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| Eryne
Intermediate Member
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Chilliwack, BC
Canada
570 Posts |
Posted - 08/16/2012 : 3:54 PM
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| Does it exist? |
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salt spring island, bc
Canada
179 Posts |
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chilliwack, bc
Canada
125 Posts |
Posted - 08/16/2012 : 5:39 PM
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You can't dehydrate alcohol. But it can dehydrate you. Lol
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Penticton, BC
Canada
89 Posts |
Posted - 08/16/2012 : 5:48 PM
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Reading the reviews, the stuff actually looks like it might be worth a shot. They actually brew the syrup as you would with normal beer, but they carefully control water content during the process. In the end you get a concentrated beer syrup that you toss in a special bottle (to carbonate it) with some water and voila, back country beer.
I bet you could make a decent double IPA by using two packets!
http://patsbcb.com/beer/43-beer/85-beer.html |
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Qualicum Beach, BC
Canada
1303 Posts |
Posted - 08/16/2012 : 6:36 PM
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There was something out a few years ago about dehydrated wine in a powder form, which makes no sense regarding the alcohol content, but the claims were that it was a powder. It was on this forum and links to it's (European?) marketer were noted. Anyone remember this one?
Since that was a few years ago, I would assume that if it were any good that we would have heard more from it by now. Or, was it a spoof? |
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 | Dru
Mountain Grammar Police
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 Sardonic sandbagging scoundrel, Cascade Climbers lobotomized spraymeister, space blanket flyer, new millennium vulgarian betaboy and friend to all squids
Climbing, a mountain
Canada
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Posted - 08/16/2012 : 8:55 PM
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| What is the proper dehydrated wine to go with the canned cheeseburger? |
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660 Posts |
Posted - 08/16/2012 : 8:58 PM
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That patsbcb beer link is scientifically impossible. A real beer yeast tops out at less than 12% alcohol tolerance. A high-tolerance wine yeast can go up to about 18%, but will be too fruity for a good beer. The specialty moonshine yeasts can handle about 25%, but will be an absolutely horrible flavour profile for beer. There is no way to get more than 25% alcohol without a distilling or a freeze-and-filter process, and the 25% tolerance yeasts are only suitable for moon-shine or vodka, where the idea is to remove all flavour during the distilling.
I very much doubt you can get a good real beer from a concentrated syrup, even using a non-imaginary distilling process. Of course, Canadian/Coors/Labatts/any of the mass market brews aren't good real beers...
If all you want is the alcohol, overproof rum does fine. I brew several styles of beer, usually have an ESB and an Oatmeal Stout on tap, both I brew to around 6-7% alcohol so a one liter bottle is all I want for an evening, for longer trips I'll do without or carry brandy.
The real problem is that any concentrated form of beer they come up with will be horrible, so it makes more sense to carry a good distilled alcohol and have something that is honest and good. I bet I could come up with something very tasty from Tequila, lime, sugar, glacier ice and wild blueberries. |
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Poco, BC
Canada
405 Posts |
Posted - 08/16/2012 : 10:04 PM
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| Whiskey it stays then. |
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Burnaby, BC
Canada
1293 Posts |
Posted - 08/16/2012 : 10:19 PM
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| Just mix vegemite and sugar with grain alcohol and fresh glacier water, then gargle in your mouth till it's frothy. |
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Van, BC
Canada
2784 Posts |
Posted - 08/16/2012 : 10:39 PM
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Vodka still has the better drunkenness to weight ratio for me.
-Ryan
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Fowl photographin, animal lovin, thread trollin, dry bag humpin, canoe canoodler
Vancouver, BC
Canada
4037 Posts |
Posted - 08/16/2012 : 11:38 PM
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OR.... travel by canoe and carry the real mccoy! Ya hearin me out there kayakers..? I have REAL BEER  |
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Penhold, Alberta
Canada
2009 Posts |
Posted - 08/17/2012 : 04:14 AM
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I'll stick with my white rum on backpacking trips and as Monster says, I will be hauling the mandatory beers next week as Packrat and myself spend 4 days canoeing the Red Deer river into the Badlands of Drumheller,lol.
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| Eryne
Intermediate Member
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Chilliwack, BC
Canada
570 Posts |
Posted - 08/17/2012 : 2:35 PM
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I am switching to kayaking.
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dehydrated beer?
