14 DAY TRIAL // Starting next week, folks attending the mid-winter festival Thorrablot in Iceland will have the (hopefully) once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to delight their taste buds with one or two sips of what might be the most disgusting beer in the world.
True, this beer is sold by the bottle, so the tasting experience is not officially limited to one or two sips. Then again, given the ingredients used to make it, it's safe to assume that people won't exactly be fighting over it. Not unless they are determined to scar their sense of taste for life.
What's in this beer that makes it so unappealing?
The people running the Steðji brewery that makes the beer say that the beverage is flavored with whale meat smoked in sheep poop. Mind you, we're not talking just any kind of whale meat. We're talking male whale gonads.
That's right, Steðji brewery actually went through the trouble of chopping up whale reproductive organs and smoking them using sheep poop set on fire to create this beer, which they say has truly unique flavor. Not going to argue with them on this one.
Why would anyone use whale meat and poop to make beer?
What's interesting is that the guys and gals behind the Steðji brewery in Iceland are quite convince that, when it finally makes its public debut, the odd beer, dubbed Hvalur 2, will prove insanely popular.
As mentioned, the beer is to be sold at the mid-winter Thorrablot festival. Apparently, people who attend this festival get to eat like true Vikings of the old days. In a nutshell, they feast on whale and even shark meat. Steðji expects its beer will go great with these dishes.
“At Thorrablot, we eat rotten shark, soured whale fat, as we did in the old days. We think this product will suit the festival really well,” Steðji co-owner Dagbjartur Arilíusson said in a statement, as cited by Oddity Central.
Some people already hate Steðji's Hvalur 2 beer
Despite not having yet had the chance to give it a try, some people already despise the beer and aren't shy about letting others know what they think about the brewery's decision to use whale meat to make this peculiar alcoholic beverage.
These people are animal rights activists who insist that nobody in their right mind would ever even consider slaughtering whales to make beer. More so given the fact that, in this day and age, many whale species are endangered.
“Reducing a beautiful sentient whale to an ingredient on the side of a beer bottle is about as immoral and outrageous as it is possible to get,” environmental group The Whale and Dolphin Conservation told the press in an interview.