# Peach....boom! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 21, 2004, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peach-boom/256141 "2004-07-21T04:35:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peach-boom/256141/21 "2004-07-23T04:09:50Z")
> [@mrklutz](#): > > And, of course, I forgot the biggest reason we went ahead and brewed the stuff to begin with: the name. Some other homebrewer friends of mine used to make honey wine with Mountain Dew added to it. Strangely enough, it tasted _really good_. The name? “Dew Mead”. ---
**Author:** ![inkleberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f17d59/32.png) [@inkleberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inkleberry)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peach-boom/256141/22 "2005-02-19T07:16:36Z")
So it was hot in the summer of 1992. Damn hot. I was 15. My cat had just killed a mouse. 15 year olds are fucked up monkeys, let me just say that now. We took the mouse, and tied a string to it’s tail. We tied the other end of the string to a stick. We then used this home-made cat toy to play with my cat. Then the cat got bored. We were left with a dead mouse on a string. We also had a Pepsi bottle that had just been emptied. Turns out, a small mouse can be popped through the top of a plastic Pepsi bottle (20 oz) much easier than you’d think. We put the cover back on, and tossed into a patch of ivy. A week later, we unearthed our mouse experiment. We were very curious about if and how a mouse might decompose in a sealed environment in the swealtering heat. The answer: not so well. It kinda…ballooned. Like a Marlon Brando impression. The bottle also became QUITE distended with dead mouse gas. We were afraid to open it. We were afriad to put it in the trash (we’d get in trouble if discovered). We were afraid to drop it in the sewer. However, we weren’t afraid to go down the street and wail it over the fence of some very nasty neighbors. It made quite a satisifying boom when it exploded on impact. Just underneath their airconditioner. The fumigators were there for days getting out the scent. I may be a bad person… ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peach-boom/256141/23 "2005-02-19T08:05:06Z")
Hmmm… I shall have to attempt some of these crazy brews. Perhaps if attempt to ferment a tomato… and a grape fruit… Tell ya what, I’ll get back to you guys in a few weeks. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peach-boom/256141/24 "2005-02-19T15:10:58Z")
There’s a fellow in Duluth who makes wine from army worms (tent caterpillars). [http://www.armywormwine.com/](http://www.armywormwine.com/) In a blind taste test: > [@](#): > > Four local wine connoisseurs invited to taste the wine described it as dry, pale and crisp. They compared it to a pinot grigio or white bordeaux. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peach-boom/256141/25 "2005-02-19T18:31:36Z")
> [@](#): > > There’s a fellow in Duluth who makes wine from army worms (tent caterpillars). [http://www.armywormwine.com/](http://www.armywormwine.com/) EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE _gasp_ EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!! ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peach-boom/256141/26 "2005-02-20T06:30:46Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > There’s a fellow in Duluth who makes wine from army worms (tent caterpillars). [http://www.armywormwine.com/](http://www.armywormwine.com/) In a blind taste test: _urp_ Where’s the vomit smiley when you need one? _runs. like. hell. away. from. duluth._ _SQUICK_ ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peach-boom/256141/27 "2005-02-20T07:22:39Z")
> [@lizardling](#): > > Where’s the vomit smiley when you need one? How about a spit smiley for Andean Tsjetsja beer? [http://www.globalbeer.com/web/body\_pages/Texts/History&Beer/Tsjetsja.html](http://www.globalbeer.com/web/body_pages/Texts/History&Beer/Tsjetsja.html) > [@](#): > > . . . some old toothless women are putting corn-grain in their mouth. They look very serious and resigned with a cattle-like expression on their face. After chewing for a long time, they spit the disgusting porridge in the jug. Later water is added, and one leaves this ‘soup’ to ferment for a few days. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peach-boom/256141/28 "2005-02-20T07:51:50Z")
millions of peaches - peaches for me. millions of peaches - peaches for free… ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peach-boom/256141/29 "2005-02-20T23:48:19Z")
Was Katie ever in [prison](http://www.blacktable.com/gillin030901.htm)? ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peach-boom/256141/30 "2005-02-21T04:45:38Z")
> [@nyctea scandiaca](#): > > Um, why didn’t you take the bottle outside to unscrew it?? That’s just not how it’s done. ---
**Author:** ![treis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@treis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/treis)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peach-boom/256141/31 "2005-02-21T04:54:09Z")
I would have taken it to a parking lot and chucked it as far as I could and wait for the explosion. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peach-boom/256141/32 "2005-02-21T05:28:00Z")
> [@treis](#): > > I would have taken it to a parking lot and chucked it as far as I could and wait for the explosion. Hmm, I happen to have a jar, can of peaches, and a parking lot. ---
**Author:** ![treis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@treis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/treis)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peach-boom/256141/33 "2005-02-22T22:50:17Z")
Maybe you and [Scylla](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=303628) can hook up and drop some fermented peach bottle bombs [sup]tm[/sup] on something (hopefully not the cows). ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peach-boom/256141/34 "2005-02-23T00:22:02Z")
I knew of a couple of SCA types who brewed up beer using those pink and white frosted circus cookies. The scary thing was that it actually tasted like the cookies. It’s just not right that something so potty sounding should work. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peach-boom/256141/35 "2005-02-23T01:23:43Z")
Heh, heh. Our big college experiment with homebrew was similar. Take a one gallon milk container, wash it out very well, pour in a can of Welch’s grape concentrate, a cup of sugar, a packet of yeast and fill almost full with fresh water. Secure a large balloon to the top and store it in a closet for a week or so. The gases inflate the balloon; when it deflates, the process is done. Strain the results and sip. You either wind up with something slightly better than Mogen David’s efforts, or you wind up with varnish remover. Although I guess the two really aren’t that far apart… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peach-boom/256141.md?page=1)