Finland’s first beer made from cow beans arrives in stores.
Maku Brewing from Tuusula brings a beer made from broad beans to the market – reportedly the first in Finland, and among the first in the world.
Maku Härkönen is a pale ale, the production of which has been made using a Finnish innovation, i.e. malted broad beans.
Why the hell a broad bean?
According to Maku Brewing, the broad bean used in crop rotation reduces the need for fertilizers and pesticides. They even paint that broad beans, which are excellent in their environmental effects, can revolutionize Finnish agriculture.
Maku Brewing from Tuusu has developed a beer whose one raw material is broad beans. Pete Anikari
Härkönen beer, which is being launched now, contains about a fifth of fava beans. The main raw material is malted barley.
– In addition to the environmental aspects, it was important that we were able to develop a beer from the new raw material that also tastes good. Along the way, we and the malthouse have already learned a lot about cow beans, the founder and entrepreneur of Maku Brewing Jussi Tamminen says in the announcement.
The beer, which has been worked with malthouse Viking Malt for a year, gets its bull beans from a Finnish farm. The collaborative project brings a new innovation to the selection of beers, especially thanks to its sustainability and environmental friendliness.
– We originally set out to develop cow bean malting for the rest of the food industry, but with the Maku Brewing project we have been able to create an innovation, responsible for Viking Malt’s responsibility, innovation and marketing Annika Wilhelmson states.
Maku Brewing’s deer-riding entrepreneur Jussi Tamminen (left) and the company’s community manager Juho Virtanen examine a new beer. Taste Brewing
Broad bean has a long tradition in Finland. With its Finnish spelling, it came into use already at the end of the 17th century, but it has been cultivated in Finland since the 7th century.
At the moment, most of the produced broad bean ends up as feed, but increasingly also as part of the food industry.
Fermented broad beans.
Broad bean binds nitrogen from the air to the soil and thus reduces the need for fertilizers.
The S group believes in the appeal of beer made from broad beans. The demand for ale-style beers has been growing in the S group for a long time.
– Finnish beer consumers invest more in experiences than before and are more willing to experiment with beer. Different raw material bases and flavor worlds are becoming more and more interesting, says SOK Marketkauppa’s chain management fresh produce sales manager Mikko Kovalainen.
Broad bean binds air nitrogen and enriches the soil.
Härkönen Papu Ale produced by Maku Brewing is on sale in Prisms and S-Markets across the country on September 12. from