Anyone up for a swig of piss whiskey?
This seems like a truly disgusting hoax, but it appears that James Gilpin is actually distilling whiskey using the urine of type-II diabetics.
Gilpin believes that the sugar-laden urine of aged diabetics is an untapped resource. The urine is collected, purified and the remaining sugars are used during the fermentation process of a single malt whiskey.
What’s more, Gilipin believes that the urine of old folks gives the whiskey character:
As for how it tastes, he added, “I don’t have the benefit of aging my whisky for 100 years in a barrel but I do have the benefit of my candidates having lived in some cases 90 years of a very full life which adds a great amount of depth to the flavor. …My nan [grandmother] hasn’t produced a very good bottle but she would have never forgiven me if I hadn’t included it.”
Hooooly crap!
Thankfully, the whiskey isn’t for sale, but Glipin has been giving bottles away at exhibitions and festivals as a public health statement. If you want to secure a bottle for yourself (presumably to serve to unsuspecting guests) the next stop for his “whizkey” tour will be the andfestival in Manchester, UK the first week of October.
(The Independent via BoingBoing)
