/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>17677050
And just to be clear I found this bottle on my property, but I know exactly where it came from. I didn't find it on the side of some traintracks or something.

>>17677050
From my research it seems like it may be brandy. I can't seem to find a bottle that looks like the remnants of this one online.

Posting review in a sec.

>>17677050
Here goes. Smell is not bad. Well there isn't much smell except for alcohol, maybe a bit of barrel, and some fruitiness maybe.

that is pee

Odds of that being piss seem really high anon

it's piss

So it actually tastes quite nice. Very light and smooth flavors. Maybe it was aged in a sherry cask or something, because it has some of that almondy flavor. Nice texture to it. Like a decently aged scotch.

Overall it has nothing wrong with it, except for being a little too lightly flavored and simple. The extreme aging has made it so smooth you could probably chug it.

Thanks for reading my blog.

>>17677161
It's definitely alcohol.

Next time on trying weird things. I will be having these.

Does anyone know what they are?

>>17677050
Anon the fact that you're drinking out of random bottles concerns me. You were very lucky it wasn't piss.

>>17677517
I knew the provenance of the bottle.

Check >>17677055

There was an old bourbon from the 80s in the same box. That was pretty good.

>>17677207
solidified pee

>>17677706
Guess again, mr. funny pee guy.

>>17677207
Tulip bulbs, poisonous.

>>17678158
Wrong.

This thread reminds me of when I drank from a bottle of captain Morgan I found in a roadside ditch. Wasn't pee.
>>17677189
Are you going to get a new bottle to compare?

>>17677189
>drink fermented urine
>"aged in a sherry cask"
>"almondy flavor"
>"nice textures"
more proof that alcohol "connoisseurs" are retarded

>>17679015
Might actually be interesting considering it's bottom shelf trash. I checked prices and it's $11 a fifth. Maybe I'll grab a half pint.

>>17679044
I chuckled

>>17677189
Alcohol with piss

>>17679875
WRONG.

>>17677050
what a fake post. OP clearly just rolled the bottle around in the dirt and then used some cigarettes to create burn holes on the bottle label. Fucking cringe as shit you faggot

>>17681252
How double dog dare you doubt my integrity.

>>17677050
that is a pee bottle, normalfag

>>17681267
Wrong.

>>17681258
I'll triple raw dog your mom pony boy

>>17681302
your dad loves my dad

>>17677207
Nigger's eggs

>>17681346
Close, but wrong.

>>17677207
Jerusalem artichokes?

>>17677050
that is a bottle of piss

>>17677050
thats urine

>>17677055
Dude you found my piss bottle

>>17677050
>>17677156
hate to break it to you but that's my bottle

>>17677050
It's probably an OLD bottle of Presidente.
My dad used to drink it all the time.
It's brandy.

>>17677207
The forbidden Potatos

>>17677189
>extreme aging
Liquor does not age in glass, quit making shit up

>>17681381
Nope.

>>17681405
I figured that out. You think the 80 on the bottom of the bottle is the age?

>>17681418
Wrong, but funny.

>>17681430
Wrong. Mezcaleros will often age their distillate in glass for 5-10 years before bottling. After generations of traditional mezcal production why would they add this expensive and time consuming process?

>>17681446
I imagine it's 80 proof aka 40% alcohol

>>17681446
More likely it's the proof.
I saw those bottles all the time as a kid (not 80s but not too long after) and they never looked like your pic, heavy aging aside.

>>17681446
If the glass container contains something, like oak, for the mezcal to soak in, or even has a vent to oxidize the liquor ever so slightly, it makes sense. Otherwise, it might as well go straight into the bottle. The ravages of time don't do much to alcohol in glass when it's kept cool and dark.

>>17681472
>>17681468
The part that throws me for a loop is the sticker around the neck. I cant find any examples with that same sticker. I found out the label is the back label not the front. I've seen plenty of examples with similar ones.

>>17681496
Pic is an old mezcal jug used for aging. In all honesty it may not, but there is debate that it does, so we should keep our minds open to and recognize we don't know everything. :)

>>17681530
My family makes wine and brandy. We pop it into glass to halt the aging.
>This half of this batch is 10 years old today, let's get it into bottles and out the door. When can we get it shipped? What do you mean 'What about the other half?' It's staying in the casks for another 10 years.
The only things that that jug could contribute are UV damage, cork rot, and oxidation if they vent and shake it regularly. Having played around with a few types of agave on my time, I'd say that dropping some slightly toasted beech or birch, or some fully roasted agave in, would yield great results without giving the butter and vanilla that oak does.

>>17681402
damn no one got ur joke
dw anon i get it

>>17681631
Why do you think mezcaleros have established tradition of aging the mezcal in glass demi-johns then? I know those guys do not mess around and make excellent spirits.

>>17681723
they have to let all the worms to settle out before they can bottle it

>>17681723
Aging the mash or - agave wine isn't the right term, but it's what's coming to mind - on yeast in glass makes sense. It's got an active element to it, cleaning up little fermentation errors.
If it's essentially finished product being aged in that jug, then either they're letting any missed heads vent out (via regular ventilation), they're oxidizing it for a more sherry-like finish (which might make sense, some mezcal is fairly harsh), or they're using UV to break down certain compounds. I'll go look into it, but it would be something specific to mezcal if it's anything at all. Anything else is mellowed in wood - usually oak - with a very, very slight gas permeability, allowing very mild oxidation, and letting some of the lighter volatiles out over a period of years.

>Even if one thing is aged this way, it doesn't apply to half-empty piss jugs found under decks. Brandy is put in glass to halt aging.

>>17681631
>>17682762
really cool posts, thanks for contributing

>>17681723
So far all I'm finding is that it's a way to sell young mezcal as aged without aging it, sold in the demijohn as a bit of a marketing gimmick... right up there with the grub.

>>17682771
I'm sorry if I fucked up anywhere. I don't really speak a lot of English at home, and considering that work is basically on the property - I really only speak English here and occasionally on the phone.

>>17681723
>>17682795
I wrote back too quickly - it does oxygenate, which - what I was getting at with my sherry comment - rounds off the edges of the vegetal notes and cuts some of the pepperiness. They'd be venting these jugs every now and then.

>>17682822
>>17682762
>>17681631
Thanks for the quality posts. This stuff has been sitting in the sun for a long time as you can see from the label. Pretty sure it altered the flavor, but I have nothing to compare it to.

>>17677529
>an old bourbon from the 80s
You understand spirits stop aging when they’re bottled, yes?
3yr bourbon bottled in the 80’s is still 3yr bourbon if you drink it today.

>>17683640
We've been over this check the posts above.

Even if it is unchanged from age even crap bourbon from the 80s was pretty good. Wild turkey bottles from the 80s can fetch like 800 dollars. The bottle had been sitting out in the sun for multiple years, which the professional admitted causes a change also. Not a good change, but a change.

>>17677055
>finds half bottle of fuck only knows what from the 80s
>its alcohol
>oh i must drink this
yeah you're definitely a classy guy and in no way would drink something you found on the train tracks. i mean really, if you don't have a chain of custody from at least the retailer to you, without a 40 year period of 'fuck only knows' in the middle, throw it in a dumpster and go to the liquor store if you want some hooch, this is tramp-tier behaviour

>>17683709
It was part of a dead dude's estate sale or something. He had some halfway decent wine that came with this shit. Figured I'd have a few sips before tossing it out.

>>17683631
It's cause you just drank some piss.

>>17683969
Piss in a bottle that has been aging in the sun for years would reek of ammonia. Not. Piss.

bruh it's piss, you are drinking fermented piss

>>17684961
Only diabeetus piss could ferment into alcohol.

>>17683709
>he trusts retailers

>>17683631
It will have altered the flavour, especially if it had been opened. UV will mess with some of the oak, and skunk up any slight traces of mercaptans, and oxygen will soften the edges, even give it a flavour like the aroma of damp cardboard. These are considered a fault in just about everything, which is why just about everything is cellared as soon as it's out of the cask or barrel.

>>17685421
If it could, that yeast could probably autobrew your intestines into a soft cheese.

>>17683640
He never implied any different.