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”.
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…
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.
There’s a fellow in Duluth who makes wine from army worms (tent caterpillars). http://www.armywormwine.com/ In a blind taste test:
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Where’s the vomit smiley when you need one?
runs. like. hell. away. from. duluth.
SQUICK
How about a spit smiley for Andean Tsjetsja beer?
http://www.globalbeer.com/web/body_pages/Texts/History&Beer/Tsjetsja.html
millions of peaches - peaches for me.
millions of peaches - peaches for free…
Was Katie ever in prison?
That’s just not how it’s done.
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.
Maybe you and Scylla can hook up and drop some fermented peach bottle bombs [sup]tm[/sup] on something (hopefully not the cows).
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.
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…