Gadling

Leave it to the Czechs to mix two things that might seem to most of us unmixable: beer and menopause. Yes, you heard that right. The miserable woes of no longer producing eggs, the hot flashes, the sleeping troubles, the moodiness, that funny smell (jk!)...all might possibly be relived if some Czech food scientists have their way. They are developing a new low-kilojoule, low-alcohol beer that contains heightened levels of phytoestrogen, a form of the hormone estrogen that is found in plants. Estrogen, remember, is what declines in menopausal women, leading to the afore-mentioned hot flashes et al.

The beer is being developed by the wonderfully named Research Institute of Brewing and Malting, and while there is no word on when the first bottle of this fine new brew will be on the store shelves, I am very eager to know what they plan on calling it. Estro-Ale? Hot-flash Lager? Moodibrew? Inquiring minds want to know.

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