{"id":2540,"date":"2025-05-05T11:31:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T11:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/05\/urine-being-used-to-make-eco-friendly-beer\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T11:31:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T11:31:25","slug":"urine-being-used-to-make-eco-friendly-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/05\/urine-being-used-to-make-eco-friendly-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"Urine being used to make eco-friendly beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-05-05 11:31:24<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Urine is being used to make eco-friendly beer.<BR><br \/>\nResearchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) collected 20,000 litres of the watery fluid from portaloos set up for the Walpurgis Night celebrations &#8211; an annual Christian event celebrated on April 30 and the night of May 1.<BR><br \/>\nThe gallons of urine were taken to SLU, where 95 per cent of the water was removed so it could be turned into a concentrate before a research firm converts it into a fertiliser that can be used on 1.5 hectares of arable land.<BR><br \/>\nAnd in 2027, beer lovers will be able to drink the beer made from the malting barley grown on the land fertilised with the Walpurgis Night celebrations attendees&#8217; urine. <BR><br \/>\nBj\u00f6rn Vinner\u00e5s, professor of cycle technology at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, said: &#8220;The urine we collected a year ago was used three weeks ago, on a field on Gotland where malting barley is grown.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;This corresponds to approximately three football fields, which is not much from an agricultural perspective, but it&#8217;s a start.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-05-05 11:31:24 Urine is being used to make eco-friendly beer. Researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) collected 20,000 litres of the watery fluid from portaloos set up&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2541,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions\/2541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}