After a long day hunting, there's nothing like wrapping your paw around
a cold bottle of beer. So Terrie Berenden, a pet shop owner in the
southern Dutch town of Zelhem, created a beer for her Weimaraners made
from beef extract and malt.
"Once a year we go to Austria to hunt with our dogs, and at the end of
the day we sit on the verandah and drink a beer. So we thought, my dog
also has earned it," she said.
Berenden consigned a local brewery to make and bottle the nonalcoholic
beer, branded as Kwispelbier. It was introduced to the market and
advertised it as "a beer for your best friend."
"Kwispel" is the
Dutch word for wagging a tail.
The beer is fit for human consumption, Berenden said. But at euro1.65
($2.14) a bottle, it's about four times more expensive than a Heineken.