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Are there any fermented beverages, that is, alcoholic beverages, in your concultures? if yes, what are they and how are they made?
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A popular sort of drink in Saltha is Hodnaksashe, or cactus wine. It's made from the fermented juice of the Sudnin cactus plant, a yellowish-green cactus that has been domesticated. It has a very simple flavor of slight bitterness with a node of citrus that is well balanced. This wine is said to have medicinal properties, particularly good for the immune system. It has up to about 18% alcohol content (36 proof).

Relsashe ("fire drink") is a hearty, biting spicy liquor with a sweet, slightly smoky flavor. It is made with fermented sugarcane (rum), black berry, chili peppers and other spices. It usually has alcohol of around 30-80% (60-120 proof)

Tonsaeshe is rum with a cricket in it, and has about the same amount of alcohol as Relsashe.
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üçkebaks - a traditional flavored beer discussed here
tneríans - a pálenka-like liquor discussed here
mnöigastibs - an indigenous apple brandy which had its genesis here, and gained momentum here and here
hüçebluns - alcohol with fruit soaking in it, such as yangmei with baijiu, Rumtopf, or friendship cup; you can drink the fruit-flavored alcohol or eat the alcohol-infused fruit -- born today here
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Real concultures drink coffee to get knurd.
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Interesting thread idea. I think I may have thought about this once or twice before, but I can't remember where or what the results were… if they come back to me, I might post them if I have anything to say about them.

I'm not very familiar with the making of alcoholic beverages (or with alcohol in general), so I have a question. Are there any natural limits concerning what could possibly be fermented/made into alcohol and what outright couldn't be? From what little I've heard in the past, it seems that plants are almost always the basis for alcoholic beverages, but I don't know if this is some kind of universal or not.
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shimobaatar wrote:I'm not very familiar with the making of alcoholic beverages (or with alcohol in general), so I have a question. Are there any natural limits concerning what could possibly be fermented/made into alcohol and what outright couldn't be? From what little I've heard in the past, it seems that plants are almost always the basis for alcoholic beverages, but I don't know if this is some kind of universal or not.
there's a book called The Drunk Botanist (I think...or drunken) with dozens and dozens of plants usable for alcohol...I'd imagine non-plants can ferment too (even if we exclude mead, on the basis of honey coming from plants)

...khoumiss, mares milk, I recall. (and a version from camel milk?)
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shimobaatar wrote:Interesting thread idea. I think I may have thought about this once or twice before, but I can't remember where or what the results were… if they come back to me, I might post them if I have anything to say about them.

I'm not very familiar with the making of alcoholic beverages (or with alcohol in general), so I have a question. Are there any natural limits concerning what could possibly be fermented/made into alcohol and what outright couldn't be? From what little I've heard in the past, it seems that plants are almost always the basis for alcoholic beverages, but I don't know if this is some kind of universal or not.
Pretty much anything that has sugar in it. Doing research the only non-plant thing I can find that's turned into alcohol is milk, which is mentioned above. Otherwise flavoring is added to things maybe that are non-plants (scorpion vodka anyone?) as well. "Plants" is, also a pretty broad range as it is too...
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Foolster41 wrote:(scorpion vodka anyone?)
My brother had that once... he even ate the scorpion. He doesn't remember much of the night after that point.
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In my conworld, in olden times, people would gather up a type of pitcher plant called the Ikriba, which carried sweet sap inside of the pitcher. After burning the sap in a pot, they would leave it to ferment over a year, after which, they would drink it.
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Hmm… I don't know a thing about anatomy or any such field, but if the term "blood sugar" actually refers to sugar (as opposed to a different substance that it's just easier to call "sugar")… not that I'd ever want to in real life, but could one hypothetically ferment blood (of any animal)?
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shimobaatar wrote:Hmm… I don't know a thing about anatomy or any such field, but if the term "blood sugar" actually refers to sugar (as opposed to a different substance that it's just easier to call "sugar")… not that I'd ever want to in real life, but could one hypothetically ferment blood (of any animal)?
It refers to glucose, a sugar. Regardless, fermented blood appears not to be a tradition in any major tribe. Cooked blood is far more common, you can guess why.
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Well, I'm not really surprised to hear that it isn't done, but what I'm wondering is more along the lines of whether or not it could physically be done. Since it contains sugar, I'm guessing it could?
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shimobaatar wrote:Well, I'm not really surprised to hear that it isn't done, but what I'm wondering is more along the lines of whether or not it could physically be done. Since it contains sugar, I'm guessing it could?
Yes it can, but it wouldn't have enough sugar
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Alcoholic beverages are illegal in my conworld and the religion says that it is a sin to drink alcohol.

However, there are houses with room in the underground floor where the customers can drink alcohol and sleep there.
If an investigator find the room, the proprietary will have to bribe the investigator in order to he 'forget' everything that he saw.

