Made with beer? Check. Tastes like eggs? Check. Artificial sweetener and colors? Yes. And more alcohol than Pabst Blast. This is the Egg Nog Beer experience.
Continue Reading Leave a CommentGarlic Wine
This post will start short but is likely to grow long over time. Very long. We will try to show the enormous range of foodstuffs from which wine is produced. With each post we will add to the list, and I predict it will grow way past 50 60. Today we add Garlic wine to the list.
- Agave wine
- Apple wine
- Apricot wine
- Aronia berry wine
- Avocado wine
- Banana wine
- Blackberry wine
- Blueberry wine
- Buffaloberry wine
- Cantaloupe wine
- Cherry wine
- Cranberry wine
- Dandelion wine
- Elderberry wine
- Elder flower wine
- Fig wine
- Garlic wine. Made by Long Trout Winery of Auburn, Pennsylvania. The second example is garlic cooking wine.
- Gooseberry wine
- Grape wine
- Hibiscus wine
- Huckleberry wine
- Jasmine fruit wine
- Kiwi wine
- Linden flower wine
- Lingonberry
- Lychee wine
- Maple Wine
- Mango wine
- Mangosteen wine
- Marionberry wine
- Onion wine
- Peach wine
- Pear wine
- Pepper wine
- Persimmon wine
- Pineapple wine
- Pomegranate wine
- Rhubarb wine
- Strawberry wine
- Tomato wine
- Watermelon wine
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Napa Vodka
It doesn’t go quite as far as Roth Vodka, which mentions something like a vintage date. But in some ways, Napa Vodka goes further — because it refers to the specific grape varietal and the vaunted Napa origin — rather than just California more generally. Wines & Vines explains:
The vodka was made from 2008 grapes harvested from a single vineyard in Napa Valley and fermented into wine, then distilled in a Vendome copper pot still at Stillwater Spirits in Petaluma, Calif. … It takes nearly 2 tons of grapes to produce the 3,000 gallons of wine needed to make 300 gallons of high-proof spirits, which are then diluted to 500 gallons. … While there appears to be no legal requirement, [owner Arthur] Hartunian secured approval from the Napa Valley Vintners and Napa Valley Grapegrowers for his project.
It sells for about $75 per bottle, and the Napa, California distillery produced only about 2,600 bottles.
Continue Reading Leave a CommentCane Vodka
I bet more than 95% of vodka (consumed in the US) is distilled from grain. After all, the big ones like Stolichnaya, Absolut, Smirnoff, and Grey Goose all seem to be distilled from grain. Here is a notable exception, however. This vodka, made by Island Distillers, of Honolulu, Hawaii, is distilled from sugar cane. Another exception, cutting against the grain, is Glacier vodka, distilled from potatoes. Does the commodity matter much? After all, vodka is supposed to be “neutral.” The rule says: “‘Vodka’ is neutral spirits so distilled, or so treated after distillation with charcoal or other materials, as to be without distinctive character, aroma, taste, or color.” It is amazing that the regulations insist upon fastidious disclosure as to the commodity from which distilled when it’s not clear that it has any impact on the taste or quality. Possibly, it’s crucial to put it on the label because it’s not otherwise discernible. In any event, there is probably no doubt that it costs many times more to make neutral spirits from cane, potatoes or just about anything else compared to a tanker full of grain neutral spirits.
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Maple Wine
This post will start short but is likely to grow long over time. Very long. We will try to show the enormous range of foodstuffs from which wine is produced. With each post we will add to the list, and I predict it will grow way past 50 60. Today we add Maple wine to the list.
- Agave wine
- Apple wine
- Apricot wine
- Aronia berry wine
- Avocado wine
- Banana wine
- Blackberry wine
- Blueberry wine
- Buffaloberry wine
- Cantaloupe wine
- Cherry wine
- Cranberry wine
- Dandelion wine
- Elderberry wine
- Elder flower wine
- Fig wine
- Gooseberry wine
- Grape wine
- Hibiscus wine
- Huckleberry wine
- Jasmine fruit wine
- Kiwi wine
- Linden flower wine
- Lingonberry
- Lychee wine
- Maple Wine. Made by Tree Spirits, of Oakland, Maine. Tree also makes spirits distilled from maple syrup.
- Mango wine
- Mangosteen wine
- Marionberry wine
- Onion wine
- Peach wine
- Pear wine
- Pepper wine
- Persimmon wine
- Pineapple wine
- Pomegranate wine
- Rhubarb wine
- Strawberry wine
- Tomato wine
- Watermelon wine
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