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Whisky Made From Diabetics' Urine
It's doubtful that any other distillery will come up with a whisky that tastes like Gilpin Family Whisky because of its secret ingredient: urine. Researcher and designer James Gilpin uses the sugar rich urine of elderly diabetics to make his high-end single malt whisky. From the article: "The source material is acquired from elderly volunteers, including Gilpin's own grandmother, Patricia. The urine is purified in the same way as mains water is purified, with the sugar molecules removed and added to the mash stock to accelerate the whisky's fermentation process. Traditionally, that sugar would be made from the starches in the mash."
The sadder they are when mommy abandons them, the richer the taste.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
But...why?
"uses the sugar rich urine or elderly diabetics to make his high-end single malt whisky"
So not only will it smell of wee, it'll also smell of... uhh... well, more wee!
Americans have been making beer from urine for a century. I don't see how Whisky is a stretch.
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I'll have a jigger of that mixed with my civet-poo coffee for a perfect dessert beverage!
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To the term 'getting pissed'...
What part of secret don't you understand? Urine trouble now!
-Peter
There is no explanation for why anyone would want to do this other than to "accelerate the fermentation process", which distillers typically do with just normal sugar.
What's so special about diabetic sugar?
Personally I don't think this is a very good idea. Consider this is human waste which means lots of potential for undesired interaction in other humans. With all the drugs and pathogens that might be in this, there is no way to guarantee that the filtering process works 100%. I mean Mad Cow disease is an example of one of those things that popped up that we had no idea how to handle.
Whiskey is made from grain -- barley, wheat, and in the US corn -- but not from other sugars, no matter where they come from.
This nonsense might be called vodka, which can be made from grain, potatoes, or my favorite, whey.
Actually I would call it industrial ethanol, and maybe use it as a fuel additive at best.
...uses the sugar rich urine or elderly diabetics to make his high-end single malt whisky.
The whiskey is made of PEOPLE!
Now pardon me while I find a toilet.
If "disco" means "I learn" in Latin, does "discothèque" mean "I learn technology"?
Looks like just as porn drives the advances in computer technology, alcohol will drive the advances in renewable sources technology.
Of course, now when someone says "this beer tastes like piss", you can tell them, it actually is piss. They then have the choice of running out and screaming "The booze is piss, people!"
Is there anything special about sugars extracted this way, other than the obvious shock value? Is it some trace amount of minerals they're after? I mean, for all I know I'm breathing oxygen atoms from dinosaur farts -- but it's exactly the same as oxygen atoms from any other source...
Oh, *phew*, you mean just *some* whisky ...
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It's the latest thing in the "recycling" craze. Lets make sure that Kevin Costner doesn't find out, or he will put it in a futuristic movie... oh wait, he did!
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Man...I just got fired from Piss Drinkers...the editor threw a shit fit. I don't wanna deal with that.
I'm gonna go work at Shit Fit.
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Wow, that's gross. Whisky ever leave a funny taste in your mouth?
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The article says these are elderly diabetic patients. There's no reason for them to have higher blood sugar than anyone else - Banting and Best discovered insulin before most of them were even born.
Sounds like either neglect or abuse to me.
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Couldn't they get the same taste just by making whiskey out of American beer?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Why is American Beer like making love in a row-boat?
:-)
Bruce Perens.
Now it tastes like band-aids...
.. that have been pissed on.
> as "Dianetics".
>That Hubbard was
>something else.
Naah - he was full of shit. This is piss - it's completely different.
So if they have an infection, does it make "Southern Discomfort". The Makers used it to Mark their territory. Wild Turkey (yeah, I'm not going there). Peegrams Seven. Ok, I need to stop. This isn't punny.
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Put vodka in a burnt oak barrel for 18 months or more. Now you have something that tastes like (crappy) whiskey, and is no longer considered vodka. Many whiskeys are so heavily filtered (to give a milder flavor) at the distillation phase that they lost most, if not all, of the interesting volatiles from the malt that a fine scotch contains.
