Would You Try This Gin?

[toxcrusadr]

Special South African gin is infused with elephant dung
By NQOBILE NTSHANGASE
November 12, 2019

MOSSEL BAY, South Africa (AP) — The makers of a South African gin infused with elephant dung swear their use of the animal’s excrement is no gimmick.

The creators of Indlovu Gin, Les and Paula Ansley, stumbled across the idea a year ago after learning that elephants eat a variety of fruits and flowers and yet digest less than a third of it.

“As a consequence, in the elephant dung, you get the most amazing variety of these botanicals,” Les Ansley said during a recent visit to their operations. “Why don’t we let the elephants do the hard work of collecting all these botanicals and we will make gin from it?” he recalled his wife suggesting.


“The initial reaction of most people is, ‘What? There’s no way.’ But most people are very keen to actually taste it,” Ansley said. And once people hear about elephants’ digestive process “it becomes a lot clearer to them, and they accept it very well.”

They decided to name the gin Indlovu, which means elephant in the Zulu language. The couple did not say how much of the gin they have sold. A bottle sells for around 500 rand, or about $32.

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[Tiver]

I am not "keen" to actually taste it.

 

[bbqjoe]

I'm not a fan of gin.
But I suspect I'd be as apt to try this as I would the coffee bean collected from monkey poop, which is to say not.

 

[xero-D-hero]

Nope,no way.

Just because something can be done does'nt mean it should be done.
How long will it be before some sadistic DB serves that hooch to some guests unknowingly and then says "SURPRISE guess what"...



Bret P.

 

[toxcrusadr]

We eat all kinds of weird stuff. Honey is just bee spit. Candy coating is made from wax extracted from the shells of the Lac beetle. Nobody gets all wound up about that.

Honestly though, I don't want to try it either.

 

[rogerfederer]

i would try it for sure. i tried fermented fish in cambodia, tacos filled with crickets (dead and cooked), love octopus and squid...

 

[toxcrusadr]

If I told you I was going to take the guts out of a pig, squeeze the semi-digested food out of the intestines, which is turning into poop farther down, and then stuff ground meat into it, it sounds kinda gross. Bologna and salami are the size they are because they were stuffed into Beef Bungs, the lower intestine and/or rectum of the beef.

I think it's all in what you're used to.

Small correction, the Bung is actually not at the end, but it's after the small intestine, so things are still pretty shitty at that point.

 

[Tiver]

Let's face it, alcohol is itself the waste product of yeast. I am not averse to consuming that.

 

[toxcrusadr]

You forgot about natural red food colouring, carmine, that comes from crushed lady bugs.

I think that's what I was trying to think of in the first place. The bug shell wax is actually what they make shellac out of, but I'm not 100% sure it's actually used (or was used) for candy coatings. The red carmine coloring, definitely.

"Booze is yeast pee."

 

[usedto]

I'll pass.

And watch out for their Kumquat pudding. Sometimes their command of the English language isn't as good as you think.

 

[Daddy Bone]

When I was younger, we used to pass around the whiskey bottle. One time it came my way and after seeing something floating in it I was compelled to yell out, "Who back washed?" The response was, "Who cares? Nothing can live in there." I took a slug and passed it on.

 

[twitch54]

No and as a consumer of many a fine Martini over the years I know there is but one, the original ........... Plymouth.

 

[Route 66]

No.

I need for something to at least sound appetizing before I'll put it in my mouth.

 

[ETLS]

As a consequence, in the elephant dung, you get the most amazing variety of these buttanicals

 

[jbrainey]

All this talk about elephant stool and bug juice is making me hungry.

 

[rogerfederer]

my latest go-to gin is "the botanist" from scotland

 

[toxcrusadr]

You misheard the accent, that's "Butt And Piss". Malt dried over smoldering peat that was used for...you know.

 

[Mystic]

I'm not a fan of gin.
But I suspect I'd be as apt to try this as I would the coffee bean collected from monkey poop, which is to say not.

It is collected from the scat of a particular Civet, which is not a "monkey", but a small to mid-sized omnivorous and primarily arboreal mammal of the family Viverridae, which includes also a similar "cat-like" tree-dwelling creature called the Genet.

 

[Mystic]

P.S. While I do not consume alcohol, if I did, I would be glad to try a sip of "elephant dung-tinged gin" because having tasted gin in the past, could it be any worse w/ the elephant dung?

 

[toxcrusadr]

I suspect if you don't like gin in the first place (assuming you've had any decent gin), you probably wouldn't like the elephant dung gin. Just a guess.