Name This Beverage...
Don Younger gave me this "beer" a couple days ago after he realized the Welsh Drinking Team had left it behind. We tried to drink it last night and I'm almost positive they left it here on purpose. Whatever this is, it's not beer. It was one of the most vile, gag-inducing things to ever cross my lips. Imagine plastic soaked in Everclear with a lovely bouquet of varnish and other toxic aromas and you'll come close to the flavor. It also has the distinct odor of really cheap sake, which leads me to believe it's some sort of rice wine or liquor.
On to the bottle; the only English writing on it is "Boon Rawd Brewery" (the Thai brewery that produces Singha) stamped into the glass itself. Between that and the script it was easy to deduce that it's some sort of Thai beverage, but without any English writing (or even an abv. listing) I'm stumped. Oh yeah, it also has an old fashioned style of bottle cap with a little ring you pull to pop the top.
So, any ideas?
posted by Chris @ 6:04 PM
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Could it be a variant of Chinese moutai? That stuff's like a cross between gasoline and skunk. To quote Anchorman, "smells like Bigfoot's dick."
I find it hard to believe that a brewery would be working with the kind of biota necessary for fermenting rice or other unmalted grains, but it definitely doesn't sound like beer.
The obvious solution is to take the bottle to the Thai restaurant up on Stark and ask someone to read you the label. But that would be too easy!
Great idea Jeff! I'll take it up to Sivalaya this evening and see if someone can decipher it for me.
It shows how horribly entrapped I am by technology when my first thought was to put a post on the blog instead of walking 6 blocks and actually talking to someone...
yeh i can read thai its definitely not beer..its actually a rice wine..traditional thai liquer with 50 degrees of achohol in it....its quite rare to find in normal grocery shop though....probably they sell this in suburb areas...some locals drink that
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