First off, a warning. This post is about urine. Get your schoolboy or schoolgirl giggles out now because this is a cool idea.
Secondly, you will not be drinking beer made with pee so, you can stop being grossed out too.
In what is being called “Piss to Pilsner” or “Beercycling”, the Roskilde music festival will set-up special urinals like the one in the photo to collect in storage tanks. The liquid is then used (don’t ask me how) as part of a special fertilizer for nearby barley fields.
For those planning on attending this festival, put it on your 2017 calendar. The barley has to grow, then be brewed.
If there was a dedicated barley field in L.A., would you “add” yours to it? And would you drink the resulting beer? Imagine seeing a collection trough at next year’s L.A. Beer Week festival
When I saw this yesterday, I was grossed out. Yes, I know it’s not actually recycled pee for the water, but there was nevertheless a certain gag factor I couldn’t get around. Kind of the same level of gut ickiness that even the clean rats in Ratatouille garnered.
Californians will need to get over it right quick or enjoy a nice cup of dust instead of water.