Craft beer has become quite the rage, and beer festivals are becoming just as common as food and wine festivals. Naturally, Australia wouldn’t be left behind in this craze.
The GABS Beer, Cider and Food Fest was created in 2011 and has quickly become one of the top 20 beer festivals in the world. The festival is about more than beer, and features a lot of food and cider vendors from all over Australia and New Zealand, but beer is still one of the major staples of the festival.
Special beers are made just for the festival every year, and this year one brewery is doing something unbelievable with their entry.
Inspired by the Oregon-based brewery that decided to make beer with yeast from the brewer’s beard , the brewers at 7 cent Brewery have decided to make beer from the yeast found in their own belly buttons.
The brewers took swabs from their belly buttons, isolated the yeast colonies from those swabs, and used the yeast to make sample batches of beer.
The batch that tasted the best is the one that will be used at this year’s GABS.
Some say why? We say why not?
If you try this belly button beer, what should you expect it to taste like?
The beer itself is in the style of a new world-ish Belgian-ish Witbier with fresh orange zest and toasted coriander seeds. The yeast exhibits qualities of Belgian beer with the key characteristics being spiciness, clove and light banana esters.
The yeast is sterile and the scientific process used to make the beer is perfectly reasonable, but it still sounds a bit odd. Would you try belly button beer?
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