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[dissonanz]

Who: Kreide and you
What: Netbook Nonsense
When: Late winter
Where: Wherever!
Warnings: N/A

Tell me your most controversial food opinions.
(but please be mindful of our new cookie friends.)

Comments

[purevanillacookie]

While I do not know what a cystybeast is, by fermented milk may I assume you mean things like cheese and yogurts?

[succiduous]

Not quite. It's called kumis, and it's alcoholic.

[Gnosis YOU'RE alcoholic.]

This is a cystybeast.

[doodles a cow... it looks a little weird, it's not exactly an earth cow, but it's very very very close.]

[purevanillacookie]

[Alcoholic? What... Fermentation... ah!]

That sounds quite like our Redberry Juice or Vintage Root drinks. Redberry Juice is aged in casks, and Vintage Root is made with aged Jellyragora roots! I have never heard of attempting to turn milk into such a drink, however! It does not simple solidify?

[succiduous]

"Redberry Juice" sounds like what we would call wine, and "Vintage Root drinks" what we'd call beer.

Properly fermented milk won't solidify under the correct processes, no. Admittedly, while breweries are not my area of expertise, the biological processes of fermentation are something I'm familiar with.

[oh no stop him—]

Simply put, you need yeast, a food you want to ferment, and moisture. Yeast is not commonly used in kumis [PLEASE STOP NO ONE CARES ABOUT THIS] but it is often used in beer and other alcoholic drinks. For kumis, you use whey from kefir. Pickling something is also a way of fermenting it, by the way, so it isn't just used in the process of making drinks.

[purevanillacookie]

[Oh no do go on!]

Ah! Yes, I know quite a bit about Yeast, it is one of the ingredients in Cookies as well! Quite fascinating, does the process take long in your world? Do you use sugar to aid the yeast? We do not need much for our Redberry Juice, simply the berries and the yeast, and the sugar takes care of the rest. I have heard of a young bartender attempting to make marshmallow juice, and I do believe it was a success!