Beer For Dogs

[Omaha Red Sox]

Pet Shop Owner Creates "Kwispelbier" ... a Beer for Dogs?!
Posted by: Todd on Monday - January 22, 2007 - 14:56 UTC
Topic Origin: Beer Talk

Now here's a really stupid idea, but some insane dog (and beer) lover out there will no doubt think otherwise. Yes, a beer for dogs made from beef extract and malt. Well, that doesn't really make it a beer, simply because it's not fermented, but that didn't stop Terrie Berenden, a pet shop owner in the town of Zelhem, who created a non-alcoholic beer for her Weimaraner dog. What the hell?!

Berenden contracted a local brewery to brew and bottle: Kwispelbier, which is Dutch for "wagging a tail." It was introduced to the market last week and advertised as "a beer for your best friend."


(That's Benito, a 5-year-old Chihuahua drinking the "beer" in Hulst, Netherlands)

AP quoted her as stating: "Once a year we go to Austria to hunt with our dogs, and at the end of the day we sit on the verandah and drink a beer. So we thought, my dog also has earned it." Apparently, Kwispelbier is also fit for human consumption and will run you around euro1.65 ($2.14) a bottle. And yes, I'll hunt down and kill the first BeerAdvocate to review this "beer" and enter it into the database.

Um, anyway .... I'll pass, but tell me when they come out with an alcoholic beer for my cats.

Todd
Founder & Chief Executive Advocate
BeerAdvocate

The beer is fit for human consumption, Berenden said. But at euro1.65 ($2.14) a bottle, it's about four times more expensive than a Heineken.

[RWLongy4]

Aww it's NA, I was hoping they were going to say it was at least a little alcoholic.

[knapplc]

Yeah, this has to rank up there with the all-time bad ideas.

[Redskins Win]

Yeah, this has to rank up there with the all-time bad ideas.

all time bad ideas, i could think of a crap load more that are bad ideas, this is just ehhh

[Atog]

I saw this when it was in Time magazine. I like how on the label (I'm not sure that you can see it in that picture) it says "HOUNDBIER"

[joelamosobadiah]

Just plain weird.

[beanoX3]

They've got gourmet cooks that will make dog food in some upscale hotels. I know the Drake in Chicago has a couple on staff. They've got dog psychologists, dog spas, and I know of one dog that inherited millions when his owner died and that dog now has a butler.

So, beer made for dogs just doesn't surprise me.

[steelerfan513]

What good can come out of this?

[J2thez929]

What good can come out of this?

Drunken dog fights

[stomperrob]

What good can come out of this?

Actually beer is good for lactating bitches that aren't producing enough milk for their puppies - for some reason it stimulates milk production! I've used it on my dogs.