Klingon Blood Ale....?

[Willie3]

Maybe he died from the iron toxicity. Either that or he got sidetracked, awaiting production of the new movie.


Freaking Trekkies.

And this coming from someone who has an avatar of two lite sabers from Star Wars... LOL!!!

 

[Philsc]

What a deliciously bizarre thread. Piqued my interest.

Question: wasn't it blood wine? A quick google confirms that:

It's a translation issue from the Klingon language. The klingon term is more accurately translated as "blood alcoholic beverage." So I suppose it could be either wine or beer, or soju.

I agree with Anderj. I think Goji berries is the way to go. It's far easier to do it as a fruit beer than mess about with rust, iron supplements and boiled liver.

Then I thought that wine has always tasted a bit bloody to me, what with the tannins (which is why I rarely drink the stuff). Why not just go with some goji wine.

And then I seem to remember an episode of Next Generation or DS9 where Whorf was drinking blood wine with a non-klingon who remarked, with surprise, that it tasted like cranberry juice.

As for avatars. There's a fellow on here who's avatar is Spock and Kirk wielding light sabres. That's a real mind-bender.

 

[BrewBrain]

LOL@This thread. Just when ya think you've seen 'em all.

Best served with a small plate of scabs AFAIK.

 

[syd138]

This may be an urban legend, but supposedly Jaeger Meister used to put a bit of elk blood in each bottle.

 

[Yeastie]

Boil a few nails in the mash water or throw a bot of copper pipe in the secondary, I like my water to taste metallic but then again I also like distilled and fluoridated water.

Personally I don't think it will taste good, why not just make an Irish red ale?

 

[jcobbs]

I see this is an old thread, but being a Trekkie I couldn't let it die just yet--

Two points-- (1) Ferrous sulfate is a common flocculant used in water treatment. So if you're going for an opaque, blood-like drink the iron pills are going to work against you, aside from the toxicity questions. On the other hand, the fact that they generate floc might help keep the concentration from getting too high, in that the iron would settle out with the yeast.

(2) On Star Trek, the Next Generation, Guinan turns Worf on to prune juice, which he dubs "a warrior's drink" and proceeds to consume every time he can sneak off to the bar. So if the blood ale doesn't work out maybe a prune beer would suffice?

 

[mithion]

I'm a trekkie so I gotta put my 2 cents in the thread. First off, someone earlier suggested to add aluminum to the boil. I strongly object to doing that. Aluminum is a neurotoxin and there is an ongoing debate about pulling aluminum cookware off the shelves because of that. Second, you have to be careful when dealing with minerals in food in general. A mineral imbalance in your body may kill your kidneys or cause other problems with brain function. So I wouldn't start dumping random scraps of materials into a brewpot. Some people suggested using goji berries and that's probably the safest way to try to make a blood beer.

 

[KillerKellers]

Haha, what an old thread... and I read the whole thing, hoping to see an outcome (its like a train wreck with no closure unfortunately).

And this has to be one of the funnies things I've read today:

It's a translation issue from the Klingon language. The klingon term is more accurately translated as "blood alcoholic beverage." So I suppose it could be either wine or beer, or soju.

 

[Reno_eNVy]

You could always add Clamato juice....

Derp

 

[RonRock]

I did not read the entire thread. But after reading what I did, all I can say is, WTF!

You win I'm dummer than i waz bee4.

thnkx

 

[Philsc]

Killer Kellers:
I was wondering if anyone would react to that.

 

[EvilTOJ]

Aluminum is a neurotoxin and there is an ongoing debate about pulling aluminum cookware off the shelves because of that. Second, you have to be careful when dealing with minerals in food in general. A mineral imbalance in your body may kill your kidneys or cause other problems with brain function.

Wrong. Wrong wrong WRONG! myth - Aluminum pots will cause Alzheimer's disease. FALSE. This myth was debunked years ago by the medical research community, and the US National Institutes of Health and Health Canada have long since ruled out a connection between Alzheimer’s disease and aluminum cookware. If you don’t believe me, see the following:
Aluminium and Alzheimer's disease - Alzheimer's Society
Alzheimer Myths
The Real Facts About Alzheimers and Aluminum - from EHSO

In short, there is no debate because it's been debunked many times.

 

[ericd]

The easiest way to do it would just be to add a little blood to the glass everytime you serve it.

 

[Philsc]

Well, I just made up some klingon blood wine.

Since reading this thread, it's played on my mind for a while. I was going to do a red ale with goji berries, but that seemed like a lot of work for a joke beer.

So I put a just under a litre of apple juice and the same of prune juice in a 2 litre pop bottle, one blended apple, some demerara sugar (for taste and alcohol) and champagne yeast.

Looks kind of right (well, at least how I'd imagine blood wine to look). Don't know the SG as my hydrometer broke.

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