Peruvian Spit Brew

[Pumpy]

Large wooden ladles From the Peruvian Amazon


The Urarina people use these wooden ladles when they make mazato, a brew from the yucca root. Boiled yucca roots are crushed and tradition has it that women chew a portion of the yucca and spit it back into the mixture to jump start the fermentation process.

Visitors to the village are usually offered a bowl of mazato as a sign of welcome.

drink many bowls of mazato with no ill effects save for an unpleasant headache the next morning.

This ladle was bartered at a Urarina village along the Rio Chambira. The ladle is about 3 feet long and made from an interesting hardwood. It's stirred plenty of mazato and shows some use along the edges.

Pumpy

 

[Steve]

Large wooden ladles From the Peruvian Amazon


The Urarina people use these wooden ladles when they make mazato, a brew from the yucca root. Boiled yucca roots are crushed and tradition has it that women chew a portion of the yucca and spit it back into the mixture to jump start the fermentation process.

Visitors to the village are usually offered a bowl of mazato as a sign of welcome.

drink many bowls of mazato with no ill effects save for an unpleasant headache the next morning.

This ladle was bartered at a Urarina village along the Rio Chambira. The ladle is about 3 feet long and made from an interesting hardwood. It's stirred plenty of mazato and shows some use along the edges.

Pumpy

trying to work out if thats a question or some advice :lol:

 

[Samwise Gamgee]

Anyone got an AG recipe? :lol:

 

[Pumpy]

Pumpy,

Worked in microbiology lab for 20 years. Seen what happens if you make sugar solutions on the bench and store them.

Glad its you

cheers

Darren

I Cant argue with that Darren

Any adverse affects on the human body ???

I have a freind in Peru and the women chew up a leaf spit it in to a cup made from a leaf bury it in the ground and allow it to ferment and it is quite a popular drink .

pumpy

We should pass this information onto Chris White from Whitelabs...
I can see it now "WLP900 - Peruvian Spit Ale Yeast"

Nice One Hopsta

Pumpy

 

[Batz]

Got the starter ready Pumpy

 

[warrenlw63]

Yummy. Tuberculosis lager. :beerbang:

Warren -

 

[bindi]

It's not real <_< no carrots or corn .
Spit not spew.

 

[johnno]

Yeah but for the real top stuff they use the FIRST pooh of a newborn to get fermentation going.

That one is only for special occasions.

cheers
johnno

 

[Pumpy]

You may heckle you may jest ,I am only bring to another cultures method of creating a beer .


I am going to show you it can be done , I am presently chewing a Kilo of Yucca root as a Starter for the main batch , which I may put in the 'Summer Equinox case 'subject to getting a suitable sacrifice (this may not be necessarry )


Pumpy :blink: