UNUSUAL BEERS: CAMEL DUNG AND KILLER BEES

South Australia’s Robe Town Brewery is using camel-dung to make their beer. Owner and head brewer Maris Biezaitis said the beer – Holy Smokes! – was inspired by Humpalicious, a neighboring camel farm. He says he wanted to make a beer from something with the camels. (* Camel milk? No. Camel hoof? No. He goes with the poo.) In actuality, leftover grain from the brewery is fed to the camels next door and dung is then collected from the farm and used as the fuel to smoke the malted barley. The end product does not contain the dung and Mr. Biezaitis says it does not taste like camel. “I think the flavor is something akin to a peat-smoked malt.”
* What a great slogan: “It does not taste like camel.”
* There’s a camel farm next door. Have it with a couple of sizzlin’ camel steaks.
* If you can get the camels to store the beer in their humps, and then rent them out for parties, you’d really have something.
* Anyway, that’s one way to be out humpin’ your beer.

Meanwhile, microbiologists from Cardiff University in Wales have developed a craft beer out of killer bees. The team took an Africanized honey bee – also known as the killer bee – and extracted a yeast from it to make several batches of beer. They are looking for someone to partner with to sell their Killer Bee Beer to help fund their bee research.
* The beer’s kinda tart – has a little bit of a sting to it.
* I hope they’ve trademarked “Get your buzz on.”
* How do you extract yeast from a killer bee? Ask it very nicely?
* Craft beer would be an excellent use of the murder hornets.
* I don’t think Anheuser Busch is worried.