Brewery Employs Crayfish Fitted With Bio-Sensors

Sometimes you can’t make these things up…And freshwater lobsters armed with infrared bio sensors to alert brewers to changes in its water supply, is definitely one of them.

A Czech brewery is employing crayfish equipped with high-tech gear to keep the water they use to brew with, pure.

You see, it turns out that crayfish are uber-sensitive to any changes in their aquatic environment and those changes register in their behavior.

So now, the Protivin brewery in South Bohemia is using computers to monitor these creatures for bio-fluctuations (things like changes in their body temperature or heartbeat) and using that data to adjust the purity of the water they brew with.

“When three or more crayfish are moving or change their pulse activity, we know that the water parameters have changed. We can react quickly because we have the result within three minutes,” Head Brewer Michal Voldrich told Reuters.

The water system was developed and patented by scientists at the Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Water at South Bohemia University at Vodnany, (who had the good sense to not return our calls).

And we’ve no word yet as to whether the brewery’s crayfish are receiving benefit packages or get weekends off.