Can the urine of a diabetic really be used to make whisky?

[notafanofsugar]

I saw this on Facebook yesterday and just wanted to ask people whether it's true or not!

 

[Administrator]

That's nuts! We're going to investigate that didyouknowblog and see what we can find!

 

[Ambersilva]

I guess that's literally taking the ****!

 

[catherinecherub]

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-08/24/pissky

 

[Tweetypie]

Just wrong on so many levels! Anyway, it would have to be a badly controlled diabetics wee!

 

[notafanofsugar]

Agreed - although I also read the Guinness record for highest blood glucose is a massive 147 mmol/L. THAT IS SO CRAZY!

 

[Robinredbreast]

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I guess that's literally taking the ****!

I found out a few days ago that the saying 'taking the p*** came about from barrels of sailors urine being taken from the ships to dye cloths because of the strong yellow colour and it was very smelly too. I think it was on an antique road show

 

[Squire Fulwood]

Could be funnier if they got the facts right ...

"Once fermented into a clear alcohol spirit, whisky blends are added to give colour, taste and viscosity, and the product is bottled with the name and age of the contributor"

Once whatever you use is fermented the alcohol is boiled off by a process of distillation to make the whiskey/spirit. Once the alcohol is removed the mash could have contained yak's pee. I think a diabetics sugar would not produce much spirit. When I used to make wine I used 3lb of sugar to a gallon to get just 11 or 12% by weight.

 

[Enclave]

Only I my dreams )))

 

[izzzi]

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I found out a few days ago that the saying 'taking the p*** came about from barrels of sailors urine being taken from the ships to dye cloths because of the strong yellow colour and it was very smelly too. I think it was on an antique road show

I also believe it was the canal boats that took the urine barrels to York for dyes in wool. where is @Yorksman he should know.
May I also say if it is not Scottish whiskey it does taste like p***

 

[izzzi]

Could be funnier if they got the facts right ...

"Once fermented into a clear alcohol spirit, whisky blends are added to give colour, taste and viscosity, and the product is bottled with the name and age of the contributor"

Once whatever you use is fermented the alcohol is boiled off by a process of distillation to make the whiskey/spirit. Once the alcohol is removed the mash could have contained yak's pee. I think a diabetics sugar would not produce much spirit. When I used to make wine I used 3lb of sugar to a gallon to get just 11 or 12% by weight.

I bet you made some great wine. I tried home made beer, but never the same, bottles going bang put a stop to my hobby.

 

[Squire Fulwood]

I bet you made some great wine. I tried home made beer, but never the same, bottles going bang put a stop to my hobby.

Yes it made me the man I am today. Old fat and with bad teeth due to the acid in German wines.

 

[noblehead]

Wouldn't want to be first in line to taste it

 

[izzzi]

Wouldn't want to be first in line to taste it

nor the last

 

[noblehead]

nor the last

I'll put your name forward izzi as Chief Taster for the Distillery

 

[Yorksman]

I also believe it was the canal boats that took the urine barrels to York for dyes in wool. where is @Yorksman he should know.

Urine used to be collected yes. It was used to full sheeps wool, hence the occupational surname, Fuller. The process was also known as walking (or waulking in Scotland), hence the surname Walker. Basically it was the process of treading wool in urine to cleanse it. The ammonium is a cleansing agent. It's also used in soap and toothpaste as a whitening agent.

5 great uses for pee

It was often used for cleaning teeth.

 

[AlexMBrennan]

The full name if the condition is diabetes *mellitus*, which means "honey-sweet"; this is from the sugar found in the urine (when BG gets too high sugar spills over into urine) and until the invention of modern medicine it was diagnosed by tasting. Yes, really.

In principle, any liquid with sugar in it can be fermented to produce alcohol, and possibly distilled; what spirit you end up with depends on the source of the carbs (distilled fermented cane sugar give you rum for example) which means that, technically, you cannot make whiskey from urine.