Grape and rice are abundant in the country. Consequently, wine and sake are the most common alcoholic beverages.
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Squall wrote:Alcoholic beverages are illegal in my conworld and the religion says that it is a sin to drink alcohol.

However, there are houses with room in the underground floor where the customers can drink alcohol and sleep there.
If an investigator find the room, the proprietary will have to bribe the investigator in order to he 'forget' everything that he saw.

Grape and rice are abundant in the country. Consequently, wine and sake are the most common alcoholic beverages.
I smell some wood fermenting [;)]
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shimobaatar wrote:Hmm… I don't know a thing about anatomy or any such field, but if the term "blood sugar" actually refers to sugar (as opposed to a different substance that it's just easier to call "sugar")… not that I'd ever want to in real life, but could one hypothetically ferment blood (of any animal)?
Odin drinks the fermented blood of the dwarf Kvasir -- doesn't he? Or, at least, something like that.
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eldin raigmore wrote:
shimobaatar wrote:Hmm… I don't know a thing about anatomy or any such field, but if the term "blood sugar" actually refers to sugar (as opposed to a different substance that it's just easier to call "sugar")… not that I'd ever want to in real life, but could one hypothetically ferment blood (of any animal)?
Odin drinks the fermented blood of the dwarf Kvasir -- doesn't he? Or, at least, something like that.
nobody said it was an intelligent choice to ferment and drink the blood of something that turns to stone in daylight. [:D]
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Stenza is frozen liquor mixed with purzad juice. The purzad is an oval fruit with cold, burgundy juice. The sentence "Stenza makes people drunk" even appears in my Kankonian grammar. A 1-gwanar bottle of stenza is called an ingwa, and a 2-gwanar bottle of stenza is called a bangwa. (A gwanar is 100 cubic tzetz, a tzetz being 10.88527 centimeters.) Vwanzanes na stenza, or stenza outfit, means "beer goggles". Skenu iniksi na stenza, the whole bottle of stenza, means the whole shebang, the whole enchilada.

Yibeshiz is alcohol strengthened by adding bituwas. Bituwas is a hallucinogenic drug obtained from the camosca tree, a brown tree of the family Rubiaceae that produces four-part yellow fruit. The Kankonian word yibeshizeria means "good times".

Zhinwa is a drink made from fermented cilantro, like anisette from anise. It is popularly drunk on Kankonia.

Ghwuma is an alcoholic beverage made of figs, with fig wasp larvae inside. Mmmmmm!

Frozav is coffee with alcohol. You can get it at most coffeeshops.

Nadu is fermented bharal milk.

Pshitz is made with both barley and grapes. Pinkhoura is a beer/wine drink made of barley and ixora fruits.

Hwoisi bupra, or "burgundy whirlwind", is an alcoholic drink that mixes purzad (the fruit in stenza) with pomegranate.

Splaska means alcohol mixed with human or animal blood.

Jameso originated on the planet Junsu. It is alcohol with caramel in it.

Similarly, a muvez is a fermented caramel cherry. A bepismuvez, popular on Kankonia, is a variation with an apple instead of a cherry.

There are also many wines in Lehola from a variety of fruits we don't have on Earth. Rainbow wine is what wine of many fermented fruits mixed together is called.

A species of grain important on Hapoi is ba e monu. An alcoholic drink called goqoro can be brewed from it.

A frasser (aspeheth in Kankonian) is any alcoholic drink flavored with insect frass. A rum frasser is called a rabuki and a wine frasser is called a pitambia.

The intoxicating infusion of aqi leaves, drunk on Javarti, is called tempapeyka. On Javarti, Wines are fermented from u:kha, semilti and tayga; soyko wine is called quva. Ghaylva produces a 20% alcoholic drink called marxa. The most popular marxa brands are Kilenxe, Loto's, Azbirma, Portu:, Zarita and Tseji. Zbomu: is another alcoholic drink, brewed from zdanka and known for its urine-yellow color. Zbomu: is 44% alcoholic, and popular brands include Ozdi, Tarayka, Nenvu and Xalu:lgha. Fermented tsanqa nectar is known as tsoyleyza.

Then there are the fermented teas of Schaza. Phusik is a pink fermented tea with high water content, while mirekh is a gold fermented tea with low water content.
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Khemehekis wrote:Zhinwa is a drink made from fermented cilantro
I would so try this. [:D]
Splaska means alcohol mixed with human or animal blood.
I would so not try this, no matter how "restorative" its properties purportedly were. [:x]
Ghwuma is an alcoholic beverage made of figs, with fig wasp larvae inside. Mmmmmm!
Get back to me after my third zhinwa. [¬.¬]
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Keenir wrote:nobody said it was an intelligent choice to ferment and drink the blood of something that turns to stone in daylight. [:D]
But you can see how you'd get stoned drinking it.
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