My personal philosophy is that anyone can eat or drink whatever they want, but us veggies choose not to partake of certain foods. So decide what your choices are and stick to them!
Having said that, if you're a dedicated vegan and are choosing to rid your diet of animal foods, have you thought about what goes into the alcohol you drink? Many beers and wines are refined using a product called isinglass, which comes from fish, or may be filtered with bone char. While it may be easy to spot the worm in a bottle of tequila, determining which beers and wines are strictly vegan is another chore! In general, organic wines are usually vegan, and beers made in Germany, where there are strict laws regarding ingredients will be vegan-friendly. Other than that, our friends over at TasteBetter.com have put together this handy guide to vegetarian and vegan wines, beers and liquors. Bottoms up!
Link:The Vegan Beer, Wine and Spirits Guide
Vegan Wine, Beer and Spirits Recipes:
- Tequila Flavored Portobella Mushrooms
- Low-Fat Wine Poached Pears
- White Wine Risotto
- Sugar-free Chocolate Rum Cookies
- Happy Irish Beer Bread
- Grilled Pineapple with Coconut and Rum
- Crockpot Rice Pilaf with White Wine
- Zesty Grilled Seitan with White Wine
- Lotus, Nori and Red Wine Salad
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They most often use gelatin in wine & beer, but there’s exceptions =D
Here’s some of them:
http://www.veganconnection.com/veganbeer.htm
Thanks for the great article and for the props! People can follow @barnivore on twitter to get all the latest updates.
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angela
A vegan drinking alcohol is a hypocrite. Yeast must me used to propagate the fermentation process and convert the sugar into alcohol in ANY alcoholic drink. Yeast is in fact is a living micro-organism. The carbon dioxide and alcohol are a waste product after the yeast cells consume the sugar. Why does the life of a cow, fish or bee have more authenticity than that of the millions of yeast cells that are used to produce a bottle of wine?
Hi Todd.
Ever consider that a plant is also an organism? It is in fact a macro-organism, no mere microorganism. Yet, hard to believe, Vegans will eat these organisms.
I personally find the whole thing silly, life is life – only the ‘vehicle’ is different between plants and animals. Yeast is a fungus – in the same category as mushrooms. Unless vegans don’t eat mushrooms, yeast from beer or wine is really no different – from the exact same genus.
Todd… you are such a tool… that is all.
@Todd Plants are organisms you dunce.
Todd, some vegans see microbes as a fundamentally different kind of life from macroscopic animals, and so not worthy of the same protection. Or, some seem to think even killing plants and microbes is bad, but they know when they eat vegetable and microscopic life, they are doing as little harm as they can while still surviving. A few people, such as a very small number of Jains, actually starve themselves to death intentionally, in order to eventually cause no harm at all by not consuming anything at all. That’s the ultimate way to protect all life, and even then, one life at least is destroyed, one’s own.
Todd, thanks for the laugh. This was hilarious. I believe the only way around consuming any living organism would be to, in fact, sacrifice your own life by abstaining from all food and liquid completely…..thus becoming a short-lived “breath-airian”. However, there would be no navigating the multitudes of micro-organisms that would fall prey to your sinus cavities as you breathed your last breaths in this noble attempt to be the world’s purest martyr. I suggest a swift leap from a bridge, while desparately praying not to pummel any poor insects or fish on the way down. God speed.
Um, tempeh is fermented with yeast, as is miso, both of which are, I think, considered to be vegan staple foods.
Just to clarify. Worms are never placed inside bottles of Tequila. Mezcal bottles are the ones that sometimes have the worm and it depends of the type of Mezcal.
I SO laughed my head off at Todd’s post and everyone’s response. i woke up sick today-thanks for making my day MUCH better, all of you!
For future reference, they do not put worms in tequila… they do however put worms in mescal.
Todd was trolling to make vegans look bad. No vegans actually believe that bull. Being vegan is taking against the conscious suffering of live animals in our agricultural systems, and attempting a grass roots movement to sway public demand for these items so animals don’t have to suffer at the hands of producers. If you think this is stupid, try learning about how animals are treated. Watch a movie called “Earthlings” for free on youtube.
“My personal philosophy is that anyone can eat or drink whatever they want, but us veggies choose not to partake of certain foods. So decide what your choices are and stick to them!”
According to this I’m a vegan because I refuse to eat mushrooms. HAHAHAHA!
Funniest article ever, hypocrite
No, Matt. It makes you an internet troll with too much time on his hands and not enough creativity to use it productively.
The yeast that is used to produce beer does not really die..at least not all of them. the life cycle of yeast is: 1) the lag period, 2) the growth phase, 3) the fermentation phase, and 4) the sedimentation phase
Sedimentation Phase
The sedimentation phase is the process through which yeast flocculates and settles to the bottom of the fermenter following fermentation. The yeast begins to undergo a process that will preserve its life as it readies itself for dormancy, by producing a substance called glycogen. Glycogen is necessary for cell maintenance during dormancy.
I am a vegan, and a brewer. I love the science of brewing and the amazing fact that these little guys do so much.
I know this thread is sooooo old, but really, just to clarify, YEAST IS CLASSIFIED AS FUNGI. Most of us eat mushrooms and mushroom meat, and nutritional yeast is even fungi grown on molasses, both are considered vegan.
come on.
killing spors is murder… get it