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Great news, you can now buy whiskey flavored with beaver secretion
Takeout.com ^ | 6/12/18 | Allison Shoemaker

Posted on 06/12/2018 6:59:18 PM PDT by Rebelbase

Castoreum is a yellowish, strong-smelling secretion that comes from the castor sacs found near the base of a beaver’s tail. It’s an FDA-approved food additive, and hey, you can now get whiskey that’s flavored with the stuff.

That knowledge comes courtesy of this piece from Food & Wine’s Mike Pomranz, which spotlights a nice little beaver musk whiskey made by Tamworth Distilling of New Hampshire. Fear not, castoreum is an FDA-approved food additive. That’s actually how this spirit came about. Tamworth’s team was looking to develop a new spirit, and in hopes of securing a speedy all-clear from the Alcohol And Tobacco Tax And Trade Bureau, they went straight to the FDA’s list of ingredients that are already considered safe. Castoreum understandably caught their attention.

Tamworth’s head distiller, Steven Grasse, said in a statement provided to Food & Wine that “there was a time when it was ubiquitous and used widely as a flavoring agent and in perfume… I was curious what would it taste like in one of our unreleased bourbons from Tamworth Distilling—so we tried it, and it worked beautifully.”

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TOPICS: Education; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: alcohol; castoreum; leaveittobeaver; whiskey; yuck
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To: Rebelbase
"The hell? This stuff tastes like beaver butt!"

"But good!"

21 posted on 06/12/2018 7:11:49 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Rebelbase

This is great news for me as a Canadian! All this time I’ve had to nurse two bottles, one whiskey and the other being beaver secretions. It never occurred to me to simply mix them together because I’m from Quebec. Anyone know where one could find beaver secretions in the Philadelphia area? Eh?


22 posted on 06/12/2018 7:12:34 PM PDT by ExpatCanuck
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To: neverevergiveup

“Don’t give a dam.”

That was pretty dam good I must say.


23 posted on 06/12/2018 7:12:45 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Rebelbase

24 posted on 06/12/2018 7:13:12 PM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: Rebelbase

I got a Beaver in my trap line once. They really stink! My Briard went nutz!


25 posted on 06/12/2018 7:13:21 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing! Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a doctor and I won't touch that thing)
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To: Rebelbase
Can't have a Beaver thread without Wynona's Big Brown Beaver

Wynona's Big Brown Beaver

26 posted on 06/12/2018 7:14:24 PM PDT by BBell (not drinking, just a smart a$$)
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To: Rebelbase

Two centuries ago, mountain men baited their beaver traps with that stuff. I’ve seen some beaver dams on Admiralty Island that were mind blowing in size and amount of work performed.


27 posted on 06/12/2018 7:14:25 PM PDT by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: Huskrrrr

>>Keep it clean. Well, I guess that’s asking a lot.<<

What in the heck are we supposed to do? Quote the talented but sadly passed Leslie Nielsen?


28 posted on 06/12/2018 7:14:29 PM PDT by freedumb2003 ("We were designed as gardeners, not cubicle rats." (/robroys woman))
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To: Rebelbase

29 posted on 06/12/2018 7:15:39 PM PDT by BBell (not drinking, just a smart a$$)
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To: dainbramaged

Little known fact; the Hoover dam was built in part by drunk Canadian beavers.


30 posted on 06/12/2018 7:18:10 PM PDT by ExpatCanuck
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To: Rebelbase

This thread is doooooomed.


31 posted on 06/12/2018 7:19:20 PM PDT by null and void (Have the courage to shine the light of reason in a dark world)
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To: BBell

My wife is wondering why I’m laughing out. That is funny. Thanks.


32 posted on 06/12/2018 7:20:22 PM PDT by ExpatCanuck
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To: Rebelbase

Whiskey and Beaver. Accept no substitutes.


33 posted on 06/12/2018 7:20:41 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Alex Jones isnÂ’t quite the wing nut now, all things considered.)
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To: Rebelbase

Whiskey mixed with beaver secretions. I have had it before.Some of my most memorable hangovers have tasted like that.


34 posted on 06/12/2018 7:22:42 PM PDT by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: Rebelbase

Near the base of the tail, LOL...

Beaverass Whiskey.


35 posted on 06/12/2018 7:28:11 PM PDT by dangerdoc
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To: Rebelbase

Captain and Tennille Muskrat Love video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgCk3bnvO5Y


36 posted on 06/12/2018 7:29:10 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Spygate's clock began in 2015 - what did President Obama know and when did he know it?)
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To: Rebelbase

Ummm boy!

Nothin like beaver squeezins..


37 posted on 06/12/2018 7:30:06 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Rebelbase

Leaving aside all the other questions raised by this news, one wonders whose job it is to do the extracting from the animals. It is a very personal task, and beavers come ready to ably defend themselves.

It is a dirty job for Mike Rowe to explore.


38 posted on 06/12/2018 7:34:35 PM PDT by lurk
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To: ExpatCanuck

It’s been around for awhile. Surprised you have never seen it before. It always ends up on Beaver threads.


39 posted on 06/12/2018 7:37:21 PM PDT by BBell (not drinking, just a smart a$$)
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To: WMarshal

A friend of a friend is a veterinary assistant and has to express the glands of a lot of dogs that come into her office.

Some breeds are prone to those things clogging up.


40 posted on 06/12/2018 7:40:01 PM PDT by Rebelbase ( Tagline disabled.)
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