The Top 10 Most Extreme Beverages...
When you travel to far away places, you discover all kinds of cuisine that ranks from exotic to well, rank. Our Weirdest Foods Worldwide and Exotic Thai Food reports cover international dishes that are stomach turning and eye popping, literally. The lingering question is what do you wash all that down with. When your tastes are extreme, a chardonnay is not going to cut it. So before you tell the bar keep you’ll have what everyone else is having, let’s drop an Alka Seltzer and review the 10 grossest drinks of the world.
Gilpin
Truly organic whiskey
Ever hear a couple bourbon snobs argue about the best distilleries? Inevitably one will describe a well known brand as piss. Well, how about a spirit that is actually made from piss? Order those critics a Gilpins Whisky so they have a reference point for their ratings. Gilpins, a British company, has pioneered the process of producing spirits from diabetic patients’ urine. All that sugar rich pee pee was going to waste so these blokes saw an opportunity. Distill. Drink. Discharge. Repeat.
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Hvalur
The real king of beers
Every red blooded, beer drinking fella frowns upon the Coors Lights of the world. Give me a beer with balls, he demands. Yes sir, head to Iceland and you can have just that. Hvalur is indeed made with balls, the biggest of balls. Whale balls. Go big or go home. If that’s not enough, Hvalur is smoked with sheep dung in the brewing process. We guarantee it’s a bold lager. Always served with extra beer nuts.
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Stag Semen Beer
A farm to table offering
Staying on topic, New Zealanders don’t have gigantic whale testicles to work with, but they do have well equipped stags roaming around. Forget barley and hops. The Kiwi brewmasters are willing and able to obtain product from the biggest land mammals on the island. The result is a stout unlike anything at your local microbrew (hopefully). It’s robust and labelled as creamy in texture. Hmm. No doubt packed with protein as well. Stag Semen Beer is uniquely served by hand pump, curiously similar to how its key ingredient is harvested. This crowd pleaser is widely available in New Zealand. Just look for the bars with a long line of deer out back.
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Horse Jizz
Tastes as great as its name
If you’re still reading, don’t worry. The name here is a wink towards the aesthetics, not the ingredients. It’s just beer and milk. Available worldwide. Looks and tastes disgusting, but don’t you dare spit it out. It’s harmless. Unlike the next one…
Changaa
Genuine Rotgut
So you have no qualms about sipping the shine your hillbilly cousins cooked up in the holler? If you never second guessed their chemistry skills or woke up afterwards with your pants on backwards, take a visit to Kenya and swig Changaa. It’s their traditional homemade booze but for an extra kick, they cut it with additives like jet fuel, embalming fluid and battery acid. While Changaa packs a cost-effective punch, its litany of potential side effects is impressive and too long to list. If you find yourself bar hopping in Kenya, by all means decline Changaa. Then again if you are in fact bar hopping in Kenya, do you really have much to lose?
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Seagull Wine
The secret is in how they bottle it
Sounds like a quality vineyard, right? Reds and whites, all labelled with a seagull on the bottle. Nah, actually it’s a seagull in the bottle. Seems folks in the Arctic Circle have a hard time growing grapes, yet they want their wine. So they gotta ferment something. Why not a seagull. Unlimited amounts of those around. We’ve all been desperate for a buzz, but this is next level.
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Tuna Tears
A crying in your beer kinda night
The Asians were a force in our weirdest foods list and they bring it at the bar as well. Hank Williams sang about tears in his beers but I doubt he was slamming these in Seoul. Tuna Tears is a perfectly good glass of Korean rice wine but with a big ol tuna eyeball squished up in it. On the bright side, the collagen has anti wrinkle properties. On the downside, no one is going to get close to you if they see you drink this.
Three Penis Wine
The stiffest drink on the menu
China says tuna eyeballs are kid stuff. Instead they offer a wine made with three varieties of penis: deer, seal and dog. This concoction is a traditional treatment for men to enhance vitality. Or it was. With the introduction of Viagra, the makers of Three Penis Wine have truly hit hard times. The silver lining of the blue pills prevailing is there are now a lot of happy wives in China. And even happier deer, seals and dogs.
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Baby Mice Wine
Pairs well with cheese
Korea will not be outdone. I have no idea if the preceding Chinese concoction takes on the flavor of its enhancements and I hope never to find out. Disturbingly, one variety of vino that is in fact designed to retain the taste of its key ingredient is Baby Mice Wine. The little critters are fermented in rice wine for about a year so that the flavorful bouquet can age to perfection.
One sommelier’s review: A fleshy wine with impressive legs upon pour. Full bodied with backbone.
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Chicha
It takes a village
Are you phobic about sharing a straw or someone swigging from your bottle? If so, don’t try Chicha in Peru. This ancient beer begins with the locals chewing corn and spitting the mushy kernels into the brewing pot. (Thank goodness the other beverages listed here don’t involve such a process). The saliva is said to give it extra taste. Who needs beer with mountain spring water. That’s a marketing gimmick for people who want to swap spit after a night of drinking. They got it backwards.
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Next time you tip one back and feel like making a face, think about what your brothers and sisters across the globe are guzzling. Step up and be bold when you belly up to far away bars. The locals know what’s best, so buy a round and drink with them. Make room on your bucket list for the 10 grossest drinks of the world…and keep that bucket by your barstool.
