Beer With Alistair Gilmour
October 21, 2005
Shades of Ena Sharples and milk stout ( a French dairy farmer has invented a product he calls milk beer.
Marcel Besnard said low prices and strict quotas had led him to look for other ways to market milk.
The new drink, Lactiwel, made from milk and malt, contains 2% alcohol by volume. Instead of using beer yeast for fermentation Marcel uses kefir (a Turkish milk product), yeast and lactic bacteria.
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Health Medical Pharma, dairy products, Fermented foods, Brewing, Other, Viili, Yeast, Milk, Alcoholic beverage, Beer, Stout, Kefir, Fermentation, Mycology