The New Beer Is Milk
Beer travel should be the next brochure title, whether it's a trip to Munich for Oktoberfest or to China for the Qingdao Beer Festival. Or maybe you'll want to hop over to Hokkaido, Japan's main northern island, to try out the latest in beer innovation.
Bilk. It's what happens when there's an oversupply of milk and and oversupply of thinking time. Locals in Hokkaido have invented Bilk: a combination of beer and milk. The word is that "apart from a slight milky scent," it "looks and tastes like ordinary beer," although considering it consists of no less than 30% milk, we find this a little hard to believe. It does contain hops, and the production process is said to be very similar to regular beer, but ... Bilk? Cheers!
[Photo: my dog sighs]
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· Got Milk? Got Beer! [Reuters]
· Qingdao Beer Festival [Jaunted]
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