The 15 strangest drinks in the world, the ingredients of which it is better not to even guess
Non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages, due to their taste qualities, have always been an integral part of lunch or dinner, a healthy breakfast or an attribute of rest and relaxation. Some of them are very simple and delicious, such as fruit or vegetable juices. But there are also those who, because of the ingredients used in them, cause surprise, alertness, or even disgust.
Kopi Luwak is the most expensive elite coffee in the world. Its grains are processed as standard, but there is one difference. Coffee beans must first undergo a natural fermentation process in the stomach of musang, palm marten, which improves their quality. Processed grains are collected with animal excrement. The production of this type of coffee has reached an industrial scale in Indonesia, East Timor and the Philippines.
Continuing the theme of unusual ingredients for making drinks, we offer beer from coffee beans that have been in the stomach of an elephant. Japanese brewers decided to add this unusual ingredient to a new batch of beer dedicated to the celebration of April Fool's Day in 2013. As a result, beer got a specific taste due to the destruction of proteins that give coffee bitterness. In 2012, there was an attempt to make coffee itself from beans fermented in a similar way.
The owner of the brewery Oregons's Rogue Ales, John Mayer, in order to attract more customers, decided to create a beer, which at first was called "Bearded Beer". Rumor has it that instead of yeast, in 1978 he tried to use follicles from his beard. The manufacturer was surprised by their beneficial effect on beer fermentation. Although many still believe that he adds ordinary yeast.
The Chinese did not stop at the exotic and delicious swallow nest soup and decided to prepare a carbonated drink from the saliva of birds, which they use to attach nests to the walls of caves. In Asia, they offer a cheap analogue of this drink simply with the taste of this ingredient, while the real one is prepared on the basis of soda and is very expensive. The color of the drink, similar to the greenish shade of horse urine, makes it even less attractive.
James Gilpin, a graduate and researcher at Design Interactions in London, converted his brewery when he decided to produce family whiskey for export. The basis of the preparation is the urine of elderly people who are diagnosed with diabetes. The urine of diabetics with a high sugar content is purified like ordinary water, while the isolated sugar is supplied to the production to ensure the fermentation process of whiskey. The drink is mixed with pure alcohol, bottled, on which the names of the volunteers who donated urine are indicated.
In this case, it is impossible to say for sure that the drink does not contain the declared ingredients. It is really insisted on snakes and scorpions lowered for several months into a bottle with rice wine or other alcoholic grain drink, whose enzymes do their job, and the drinks acquire specific characteristics. It is believed that this wine improves health, so it is used as a medicine in traditional Chinese medicine. Such drinks can be purchased in Southeast Asia and via the Internet.
Once someone said that the smaller the better, but the Chinese and Vietnamese decided that the liquor would be much tastier from three lizards. Such a drink can be prepared independently. You just need to take a live lizard, preferably a gecko, or preferably three, and put them in a bottle with vodka or rice liquor of 75% strength. The result should be an incredibly healing drink, which also protects from evil spirits.
The Chinese decided that it was difficult to get a gecko, and decided to replace it with baby mice. Koreans also liked this idea. Small bald mice still alive are lowered into a bottle of rice vodka, where fermentation takes place throughout the year. The drink tastes like gasoline.
This drink is also considered therapeutic. An Indonesian from Jakarta, who calls himself the Cobra Man, is engaged in non-traditional methods of treatment, which are based on the blood and bile of a snake. After cutting off the cobra's head, he drains the blood from its body into a glass and adds bile. This medicine is used to treat colds, skin diseases and diseases of the digestive system. Men can improve their potency.
Chicha is a beer that is made from corn kernels, but saliva is added for fermentation. This drink is popular in South and Central Africa. Corn grains are simply chewed and in the form of tortillas enter the production process. In the Amazon basin, local tribes cook something similar by chewing cassava roots.
At first glance, it may seem that the drink is similar to a mixture of milk and beer, but do not be deceived. The owners of the Green Man pub in New Zealand are so keen on the idea of using horse sperm that they even organize festivals. The drink is especially popular among women, there were only isolated cases when men dared to try it. Although they still say that there is nothing so strange there, it's just beer and milk.
This is a drink made of tequila and human sperm. The idea belongs to Paul Foti Fotenhayer, the author of Semenology. What is his logic? If we eat chicken eggs and drink milk, why not try the sperm secreted by the body.
The placenta contains a lot of nutrients and useful substances, and it resembles a pizza in shape. Placentophages in Mexico and the USA eat the placenta left after the birth of a child that has undergone heat treatment, thinking that this is a panacea for diseases. In its raw form, you can make a cocktail from it. Such a kind of "Bloody Mary".
This alcoholic drink, popular in the Arctic Circle, can be prepared at home by yourself. Since there is not a lot of fermentation-promoting ingredients in that region, then to make wine, you just need to use a dead seagull. We put the corpse in a bottle, fill it with water, put it in the sun and wait until the fermentation takes place.
"Oysters from the Rocky Mountains" is a dish of fried bull testicles, which is very popular in Colorado. Local brewers co On April Fool's Day, they decided to prepare a batch of beer from the same ingredient, which received full approval among the locals. Fried eggs are crushed and added to seven other ingredients, including sea salt, malt, barley, hops.