Icelandic Brewery Announces Ballsy New Beer Infused With Whale Testicles
Stedji, an Icelandic microbrewery, is out to upset whale conservationists yet again by announcing the January 23rd release of the Hvalur 2: a beer they say includes “sheep-shit-smoked whale balls.”
Stedji rubbed the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDC) the wrong way in 2014 with the Hvalur 1, which was simply made with whale meal (yummy ground bones and intestines). The WDC managed to get Stedji to stop making the original Hvalur, but all existing batches still sold out rapidly.
Back with a vengeance, this new beer formula uses the testicles of endangered fin whales to add a meaty flavor. Because, you know, that’s what everyone’s been searching for in their craft beer: meat.
Evidently, Iceland has more sheep excrement than trees, which spawned a national tradition of drying out the waste and using it to smoke…food. Why not apply this method to some salted whale testicles and put the resulting concoction into a definitely-not-worth-it 5.2% alc./volume beer?
Learning from last year’s mistakes, Stedji has the necessary licenses and permissions to make sure they can continue to produce the Hvalur 2, all the way up to the extinction of the second largest whale species.
