The Land of the Long White Cloud and home to all the hobbits and wizards your mind can muster just got even better. Yes, you read right, drivers in New Zealand can now fill their cars with DB Export Brewtroleum, a biofuel crafted from the yeast that remains from the beer-brewing process.

Apparently the idea was thought up by a few mates cracking a cold one back in February, those brainstorming bros following through with the biofuel option now available at Gull Petrol Stations across the nation. Vice reports:

When brewing beer, there’s always a bit of sediment left once the drink has fermented. It’s mainly made up of inactive yeast, and people in the brewing business call it slurry. Usually, as Simon explains, “The yeast slurry is passed on to farmers for stock feed, but sometimes it can go to waste.”

The DB Export folks realized the slurry could still be used to produce ethanol; a key ingredient in biofuel. So instead of dumping it, they sent 15,300 gallons of slurry to a refinery. There, the ethanol from the yeast was refined until it was pure enough to start mixing with petrol.

It seems the idea has gone down well, with the Auckland branch reporting the launch as the busiest day of the year.

Me thinks these lads deserve a couple of stiff drinks to reward themselves for their efforts. Now they just need to find a way to power vehicles solely from Hunter’s Dry and do all of our tastebuds a favour.

And no, this doesn’t make drinking and driving OK.

[source:vice]