Dutch Brewer Launches Special Beer For Dogs

After a long day hunting, there's nothing like wrapping your paw around a cold bottle of beer. So a small brewery in the Netherlands has launched a new beer designed to bring cool relief to thirsty dogs.

The beer called 'Kwispelbier', marketed as "a beer for your best friend", is made from a special brew of beef extract and malt.

The beverage is a creation of pet shop owner Gerrie Berendsen, who wanted her dogs to share light refreshments with her after a day's hunting.

"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 went to a local brewery to make and bottle the nonalcoholic beer.

The beer is non-alcoholic and fit for human consumption, but costs four times as much as a Heineken.

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