It’s called feni or fenny in India. I’ve seen a commercial bottle of it that looks like the fruit.
I would have expected the recipe to start with Skittles soda
just make it alcoholic.
Kiwi: King Kiwi Tropical Fruit Wine, Florida Orange Groves Winery
Starfruit: Brewing Starfruit Wine
Banana: Banana Wine
Carrot: How To Make Carrot Wine
Sugarcane, for instance, so rum and other feemented distilled cane juice spirits are also grass.
You may very well have made your own vinegar.
Flying reindeer notwithstanding, I’d like to know how they found THIS out. TL : DR - it’s about the Siberian tribe that discovered that the renal metabolite of a certain mushroom has hallucinogenic properties.
How many of these are made by fermenting the thing in question, and how many are made by flavoring something like neutral spirits?
I have read that it’s common for hallucinogens to produce spiritual visions. The mushrooms on Patmos, where John had the vision written about in Revelation, are a species of psilocybin mushrooms. Also see peyote and sacred datura.
As for how they found out that they could get it from reindeer pee, they saw the reindeer eat the mushrooms without the problems they had , so gave it a try.
Last night, Mrs Magill told me about a place in East Nashville, Donut Distillery, where you can pair doughnuts and beer or spirits. Which got me thinking. There is a lot of sugar in doughnuts, and some are made with yeast. In theory, you could make a beer or wine out of doughnuts. You would probably need to add brewers’ yeast, because you would definitely want to boil the wort.
I just did a cursory search, and only came up with doughnut flavored beer, but no no doughnut beer.
Would any brave souls like to give it a try?
I’d recommend the reddit page r/prisonhooch for all these inquiries. Sure enough, it’s been tried, though I didn’t immediately find any updates on if it’s good.
Ah, yes. And wiener water. That is definitely a thing. A guy I worked with who was basically a displaced hillbilly told me a few times about using the wiener water to flavor something or other. I once told him that my Mom used to buy a whole baloney and smoke it and it tasted just like ham. Little did I realize that he took this to heart and tried it. I don’t think he ever forgave me.
I would expect that baking kills the yeast.
Yeah - I had reconsidered. I imagine the frying process would kill nearly all of the yeast.
Yeast is a cannibal, an old school brewing method is to boil some baker’s yeast and add it to the must for nutrients (“yeast ghosts”) that non-boiled yeast can use. Nowadays there’s better brewing nutrients, but it’s still sometimes done. Within an already baked and prepared product, it’s a different issue, there’s not “free” yeast but it might help in some fashion.
I’m guessing most maple liqueurs are made by adding maple flavoring to Canadian rye, but you can make alcohol straight from the syrup.
Which is only sometimes made from actual rye plants, for an added layer of complexity.
Nice! Thank you for that.
The article addresses a topic that we’ve always considered an old wives’ tale: namely, that you shouldn’t drink alcohol with durian or it will make you sick.
We never found that to be a problematic prescription, mostly because we didn’t have any frantic desire to combine the two, especially in quantity. But yes - in years past, we have definitely had both durian and a bit of beer or wine. No humans were harmed in the consumption of both. However, it’s good to know that it might be a good idea not to push boundaries. A glass of wine, a slurp of durian, no problem. Three beers and two lobes of durian? Maybe not.
Thinking a bit outside of the box, you could make a commercial beer or other alcohol that was produced entirely outside the atmosphere, Low Earth Orbit or higher. I mean, there’s been quite a few experiments with yeasts, seeds and other components sent out of the atmosphere or to orbit, which are brought back and used to brew various “space” alcohols, but AFAIK nothing produced on the commercial level in space. Might be easiest option short of breeding / genetically engineering a new fermentable.
– no one leak this to Musk –
Amusingly, considering my suggestion of only 5 days ago, this showed up in my CNN feed:
So if the OP wants to win via space Sake, they need to make some deals ASAP. Otherwise, they’ll have to try a different SPAAAAAAAAAAACCEEEEE booze.
OK, I have the definitive answer to the OP-- nobody has ever made alcohol out of insects! Let’s take, just as a random example, tent caterpillars. Surely nobody has ever attempted to make alcohol out of those!
Oh, wait…