businezz_oligarch
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- Dec 16, 2012
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SNAKE WINE...
Snake wine is an alcoholic beverage produced by infusing whole snakes in rice wine or grain alcohol.
The drink was first recorded to have been consumed in China during the Western Zhou dynasty and considered an important curative and believed to reinvigorate
a person according to Traditional Chinese medicine. It can be found in China, Vietnam and throughout Southeast Asia.
The snakes, preferably venomous ones, are not
usually preserved for their meat but to have
their "essence" and snake venom dissolved in
the liquor. However, the snake venom is denatured by the ethanol; its proteins are
unfolded and therefore inactive.
There are two varieties of snake wine:
Steeped: A large venomous snake can be placed into a glass jar of rice wine, sometimes
with smaller snakes and medicinal herbs and left to steep for many months. The wine is
drunk as a restorative in small shots or cups.
Mixed: Body fluids of snake are mixed into wine and consumed immediately in the form of
a shot. Snake blood wine is prepared by slicing
a snake along its belly and draining its blood
directly into the drinking vessel filled with rice
wine or grain alcohol. Snake bile wine is done through a similar method by using the contents
of the gall bladder.....
Snake wine is an alcoholic beverage produced by infusing whole snakes in rice wine or grain alcohol.
The drink was first recorded to have been consumed in China during the Western Zhou dynasty and considered an important curative and believed to reinvigorate
a person according to Traditional Chinese medicine. It can be found in China, Vietnam and throughout Southeast Asia.
The snakes, preferably venomous ones, are not
usually preserved for their meat but to have
their "essence" and snake venom dissolved in
the liquor. However, the snake venom is denatured by the ethanol; its proteins are
unfolded and therefore inactive.
There are two varieties of snake wine:
Steeped: A large venomous snake can be placed into a glass jar of rice wine, sometimes
with smaller snakes and medicinal herbs and left to steep for many months. The wine is
drunk as a restorative in small shots or cups.
Mixed: Body fluids of snake are mixed into wine and consumed immediately in the form of
a shot. Snake blood wine is prepared by slicing
a snake along its belly and draining its blood
directly into the drinking vessel filled with rice
wine or grain alcohol. Snake bile wine is done through a similar method by using the contents
of the gall bladder.....
