The whey, when and how of milk-based alcoholic drinks
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The whey, when and how of milk-based alcoholic drinks

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While travelling through the wilds of a Central Asian country like Uzbekistan, it is almost impossible to ignore how important the region’s number one beasts of burden, horses, are to the nomadic people. Available for purchase either in sealed bottles or loose, poured out of vast street-side vats, kumis is one of the world’s OG milk-based alcoholic beverages. Modern expressions What’s also interesting to note is the sudden rise in the development of several whey-based alcoholic drinks. Whey-based alcohol brands like Norwhey, a hard seltzer of 4.0% ABV from Ithaca in New York, USA are made pretty much in the same manner as non whey-based alcoholic drinks like the whole milk-based kumis.

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