Whale testicle is the size of a basketball

Fin whale meat being cut in Hvalfjörður, Iceland. On Eu­ro­pean …

Fin whale meat being cut in Hvalfjörður, Iceland. On Eu­ro­pean IUCN Redlist cov­er­ing the North At­lantic fin whales are not clas­si­fied un­der any of the threat­ened cat­e­gories. The cur­rent quota for the num­ber of fin whales hunted in Ice­land are 154 per year. Mbl.is/Ómar Óskarsson

Anna Margrét Björnsson

In light of the controversial Hvalur 2 whale testicle beer, mbl.is asked Dagbjartur Ariliusson at Steðji brewery about the size of a fin whale testicle.  

Each batch of the beer, which is made from Icelandic water, hops, barley uses one sheep-manure smoked fin whale testicle for flavouring.

It turns out that one fin whale testicle weighs around 7-8 kilos and is the size of a basketball.

The fin whale is also called the finback whale, razorback or common rorqual and is the second largest animal after the blue whale, growing to 27,3 metres (89,5 ft) long and weighing nearly 74 tonnes. 

Twenty thousand bottles of Hvalur 2 will be produced for the Þorri winter season this year. 

Related articles: 

http://www.mbl.is/english/news/2015/01/15/could_sell_all_the_whale_testicle_beer_abroad/

http://www.mbl.is/english/news/2015/01/14/fin_whale_not_endangered_in_the_north_atlantic/

http://www.mbl.is/english/culture_and_living/2015/01/12/whale_testicle_beer_anyone/

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