When beer goes bad: 8 things to beware next time you grab a coldie

[poledriver]

When beer goes bad: 8 things to beware next time you grab a coldie

IT’S summer, and for many of us, that means plenty of ice-cold beers.
But it’s been a bad week for the amber nectar, with our favourite drink tainted with all manner of scary substances.
As Australia Day looms on the horizon, here’s our guide to what to beware from the bottle.

1. ENDANGERED WHALE TESTICLES

ICELANDIC brewery Stedji has come under fire for producing a beer using the testicles of an endangered whale.
The Hvalur 2 beer is made by smoking the testicles of fin whales in a “traditional way”, with dried sheep dung, according to the Evening Standard.
It will be served at Thorri, the country’s winter festival.
Anti-whaling campaigners claim the “dying” whaling industry in Iceland is trying to create markets for its products.
“Right-minded people would no sooner drink beer brewed with whale testicles than they would order similar drinks made with tiger, elephant or rhino testicles,” said Dolphin Conservation’s Vanessa Williams-Grey.
The brewery said Iceland’s fisheries were “self-sustainable” and denied that the fin whale is in danger of extinction.

2. CROCODILE BILE

MOZAMBIQUE’S government has declared three days of mourning after 69 people died from drinking beer thought to be contaminated with crocodile bile this weekend.
Paula Bernardo, health director for the Northeast Tete province, saida further 196 people had been admitted to hospitals in the region.
“People flocked to the hospital, suffering from diarrhoea and muscle pain,” she told Radio Mozambique. “Then bodies from various neighbourhoods were brought to the hospital, and this alerted us.”
Pombe, a traditional Mozambican beer, is made from millet or corn flour. The exact source of contamination is still unknown, but authorities believe the drink was poisoned with the deadly dark green substance during the course of a funeral on Saturday.

3. DROPPING IT IN THE RIVER

A 59-YEAR-OLD was left with a basketball-sized hernia after drinking a beer he had dropped in the Brisbane River.
John MacDonald scooped his coldie out of the water after it slipped through his fingers in March 2012, reported the Sunshine Coast Daily.
He soon became violently sick with a stomach bug caused by the contaminated river water.
Mr MacDonald was given antibiotics and underwent a series of operations, but the hernia became infected, swelling to the size of a football and becoming covered in angry-looking sores and scabs.

4. CAUSTIC SODA

DAVID Caminal, 47, suffered serious internal injuries when he drank a beer contaminated with caustic soda.
The Spanish TV producer was left close to death last August after he was served a drink from a pump that was being cleaned at a bar in Leeds.
He spent three weeks in hospital before being flown home to Barcelona for further treatment, according to the Mirror.
Solicitor Jill Greenfield said: “Something went very tragically wrong. He now potentially faces lifelong complications.”

5. PLASTIC PARTICLES

LAST June, a consumer rights magazine found that every one of Germany’s biggest-selling brands of beer contained microscopic plastic fibres.
The worst affected were Pilsner from the north-western Jever brewery, with an average of 78.8 particles per litre, followed by Munich’s Paulaner wheat beer at 70 and Warsteiner Pils at 47, The Local reported.
While no immediate health risk was associated with the particles, experts said they could cause damage over time.
The researchers also discovered flakes of skins, bits of glass and bugs in the beer, noted Esquire magazine.

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[thujone]

there's that german quality for ya

 

['medicine cabinet']

Ugh not drinking doesn't seem so bad now haha

 

[falsifiedhypothesi]

ICELANDIC brewery Stedji has come under fire for producing a beer using the testicles of an endangered whale.
The Hvalur 2 beer is made by smoking the testicles of fin whales in a “traditional way”, with dried sheep dung, according to the Evening Standard.

I would like to meet the person responsible for this method.