Ears to that! Japanese beer made from elephant dung sells out in minutes

Metro [UK] ^ | 17 Apr 2013 | Mike Hawkins

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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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L'chaim!

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And you thought American beer tasted like s***...

[llevrok]

Makes sense. Many American beers taste like cat pee.

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My cats demand an apology.

[NoLibZone]

The will eat ANYTHING.

[Dryman]

Great to find a cat pee drinker!

My grandmother was a horse pee drinker. She said beer tasted like horse piss. She also claimed no alcohol had passed her lips.

[Slyfox]

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Just because the beer is made with dung is no reason to post a pic of a pile of the stuff.

[mitch5501]

Takes having a ‘snootfull’ to a whole new level.

[Berlin_Freeper]

How do you know?

[Moltke]

So a brewery using the name of a Swiss town though it’s Japanese claims the beer is made with elephant dung though it uses coffee beans, and it calls it chocolate though it contains no chocolate.

OK, got it.

[Vaquero]

I dont often drink beer. But when I do. You can be sure it contains no $h!t.

[Caipirabob]

‘After downing the last drop, slowly rising from my throat and mouth was that afterglow.

That was not "afterglow" rising in your throat...

[stars & stripes forever]

Someone must have been drunk to come up with that idea.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

“This beer tastes like crap!”

“It IS crap.”

“Oh, thank God. It isn’t just me.”

[dfwgator]

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I think I’ll stay thirsty.

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The alternatives are unthinkable.

[Slyfox]

My sincere apologies to the beer made with dung.

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