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Why does radish wine exist?

[Illogical_Blox]

Because this is Dwarf Fortress. Next question?

[Ops Fox]

Because this is Dwarf Fortress. Next question?

What does it taste like?

[utunnels]

Google it.
It seems radish wine is not unheard of.

[smakemupagus]

What does it taste like?

I followed utunnel's suggestion to google it.  Comments about radish wine from winemakingtalk.com include:

"you can ferment almost anything... you should draw the line somewhere."

"You wanna try a radish wine, try a radish wine. I'd start with a small batch though."

"I don't want to discourage you from trying anything. that being said, I remember when I started this hobby I wanted to ferment everything. now I only want to ferment something I wish to drink. "

[orbcontrolled]

"you can ferment almost anything... you should draw the line somewhere."

I'll bet there could be some herbivorous animal men who would like radish wine once we get interspecies forts. Other than that, yeah, DF has never shied away from encouraging people to make terrible terrible decisions.

If tastebuds are ever implemented, it would also be creative way to screw over a subsequent overseer in a succession game. It would certainly be amusing to see a fort fall to a radish-wine-induced revolt.

[Astrid]

Why does radish wine exist?

Because i have seen humans purchasing and drinking broccoli juice... for real....

...any more questions?

Not gonna touch that.... ever...

[Mel_Vixen]

Ok here something from my past: i tried to make or radish-liquor rather i used 60% Wodka on Black-radish. Turns out this stuff is nasty .. as in "Why the hell did i want to try this!?" punctuated by puking noises. What i learned is that not everything works, stuff like ginger, rasperies, blackberries (hmmm lithium!) work fine but not radish.

[MarcAFK]

General rule of thumb, try drinking the liquid first, if you don't like it, don't ferment it.

[LMeire]

Well you have to remember that these are dwarves, not humans. Alcohol is slightly toxic to us but in them it serves as some sort of metabolic/mood-booster, and I figure they probably need and crave it in the same way we do sugars. Alcohol might even replace sugar for their perception of "sweetness" like ATP does for cats.

Anyway, what I'm getting at is that brewing radishes might be considered an improvement to dwarves instead of a waste.

[NJW2000]

Wouldn't be wasting much, anyway... ugh, radishes, why?

[skyte100]

Because this is Dwarf Fortress. Next question?

What does it taste like?

Despair

[Eldin00]

A Japanese company makes a radish wine (from daikon, a Japanese radish variety) which is reportedly pretty good, though I haven't had the opportunity to try it myself. Information here

[skyte100]

A Japanese company makes a radish wine (from daikon, a Japanese radish variety) which is reportedly pretty good, though I haven't had the opportunity to try it myself. Information here

Daikon=Big Radish. At least something is bigger over there.

[AceSV]

Daikons are not radishes.  Call them radishes all you want, daikons are daikons.  They taste more like carrots or parsnips than radishes.  I can imagine a daikon beverage tasting ... passable.  Radishes taste like leathery wood smothered in itchy stingy plant poison.  I suspect their beverage form would not taste passable.