If you ’ve ever been on a brewery tour ( and actuallylistenedinstead of drinking the whole meter ) , you ’d likely know that yeast is one of the most important elements when it come to making beer . With that said , it should come as no surprise that brewmasters all over the world are searching for new and unequalled breed of the living creature to give their brew a proprietary edge . Turns out a group of brewers in Australia did n’t have to look very far to witness some … intheir bellybuttons .
Brewers at 7 penny Brewery harvested yeast fromlint they delve out of their bellybuttonsand used it to make what they ’re aptly calling Belly Button Beer . The , uh , uniquebrew will debut at the 2016 Great Australasian Beer SpecTAPular and could very well be the world ’s first beer fermented with belly clitoris barm . Doug Bremner , the brewery ’s Colorado - founder , said they were exalt by the similarly weirdBeard Beer released by Roguea few years ago , harmonize to areportby Mashable .
The brewery describes the Belly Button Beer as a " new cosmos - ish Belgian - ish Witbier with fresh orangeness gusto and toasted coriander source . " As explained in the report , it ’s a " ad lib fermented beer , " which think it ’s also exposed to naturally occurring yeast and bacteria during the fermentation appendage . Additionally , the brewers total Riwaka and Mosaic skip to boost the citrus flavor profile . Oh , and belike cover up all that blistering bellybutton flavor .
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As for the actual belly button yeast , there ’s a whole other level of scientific procedure behind that , which we ’ll give up the brewery to explain via a web log place on its website :
" The process of isolating our own yeast variant necessitate swabbing sampling of each of the beer maker ’s stomach button and getting our full science on by streaking out the samples on agar plates . After allowing the plates to incubate , we found all sorts of interesting things growing , admit what appeared to be Colony of barm . Positive controls were used to help us identify yeast colonies and damaging restraint were used to ensure our technique were sterile . We selected single barm colonies and grew them up until we had pitchable quantities for trial run batches . "
Sounds delectable , correct ? A video from the brewery – that depicts the factual bellybutton picking – will advance you over if you ’re not already :
If that video does n’t make you want to toast one of these things , well , you ’re likely not alone . Beard beer , belly push beer , oh , and do n’t forgetthe vagina beer we told you about last month . All of them make us wonder : what ’s next ? Armpit beer ? Sweaty ballsack beer ? That ca n’t be too far off at this head .
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