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Beer Made Just for Dogs
Every dog owner knows there is nothing more pathetic than watching your dog beg for a sip of your delicious beer. Now, thanks to some forward thinking brewers, you can finally drink with your dog. Australian pet deli and boutique Paws Point, and American brewer Dog Star Brewing Company, have designed beers especially for dogs. Both beers are non-alcoholic, non-carbonated, and infused with meat flavor, making them less than ideal for all but the most troubling family Christmas.
I've never seen a dog beg for beer.
You haven't met many dogs. Animals, in general, *love* alcohol, and many dogs love beer.
Hell, a friend of my has a green-cheeked Conure that absolutely *loves* wine... you have to watch your glass while the little bugger is flying around, lest she climb in head-first.
Second how exactly do you call it beer at all.
In the same way you can call any non-alcoholic beer "beer".
a) Non-alcoholic beers are numerous.
b) Some beer styles have little to no carbonation (heavy stouts, for example).
My girlfriend's dog drinks beer. Spilled some on the floor once and the dog licked it up before we could clean it up... then pissed all over the place.
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Non-carbonated liquid that tastes like meat
That's not what it said. Read the words, don't read into them. I know, it's tough... Slashbots often find it tricky. But it can be done!
What they said was that it was *infused* with the flavour of meat. You know, the same way a Kriek is infused with the taste of cherries. Or a chocolate stout is infused with the taste of chocolate.
They've had this for years. It's called Pabst Blue Ribbon. You can't tell me that's actually made for human consumption.
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My lab loves beer to the point of it being annoying. You cannot leave a beer unattended around her - she'll wait patiently for the opportunity to knock one over with her nose so she can lick up the spill. Many of my friends have fallen victim to her alcoholic tendencies.
I will bend like a reed in the wind.
flat, non-alcoholic beef flavored liquid is called broth. Save your money.
Here's a more beer-like recipe:
Dry malt extract and water; experiment to get about 1.02 starting specific gravity--we're trying to be non-alcoholic here. Herb it up with wheatgrass and or other dog friendly herbs (NOT HOPS!!!). Boil, cool wort, pitch yeast, and bottle immediately. Let carbonate 1-2 weeks.
I'm going to experiment with this recipe, one gallon batches, different herbs, taste it to see how nasty (or tasty?) it is before giving it to my dog.
He seems to be content with water, though, as long as I toss a ball for him while I'm tossing back a cold one.
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I'm trying to figure out the mental disorder necessary to actually buy this for your dog. Not only do you have to have the dreadfully increasing psychosis that makes people get confused between dogs and humans, but you also have to think this anthropamorphised animal would want to drink beer and not get drunk. Regular non-alcholic beer is for humans with a mental disorder. Even if you accept peoples disorder that makes them think dogs are children, you would have to deal with the secondary disorder that they think their dog is an alcholic that needs something that looks and tastes like beer, but want's to 'protect' them by giving them some that is non-alcholic.
The very case for this stuff is like listening to the logic of the Vizzini from the Princes Bride.