How much beer can a cow drink? Canada's largest brewery and a team from the University of Alberta are trying to determine precisely that

in a project ultimately designed to divert millions of liters of spoiled beer from the sewer systems.

"We have milk on our cereal, but these cows have beer on theirs," Molson Breweries vice-president John Hay said Thursday. The idea of fattening bovines with beer isn't new - Kobe beef from Japan are fed a special diet that includes plentiful amounts of beer.

But a feed program designed specifically to use and turn a profit on waste beer is a novel twist