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For more than two years now — from the second floor of a repurposed warehouse in the Dogpatch district of San Francisco — the young scientists and chemists at Ava Winery have been attempting to save the planet and conduct commerce by producing wine without grapes or fermentation. Recently, the company rebranded and shifted its focus: now known as Endless West, it is attempting to make brown spirits without the hidebound utilization of barrels for maturation.
In Endless West's 1,800-square-foot lab, there are no implements ordinarily associated with making wine or whiskey. Instead, one sees chemists quietly sitting at computers beside beakers, gas chromatography and mass spectrometer machines, and something called a liquid handling robot, which is loaded with test tubes that are filled with liquid from "real" wines and spirits. The white-smocked bio and analytical chemists are measuring and mapping the molecular profiles of standard alcoholic beverages. There is even a scanning area with an "electronic nose" to measure olfactory properties; something you likely won't find in a standard winery lab.
The quest is to tease out which "naturally derived" carbohydrates, sugars, proteins, amino acids, and lipids comprise a wine or spirit, and which components encompass the organoleptic profiles of various alcoholic beverages. Key aromatics and flavor molecules are being identified such as citrus-like esters from ethyl isobutyrate and pineapple-y aromas derived from ethyl hexanoate or the buttery qualities found in the compound diacetyl.
Once recognized, neutral distillates or grain alcohol is then added to the recipe to synthetically formulate a wine or whiskey.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Thursday August 30 2018, @02:08PM (4 children)
Can't wait to see the first Spam brand wines on the grocery shelf!
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday August 30 2018, @02:31PM (2 children)
Or maybe a Night Train branded [bumwine.com] synthetic bourbon.
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(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday August 30 2018, @10:17PM (1 child)
Thanks!
That gets +1 Informative as well as +1 funny. [bumwine.com]
It also reminds me of the days many years ago when my mates and I used to purchase a pre-mixed Vodka and orange syrup concoction know locally as "Leg Opener".
Cheap, nasty and very effective.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday August 30 2018, @11:14PM
Never forget Manischewitz [brokelyn.com], which I've seen sold for $3.50.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Thursday August 30 2018, @07:14PM
which ones there's wine egg bacon and spam; wine egg bacon sausage and spam; wine spam bacon sausage and spam; wine spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; wine spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam; wine Lobster Thermidor au Crevette with a Mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.
This sig for rent.