Curtains at a beer bar made from the literal leftovers from beer production. Seen at Copenhagen airport.

[u/ceruleandope]

[u/analdongfactory]

Eh, I think it’s cool and it’s not like it’s in an inappropriate setting.

Unless they smell bad or something?

[u/Vinyl-addict → u/analdongfactory]

Idk it just looks like someone thought it was a good idea to hang up a musty tarp. Would be less gross to me if it was more of a panel situation than this sheet looking thing.

[u/analdongfactory → u/Vinyl-addict]

The one on the left looks like a mug of beer. The right not as much I suppose.

[u/Miora → u/analdongfactory]

The one on right looks like someone pissed on the bottom of it ☹️

[u/TrifleEmbarrassed427 → u/Miora]

On brand for Copenhagen.

[u/No_Cook2983 → u/TrifleEmbarrassed427]

You should see the curtains they made out of tobacco spit.

[u/mrpopenfresh → u/Vinyl-addict]

This is an art installation

[u/Vinyl-addict → u/mrpopenfresh]

Doesn’t make it a good one

[u/lolheyaj → u/analdongfactory]

It's cool but it looks like curtains made of vomit. 

[u/yogo → u/lolheyaj]

Reusing stuff in unusual ways is my jam but this looks pretty grody.

[u/CeruleanEidolon → u/lolheyaj]

I saw Curtains of Vomit open for GWAR once. They were pretty sick.

[u/eschatonik → u/CeruleanEidolon]

...when being sprayed with fake blood just doesn't cut it anymore you gotta find an opener that ups the ante.

[u/fueled_by_rootbeer → u/analdongfactory]

I also think it's a cool concept. Great way to recycle an industry byproduct that would otherwise get thrown out.

[u/Forward-Ant-9554 → u/fueled_by_rootbeer]

that 'thrown out' could be in a compost bin. they were cooked and fermented grains. luckily these curtains are still recycable. but that is not always the case.

i see so many things on the net that are supposedly great arts and crafts recycling videos that just make things worse. before you had these perfectly recycable materials and now you have a combo that you can't take apart anymore and just goes to an incinerator or landfill.

[u/kiss-tits → u/Forward-Ant-9554]

It’s pretty funny to say they should reuse perfectly decomposable wheat byproducts by layering them in plastic. Haha.

[u/s4b3r6 → u/Forward-Ant-9554]

The fermented would be a problem for the compost. You don't need the bacteria going to war with different breeds and all ending up dead.

[u/fuzzycitrus → u/s4b3r6]

Quick check confirms what I learned when studying microbiology & doing much work with fermenting: Nope, totally safe.  It's also usable for things like dog treats, livestock feed, or just being turned under the soil to rot there.  (I know the middle one is one popular in my area; always go with the option where people pay you to carry off your waste when you get it.)

The bacteria are not going to go to war with different breeds.  If nothing else because fermentation happens with yeast, not bacteria...

[u/s4b3r6 → u/fuzzycitrus]

If nothing else because fermentation happens with yeast, not bacteria...

No.

[u/fuzzycitrus → u/s4b3r6]

I was talking about the fermentation of the beer, not the compost.  But they're not likely to fight and wipe each other out.  (If we could set up bacterial mutual destruction matches, it'd be something I'd know about because it'd make treating persistent infections SO much easier.)

That said, in my area the better bang for buck is letting farmers pay you to feed it to livestock, the commercial composters still charge to haul it off, and I think most of us are perfectly fine running it through a cow, horse or sheep before returning it to the soil.

[u/Moorbert → u/fueled_by_rootbeer]

nah. this stuff is highly reused and these things are the stupid thing.

[u/Lordwigglesthe1st → u/fueled_by_rootbeer]

And often it's thrown out to a local pork farm or other use, not trashed

[u/fueled_by_rootbeer → u/Lordwigglesthe1st]

Yeah, I see how it's just a neat thing this business did lol. Cool concept for a brewery at least, but not practical to produce en masse.

