A lot of alcohol is not vegan, technically nor is the fuel if you want to go that far; unless you use plant based bio fuel but good luck getting your hands on that.
yeah, i agree that using the animal parts at all makes it not vegan. it’s a process i never thought of until trying to use gelatin to clean up my reused cooking oil (the gelatin grabbed all the schmutz then formed a puck on the top if i remember), and while i’m not surprised it’s done with wine and potentially other alcohols this is all new to me. I love learning new shit so thanks for bringing this up.
A lot of alcohol is not vegan, technically nor is the fuel if you want to go that far; unless you use plant based bio fuel but good luck getting your hands on that.
The vast majority of “fossil fuels” resulted from the buildup of plant matter before the microbes that cause decay existed.
Oh, really? We thought it was dead animals, interesting.
Apparently, oil is mostly algae originally. Oceans worth of algae, there’s not enough animal mass to come close.
Alcohol is made from sugars fermenting with the aid of yeast. What’s not vegan about that?
And fossil fuel is mostly dead plant matter
Gelatin, mainly from pig and cow bones/cartilage is occasionally used as a clarifying agent in beers. Most large breweries do not use it.
Isinglass, harvested from the swim bladders of some fish, is sometimes used in wine production.
If you want to keep track of breweries and wineries that do not use these animal products, a good resource is www.barnivore.com
Okay I’m just imagining someone trying make a molotov cocktail with beer now lol
We believe some alcohol is still fed through fish guts etc.
you’re thinking of fining agents, some of which are animal based, all of which are removed from the wine before bottling
Not vegan but I think it’s that an animal product is used at all.
Yes, that’s correct.
yeah, i agree that using the animal parts at all makes it not vegan. it’s a process i never thought of until trying to use gelatin to clean up my reused cooking oil (the gelatin grabbed all the schmutz then formed a puck on the top if i remember), and while i’m not surprised it’s done with wine and potentially other alcohols this is all new to me. I love learning new shit so thanks for bringing this up.
Commonly available vegan cooking oils burn just fine. You could probably reuse old fry oil from a restaurant to be extra ecological about it.
Awesome!