An other mead aberration, for science!
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Nope, but I can't expect to be the only one with good taste! Do they have a similar recipe?
Gatorwine is a thing that the internet has made known. It's a mix of wine and blue Gatorade. Babish mixed some up as part of an "I do your suggestions" episode.
Turns out that it isn't as horrible as it would seem. To the contrary, he liked it and did a second episode mixing up more varieties. So now it's a thing everywhere since he's fairly popular.
I could kind of see that working. Wine coolers are soda and wine, sangria is wine and juice, gatorade is just kool-aid and salt so it's somewhere between soda and juice. It's not classy, but it's not bad.
I tried it just for the hell of it.
Your comparison to wine coolers is dead on, imo. It has that same overall profile where it's sweet and easy to drink. It isn't great, but it's not bad, and I could see someone that lollies likes drinking going through gallons of it. I don't like drinking, and I managed to kill a whole glass, which is saying a lot for me.
I am both horrified and intrigued. How long before you can taste?
I usually give a full month before bottling and then a week or two before drinking.
@remindme@mstdn.social 2 months
@remindme@mstdn.social 2 months
He's a madman! Very creative
This looks either tasty or abhorrent. What's the recipe?
Bought some gatorade powder you can see in the photo. The recommended serving is 4 tablespoons for 750 mL of gatorade. I used around half of that, which is 10 spoons for 4 L (orange) and 10 spoons for 3 L (blue). ChatGPT recommended a quarter, but I was afraid it wouldn't taste anything. I'm also pretty confident he never tried it anyway, so who cares about the computer's opinion. Then it's a standard 1 kg of honey each and EC-1118 yeast with some nutrient for the road (I realize now that I might have put way too much of it, but I think they'll manage).
Both were extremely sweet before the fermentation. I have doubts about the blue one, but high hopes for the orange one (this is no political statement btw). I actually have no idea how it will come out, but right now they're both bubbling nicely.
I'll be curious how it turns out.
I've never made mead, so I'm intrigued.
Have you looked into "skeeter pee" recipe? I've got ~22L of that fermenting currently.
Never heard of it, but it sounds fun.
I like mead because you can turn pretty much any drink into alcohol with it and the only specialized ingredient you need is yeast and sometimes nutrients. Everything else can be found at the grocery store. Turned some sodas (mountain dew being a classic, but also root beer), and fruit juices into mead, with mostly good results. Whereas ciders and wine requires the right kind of fruits, and I'm sure I'll never do better than what is already on the market. The future is in weird drinks.
But lemonade wine seems nice, maybe I'll try it next.
Have you had a chance to taste it yet? Is it any good?
I think the blue one might have turned bad (probably my fault). It tastes like bacteria or something. The drink turned a weird green that can either look like an especially healthy potion, or some really chemical poison. (blue gatorade and yellow honey makes that, apparently)
The orange one is not so bad, but nothing really good either. Right after bottling, I still discerned the chemical orange flavour, which was kind of nice, but after a few weeks of aging in bottles, I have a hard time telling what it tastes exactly. I can tell it's gatorade-based, but without a particular, recognizable gatorade flavor. The color is nice, though. It kept the clear, distinguishable orange from the gatorade. Just a bit darker.
Taste-wise, it's definitively the worst batch I've made so far. Otherwise, I didn't get any headache from it and the orange one is still drinkable. 4/10 because it's got electrolytes.
Thanks for the update ๐
I feel like I'd rather just try this using table sugar instead of (probably) throwing honey down the drain.
There is no "trying this" by just doing a regular mead. The point is to give it an unusual flavor.
Plus, it's got electrolytes!