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Title: Beer For Dogs
Post by: Ben on January 24, 2007, 06:33:58 PM: --------------
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070124/ap_on_fe_st/doggie_beer

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - After a long day hunting, there's nothing like wrapping your paw around a cold bottle of beer. So Terrie Berenden, a pet shop owner in the southern Dutch town of Zelhem, created a beer for her Weimaraners made from beef extract and malt.
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"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," she said.

Berenden consigned a local brewery to make and bottle the nonalcoholic beer, branded as Kwispelbier. It was introduced to the market last week and advertised it as "a beer for your best friend."

"Kwispel" is the Dutch word for wagging a tail.

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.
Title: Re: Beer For Dogs
Post by: wmenorr67 on January 24, 2007, 06:37:03 PM: Quote from: BenW on January 24, 2007, 05:33:58 PM

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.

But being made with beef extract what is the taste? And to top it off what would be the point if it is non-alcoholic.
Title: Re: Beer For Dogs
Post by: Cosmoline on January 24, 2007, 07:00:31 PM: Most dogs actually love low-alch high yeast homebrews. Most don't like straight liquor, but I did know one pup who would swig vodka or bourbon. She'd actually clasp her lips around the bottle and drink
Title: Re: Beer For Dogs
Post by: BakerMikeRomeo on January 24, 2007, 08:45:50 PM: Quote
She'd actually clasp her lips around the bottle and drink

A boozehound, huh?

~GnSx
Title: Re: Beer For Dogs
Post by: bedlamite on January 25, 2007, 03:29:59 AM: I used to have an Airedale that would knock your beer over and drink it.
Title: Re: Beer For Dogs
Post by: ilbob on January 25, 2007, 04:43:01 AM: I had a beagle that used to drink beer. I once set a mug on the floor next to my chair and she came over and started drinking the beer out of it. So, I started giving her some when I would imbibe. She seemed to truly like the taste.
Title: Re: Beer For Dogs
Post by: Perd Hapley on January 25, 2007, 06:24:54 AM: What is the legal drinking age for dogs?

Is it safe to drink while hiking one's leg?
Title: Re: Beer For Dogs
Post by: Mabs2 on January 25, 2007, 07:07:31 AM: Beef flavored beer? And non-alcoholic?
Darn, I might have finally found the beer for me...
Title: Re: Beer For Dogs
Post by: HankB on January 25, 2007, 07:29:53 AM: Quote from: fistful on January 25, 2007, 05:24:54 AM
What is the legal drinking age for dogs?
Three. (That's 21 in dog years.)