[u/Lordwigglesthe1st → u/fueled_by_rootbeer]

Agreed,  I do think anything that stretches what we can accomplish with biomaterials is worth experimenting with and showing off

[u/bullhorn_bigass]

They just look like filthy moldy plastic sheets.

[u/top2percent → u/bullhorn_bigass]

I think you’re mostly correct.

[u/PapowSpaceGirl → u/bullhorn_bigass]

Agreed. Would nope right out of there.

[u/tron3747 → u/bullhorn_bigass]

I think it would have worked a lot better if the material was used as a pattern inlay

[u/WaytoomanyUIDs → u/bullhorn_bigass]

Looks like the shower curtain in a student digs.

[u/Youse_a_choosername]

Looks like a college dorm shower curtain.

[u/nelifex]

I saw these in June and they're as ugly as they look here. An interesting concept but an international airport is perhaps not the best use-case

[u/lamentable_ → u/nelifex]

thought the same thing when I first walked past them! ugly and filthy

[u/tahitisam]

Absolute bullshit. 

These are probably just sheets of some random biopolymer with inclusions of spent grain for looks. 

Their website sucks and their Instagram shows that woman in her linen robes looking intently at one such sheet to justify her “buy my revolutionary lamps for 3k” type grift.

I’m also sceptical of the recycling capacity of those mixed materials.

[u/Moorbert → u/tahitisam]

the material is already highly recycled normally. so absolutely no need in doing this

[u/jk-9k → u/Moorbert]

Exactly. Spent grains are already a valuable feed resource. This seems like a less effective and efficient use.

[u/Moorbert → u/jk-9k]

you could even go a step further. instead of feeding kettle and such, you could feed a biogas reactor and reach a net zero carbon dioxide emission for beer production. thats how valuable that stuff is.

[u/D31taF0rc3 → u/Moorbert]

Reminds me of the 'ugly' food craze where people thought ugly produce was thrown out because it didnt make it to store shelves. Had to explain to my well meaning friends that most ugly foods end up in resturaunt kitchens, processed foods, animal feed, or compost and almost nothing is wasted.

[u/twoisnumberone → u/tahitisam]

I'm with you. This is BS.

[u/pauldrano]

They look like the skin curtains in the very end of the last episode of the Candle Cove season of Channel Zero, in Eddie's realm.

[u/Miora → u/pauldrano]

I don't know what this is but it's so specific I had to upvote it

[u/pauldrano → u/Miora]

Channel Zero was a short lived horror anthology show on SYFY, the first season was based on the short story by Kris Straub called Candle Cove. In the show a dead child is able to manifest some kind of mind palace and one of the rooms has sheets of skin hanging.

[u/Huge-Basket244 → u/pauldrano]

Wait they actually made a Candle Cove show? I didn't realize. That's so weird.

[u/Voljega → u/Huge-Basket244]

The whole serie is very good and has an absolutely unique tone.

For me it’s simply by far the best tv horror show

[u/Huge-Basket244 → u/Voljega]

I know it because of the creepy pasta, but I didn't realize it ended up being an actual thing. I'll have to check it out tonight.

[u/pauldrano → u/Huge-Basket244]

Yeah, the first season was based on Candle Cove, the other seasons were based on other horror stories online.

[u/rvralph803]

Man, if I wanna see some yeasty flaps all I gotta do is look down.

[u/bluesox → u/rvralph803]

You win

[u/whalewhisker5050]

These will look great in my silent hill themed house.

[u/zgtc]

Natural Material Studio has done some really remarkable work, especially with their SMULD project. This, however, is not their best.

Though I’d probably argue it’s more bad taste but great execution, as it’s conceptually great but aesthetically a disaster.

[u/sebestjanowicz]

Dahmer's shower curtains.

[u/signmeupnot]

How could this be 'awful' taste. Oh no some beer production themed curtains used in the right setting.

