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"It tastes like beef and smells like beer"



Depending on your preferences, you probably found this title either deeply appealing or really disgusting.

If you're a dog, hopefully you felt the former, because this new product is designed for the furry set: Dog Beer. A company in Australia has concocted a brew specifically for Fluffy. It's non-alcoholic, but company owner Elise Schumacher claims it tastes just like normal beer. Apparently, she came up with the idea after she saw her own dogs, Louis and Vuitton, leaping up to catch drops of beer.

Some customers are paying up to five bucks per bottle for the stuff in Melbourne.

But it looks like Dog Beer wasn't the first to come up with this idea. A woman in the States makes Happy Tail Ale, specifically for canines - at only $1.50 a bottle.

Uh, and I know I don't have to tell you this, but dogs can't metabolize normal beer like we can - so please don't go trying to give your dogs a sip of your Sam Adams, okay?

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Filed Under: Drink Recipes, New Products
Tags: america, australia, beer, brewing, Dog Beer, DogBeer, Happy Tail Ale, HappyTailAle, non-alcoholic

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Julie

5-20-2008 @5:16PM Julie said... I have had a couple animals that seemed drawn to the smell of beer one a dog, the other a cat. I figured the cat was probably drawn to the malt in it not sure about the dog though.
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Red Icculus

5-20-2008 @7:47PM Red Icculus said... I have caught my black lab sneaking sips of beer on multiple occasions. It seems to make her happy. Maybe I will let her go crazy on an NA beer some day.


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Ann Marie Yalcin

5-22-2008 @1:42PM Ann Marie Yalcin said... Great idea, I was actually thinking about giving my dog a '21st' bday party (3 in human years) I wasn't going to serve the dogs beer so this is a great alternative.
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Dianne

5-22-2008 @1:42PM Dianne said... My Chesapeake Bay Retriever is all over Happy Tails Dog Beer!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dk10/2156517991/in/set-72157594174578716/

Now she gets very excited when she sees a beer bottle -- any beer bottle.
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Kyle

5-22-2008 @1:42PM Kyle said... Also, if I remember correctly, hops (bittering flower for beer, used in almost all beers) is toxic to dogs
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