No! Nooooooo!
Not my beer. Anywhere else, but not in my favorite, super yummy and refreshing, grapefruit beer. And, to add insult to injury, why now? Why find out now….just when the weather is getting warm and I am primed for Grapefruit Beer drinking on the deck and at the beach?
I don’t mean to be naive. I guess, if I were to think about it, I’d be certain that I eat things I’d prefer not to eat on a weekly basis. But this blatant….slap you in the face declaration… right there on the label makes it kind of difficult to turn the other cheek.
Do I continue to “enjoy” my favorite beer, regardless of the fact that I’m now aware it is partially bug juice? Or do I run for the hills and find a new favorite?
Cochineal extract is extracted from the cochineal, specifically the female, a species of insect that belongs to the order entomologists refer to as the “true bugs.” (Don’t trust any account that calls this bug a beetle — it’s not).
Read More About How These Bugs End Up in Your Food HERE and HERE (if you dare)
Good Morning Gloucester 
this is def one of my fav drinks but such a low alcohol content might as well drink good old fashioned water. Wasted calories with bug juice.
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What is the issue with using cochineal?
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Just be happy you can drink it. Lot’s of stuff with bugs in it.
A lot of folks, myself included, cannot eat/drink anything with grapefruit… interferes with meds.
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Enjoy the bug juice. I read an article the other day about everything we breathe in. I didn’t take a breath for 10 minutes after that.
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The rub with beer, ale, cider, etc. is that they don’t have to tell you what is in it. So at least they’re being honest.
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German Hefeweizen · 2.5 ABV · Brewed by Schofferhof-Binding-Burgerbrau AG.
Schofferhofer grapefruit is a unique combination of sparkling wheat beer and refreshing tangy fruit juice.
Mix of 50% Schofferhofer wheat beer and 50% grapefruit juice.
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File that under “Shit I really wish I didn’t know.”
Dang.
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So, the question is, would you still drink it, Joey? I have 5 in the fridge and the jury is still out.
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It would have to be 90 degrees out and there be nothing else to drink
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Believe it or not insects are becoming a major food source and have been for many years ago even in the US…Takes some getting over mental blocks and crunch :-O. I have always been the kind of person to explore some items are better than others and I have tried many foods this way :-O Some one time, some hey that’s not so bad department…:-) “What was that commercial Try it you like it!”
Insects could be the planet’s next food source… even if that gives you the creeps
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/mar/02/insects-next-food-source
Dave 🙂 & Kim 🙂
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