A good beer and a nice Stilton cheese

[Gob]

And you have Stilton beer!

A by-product from the Stilton cheese-making process has been used to make a new East Midlands beer.

Blue Brew is a "chestnut coloured ale", made by mixing whey with wort - water and barley liquid - before fermenting.



Colin Brown from Belvoir Brewery in Leicestershire said it tasted "creamy" rather than cheesy.

Stilton - produced only at dairies in Leicestershire, Derbyshire or Nottinghamshire - has previously been used to make a perfume and a milkshake.

Martin Taylor of Long Clawson Dairy said: "It sounds like it could be awful, but it doesn't taste of mouldy blue cheese. It has a smooth rounded flavour - quite delicate."

Nigel White, secretary of the Stilton Cheesemakers Association, said: "People often think of Stilton as a cheese just for Christmas and forget how versatile it is.

"Traditionally the whey from cheese making would have been fed to pigs. We wondered if it could be used for other purposes and Belvoir Brewery has now made a new beer."

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[tyro]

"Traditionally the whey from cheese making would have been fed to pigs. We wondered if it could be used for other purposes and Belvoir Brewery has now made a new beer."

Now that is the best endorsement I’ve ever heard.

Hey! We made a beer out of it because the pigs grew tired of it.



Seriously, I thought whey was in big demand by the health fitness crowd.





Or is there some new connotation with the word “pig”?

[loCAtek]

Could have been worse, they could have made Vegemite.

[rubato]

The English are displaying their genius for turning industrial waste into food.


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[Rick]

The English are displaying their genius for turning industrial waste into food.


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LOL

Can't help myself, that there is funny...

[Miles]

I have decided what kind of beer I like best.................COLD

[Andrew D]

I don't know about the beer, but for an easy, tasty snack, just wrap some endive around some Stilton. Yum.

[oldr_n_wsr]

I would rather slaughter the pig and have some bacon.