If you like drinking piss , you ’re going to have it off the Roskilde music festival . The Danish jubilation of rock and rollrecently launched a programthat recycles festival - goers ’ weewee in decree to make beer . It ’s not as gross as it sounds .
While it ’s born to assume that turning urine into beer would involve converting the sewer water into sportsmanlike water to brew the beer , that ’s not what the industrious Danes are doing . With the help of the Danish Agriculture and Food Council , the Roskilde Festival is catching people ’s pee in special storage army tank and then sending it to nearby farms , where it will be used to fertilize barley . From that grain , beer for the 2017 fete will be brewed .
“ Beercycling is about change our approaching to wasteland , from being a gist to being a worthful resource , ” said the DAFC ’s Leif Nielsenin a statement . “ Today , the huge amount of piddle make at the festival is having a negative impact on the environment and the sewerage system and treatment plant in Roskilde . Beercycling will turn those many litres of urine into a resource . ”
If you recollect that sound bad , in spades do n’t go to Oregon . A effluent treatment companionship in Portland has been trying to get a local breweryto twist actual peeing into beer — not just using it as fertilizer but purifying wastewater that hold in human pee . wassail toilet wateris one thing , but purifying urine for make a tasty beverage is a bit much . In fact , it ’s against the law in Oregon — for now . You know those wacky Portlandians will do anything for sustainability .
It ’s a imposing end . That said , when you ’re head to a cool medicine festival with your friends from college and an irresponsible amount of molly , “ Beercycling ” is probably not the activeness you ’re forebode . It ’s not as gross as it sounds , but it ’s still reasonably gross .
[ Danish Agriculture and Food Council ]
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