A French dairy farmer has invented a product he calls milk beer.<br />
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"Everyone thought I was crazy to try to make a milk-based alcohol," said Marcel Besnard.<br />
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The new drink, Lactiwel, made from milk and malt, contains 2% alcohol by volume. It is brewed using a fermentation process similar to that of traditional beer, except that instead of using beer yeast for fermentation Bernard uses kefir (a Turkish milk product) yeast and lactic bacteria.<br />
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