Doggie Beer

[Woodmonkey]

Doggie beer

AFTER a long day hunting with her dogs, Dutch pet-shop owner Terrie Berenden likes to relax with a beer. One day she decided the dogs deserved a drink as well. She didn't just pour some of her beer into a saucer for them - dog digestive systems, she knew, are not up to dealing with alcohol, carbonation or hops. Instead she cooked up a non-alcoholic dog "beer" from beef extract and malt, and had a local brewer make and bottle a batch, which she named Keispelbier - Dutch for "Tail Wagging Beer". Then she told the whole story to Associated Press, who told the whole planet.

Online magazine BeerAdvocate was decidedly unimpressed. Not only is the stuff non-alcoholic and pricey at ¬1.65 a bottle, it isn't fermented so it isn't really a beer, BeerAdvocate's founder Todd Alström fulminated online. "I'll hunt down and kill the first BeerAdvocate to review this 'beer' and enter it into the database," he thundered, albeit adding a smiley face to suggest he might after all stop short of homicide.

The owners of the Dog Star Brewing Company in California's Napa Valley are also likely to be annoyed. The Dutch doggie beer bears a striking resemblance to a non-alcoholic brew flavoured with beef dripping that they cooked up for their own dog a couple of years ago. Dog Star has been selling the stuff as Happy Tail Ale in stores and on the web at The ONLY Beer For Dogs! Share a beer with your best friend!, where you can see a video of California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger buying some - for his dog, not himself, one presumes.

So why did AP only mention Tail Wagging Beer and not Happy Tail Ale? What kind of news hounds do they think they are?

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[conlor]

A Michigan brewery came up with Bad Frog Beer a few years ago. Be sure to see the last picture of the label. The city made the company take their sign down. Some found it offensive.

BAD FROG BEER

BAD FROG BEER

BAD FROG BEER STORE Info

I think the beer was sold to another company.

[Woodmonkey]

That sign is funny!

[cec]

Give the ***** a beer, it will shut her up!