘earthy and
smooth’ blend selling for £720 a kg.
The Sankt Gallen brewery has
called its new beer a ‘chocolate stout’, even though it does not contain any
chocolate.
It has no
plans to put the beer on tap at its new shop in Tokyo .
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