In the US really cheap whiskey can be just "grain neutral spirits" (industrial ethanol) plus caramel color and flavoring. There are special labels that are regulated in the US, but putting some brown fluid in a plastic 1 gallon jug can be called whiskey, rum, and numerous other things in the US.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
Too! Much! Information!
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
I suppose it does look like corn mash liquid.
In Siberia, reputedly, there were tribes in which the religious shamans ate fly agaric, a psychedelic mushroom, to attain a religious experience, and his followers would then drink his urine, which contained the psychedelic substance, in order to share in the experience.
"How to Do Nothing," kids activities, back in print!
I have a collection of fine vintage Whisky. Does this mean I can get to drink my best whisky twice?
After logging in slashdot still does not take you back to the page you were on. It's been that way for 20 years.
And so, if you get the seniors who donate the pee to drink the whiskey made from their pee, and then donate the pee that that whiskey makes them pee, does it get concentrated or distilled further? And then if that concentrated pee is made into new 'pee' whiskey and they drink THAT whiskey and then THAT pee is made into whiskey, and then....
OMG! It might be worth becoming a donator (donor?) just to see the high you might get off THAT pee whiskey made from pee whiskey, made from pee whiskey, made from......
OMG, now if i can only come up with a car analogy.... or...
Seniors + pee =whiskey + seniors =pee + whiskey=.........
PROFIT????? or just EWWWWWW!!
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Sure Budweiser and Coors deserve to be slammed, but America has a nearly endless selection of great beer. I'll take a local brewed double IPA over anything I've had during Oktoberfest in Munich. People who slam American beer probably weren't into beer to begin with.
The only time there is glucose in the urine is when blood glucose levels exceed the ability of the kidneys to resorb the glucose back into the blood - a threshold level that is typically quite high (200 ml/dl). People with diagnosed diabetes typically have their blood sugar under control, and therefore do not excrete glucose in their urine. Even in cases where people do excrete glucose in their urine, it is around only 1 gm per liter. When sugar ferments, roughly 50% of its mass is given up in carbon dioxide. Also, when making whiskey, only about half of the alcohol from a run is kept, that being the middle part of the run, known as the "hearts", while the "heads" and the "tails" of the run are discarded. So of each gram of piss-sugar collected (assuming 100% harvesting efficiency), only about 1/4 gm of ethanol ends up in whiskey. To make a 750 ml of 80-proof would require over 300 gm of alcohol, which would require 1200 gm of piss-sugar, which would require over 1200 liters (over 317 US Gallons) of piss. Adult humans produce an average of 1-2 liters of urine per day. So, to make an average bottle of average strength whiskey, they'd have to collect 100% of the sugar from the urine of a diabetic with uncontrolled blood sugar for the better part of a year. Sorry, that's just BS.
Now I understand why the Scots offer you "a wee dram"
No left turn unstoned.
I'd never drink a Scotsman's urine. Erin Go Bragh!
Is this a little cannibalistic or just gross?
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No, "pissed off means extremely angry. The term "pissed" by itself means drunk.
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Some styles just ship better. IPAs for instance were specifically designed to withstand transport. A subtle flavor profile with low ABV like a Pilsner lager probably responds very differently to abuse and age.
refactor the law, its bloated, confusing and unmaintainable.
This gives a whole new meaning to being 'piss drunk' ...
There someone had to say it.
It makes sense - you drink piss to get pissed.
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...don't tell people it's from grandma's piss, tell them it's from seriously hawt, but still diabetic, babes. I bet it would be the shiz!
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It's like you don't even read what you paste. Or compare it to what I said.
80-190 proof, stored in an oak barrel and also "includes mixtures of such distillates for which no specific standards of identity are prescribed". the rest of it isn't legally enforceable because there are no legal standards for "taste, aroma and characteristics" (and I looked!). There is no standard for the percentage of grain-based mash to "mixtures of distillates" either. Really, the definition of whiskey is pretty open ended in the US compared to the UK. But it is more specific than say the definition for rum or vodka. so it's all relative.
adding color and flavors to vodka and labeling it as whisky is both legal and common practice in the US.
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Yuck! This piss tastes like whiskey!