Blood wine?! :D
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Blood wine?! :D
I was talking with my cousin couple of nights ago over some mead I made and I was telling him how the fermentaion process goes and after a bit more mead he asks if I could make wine from blood . At that point I took the bottle away from him and he still will not shut up about it. He says that the cows blood over in the korean market they sell by the gallon could be turned to wine if I just diluted it and added sugar and yeast I told him there is no way in hell I will ever be doing that and then he said that he could just do it himself I managed to talk him out of it with the image of how his wife will react and started him off with a nice fail proof apple wine. Props to him for getting some home brewing inspiration, but if blood wine is what he starts out with I think I'm going to keep an eye out for him
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What did you put in that mead?
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junkyard dawg wrote:Dude, thats not honey!
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Holly shit dude, I'll bet he is a hoot to tank out on liquor, been around fellas like this an ya wake up in the am and what the hell happened last nite. Not that it is not fun but
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Can you see him in the mirror? Check the mirror.
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Sangre De Toro,,,?
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What are you talking about... Holy crap! I gained a bit of wieght over the winter.jus teasin wrote:Can you see him in the mirror? Check the mirror.
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Crickey! Just buy him a decent Charcuterie book and point him to the Boudin Noir section...
It's the perfect sausage accompaniment to a good hoppy beer..
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There probably aren't very many animals that can be used for fermenting. most mammal blood really isn't very sweet at all and doesn't contain much in the way of convertible carbohydrates. I expect that the presence of large amounts or protein and iron would also foul stuff up pretty badly if you tried to fortify the blood with sugar.
If you did come up with blood with high enough sugar content to support fermentation you could probably cook it a bit to get the protein to curdle out then strain and possibly reduce the remaining liquid to increase its sugar content.
The only animals I can think of right off the bat that could be expected to have very sweet blood are quite small and there would be significant obstacles to collecting a sufficient number of them, hummingbirds, sugar gliders (sugar gliders have extremely sugary urine as well if you're also thinking about piss wine) and common wood frogs during hibernation.
Of those I'd pick hibernating wood frogs as your most likely, they aren't particularly rare and they hibernate frozen solid with their blood turned to glucose syrup.
Besides frog blood wine sounds significantly more badass than hummingbird blood wine... and they are less likely to fly away when you are truing to catch them.
I can see it now... frog pickers roaming the winter forest with their trusty frog sniffing dogs (froghounds) and a five gallon pail filling up with frozen frogs.
I imagine you'd grind them whole and mash them with just enough water to rinse the sugar out of the cooked frog bits, you might want to break the glucose with a naturally occurring enzyme for the sake of authenticity... and you're away to the races.
If you did come up with blood with high enough sugar content to support fermentation you could probably cook it a bit to get the protein to curdle out then strain and possibly reduce the remaining liquid to increase its sugar content.
The only animals I can think of right off the bat that could be expected to have very sweet blood are quite small and there would be significant obstacles to collecting a sufficient number of them, hummingbirds, sugar gliders (sugar gliders have extremely sugary urine as well if you're also thinking about piss wine) and common wood frogs during hibernation.
Of those I'd pick hibernating wood frogs as your most likely, they aren't particularly rare and they hibernate frozen solid with their blood turned to glucose syrup.
Besides frog blood wine sounds significantly more badass than hummingbird blood wine... and they are less likely to fly away when you are truing to catch them.
I can see it now... frog pickers roaming the winter forest with their trusty frog sniffing dogs (froghounds) and a five gallon pail filling up with frozen frogs.
I imagine you'd grind them whole and mash them with just enough water to rinse the sugar out of the cooked frog bits, you might want to break the glucose with a naturally occurring enzyme for the sake of authenticity... and you're away to the races.
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Maybe he's talking about something like blood diamonds...? The ones that were got by the spilling of blood.
Some wines are like that
Some wines are like that
cornflakes...stripped and refluxed
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You know I could imagine that if you some how find a diabetic animal large enough so you could take a pint or two of blood without hurting it you could use that and cooking it will coagulate tmost of the proteins and as a bonus kill all bacteria. The hibernating frog blood might take too many frogs to be practical and bleeding 'em to death sounds a bit time consumeing and because they're hibernating the blood wont come out quick enough and grinding it might release more proteins into it... Wait a minute... God damnit fourway why the hell you trying to corrupt my mind like this?
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At certain points in my life, I think you could have simply distilled mine, straight out of the veinFourway wrote:There probably aren't very many animals that can be used for fermenting. most mammal blood really isn't very sweet at all and doesn't contain much in the way of convertible carbohydrates.
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Four way, you scare me. I bet you don't have a problem with strays around the house. Just kidding....maybe
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