Amouranth, the Kick streamer, is allegedly brewing beer with her vaginal yeast. It’s an obvious publicity stunt to squeeze more money from her impressionable and “thirsty” audience.

Gross-factor aside, is this even possible? Is it analogous to brewer’s yeast? Would this cause undesirable side effects or introduce undesirable compounds?

  • Telorand@reddthat.comOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    They talk around it and try to couch it in scientific jargon, it sounds like they’re using it to produce lactic acid only, so no alcohol, which is then sterilised and filtered to death before being used as an additive.

    Seems like a lot of work to make sour beer, but I have no doubt these will sell out in no time regardless, due to the provenance.

    And this all assumes that they aren’t just lieing about it.

    And I had to ask, because it sounds a lot like a recipe for snake oil.

    • eyes@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Also just to add I did more reading and technically they’re using a Lactobacillus which is a bacteria and not a yeast. Which makes more sense as that’s what’s responsible for yeast infections, just to add to the yuck factor.

      • Telorand@reddthat.comOPEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I wonder, if someone were to explain the actual science behind it, if people would still want to buy it? Because this is not sounding any better.