whats the craziest thing you've ever looked at and said "yeah, I could ferment that"?

[beerme70]

I have a friend that was looking around his kitchen and found an old jar of blackberry preserves. Hmm... Found some bread yeast. Hmmmmmm........ Boiled some water, added preserves. Cooled, added yeast....and viola, nasty blackberry something with alcohol in it.

 

[Freezeblade]

I've been planning a Prickly-Pear wine for a while now, I'm waiting for the hot summer to arrive here in San Diego and the fruit to ripen, but should be very interesting.

 

[RadicalEd]

I actually have some orange wine ready for bottling... Just OJ and some concentrate. None of this honey nonsense .

But really, even though it's a very established beverage with centuries of history, sake is still a pretty messed up concoction. I mean, seriously, you culture a fungus on your rice. Delicious, though.

 

[user 19629]

I have a friend that was looking around his kitchen and found an old jar of blackberry preserves. Hmm... Found some bread yeast. Hmmmmmm........ Boiled some water, added preserves. Cooled, added yeast....and viola, nasty blackberry something with alcohol in it.

I remeber when I was about 10. I tried to ferment a can of peaches with bakers yeast in a jar , that I hid under my bed. Didn't ferment but it was quite the mold farm.

 

[Yooper]

Tomatoes ferment into a nice wine- if you're patient. At first it's kind of gaggy. Beet wine is great. I love rhubarb wine- that's my alltime favorite, I think.

So, nothing too "crazy" but maybe unusual. Dandelions, bananas, oranges, lemons, lilacs, grapefruits, blackberries, cherries, tomatoes, chokecherries, beets, mangoes, pineapples, etc. all make wonderful wine. Cranberry sauce is on my list- I have the cranberry sauce, I just have to devote the time to it. Some wines not to repeat (or even make after trying them): cabbage wine, onion wine, and that tomato wine I mentioned earlier.

 

[potzertommy]

Has anyone tried making banana wine. I love bananas and banana flavored things... I'm surprised ive never stumbled upon this

 

[Yooper]

Has anyone tried making banana wine. I love bananas and banana flavored things... I'm surprised ive never stumbled upon this

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=33636

 

[Seawolf]

In Japan, my buddies and I drank lots of Habu Sake. A fermented Habu Viper in a bottle of Sake. Very venomous, and very fun!!

 

[k1v1116]

Ive thought about it from a chemistry / biology stand point and I think it would work, blood wine. take a volume of blood from whatever nonpoisonous / non-contaminated source and put it through a centrifuge to remove the proteins and blood cells then siphon off the serum and ferment that. blood serum I think is mostly sugar water with other nutrients it should ferment great once the immune system components are removed / killed. you might save the solids to add back after the fermentation is finished for a nice red-brown color.

 

[DiscoFetus]

During a drunken brewing session this question was posed and in excitement I said..."man, we should ferment f-in grape juice!" My friend looked at me and said. You're drunk, and stupid. My response..."ooohhh yeeaahh."

 

[SomedumbJerk]

i just realized that the fruit tree in my back yard is full of edible fruit. something called a sapote i think. they taste like a mello cherry/pear. i'm fermenting that with cherries and apricots this afternoon. debating on making it a mead or a cider...

 

[jtvinny]

Here is the results I got-
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=58975

 

[potzertommy]

Ive thought about it from a chemistry / biology stand point and I think it would work, blood wine. take a volume of blood from whatever nonpoisonous / non-contaminated source and put it through a centrifuge to remove the proteins and blood cells then siphon off the serum and ferment that. blood serum I think is mostly sugar water with other nutrients it should ferment great once the immune system components are removed / killed. you might save the solids to add back after the fermentation is finished for a nice red-brown color.

I really hope someone has tried this.

 

[Revvy]

I really hope someone has tried this.

There was a thread where someone was trying to make a klingon blood ale with real blood....I can't recall the thread title, but I think it was OlllO or Orfey who declared him the sickiest poster ever.

 

[potzertommy]

jtvinny, slightly off-topic, but I saw King of Kong, and I wanted to punch that man (the one who is serving as your avatar) in the face the entire movie.

 

[Judd]

Me roommate's dad has in his cellar a bottle of Leopard Bone Wine. It includes fermented leopard bone marrow and sperm.

 

[Boerderij_Kabouter]

Me roommate's dad has in his cellar a bottle of Leopard Bone Wine. It includes fermented leopard bone marrow and sperm.

Yeah semen wine would be awesome!!!......

Oh wait, that's totally disgusting and revolting. That was it Dammit now I have semen wine in my cellar...

This reminds me of the sex panther scene from Anchor man.

"No really, it has bits of leopard in it, so you know its good"

LMFAO

 

[blacklab]

jtvinny, slightly off-topic, but I saw King of Kong, and I wanted to punch that man (the one who is serving as your avatar) in the face the entire movie.

I hate Tom Cruise, too.

 

[Brew-Happy]

Last night as I was eating cantalope, I thought "This would be good in a creamy ale"!


any thoughts?

 

[Focus]

I gotta say the blood idea is pretty freakin' disturbing... I don't care how many sugars there are in the plasma or whatever...

On a better note, check out this guy, Jack Keller: http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/

He seems to have made wine out of just about everything. MMM, Lettuce wine!

 

[davefleck]

if you haven't made ice cream with your beer i really recommend you do it. Havn't tried it with a lighter beer but porter and stouts work great. Take a cup or so and boil it down to a syrup. Can also be thickened into some of the cream you'll use. I'd have to ask SWMBO for what exact method she used... She makes ice cream for a living

beets wouldn't be too tough to use... it's the most common natural ingredient used for red food coloring. instead of boiling your beets, get the juice and pasturize it. Might take some homework on your part but you can use lower temps for longer duration if the high temp is breaking apart the color. To get purple, you'd have to use a lot. Heck to get anything but pink you'd have to use a lot! Perhaps to get a purple beer brew up a pale ale and lightly toast some malt to get a reddish hue. Then in comes the beets!

 

[DiscoFetus]

if you haven't made ice cream with your beer i really recommend you do it. Havn't tried it with a lighter beer but porter and stouts work great. Take a cup or so and boil it down to a syrup. Can also be thickened into some of the cream you'll use. I'd have to ask SWMBO for what exact method she used... She makes ice cream for a living

I make a killer Caramel Guiness ice cream. Its rather heavy but makes for a good partner on Super Bowl Sunday which is when it typically gets consumed.

 

[ThriceIn5Minutes]

I want to ferment some Tang (the powdered veriety). I've long considered using it as an adjunct in a batch of Apfel Wein.

 

[Focus]

Come to think of it, I actually tried sweet tea once - the pre-sweetened fruit-flavored kind. It didn't work, though. Although the bottle didn't say anything about preservatives, I think their may have been some in there that killed the yeast. That or the tea itself killed it.

DiscoFetus, PLEASE give me the recipe for Carmel-Guiness ice cream. That sounds freakin' awesome.

Focus

 

[Awfers]

If you've ever looked at a person and said "Yeah, I bet I could ferment that...", then you have a problem

 

[HarvInSTL]

I've been trying to figure out how to get a couple cases of KFC's Honey Sauce packets.

The ingredients are as follows:

High Fructose Corn Syrup
Sugar
Corn Sryup
Honey
Caramel color

 

[potzertommy]

that... does not sound good

 

[Muss]

If you've ever looked at a person and said "Yeah, I bet I could ferment that...", then you have a problem

Ever said to your mate, "Can I ferment you when you die?"

 

[markg954]

what's to O.G on blood?

 

[jameswardpeterson]

my first wierd idea was Arizona arnald palmer lemonade ice tea. Then I realized, why not any of the other Arizona tea varieties? Why not some other soft drinks also? Never tried any of it though.