How to have REALLY happy cows:

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070213/...milk_beer_dc_1

TOKYO, Feb 13 (Reuters Life!) - Great news for beer and milk lovers: A liquor shop owner in Japan's largest dairy farming region has stopped crying about local spilled milk and started making beer from it instead.

"We came up with the idea after hearing about surplus milk," said Chitoshi Nakahara, head of the Nakahara liquor shop on the northernmost island of Hokkaido.

Milk consumption has been declining steadily in Japan, and Hokkaido disposed of nearly 900 tonnes of milk last March due to over-production, according to the Japan Dairy Association.

Nakahara's new brew, "Bilk" -- a combination of "milk" and "beer" -- is about 30 percent milk. It also contains hops, and the production process does not differ much from that of regular beer, he said.

His shop started selling Bilk, which apart from a slight milky scent looks and tastes like ordinary beer, on February 1 after spending about six months developing the product with a local brewer.

Bilk is only available at six local shops or by mail order, but Nakahara is currently out of stock due to heavy media attention.

Don't worry if you can't get hold of any, though: Nakahara also sells beer brewed from another major Hokkaido product -- potatoes.

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[cubedbee]

Great informative picture of "A pint of beer is seen at a pub in London, November 23, 2005"

I've had ice cream floats using stouts, but this doesn't sound nearly as appetizing.

[frummie]

I can hear George Castanza's father and Cosmo Kramer fighting of this.

"BILK!"

"MEER!"

"BILK!"

"MEER!"

"BILK!"

"MEER!"

"BILK!"

"MEER!"

"BILK!"

"MEER!"

I don't know about this stuff in the OP, but this stuff is phenomenal:

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http://www.mycattle.com/health/dsp_h...?storyid=19679

A farmer is giving each of his cows up to 40 beers a day to produce better meat.

Farmer Darren Pluess, from Cornwall, in southern England, believes the booze helps the flavor and texture of the beef and even offers his five Limousin cattle a massage to make the meat extra tender.

The system has been cleared by his vet and Pluess said cows are perfect beer-drinking animals.

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Originally Posted by Uma Karuna

I don't know about this stuff in the OP, but this stuff is phenomenal:

Yes it is. But milk stouts are just made with milk sugar, lactose, not all the other fats and proteins and crap that's in milk.

[QMO]

...Hokkaido disposed of nearly 900 tonnes of milk last March due to over-production...

One of the saddest things I've ever heardread.

[4sigma]

Got Bilk?

Bilk: It does a moddy good.

[JMO]

"Whatever you do, don't sell that cow!"