Originally published at: You're in for a surprise with the secret ingredient in Tsingtao beer | Boing Boing
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Surprise?
I thought that was a given.
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So it really does takes like it 
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The cycle was complete.
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Pissing in the grain before it’s washed, processed and fermented?
Insignificant compared to the weight of insect eggs and bits and stuff.
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More proof of the old saying, “You don’t buy beer, you rent it.”
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Psingtao Beer, eh?
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I had one last night!
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I wonder how his compensation package compared to his rents. This is the kind of costs companies need to start considering when they ‘cut costs’
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I bet someone’s getting a few demerits in their Chinese Social Credit score today.
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Always thought it tasted like piss, now I know why!
Yes, yes, inexpensive beer tastes like urine, very funny. As funny as it always has been. For the people working hard to produce it every day. So funny. ಠ_ಠ
Urinating into the ingredients isn’t, uh…advisable, but given the process of making beer, and the probable quantity of contamination compared to the ingredients contaminated, I wouldn’t worry about making anyone sick. It’s boiled, then fermented. There’s way worse than one man’s urine in a lot of grain silos. The alcohol is much more harmful than anything that made it into the boil kettle.
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I don’t think of Tsingtao as cheap beer, tbh. (Nor do I think it tastes like piss, I actually quite enjoy it)
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It’s vastly superior to big-brewery Yankistani crap. It has character and complexity, unlike that swill.
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I heard that in Darth Vader’s voice.
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“It has character and complexity”
And now it also has urine
Thanks - I hadn’t noticed that in the article.
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You are correct.