[u/I-baLL → u/signmeupnot]

Because they probably taste awful

[u/Guywithasockpuppet]

Honestly at a glance Human skin was my first thought. Voting bad idea

[u/Siilan]

This makes me think, you know what else is made from leftovers of beer production? Vegemite.

[u/dovelikestea]

Yup yup thats terrible

[u/Bloodb47h]

They look like foamy beer. Like the inside of a stein.

I love it. GTGE.

[u/UbiSububi8]

Your curtains are drunk on the job!

[u/ColossalSackofSpuds]

I think this is cool considering the context.

[u/Albatroz_901]

Dunno if I like em or find them gross

[u/fluidityfluxicitu]

i actually think that’s pretty cool? and it sounds like it’s eco friendly which is cool

[u/Moorbert → u/fluidityfluxicitu]

no it is not. as the material they use is already highly reused.

[u/The_Mammoth_Hunter]

So it's just spent grain stuck to some sheeting?

Where I live, breweries often give their spent grain to local livestock farmers, often for free.

[u/LockeySeven]

It looks like old shower curtains

[u/MarthasPinYard]

Looks Ed Gein-esque til you read the caption👀

[u/destiny_kane48]

I wouldn't put them in my house but they are cool as hell for bars.

[u/jaklacroix]

That's pretty cool tbh

[u/YOBlob]

This feels like something an anti-environmentalist would come up with to mock the concept of recycling.

[u/Katana_sized_banana]

I would love to meet the person who enjoys and approved these vomit curtains.

[u/ClarkNova80]

Trub.

[u/coopthepirate]

Ew

[u/SignificantLeader]

Gross

[u/Miora]

Bet someone's licked these.

[u/Tiny_Investigator_94]

I'd say great taste, great execution, but the actual outcome just looks awful.

[u/StevenS145]

I think this is good taste, awful execution. I think it’s a cool idea, to reincorporate some aspect of the backend brewing process into the frontend consumer experience. The problem is they hung up a bunch of dirty tarps.

[u/edbgon]

Kødbyen... Meat city.

[u/Tbplayer59]

Those are not attractive.

[u/VisualIndependence60]

Pass

[u/OriginalLu]

Come on in and knock back a cold one behind our slaughterhouse / chainsaw massacre curtains.

[u/Blanche-]

Beer Curtains

[u/Akito_900]

Looks like saw

[u/Myrddin_Naer]

Ew

[u/TheRenOtaku]

Looks like someone kept the same shower curtains for…50 years?

[u/king_of_n0thing]

Reminds me I still have to finish Silent Hill 2 remake

[u/Honda_TypeR]

I get the concept they were after, but it's not aesthetically pleasing. The execution of the concept is shitty.

[u/midnightstreetlamps]

These look like the surgical/medical curtains you would see in a horror movie or a zombie apocalypse show.

[u/SpikeRosered]

Looks like a curtain you'd see at a slaughterhouse. The brown looks like the scum of corpses rather than beer.

[u/The-Fumbler]

It would probably taste awful

[u/SaltyIrishDog]

Silent Hill-core

[u/SalmonMaskFacsimile]

Reminds me of kombucha scoby. I wanna slap it. Bet it makes a satisfying "bwap!" noise.

[u/dby08]

I have one of these hanging in my shower rn

[u/Oddish_Femboy]

It worked for Aperture.

[u/kikmons]

just looks dirty

[u/YourMateFelix]

The worst parts of me want to know... would these be edible?

[u/KiedisLeftNut]

I would say this is more great taste awful execution

[u/MulberryChance6698]

I think it's pretty neat. It's just a conversation starter at a beer bar about beer. Not like it's in someone's avocado painted VW bus windows.

[u/Swiftzor]

This would make a cool resin cast coaster

[u/Does_A_Bear-420]

I like them.... Probably because of how much I like beer. Perhaps I'm an alcoholic 🤔

[u/Red_Beard_of_Tucson]

A sponsored project from Jacob's Ladder.