Cricket based beer launched in Quebec / Une première bière aux grillons lancée au Québec [Translated}

Tanslation

Two regional microbreweries and a cricket breeder are working together to launch a beer based on this rather unusual ingredient.

Black oatmeal beer tastes like chocolate, coffee and toast.

Maxime Dionne, co-owner of a cricket farm in Saint-Pascal in the Lower St. Lawrence, challenged Jérémie Tremblay of La Baleine endiablée microbrewery in Rivière-Ouelle to brew a beer from his crickets.

"I thought the challenge was cool. I also found the fact that it was innovation interesting. There was no information, it was unexplored territory," said Jérémie Tremblay.

The label of the new cricket beer, the "Cricket Stout".

The label of the new cricket beer, the "Cricket Stout".

With the help of the microbrewery Lion bleu d'Alma, its partner for brewing beer, they will release the "Stout aux grillons" within two weeks.

It can be drunk in both microbreweries and can be bought at the Baleine endiablée as well as in Lion bleu's points of sale.

"I decided to use the crickets as a grain. We roast it and look for the taste and dark colour of the roast. Yeast loves protein," says Jérémie Tremblay, adding that beer has a beautiful foamy consistency.

Breaking down barriers

For Entomo DSP, a company that cares about the planet and breeds and processes crickets, making this beer helps to break down some barriers about the use of cricket powder in our diet.

In the case of beer, whole crickets were roasted, as the powder would have made the beer too pasty. "From the beginning, we said that if we want to succeed in seducing everyone, the general public will come from restaurants, microbreweries, etc. ", says Maxime Dionne of Entomo DSP, himself a lover of black beers.

Advantages

According to him, crickets have many advantages. Compared to animal husbandry, insects need less water and food, as well as space, to mature.

Both of them want beer to be enjoyed especially during holiday parties and to stimulate discussions between friends and family about the environmental nature of the use of crickets in food.

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